Having Barack Obama as president doesn't make America colour-blind

The arrest of an African-American professor and the vilification of a Latina woman judge show that prejudice lives on in the USA

The arrest of an African-American professor and the vilification of a Latina woman judge show that prejudice lives on in the USA During a major policy speech on healthcare, even President Obama found time to weigh in: "… I think it?s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three – what I ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Jul 25, 2009 - 6:11 PM PDT
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