Racial Profiling

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Georgia State University Stands Behind a Professor Who Discriminated Against An Arab and Muslim Woman

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Institution of Higher Learning, News, Mary Stuckey, Big News, Workplace Discrimination, Terrorist, Higher Education, Georgia State University, Slma Shelbayah, Middle East Institute of Georgia State University, Arabs, Anti-Arab, Dr. Mary Stuckey, College, Discrimination, Bomb in Hijab, President Mark P. Becker and Slma Shelbayah, Bomb, Islam, Anti Muslim, Hijab, Holy Quaran, Politics, Dr. Mary Stuckey Racist Remarks, President Mark P. Becker, Dona Stewart, Rhetoric of Hatred, Racism, Dr. Mary Stuckey Anti Arab Remarks, Muslims, Arab, Racial Profiling, Mary E. Stuckey, Tenured Professors, Terrorism, Gsu, Quaran, Shelbayah, Politics News

It seemed okay in 2008 for a University Professor to harass a Muslim student and get away with it.

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Secrecy Sacrificing National Security

Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics

Our nation's most notorious criminals violate our most fundamental laws and remain not only free, but actively engaged in influencing our national security policies.

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It's Time to "Profile" Potential Killers of Abortion Providers

Norm Stamper | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Abortion, Stalking, Tiller, Reproductive Rights, Violence, Attorney General Eric Holder, Bill O'Reilly, Racial Profiling, George Tiller, George Tiller Murder, Politics News

There's an axiom in police circles: if someone is determined to kill another there's not a whole lot you can do about it. Hogwash.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Modern Day Slave Trade Uncovered Immigration NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reform Immigration for America Campaign, Latinos, Immigration NewsLadder, Ethnic Profiling, Secure Communities Initiative, Immigrants, Newsladder, Deportation, Racial Profiling, Politics News

by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger The Wire will be brief this week, as I'm attending New America Media's Expo and Awards at the University of Georgia'...

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Obama Might Need to Show ID in More Places than East Harlem

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nypd, Nypd Omar Edwards, Black Cops, President Obama, Police Shooting, African-Americans, Racial Profiling, Charles Rangel, Politics News

The wishful thought was that Obama's election buried once and for all negative racial typecasting and the perennial threat it posed to the safety and well-being of black males. It did no such thing.

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Terrorist Ethnic Profiling In Europe Yielded 'No Convictions To Date': Study

Spiegel | Posted 05.26.2009 | World

Read More: Terror Profiling, Terror, Ethnic Profiling, Terrorism, Foreign Affairs, Europe, Racial Profiling, Advocacy, World News

A new study has found that ethnic profiling is worse than useless when it comes to preventing terror attacks and has never led to a terrorism convicti...

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Hunger for Justice in Maricopa

Crossover Dreams | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cesar Chavez, Migration, Undocumented Immigrants, Doj, Arpaio, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Department of Justice, Immigration, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 287(G), Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability, Racial Profiling, Mcso, Worksite Raids, Politics News

Although Julio Mora is a U.S. citizen and his dad has a green card, they were arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, on suspicion of being undocumented aliens. The case is commonplace.

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The Term "Man Caused Disasters" Sounds Weak, but the "War on Terror" Has Always Been Weaker

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

Read More: Drugs, Mexican Drug Cartel, Osama Bin Laden Capture, War on Terrorism, Ronald Reagan, War on Terror, Osama Bin Laden, Global Contingency Operations, Civil Rights Legislation, U.S., American Democracy, War on Terror Oxymoron, World, World News, Politics News, Arabs, Middle East, Homeland Security Secretary, Subnational Groups, Terrorists, Overseas Contigency Operations, Terror, The Homeland, Clandestine Agents Obama Administration, African Americans, Mexico's Drug War, Obama 44, Homeland Security, Politics, Man Caused Disasters, Mexico, Bush 43, U.S. International Law, America's Psyche, Republican Clerics, Barack Obama, Warfare, War on Poverty, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Central Command, Muslims, Racial Profiling, Lyndon B. Johnson, Janet Napolitano, Republicans, War on Drugs, Poverty, Patriotism, Nationalism, World News

President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.

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"Flying While Arab" Continues to Soar

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arab World, White House, War on Terrorism, Airport Security, Profiling, Airports, George W. Bush, Abu Dhabi, Immigration, Obama Administration, World, Flying While Muslim, World News, Arabs, Middle East, Airlines, President Bush, African Americans, Politics, Arab Discrimination, Blacks, Tsa, J.C. Watts, Barack Obama, Muslim World, Arab Americans, Driving While Black, Racial Profiling, Arab, Terrorism, Shoe Bomber, Flying While Arab, Vice President Cheney, Politics News

"Miss!" A large man with a crew cut pointed at me and exclaimed, "You have a bomb in your shoe!" This dude was talking to me. I was shocked.

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"Poster Boy" Of Immigration Enforcement To Be Investigated, Says He Should Be Commended

Dawn Teo | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Illegal Search and Seizure, Sheriff Arpaio, John Conyers, Illegal Immigration, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Maricopa Sheriff, Immigration, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Racial Profiling, Maricopa Justice Courts, Exclusive Interview, Politics News

PHOENIX -- The Department of Justice is investigating "America's Toughest Sheriff." Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King sent a letter Tuesd...

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House Judiciary Committee Calls for Federal Investigation of Sheriff Arpaio's Abuses

Frank Sharry | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Joe Arpaio, John Conyers, Arizona, Doj, House Judiciary Committee, Civil Rights, Racial Profiling, Politics News

We couldn't be happier to hear that the U.S. House Judiciary Committee released a letter today calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct a...

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Dick Cheney Shopping His Memoir: The Joys of Torture, Trampling the Constitution, and Bankrupting America the Dick Way

David Henry Sterry | Posted 01.16.2009 | Home

Top aides of Dick Cheney revealed that he is shopping his new memoir, even as they lashed out at critics who claim that he abused his power as vice pr...

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Muslims "Off" a Plane

Wajahat Ali | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Muslim Family Airplane, Airtran, Tsa, Colin Powell, Obama Muslim, wwII Internment Camps, War on Terror, Internment Camps, Gallup Polls, Atif Irfan, Fbi, Airport Security, Who Speaks for Islam?, Flying After 9/11, TSA Security, Air Travel, Racial Profiling, Arab Americans, Al Qaeda, Inayet Sahin, Airport Security Water Bottles, Muslim Prejudice, Patriot Act, American Muslims, Fear-Mongering, Muslims and Air Travel, Transportation Security Administration, Extrajudicial Detention, Politics News

We in the US are currently engaged in a "war on terror," but this does not give a democratic and free country license to be overwhelmed by fear of its own Muslim and Middle Eastern citizens.

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Should the FBI Racially Profile White People?

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, White Supremacists, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Racial Profiling, Politics News

If we are going to racially profile Arabs for terrorism, shouldn't we apply the same standard to white people?

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Held Suspect

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Louisiana, Tasers, Crime, Police, Police Brutality, Racism, Race, Baron Pikes, Jena 6, Civil Rights, Racial Profiling, Politics News

I don't remember how old I was the first time it happened. I couldn't have been more than ten years old. We were in Philadelphia -- my mother, my youn...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Foreclosure Crisis, Fuel Efficiency, Bush Iran, Clean Air Act, Racial Profiling, Dick Cheney, Stopping Coal Power Plants, Whistleblowers, Voter Disenfranchisement, Extinction, Chemical Weapons Stockpile, Guantanamo Torture, Whale Hunting, CDC Climate Report, Global Warming, Wildlife, Green News

Home foreclosures could affect voting rolls, Judge blocks coal plant due to global warming, Japan automakers control 34.7 percent of U.S. market, and U.S. exports to Iran grew tenfold under Bush.

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America's Image and Race Beyond Black and White

Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Bush, Clinton, Mccain, Terrorism, Gore, Profiling, Kerry, 9/11, Middle East, Discrimination, Obama, Race, Election, November, Obama Racism, Racial Profiling, Racism, Politics News

The world's grievances with the US have little to do with its history of slavery. Most of the world is more concerned with how America treats other ethnicities, beyond black.

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The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed-Race

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racial Pride, White House, Barack Obama, Blacks, Racial Typecasting, Racial Stereotypes, Race, African-Americans, Presidency, Racial Profiling, Politics News

This debate continues to rage -- and the debate is even sillier when one considers that science has long since debunked the notion of a pure racial type.

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Even Bigger than The Hype: Obama's Candidacy as World-Historical

Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reverend Wright and Racism, Colonialism, John McCain, Mccain, Grassroots, 2008 Recession, Obama, Immigration, Diplomacy, Post-Colonialism, Equal Opportunity, Recession, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, McCain Iraq, Obama Diplomacy, Nelson Mandela, John McCain 2008, Benazir Bhutto, Economic Recession, Obama 2008, Racism, Discrimination, Middle East Diplomacy, McCain 2008, History, Politics News

But even though racial inequities persist, there is no doubt that the first black President will be a milestone, a watershed seemingly unthinkable before Obama's meteoric candidacy.

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Bad News For Paranoiacs

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Ads, Philadelphia, Conspiracy Theory, Paranoid, New Technology, Billboards, Britney Spears, Paranoia, Cameras, Racial Profiling, Hidden Cameras, Manhattan, Advertising, Marketing, Voyeurism, Demographics, Big Brother, Quividi, Living News

In addition to places with known cameras, usually for security purposes like 7-11s, London and everywhere Britney Spears goes, cameras are now filming you from billboards.

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Immigration Law Throws Humanitarian Concerns to the (Hurricane-force) Wind

Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hurricanes, Cronyism, Illegal Immigration, Disaster Preparedness, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Evacuation, Racial Profiling, Rio Grande Valley, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Politics News

The government's idea to check proof of citizenship during hurricane evacuations in the Rio Grande Valley is terrifyingly irresponsible. Why is nobody expressing their outrage over yet another federal-response nightmare-in-waiting?

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NYC Is the Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World

Tony Newman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Marijuana, Racial Profiling, Arrests, Mayor Bloomberg, Drug War, New York, Nyclu, Politics News

Once convicted of a drug offense, one can lose college financial aid, food stamps, public housing and possibly even voting rights. Money wasted and lives ruined... and for what?

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My Father's Eyes: Sean Bell & Me

Terrance Heath | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Police Brutality, Racism, Sean Bell, Sean Bell Verdict, Racial Prejudice, Race, Racial Profiling, Shawn Bell, Politics News

As a black man raising two black sons, I wonder just how I will prepare them for the reality of what they will likely face without catalyzing what I know is an inevitable loss of innocence.

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U.S. Race Record Demands Action

Jennifer Turner | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights Act 2008, CERD, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, End Racial Profiling Act, Racial Discrimination, Sharpeville Massacre, Racial Profiling, Politics News

We, as a nation, can no longer deny the problems of racial discrimination, from racial profiling to unequal access to educational opportunities, that persist here.

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Mommy What Color is Her Face?

Sabrina Parsons | Posted 12.07.2007 | Living

Read More: Racial Attitudes, Freakonomics, Parenting Tips, Teaching Children About Race, Racism, Mexican Americans, Parenting, Mexican Stereotypes, Racial Profiling, Living News

Apparently we have made very little progress since my schooldays in the '80s. We are still dealing with people who are "secret" racists.

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