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- Black Football Player Receives Threats After Proposal
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  But Idaho blacks have seen trouble coming ever since Boise State tailback Ian Johnson, who is black, got down on one knee Jan. 1 to propose to cheerleader Chrissy Popadics, who is white, on national TV after scoring the winning points at the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.
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- Navajos and Environmentalists Split on Power Plant
  Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
  For the Navajo nation, energy is the most valuable currency. The tribal lands are rich with uranium, natural gas, wind, sun and, most of all, coal. But two coal-fired power plants here, including one on the reservation, belch noxious fumes, making the air among the worst in the state.
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- Katrina anniversary nearing, what to do...
  Posted by Shemuses
  You know all this Senate and presidential talk about protecting our national security just seems like one big, unfunny joke as our nation's top leaders fail to see post-Katrina recovery as an issue of security. Luckily though, a lot of people aren't having it, like surprisingly, all types of media that's reported many stories about redevelopment scandals in New Orleans, broken hospitals, and schools, and permanently displaced lives. Today, I got a letter in my inbox, forwarded from AlterNet,
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- The New Environmentalists by Van Jones
  Posted by Shemuses
  In response to mounting ecological crises, the United States is going through its most important economic transformation since the New Deal. Unfortunately, the vital process of change along more eco-friendly lines is moving ahead with practically zero participation from people of color.
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- It's About Interracial Sex Folks
  Posted by Shemuses
  The truth of the matter is that the US is a culture obsessed with interracial sex, but nobody will say this in polite company. During the slave era and the Jim Crow era, white people spoke with repulsion and disgust at interracial sex even though many white men were routinely engaging in sexual encounters with black women. In the colorblind era, people are still obsessed with interracial sex. However, they do not publicly say, “Wow, interracial sex is: bizarre, disgusting, exciting, adventur
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- Esquire asks: Can a white man still be elected president?
  Posted by Shemuses
  Have you seen this cover? What are they really trying to say? “Can a white man still be elected president?” asks Esquire of its readers in next month’s issue featuring presidential hopeful John Edwards.
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- Fighting for Youth or Fighting Youth?
  Posted by Shemuses
  New push for gang legislation ignores economic causes of crime.
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akinsalawu comments on:
Can The Economic Crisis Advance Racial Progress?

http://takingnote.tcf.org/

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12:23 pm 10/10/08
modfyre comments on:
Obama effigy hung from tree at US Christian college

How very ‘Un-Christian’ of them, makes you sick really….

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12:36 am 10/08/08
oneohone comments on:
Aboriginal issues missing from election campaign: First Nations leader

This is bad. Their issues should be discussed in the election

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6:01 pm 10/06/08
oneohone comments on:
Racism Without Racists

I’m not sure if this is accurate. Obama would hot have as much black support if he was white. Assuming he was still liberal he would still not pick up additional conservative support.

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5:23 pm 10/05/08
modfyre comments on:
This is Your Nation on White Privilege

We all got problems, many people face discrimination, the elderly, young, women, disabled, single mothers..It’s never acceptable under any circumstances….lots of people face the challenge of discrimination. No one group has a monopoly!

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5:20 pm 10/04/08
mozellagi2000 comments on:
Forum sells 'Obama Waffles' with racial stereotype

Can’t anyone make a joke anymore…. it’s perfect !

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6:53 am 9/21/08
vasillekael comments on:
Lose your house, lose your vote

foreclose is not the solution why not republican party gather votes in their state

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3:56 am 9/12/08

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Shemuses
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Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.
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Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.
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theangryindian
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“The Angryindian” is an internationally recognized Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.
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