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Miracle at St. Anna: A Preview of Spike Lee's Upcoming Film

Karin Badt | Posted 05.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Directors, Filmmaking, Racism, Spike Lee, Miracle at St. Anna, World War II, Barack Obama Race, Barack Obama, Entertainment News

Spike Lee presented an eight minute clip of his upcoming movie Miracle at St. Anna yesterday, and stayed to answer questions about this film and filmmaking in general.

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Kamikaze Kittens, Faux-Feminism and All-Or-Nothing Politics

Linda Hansen | Posted 05.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Sexism, Racism, Clinton Supporters Count Too, Democratic Gender Divide, Operation Turndown, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Feminists, Women's Politics, Democratic Campaign 2008, Barack Obama, Obama Feminists, Barack Obama Polls, Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, Home News

Women: We have got to stop this prolonged, gender-driven tantrum. Shrieking "I wanna woman in the White House. Now! Or else!" solves nothing. And it could cost us more than the election.

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Where Is Hillary's Race Speech?

Trey Ellis | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Racism, West Virginia Primary, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky Primary, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Jim Webb VP, Obama Webb, Jim Webb, Race, Politics News

Surely her last-ditch message to superdelegates cannot be an argument that America is too racist to elect a black president. That just cannot be the legacy of her historic campaign.

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What the Kennedy Family Means to My Generation

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Princess Di, Bumper Stickers, Racism, Immigrants, Jfk, Ted Kennedy, Dick Cheney, GOP Jihadists, Robert F. Kennedy, Dodi Al-Fayed, Politics News

The Kennedy family has always had special meaning in my life. I know exactly where I was when a friend yelled out to me in 1963, "The president has been shot."

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Does Clinton Camp Talk of Sexism Risk the Democrats' Future?

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Media, Barack Obama, Election, Hillary Clinton, Gender, Sexism, Hillary Clinton Sexism, 2008 Election and Sexism, Race, Hillary Gender Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Ferraro Obama Comments, Geraldine Ferraro, Jay-Z, Obama Race, Politics News

This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.

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It's Over. But Let's Just Hope We're Only Talking About the Democratic Nomination

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clinton, Primary, Oregon, Kentucky, Obama, Mccain, General Election, Democrats, Election, Obama White Voters, White Working Class Voters, Racism, White Voters, Politics News

The simple truth is that America is still quite a racist country. I'm not so sure Obama can overturn centuries of deep-rooted racism in just five months.

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Full-Blooded Un-American

Harold Pollack | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Patriotism, Kathleen Parker, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Patriotism, John McCain, Barack Obama Race, Politics News

Jason Fry, 24, of West Virginia prefers "a full-blooded American" like John McCain to Barack Obama, but Fry does not understand the animating spirit of our diverse democracy.

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Full Transcript of Hillary Claiming Sexism Worse than Racism in Campaign

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hillary, Barack Obama, Sexism, Lois Romano, Washington Post, Discrimination Against Women, Politics News

In the Washington Post, Clinton briefly hit "sexism" in media coverage of her campaign as "deeply offensive to millions of women," but she went much further.

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Sexism, Racism, and Reality: Healing From A Hard Campaign

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jodi Kantor, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Marie Cocco, Barack Obama Racism, Barack Obama, Sexism, Libby Copeland, Politics News

Sexism has infested this race, and many of us have deplored it. But reality is multifaceted. While Sen. Clinton has faced bigotry, so has her opponent.

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The President, Police Violence And Race

Paul Peete | Posted 05.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Sean Bell, Rodeny King, Barack Obama, Senator Obama, Jacqueline Seabrooks, Michael Byoune, Obama Attorney General, Racism, Obama, Police Violence Race, John Edwards, Police Race, Obama Edwards Attorney General, Home News

An Obama Administration with an attorney general of integrity like, say, John Edwards might address in a constructive way the kind of race-based police violence we've seen flare up the past few weeks.

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Powerful Video of Ugly Sexist Vilification of Hillary Clinton

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Sexist, Racist, Presidential Election, New York Times, Woman President, Barack Obama, Zernike, Gender, President, Dirty Politics, Sexist Images, Media Coverage, Obama, Campaign, Huffington Post Readers, Presidential Campaign, Wright, Exit Poll, Clinton, 2008, Sexism, Racism, Washington Post, Huffington Post Comments, Equality, Bill Clinton, Politicians, Propaganda, Feminism, Election, Gender Politics, Sex, Youtube, Racist Images, National Election, Sexist Clinton Video, Merida, Sexist YouTube Video, Clinton Video, Clinton YouTube Video, Campaign Sexism Video, Sexism Video, Politics News

Sexism is alive and well in America. One exit poll I saw had almost twice as many voters having trouble voting for a woman for president than voting...

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Is Obama Man Enough To Be a Feminist Too?

Nina Burleigh | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Feminism, Barack Obama, Politics News

It would be nice to see some glimmer of feminism coming out of our presumptive black male candidate. All we can do is hope this new kind of man leader cares enough to speak about it.

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Gays, Hate, Blacks, and the Bible

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Homophobia, Curse of Ham, Colin Powell, California Supreme Court, Bible, Racism, Christianity, Interracial Marriage, John Boswell, Loving vs. Virginia, Homsexuality, Home News

The California Court has drawn on apt precedence in voting to end a ban on gay marriage. Blacks and gays have both endured centuries of hatred based on perversions of original biblical texts.

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Facing Racism in America

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Primary, Barack Obama, Senator Obama, Senator Clinton, Matthew Palevsky, West Virginia, Racism, Election 2008, Martinsberg, The Real News, Race, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

While covering the primary in West Virginia, I encountered shocking racism only hinted at by Tuesday's exit polls.

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Just Like High School

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Mike Bonifer, Campaign, High School, Gamechangers, Barack Obama, Boys State, Gossip, Race, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Governor, Divisiveness, Bonifer, Saxophone, Politics News

Her boyfriend had been one of the most popular and best students in the history of Just Like High School. He played first-chair saxophone in the Just...

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Back On The Bus

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Racism, Obama Virginia, Obama Virginia Racism, Politics News

Today, when reading an article about the racism some Obama volunteers encountered in Indiana, I couldn't help but think that the color divide in this country is more insidious and pervasive than we would like to think.

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The Riddle of Appalachia

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Appalachia, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Exit Polls, West Virginia Primary, General Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

Obama doesn't exactly have an "Appalachia problem." After all, if West Virginia had a black population akin to Alabama or Mississippi's, Obama would almost certainly have won the state.

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Race (and West Virginia) Makes the Democrat's Obama Gamble Riskier than Ever

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: West Virginia, Barack Obama, Blacks, Racism, The Economy, George Bush, Democrats, Presidency, Students, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Blue Collar White Voters, Politics News

The overwhelming rejection of Obama by blue collar, rural, and non-college educated in West Virginia, all Democrats, is no longer cause for private worry for Obama but grave public fear.

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Not The Time To Celebrate Clinton As Brawler

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Weather Underground, Voters, Black Voters, Race, Racism, Susan Faludi, Votes, Hillary Clinton, White Voters, Obliterate Iran, Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Politics News

It's one thing to recognize that the idealism of social movements has to be complemented by a tough realism in contests for political power. It's another to celebrate brawling.

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Hillary Clinton Isn't The Only Democratic Presidential Candidate In Denial

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Sean Bell, Colorblind, Doctors' Racial Bias, Racism, Obama, Nicholas Kristof, Post-Racial, Rahul Parikh, Home News

Colorblind? Post-racial? Isn't it clear that's all so much bullshit. We are all animals prone to prejudice. The price of continued denial among the Obama camp could be the election.

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Hillary's Desperation

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Racism, Hillary Clinton, Southern Strategy, Barack Obama, Home News

I sent what follows to the columnists of the Washington Post--Richard Cohen, Harold Meyerson, David Broder, E. J. Dionne, David Ignatius, Eugene Robin...

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Frank Rich's Imaginary America

Max Blumenthal | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sean Bell, Sean Bell Murder Trial, Hillary Clinton Frank Rich, Racism, New York Times, Obama Race, Barack Obama Race, Race, Frank Rich, Sean Bell Demonstrations, 2008 Election, Obama and Sean Bell, Politics News

There simply aren't "enough racists of any class in America, let alone in swing states, to determine the results come fall," the former theater critic insists.

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Recognizing the Race Chasm

David Sirota | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Race, Racial Politics, Racism, Barack Obama Race, Barack Obama, Politics News

As all of this racism oozes out of the political establishment for all to see, we can recognize just how bigoted American culture is -- and recognition is the first step towards addressing a problem.

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O Bubba, Where Art Thou?

Linda Hansen | Posted 05.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Good Ole Boys, Bill Clinton, Racism, Class Warfare, George W. Bush, The Bubba Vote, West Virginia, Kentucky, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Primary, Barack Obama, Pandering, The GOP Southern Strategy, Home News

Bubba's not just in Ohio and Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. He's not just Southern white trash. He's in every socio-economic class. Scratch his politically correct veneer and have a look-see.

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Hillary Said It Wrong But Got It Right About Hard Working, White Americans

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Angry White Male, Gop, Barack Obama, Cultural Differences Robert Dole, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Racism, West Virginia Primary, George Bush, Democrats, Democratic Presidential Primaries, Blue Collar Whites, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics News

The supreme test for Obama is to prove that Hillary said it wrong and got it wrong.

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