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- GM, Procter & Gamble Pull Ads on BET
  Posted by Shemuses
  Media watchdogs are declaring it a victory. Black Entertainment Television hasn't said much, and advertisers are mum. What is clear, though, is that at least two top advertisers--automaking giant General Motors and consumer goods manufacturer Procter & Gamble--have pulled ads from BET's Rap City and 106 & Park programs.
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- Watchdog Group Builds Online Portrait of Biases Pervading Campaign Coverage
  Posted by Shemuses from Blog.wired
  Fox News Channel anchor E.D. Hill apologized to viewers Tuesday for characterizing a set of Barack and Michelle Obama's gestures as "terrorist fist jabs." The Emmy-award-winning journalist offered the mea culpa after the liberal media-watchdog group Media Matters launched an internet petition Tuesday morning urging viewers to let Fox know that the comment was beyond the pale.
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- What the Housing Crisis Can Tell Us about Racism, Sexism and Homelessness
  Posted by Shemuses from Blog Critics
  If we choose to view each of these problems and its race dynamics as separate issues, then we are guilty of ignoring the points of origin which connect them all together. According to Max Rameau, an organizer with the Center for Pan-African Development in Miami, Florida, the root problems of gentrification in the 2000s are the same as the root problems of segregation in the 1960s: people of colors' lack of power and control over land, and white supremacy.
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- Uh-Obama: Racism, White Voters and the Myth of Color-Blindness
  Posted by Shemuses
  The extent to which Obama's white support has been directly related to his downplaying of race issues simply cannot be overstated, as evidenced by the kinds of things many of these supporters openly admit, possessing no sense of apparent irony or misgiving. So, consider the chant offered by his supporters at a recent rally-and frankly, a chant in which whites appeared to be joining with far greater enthusiasm than folks of color-to the effect that "Race Doesn't Matter, Race Doesn't Matter," a concept so utterly absurd, given the way in which race most certainly still matters to the opportunity structure in this country, that one has to almost wretch at the repeated offering of it.
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- Black Lawmakers Urge Bush to Restore Urban Youth Program
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  he Congressional Black Caucus has appealed to President Bush on behalf of the National Urban League's Urban Youth Empowerment Program, which is set to be slashed from the budget of the Department of Labor next week. The funding, which enables the program to provide much-needed services to young people to reduce recidivism and to help them complete their high school education and to find jobs, will be terminated this week.
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- Will Richmond, Ca, Stand up To Chevron?
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  Richmond, Ca - on July 15th the Richmond City Council has a chance to make history. On that day it could be the first city in the U.S. to decide to protect the health of its residents and stand up to the Chevron Oil Company and impose a cap on their plans for further expansion. To do that the Council will have to turn down Chevron Richmond's proposed "Energy & Hydrogen Renewal" project to process thicker-dirtier crude oil. On the other hand, if the council approved it, it would expand some of Chevron's refinery's most polluting processes.
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- Racial Profiling: Now as American as Apple Pie
  Posted by Shemuses
  The AP () reported today that the Justice Department is "considering" (and by "considering" they mean "we're totally gonna do this") allowing the FBI to initiate terrorism investigations of Americans based on their "travel to regions of the world known for terrorist activity, access to weapons or military training" and of course, a person's race or ethnicity. In addition, the FBI will have the authority to ask "open-ended questions of Muslim- or Arab-Americans, or investigate them if their jobs and backgrounds" match "suspect" trends in an effort to "root out terrorists before they strike."
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kelidei comments on:
In a More Diverse America, A Mostly White Convention

You are seeing fewer and fewer Catholics affiliating themselves with the democratic party—- for many reasons—- much of which is ideological—- I would suggest it is because we feel hostility and bias towards what is important to us—- I would think if this is the case with African Americans it represents the same dynamic which is not racial but ideological.

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12:44 pm 9/05/08
Jeff comments on:
In a More Diverse America, A Mostly White Convention

Nearly all white people on TV

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12:24 am 9/05/08
marsha comments on:
In a More Diverse America, A Mostly White Convention

Why are Republican African Americans surprised by this phenomenon? Do they truly think that the GOP has their interests in mind and that it can relate to their circumstances? What more proof do we need that the GOP is hostile to the needs of all but the most wealthy Americans, except the record of the last 8 years with the cuts in constitutional rights, the tax benefits for the wealthy and corporations, the record high oil industry profits, a war that was initiatied with false information and no clear plan of action? I could go on but the evidence is too extensive to record here. This convention is business as usual for the GOP. Luckily African Americans have a real alternative this year and I hope they will all flock to the Democratic ticket if they want to see change.

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10:28 pm 9/04/08
koroth comments on:
Congress's Apology for Slavery Is a Good Thing—It's Just Not Enough

Agreed. Now that the apology has been made all can be forgiven and everyone should be happy. Lets get on with life.
BTW – Slavery wasn’t "just the evil doings of greedy Southern planters." Slavery was a 5,000 year old institution practiced all over the world (and still is in places.) Perhaps apologies should be demanded from a few of those places?

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10:21 am 8/04/08
theauthor comments on:
Congress's Apology for Slavery Is a Good Thing—It's Just Not Enough

Yes, good to know that our Congress is focused on such important issues while they completely ignore stupid things like the cost of energy.

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8:46 am 8/03/08
deaniewong comments on:
Obama T-Shirt Sparks Assault, Lawsuit
$69 bucks for a T-Shirt with those words? And she's the one who's suing? This is just stupid.
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12:28 pm 7/31/08
rosspatton comments on:
Obama T-Shirt Sparks Assault, Lawsuit
Well if she bought the shirt she obviously was intending to antagonize people. I don't know what she expected would happen.
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6:19 pm 7/30/08

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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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