Racism

In Offense of Hip-Hop

Orlando Lima | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media

Read More: Power of Hip Hop, The O'Reilly Factor, Lindsay Lohan, Walmart, Violent Movies, Affirmative Action, 50 Cent, 300, African American Studies, Catholic Church, Hip Hop, Racism, Linsdsay Lohan Dui, Discrimination, Michael Vick, Michael Vick Dogfighting, Stuart Scott, Civil War, Resident Evil, Jason Whitlock, Rappers, Bruce Willis, Violent Video Games, Rocawear, Hip-Hop, Virginia Tech, Violent Media, Jigaboos, Harlem Renaissance, Baywatch, Black Literature, Stephen a Smith, Hip Hop Slang, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Orlando Lima

Hip-hop accounts for more empowering music, artwork, dance and writing than any other cultural movement in the history of our country.

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Don't Rush to Judgment on Bonds

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Sportswriters, Baseball, Black Superstars, Fans, Balco, Racism, Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Bobs Haters, Barry Bonds Marion Jones, Barry Bonds Steroids, Barry Bonds Indictment, Barry Bonds the Clear, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The unabashed orgy of Bond's vilification has been brutal and relentless, and that's before Bond's was accused of any wrongdoing.

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Nothing Really Changed in Imus' Absence

Byron Williams | Posted 11.15.2007 | Media

Read More: Imus Racist, Imus Rutgers Basketball Team, Nappy Headed Hos, Sexism, Imus Returns, Don Imus, Don Imus Returned, Imus Sexist, Racism, Race, Media News
Byron Williams

Imus' return says as much about the culture as his highly publicized departure.

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Muddled Picture on Hate Violence in America

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: FBI Hate Crimes Report, Racism, Hate Crimes, Justice Department, Al Sharpton, Washington March Against Hate Violence, Hanging Nooses, Jena Nooses, Hate Speech, Jena 6, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Civil rights leaders pound Bush for not pushing Justice Dept. to bump up the number of hate crime prosecutions. But Bush is hardly the only president that didn't make it a priority.

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Obama's Struggle With Black America

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Cnn, Black America, David Axelrod, Michael Fauntroy, Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, Donna Brazile, Racism, Barack Obama Race, Race, Politics News
Michael Fauntroy

The phenomenon of 2007 likely won't win the prize in 2008. And he can't count on Black America to lead him to the nomination.

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Anti-Immigrant Electoral Campaign - "The New Willie Horton" - Rooted in Old Racism

Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bell Curve, Racism, Charles Murray, Race Baiting, Immigration, Race, Rahm Emanuel, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

The turn to make immigration the "New Willie Horton" campaign follows the tried and true logic of Republican race baiters.

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American Gangster, American Stereotype

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Racism, Drug War, New York Cops, Russell Crowe, Denzil Washington, Blacks Drugs Media, Racist Laws, Black Jail Sentencing, Drug Sentencing, Stereotypes, Black in Jail, American Gangster, War on Drugs, Entertainment News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The public scapegoat of blacks for America's drug problem during the past two decades has been relentless, and the at all costs hunting down by Richie (Crowe) of Lucas (Washington) in American Gangster is stark testimony to that relentlessness.

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The Hysterical Defense of Dog the Bounty Hunter Tells Much about America's Racial Backslide

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.05.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Dog the Bounty Hunter, Racism, Duane Chapman, A&E Television, Isaiah Washington, Michael Vick, Racial Tirade, Al Sharpton, Don Imus, Don Imus Returned, Dog the Bounty Hunter Racist, Race, Dog Racist, Entertainment News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The defense of Dog has nothing to do with the thrill and titillation of Dog the Bounty Hunter. It has everything to do with the blame-the-victim-with-a -engeance mania of far too many whites toward blacks.

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Olympic Pioneer Faced More Racism at Home in U.S. Than in Nazi Germany

Michelle Pilecki | Posted 11.02.2007 | Living

Read More: Naval Academy, Racism, Sports, Olympics, Jesse Owens, John Woodruff, 1936 Olympics, Living News
Michelle Pilecki

Perhaps the most newsworthy item was left out of the brief obsequies for Olympian John Woodruff: the shame of racism inflicted on a national hero.

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Why I Was Right When I Said Imus Wouldn't Go

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.02.2007 | Media

Read More: Racism, Corporate Profits, Don Imus, African-Americans, Al Sharpton, Citadel Broadcasting, Shock Jock Don Imus, Imus Radio Return, Don Imus Returned, Imus Return to Radio, Cbs, John McCain Imus, Poliiticians Imus, Joe Lieberman Imus, Mitt Romney Imus, Imus Return to the Air, John Kerry Imus, Media News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It's virtually impossible to permanently muzzle Imus and others that talk race trash because of sphinx-like silence of top politicians, broadcast industry leaders, and corporate sponsors.

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Ending Violence Against Women and Girls

Kevin Powell | Posted 10.31.2007 | Living

Read More: Rape, Abuse, Child Abuse, Spousal Abuse, Sexism, Racism, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Classism, Shani Baraka, Domestic Violence, Megan Williams Kidnap, Domestic Abuse, Living News
Kevin Powell

So many American males have such a distorted definition of manhood that we don't even have the basic respect to listen to women's voices when they talk about violence and abuse.

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Blacks Should Toss Noose as Symbol, Hear History

Michael Meyers | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: African Americans on Racism, Hanging Nooses, Racism New York City, Hate Crimes, Columbia University, Madonna Constantine, Hate Speech Codes, Racism, Hate Speech, Noose, Noose Columbia, Racist Threats, African Americans, Politics News
Michael Meyers

Whatever happened on Columbia's campus was no such hate crime, regardless of what the rope symbolizes.

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Lawmakers Say Capitol Artwork Is Race "Disgrace"

The Hill | Posted 10.29.2007 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Capitol Hill, Politics News

Just nine statues in the Capitol's 100-piece Statuary Hall collection depict minorities, a figure that some lawmakers claim is woefully inadequate. C...

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Science vs. Wisdom

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.26.2007 | Living

Read More: Art, James Watson, Behavior, Genes, Dna, James Watson Prejudice, Nature vs Nurture, Racism, James Watson Racist, Living News
Deepak Chopra

James Watson isn't the first gene devotee who subscribes to the crude notion that biology is destiny. Such a belief runs contrary to even the most basic kind of wisdom.

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Genarlow Wilson: Free at Last

Trey Ellis | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Genarlow Wilson, Jena 6 Nooses, Jena 6, Genarlow Wilson Freed, Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, Genarlow Wilson Jail, Politics News
Trey Ellis

Georgia's attorney general, even in defeat, still hides behind a rigid and robotic interpretation of the law, still failing to understand that in his literalist interpretation, justice was not served.

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Thomas B. Edsall

To His Dismay, Ron Paul Becoming Magnet For White Supremacists

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Republican Presidential Candidate, 2008 Elections, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Republican Party, Ron Paul, Republicans, Politics News

Through no fault of his own, Rep. Ron Paul's anti-globalist, anti-government campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has become a magnet i...

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Playing the Black Card

Tom Gerdy | Posted 10.12.2007 | Media

Read More: School Shooting, Racism, Media Bias, Black Card Shuffle, Media News
Tom Gerdy

Blood once again stains the floors of one of our nation's schools. As reporters started picking up on the tragedy, the focus once again became blurred and twisted.

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Hanging Nooses: Hate or Hoax Upsurge

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Hanging Nooses, Racism, Hate Crimes, Columbia University, Lynching, Jena, Katheryn Russel-Brown, The Color of Crime, Madonna Constantine, Grambling, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Racial hoaxes almost always fall apart but they work for a time because they play hard on the stereotypes, myths, and fears about blacks and Latinos.

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Better Imus on the Air Than Off

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.11.2007 | Media

Read More: Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Cbs, Rutgers Womens Basketball Team, African-Americans, Don Imus, Isiah Thomas Sexual Harassment, Isiah Thomas, Isiah Thomas New York Knicks, Nappy Headed Hos, Imus Return to the Air, Racism, Imus Return to Radio, Double Standard, Media News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Imus would be the permanent broadcast poster boy for what can happen to shock jocks that stray over the line of racial trash talking indecency.

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"Jena 6" Case Spurs Copycats

USA Today | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Racism Noose, Jena 6, Jena 6 Copycats, Politics News

On the campus of the University of Maryland, where a third of the students are minorities, a noose is found hanging from a tree in front of a building...

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The More Things Change

Eric Alterman | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Racism Vocabulary, Race in Politics, Clarence Thomas, Hispanic Americans, George W. Bush, Racism, Miguel Estrada, Playing the Race Card, Politics News
Eric Alterman

One of the most interesting -- and perhaps bedeviling -- linguistic transformations in American politics is conservatives' recent adoption of anti-racism vocabulary.

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More Than His Grandfather's Son: Understanding Clarence Thomas

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Black Conservatives, Racism, Civil Rights Groups, Anita Hill, Republicans, Democrats, Clarence Thomas, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

For the thin-skinned Thomas race has always lurked close to the surface -- often too close. And it's intimately, but falsely, intertwined with the debate over conservative ideology.

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There's No Race Problem in Jena?

Carolyn Castiglia | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Jena 6, Satire, Jena Nooses, Jena 6 Nooses, Politics News
Carolyn Castiglia

A punishment should always fit the crime, and the charge of attempted murder fits the Jena 6 the way a dress from Lane Bryant would fit Kate Moss.

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In Defense of O'Reilly

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media

Read More: Al Sharpton, Stereotypes, Racism, Blacks, Bill O'Reilly, Segregation, Harlem, Media News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It's easy to razz O'Reilly as a loudmouthed racist. But dumping on O'Reilly for giving his honest reaction is disingenuous and self-serving. It simply puts O'Reilly on the hook while letting far too many others off of it.

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Why the "Race" Word is Wrong

Francis L. Holland | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Why Race Matters, Racism, Media Coverage of Jena 6, Race, Jena 6, Jena 6 March, Jena 6 Nooses, Politics News
Francis L. Holland

The word "race" is the linguistic clothing of slavery, but we are Blacks are still wearing it centuries after it was forced upon us by our slavemasters.

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