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The Unnatural History of Nontroversy

Matt Osborne | Posted 12.10.2009 | Media

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Don't tell me that nontroversy doesn't matter. With nearly as many Americans approving of Palin as Obama, nontroversy really, really matters.

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On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living

Read More: African-American, Chesterton, Robert Fuller, Self, Beijing, Berlin, Rockies, Racist, Ussr, Holocaust, Urals, Travel, Self-Renewal, Cold War, Keats, Trans-Siberian Railroad, On the Road, Munich, Oktoberfest, Thomas Fuller, Moscow, Russia, Thomas Wolfe, Train, Of Time and the River, Brotherhood of Sleepign Car Porters, Kerouac, Karakorams, Dachau, Theroux, Living News

Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.

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Why I'm Grateful for Joe Wilson and the Fury of Racists

Keli Goff | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Racists, South Carolina, Racist, Joe Wilson, Civil Rights Movement, Barack Obama, Politics News

Some people's racism has been brought to the fore because the America they thought they knew is changing to an America in which a Black man can get elected president and their very own children applaud.

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Obama, America and Race

Robert Slayton | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Racism, Jimmy Carter, Racism, Racism in Politics, David Brooks, Barack Obama, Bull Connor, Racist, Politics News

Obama is a lot of things that are scary, and only one of these is the fact that he is black.

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I Have a Nightmare

Greg Saunders | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Obama Racism, Racism, Racist, Fiscal Conservativsm, Birthers, Thomas Edison, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Parties, Henry Ford, Blackface, The Bible, Michelle Obama, Nicola Tesla, Matt Drudge, Glenn Beck, Politics News

In the last two years, Republicans have been so angry they've had to invent new ways to be racist. Racism no longer comes in degrees of offensiveness, but in flavors of hate speech.

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Racism, John McCain and Other Republicans

Norm Stamper | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

In 1976, 30 of my 31 police officers confessed to on-the-job use of the most vile, invective, racist language you can imagine. How do we confront the barefaced bigotry we see today?

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Defending Unpatriotic Racism

Robbie Gennet | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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They say the best offense is a good defense. Our only real defense against right wing insanity is to put them on the defense and keep them there.

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What!? Racism Still in America?

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.

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Glenn Beck's "Deep-Seated Hatred" for Obama and Why Fox News Won't Budge

Karl Frisch | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

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If Bill O'Reilly has the "no-spin zone," Glenn Beck seems to have the "sponsor-free zone" of late. In fact, at least 62 companies have ceased advertising on his Fox News program in recent weeks.

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Is Larry David Right? Can Dogs be "Racist"? This is a Job for Cesar Millan

Waylon Lewis | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: African-American, Cesar Millan, Dog Training, Racist, Dog Whisperer, Pet, Homeless, Black, Dog, Aggression, elephantjournal.com, Elephant Journal, Waylon Lewis, Bum, Larry David, Living News

How do we teach our confused furry pals that security guards, homeless gentlemen or African-Americans aren't anything to be afraid of?

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G. Gordon Liddy Thinks Bill Clinton Brought Back a Dead Giant Panda and a Penis from North Korea

Disgrasian | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

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While most of the country was busy heralding the safe return of American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling from North Korea, Gordon Liddy appears to be losing his mind.

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

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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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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Whites Who Say Blacks Are Racist Are Onto Something

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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In Glenn Beck's mind it doesn't add up. How can it be that people who are treated badly are not filled with hate?

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Why Hasn't the Media Cut Through the Gates Nonsense?

Eric Deggans | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

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Gates overreacted to a cop who was trying to make sure his home was safe. The police officer overreacted by arresting a guy just for yelling at him. So why are we still talking about this?

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The JusticeBot 9000

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

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The JusticeBot 9000: You said you wanted a machine that took all the human factor out of the law, so that emotion and empathy would be forever banished from the bench.

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Powell Whacks Limbaugh And Republicans For Calling Sotomayor Racist

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics

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Colin Powell, who hails from the same Bronx neighborhood as Sonia Sotomayor, said on Sunday that the Supreme Court nominee was of a "liberal bent of m...

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What Does an Extremist Look Like?

Geri Spieler | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Is an extremist tall, short, young, old, thin, fat? Would you know if the person standing next to you was about to pull out a gun and shoot? Scary ...

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Racism? Check Out the Experts

Paula Gordon | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Racism, Sonia Sotomayor, Republicans, Racist, Politics News

Republicans calling Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor "racist" should look in the mirror.

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Looks Like Newt Read My Post

Lowell Thompson | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Huffington Post, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Sonia Sotomayor, Racist, Politics News

Last week I posted my first HuffPost piece. This week, one half of the Newt Limbaugh tag-team recanted his "racist" comments about Judge Sonia Sotomay...

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Texas GOP Official Apologizes For Racist Email

Dallas Morning News | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

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Diann Jones, a vice chairman of the Collin County Republican Party, has apologized for an e-mail that some local judges denounced as racist. But she...

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Senator Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, And Racism

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

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In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...

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A Racist in West Georgia?

Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

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Some of the conservatives who call Sonia Sotomayor a racist have questionable records themselves when it comes to matters of race.

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That 'Latina Woman'

Michael Shaw | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

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Pairing an almost eight-year-old quote with a photo fished from the file, you see how the media can suggest Sotomayor as someone angry, bitter -- even "racist."

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Sotomayor Racist?

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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The fact that these conservative politicians and commentators don't even see racism unless they feel it is directed against them is precisely why we need the voices of women of color on the court.

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Jay Severin's Insanely Racist Rant

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boston, Racism, Anti-Mexican Comments, Jay Severin, Conservative Talk Show Host, Wtkk, Racist, Offensive, Primitives, Criminaliens, Leeches, Politics News

I have some credibility here when I say conservative talk show host Jay Severin should absolutely be fired for his racist comments against Mexicans on the radio.

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