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Racial Profiling

In Job Hunt, College Degree Can't Close Racial Gap

nytimes.com | MICHAEL LUO | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Race Unemployment, Race Gap, Unemployment, Race-Discrimination, Racial Gap, Job Discrimination, Racism in America, Business, Racial Profiling, Job Hunt, Business News

Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan...

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Stop And Frisk: Police Stop More Than 1 Million People On Street

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Civil Liberties, American Civil Liberties Union, Nypd, Police Stops, Crime, Stop and Frisk, New York, Racial Profiling, New York News

NEW YORK — A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different rou...

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Matt Damon, Your Buddy Mayor Bloomberg Is a Hypocritical Drug Warrior

Tony Newman | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Legalizing Marijuana, Drug Policy Alliance, Marijauna, Mayor Bloomberg, Drug War, New York Mayoral Election, War on Drugs, Matt Damon, Racial Profiling, Hypocrite, Weed, New York News
Tony Newman

What may not be clear to Matt Damon, an admitted marijuana user, is that despite the mayor's "moderate" reputation Bloomberg is a full-fledged, drug warrior.

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Racism Against Native Americans Must Be Addressed

Tim Giago | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home

Read More: American Indians, George Will, Native Americans, Pechanga, Raina Kelley, Native Times, Huffington Post, Willaim Safire, Racial Profiling, Newsweek, African Americans, Home News
Tim Giago

Less known in most of America, but well known to Native Americans, is the covert racism that afflicts those Americans with "red skin" as opposed to black.

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Marijuana in America: More Mainstream Than Ever, More Arrests Than Ever!

Tony Newman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance, The Today Show, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Drug War, Marijuana, Alcohol, Legalize Marijuana, Marie Claire, Racial Profiling, Prohibition, Living News
Tony Newman

Need more evidence that marijuana has gone mainstream in America? This morning on The Today Show, Matt Lauer chatted up a piece on so-called "Stiletto Stoners:" educated, professional women who favor marijuana as their intoxicant of choice -- and are increasingly comfortable admitting it.

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Reflecting on the Gates Arrest

Jim Luce | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Driving While Black, Immigration & Naturalization, Gates’ Arrest, David Gilfix, Jim Luce, D.W.B., Racism, James Crowley, Orphans International Worldwide, Flying While Muslim, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Media News
Jim Luce

The Gates arrest uncorked pent-up emotions and helped reveal a dirty national secret: racial profiling is real, it violates the highest ideals of our country, and it demeans the daily experiences of too many people.

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Colorado Muslims Shocked By FBI Terror Probe

CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Al Qaeda, Racial Profiling, Muslims, FBI Terror Raids, Najibullah Zazi, Denver, Fbi, Home News

Muslims who gathered for a feast at sundown to end their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan said they were shocked by the FBI's...

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White Rivers, Brown Skin, and Black Deeds: Into the Rabbit Hole of Border Detentions and Racial Profiling

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Muslims, BORDER ISSUES, Racial Profiling, Canada, Homeland Security, Aclu, Civil Liberties, National Security, Customs and Border Protection, Politics News
Hamdan Azhar

The evil of profiling is that it dehumanizes its victims, stripping them of their individuality. The border officials didn't see me as a writer or as a wide-eyed student in the grip of wanderlust.

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Smoke and Mirrors

Shahid Buttar | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Civil Liberties, Muslim, Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Janet Napolitano, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

American Muslims, Arabs, South Asians, and Latinos are still waiting for federal officials to respect our civil rights.

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Not New Rules But New Questions

Etan Thomas | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, United States Incarceration Rates, Skinny Jeans, Ann Coulter, Michael Vick Sentence, President Obama, CNN Debate, Racial Profiling, Christians for the Death Penalty, Gov. Schwarzenegger, Bush Administration, George Bush Deficit, Ann Coulter Racial Profiling, David Harold Earls, Anti-Semitic, Republican Health Care Myths, Rev. Al Sharpton, Health Care System, Health Care Myths, Politics News
Etan Thomas

How can anyone be in favor of a health care system in which the patients are treated according to the amount of coverage their insurance company provides?

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The Death and Possible Rebirth of Racial Profiling

Daniel Cubias | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Racial Politics, Post-Racial Society, Cline Zinfandel, Racism, Snap Judgments, Beer Summit, Hispanics, Henry Louis Gates, Wine Shops, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Daniel Cubias

Now that the Beer Summit has resolved any lingering issues over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, we can get back to our perfectly harmonious post-racial society. I, for one, am relieved.

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World Racism: Summer of Love and Hate

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bnp, Rutv, Far Right, Racial Prejudice, Music Festival, Political Activism, Global-Activism, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Racial Profiling, Entertainment News
Reporters Uncensored

Whether you are the "hater" or the "hated," having a common enemy quickly unites people who are like minded -- for better or for worst.

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The Gates Affair: Why We Care

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Troy Davis, Ruben Blades, Al Sharpton, Capital Punishment, Iowa Primaries, James Baldwin, D.C. Statehood, Gitmo, Pablo Escobar, Police Brutality, Liberation Theology, James Crowley, L.A. Riots, Botero, Mount Pleasant STreet Riot, Elijah Mohammed, Civil Rights, Rodney King, Sharon Pratt Dixon, Criminal Just Us System, War on Crime, Vietnam War, Illegal Immigrants, 4th Amendment, Malcolm X, Abu-Ghraib, Pennymac, Louis Farrakhan, The Greaseman, Gentrification, Langston Hughes, Blogosphere, Pedro Navaja, Bill Clinton, Einstein, Colin Powell, Inverse Surveillance, Colombia Road, Adams Morgan, Condoleeza Rice, Jesse Jackson, Driving While Black, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Mayor Bradley, Jim Crow, Marion Barry, 2nd Amendment, Martin Luther King, Park Road, Vicente Fernandez, Cambridge Police Department, Skip Gates, Lapd, War on Drugs, Pancho Villa, LosTigres Del Norte, Wpfw, Mariachis, Politics News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.

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A Muslim American Hero: A Conversation With Dave Eggers on Zeitoun

Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Dave Eggers Interview, Katrina, Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers Zeitoun, Bush Administration, Fema, War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, Taliban, Racial Profiling, Al Qaeda, Media News
Wajahat Ali

The Syrian American protagonist of Dave Eggers' new book -- despite his heroic efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans -- is arrested and brutally detained for weeks in a hellish, makeshift prison.

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Crunch Time: American Politics as Usual, Even for the "Transformational" Presidency

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Gates, Barack Obama, Obama Crowley Gates, Gates Arrested, Beer Summit, Obama Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Racial Profiling, Obama Race, Politics News
Clarence B. Jones

We are the "we" who can make ending racial profiling in America part of President Obama's here-and-now agenda, not just another slot in the portfolio of the presidency.

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White Racism Black Bigotry: The Talk About Race is All Wrong!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Systemic Racism, Teachable Moment, Gates, Black Bigotry, President Obama, Issues of Race, Race Relations, Obama, James Crowley, Mud Fight, Racist, Converations on Race, Racists, Noel Cazenave, Liberals, Sgt. Crowley, Crowley, Boston Police, Rush Limbaugh, Politics, Bigotry, Lou Dobbs, Gate and Obama, Racism, Race, Racial Bigotry, Racial Profiling, Civil Rights Movement, Sociology, Police, White Racism, Glenn Beck, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Conservatives, Officer Barrett, Uconn, University of Connecticut, Obama Crowley Gates Beer, Sgt. James Crowley, Obama Beer, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

The problem with discussing "issues of race," is that it dummies down the issue of racism to an individual level, when the real problem is at the macro level.

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If Skip Gates Lived in China and Other Stories of Racial Profiling Around the World

Phillip Martin | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Gates, Ethnic Profiling, Uighurs, Skin Color, Skip Gates, Open Society Institute, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Phillip Martin

In many parts of China, without the protection of an American passport, Ivy League credentials, diplomatic status or fame, dark skinned people find themselves branded as a drug dealers or worse.

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Jim Crowley: Racist or Thuggish Bully?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disorderly Conduct, Gore-Vidal, Racism, Sgt James Crowley, Gates Racism, Obama, Harvard Professor Arrest, Peace Officer, Racial Profiling, President Obama, Conflict Resolution, Jim Crowley, Politics News Professor Gates, Cambridge Police, Race, Henry Louis Gates, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

Obama was right in the real world (maybe not politically). Crowley certainly did act "stupidly." But Professor Gates acted stupidly as well.

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Crowley vs. Gates: The Heart of Prejudice

Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Racial Politics, Racial Prejudice, Media, Walter Cronkite, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates, Prejudice, Racial Profiling, Journalism, Media News
Ruth Bettelheim

"Us v. them" arguments do not engage our rational reflective capacities, but instead inflame us with an exhortation to battle.

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Powell On Gates: I've Been Racially Profiled "Many Times"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Powell, Colin Powell, Colin Powell Skip Gates, Skip Gates, Racial Profiling, Colin Powell Racial Profiling, Politics News

In an interview with CNN's Larry King, former Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested that both the Cambridge police and Harvard professor Henry Lou...

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The Personal Responsibilty to End Racial Profiling

Mark Thompson | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Obama Racial Speech, Obama Beer, Obama NAACP, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates, Naacp Centennial, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Naacp, Politics News
Mark Thompson

The "personal responsibility" argument suggests that there is some inherent pathology within African Americans that is disabling. The word plays well politically among moderate and conservative Whites.

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The Birth of Desperation: Irresponsible Opposition

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Obama, Cambridge Police Department, Racial Profiling, Palin, Cheney, Bush, Obama Gates, Gates Arrested, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Republicans are imploding, and the resulting compression into a black hole of nothingness is not pretty. Apparently nothing can escape this growing object, not even light or logic.

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Back to Black Man 101

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blacks, President Obama, Profiling, Police Brutality, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Class, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Terrance Heath

Anger, if you are a minority, is dangerous. If you are a woman, a person of color, gay, etc., your movements must be calm, your voice must be modulated, and your anger must never show.

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Whiteous Indignation

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Cigna, Congressman John Conyers, President Barack Obama, Sergeant James Crowley, Blue Line, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Prejudice, Racial Profiling, Single-Payer Health Care, End Racial Profiling Act, Governor Deval Patrick, Cambridge Massachusetts, Racism, H.R. 4611, Police Unions, Racial Inequality, Mayor Denise Simmons, 110th Congress, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Be they the Sergeant Crowleys of America, the Aetnas or the Cignas, inequities will continue until The People make them end.

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What I Hope a Fly on the Wall in the White House Would Hear

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Professor Henry Lewis Gates, Harvard University, Police, James Crowley, Harvard-Professor-Gates, Cambridge, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Michael J. O'Neil

I was thrilled to see the President invite Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates to the White House. The more I consider who all three of these men are, the more they strike me as big, principled men.

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