Racism

White Guilt Not the Problem with Obama Surge

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tom Davis, Racism, Psychology, White Guilt, Democrats, Barack Obama, Deval Patrick Jeremiah Wright, Lehrer, 2008 Election and Racism, 2008 Election and Race, Shelby Steele, Harold Ford Jr., Barack Obama Race, Race, 2008 Election, Politics News

Race is still such a taboo subject that pricks so many fears and sensibilities, that the media and much of the public has given Obama a feather touch when it comes to a laser scrutiny of his past.

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Words Matter

James Zogby | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Bigotry, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, Steve King, Obama Muslim, Barack Obama Muslim, Racism, Obama Muslim Smear, Terrorists Dancing in the Streets, Barack Hussein Obama, 2008 Election, Politics News

Rep. Steve King should be formally censured by the Congress, so as to make it clear that bigoted remarks such are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

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A Post-Racial Society

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Latinos, Post-Racial Politics, 2008 Election and Race, Racism, Keith Olbermann, Race, 2008 Election, Post-Racial, African Americans, Media News

I think my favorite benchmark of our post-racial society will be the birth of our post-racial champions on race. Add to the top of the list Keith Olbermann.

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I'm Not Racist. Some of my Best Friends Are Black.

Orlando Lima | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ferraro Obama Lucky, Geraldine Ferraro Comments, Racism, Ferraro Obama Lucky Black, Ferraro Obama Remarks, Ferraro Black Obama, Ferraro Obama Comments, Geraldine Ferraro, Geraldine Ferraro Race, Politics News

Ferraro is not racist but the fact that she doesn't understand what the term "racism" means highlights why it is a massive problem in America.

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Ferraro Keeps Getting it Right: Obama Should Apologize to Her

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Let rival Clinton (or God forbid, hubby Bill) even breathe the R word about Obama and the screeches from the clinically obsessive Hate Hillary Clubbers are swift and loud.

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Bottom of the Ticket, Back of the Bus: Hillary Clinton's Racist Campaign

John Eskow | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election and Race, Racism, 2008 Election and Racism, Hillary Clinton, Race, 2008 Election, Geraldine Ferraro, Politics News

Instead of asking when did the racism of Hillary Clinton's campaign against Obama begin, one is now forced to ask: has it ever been run without racism?

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Character as Destiny: The Clintonian Narcissism of 2008

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, John McCain, Obama Cocaine Bob Johnson, Obama Muslim, Obama Muslim Smear, Kenneth Starr, Ferraro Black Obama, 2008 Election, Obama Ken Starr, Robert Johnson, Ferraro Obama Comments, Politics News

Underneath the stomach-turning Clintonian strategy for winning the nomination are little passion plays playing out -- about the state of the nation, and the state of its soul-sick psyche.

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Still Hung Up on Geraldine

Jennifer Lehr | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, President, 2008 Election and Racism, 2008 Election and Race, Race, 2008 Election, Politics News

Hillary started out with a lot of black support. After all, her husband had been called "The First Black President." It was up to her to keep that support alive.

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Ferraro's Race Argument Isn't Insulting to Obama; It's Insulting to Democrats

Eric Deggans | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sexism, 2008 Election and Race, 2008 Election and Sexism, Racism, Race, 2008 Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, Gender, Politics News

This is the way Dems will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in this election: allowing dunderheads like Ferraro to drive wedges between a coalition poised to unseat the Republicans in November.

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Ms. Ferraro, Please be Quiet

Harold Pollack | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Ferraro Obama Lucky Black, Ferraro Obama Remarks, Ferraro Black Obama, Ferraro Obama Comments, Politics News

We are trying to be a better nation than Geraldine Ferraro's comments presume we are. We don't need these little drops of racial poison in our national life.

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Don't Fire Geraldine Ferraro, Pin a Merit Badge on Her for Having the Guts to Tell the Truth

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Shirley Chisholm, Barack Obama, Male Bias, Geraldine Ferraro, Sexism, Racism, Congressionaal Black Caucus, Democratic Presidential Primaries, White House Race, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Ferraro got it right on both counts when she said that race has made a difference with Barack Obama and that America has a huge problem with a woman running for president.

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Black Voters Can't Put Obama in the White House

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: White Backlash, Barack Obama, White Males, Presidential Race, Black Voters, Racism, Ohio Democratic Primary, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Politics News

The myth that the black vote wins presidential election has been bandied about for so long that it's taken on the proportion of a political urban legend.

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Friday Talking Points [22] -- Hillary Sweeps The Awards!

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics

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A quick primary pick here, before we get on to the awards and the talking points. Wyoming will be holding its Democratic caucus tomorrow. This one is...

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Darkening down Obama

Mark Kleiman | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Hillary Clinton, Campaign 2008, Dirty Tricks, Barack Obama, Politics News

The technical term is "denigrate." The Clinton campaign is beneath contempt....

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Racism and Clinton's Victory in Ohio

Jeff Coryell | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Racism, Clinton, Primary, Ohio, Ohio Primary, Hillary Clinton Ohio Primary, Clinton Ohio, Hillary Clinton Ohio, Politics News

The racism in Ohio was already in place, but Hillary Clinton's negative campaigning brought it into play to a greater degree than in other states.

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Christopher Hitchens: As Right About Women as He is About Iraq

Katie Halper | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Sexism, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Hitchens Sexism, Vanity Fair, Gawker, Christopher Hitchens Women, Hamilton Nolan, Racism, Vanity Fair Christopher Hitchens, Tina Fey, Women Not Funny, Who Says Women Aren't Funny, Gawker.com, Gawker Media, Christopher Hitchens, Media News

Dear Gawker, I want to thank you for having the testosterone-drenched you-know-whats to say what nobody else, besides Christopher Hitchens and lots of men, will say: women comics suck!

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Maureen Dowd and Her Pearls

Taylor Marsh | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Sexism, Racism, Media, Republicans, Democrats, Feminism, Hillary Clinton, 1950s, Culture, Media News

Women who stand above the firing line while drawing it obviously don't get that it's not about being "victimized." It's about being treated differently than men, especially in the traditional media.

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So What If Obama Were a Muslim?

Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Islam, Obama Muslim, Religion and Politics, Racism, Obama Muslim Smear, 2008 Election and Religion, Muslim, Race, Faith, 2008 Election, Politics News

The tone in the press makes it sound like Obama possibly being a Muslim would be on par with screwing around behind his wife's back, or being a pedophile.

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Put Your John Hussein Hancock on the Line

Justin Frank | Posted 03.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Mccain, Hussein, Rnc, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

Today my wife and I both are changing our middle names to "Hussein" and encourage everyone to do the same.

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Feminist Infighting

Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.01.2008 | Politics

Perhaps a feminism that has not responded to the needs of its constituents needs to die. Perhaps Obama is unintentionally killing feminism and facilitating the rise of "feminisms."

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Forty Years On: Kerner and the Liberal Media

John Ridley | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media

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For all the areas of society in which blacks -- and by extension all minorities -- have enjoyed some measure of parity, there is one glaring and ironic omission: the very media which is so often accused of having a liberal bias.

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The Hidden Race and Gender Factor in Presidential Campaigns

Jackson Katz | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sexism, 2008 Election and Race, Racism, 2008 Election and Sexism, Hillary Clinton, Race, 2008 Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Barack Obama, Gender, Politics News

Millions of Democratic primary voters are casting aside the old idea of the American president as the embodiment of white patriarchal authority.

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George Bush, You Made My Dream Come True

Trey Ellis | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Presidential Candidate, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Bedtime Stories, Obama Racism, Racism, Obama Race, Barack Obama Race, Politics News

If the war had gone according to the Republicans' fever dream today we would be as much a one-party nation as Putin's Russia.

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Bill O'Reilly's Throwing a Lynching Party

Star Jones | Posted 02.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Racism, Bill O'Reilly Michelle Obama, Bill O'Reilly Michelle Obama Lynching Party, Lynching, Bill O'reilly Lynching Party, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

How dare this white man with a microphone and the trust of the public think that in 2008, he can still put the words "lynch and party" together in the same sentence with reference to a black woman?

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Memo to Obama: McCain Won't Hesitate to Play the Race Card

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Harold Ford, John McCain, Terry Nelson, Jr., Racism, Michael Fauntroy, Republicans, Richard Quinn, Barack Obama, Politics News

Senator John McCain's win in Wisconsin places him mere inches away from the Republican nomination. McCain's march to the nomination is nearly complet...

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