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GOP War on Voting Targets Swing States

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Rolling Stone - By Ari Berman, Rolling Stone - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - 'Since the 2010 election, Republicans have waged an unprecedented war on voting, with the unspoken but unmistakable goal of preventing millions of mostly Democratic voters, including students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly, from casting ballots in 2012.' Ari Berman, Rolling Stone

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Knicks' Jeremy Lin holds mirror up to America

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Bill Plaschke - Feb. 21 (Opinion) - .Of all the drives, dunks and dazzling shots Jeremy Lin is forcing upon the stars of the NBA, none of it compares with the moves he's putting on a larger collection of everyday people.

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Herman Cain, a man at odds with the skin he's in

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain neatly encapsulates an article of faith for many white conservatives — namely, that they, not black and brown people, are the true victims of bigotry. Cain comes across as a man profoundly at odds with the skin he's in.

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Hate crimes are a national problem

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By J. Richard Cohen - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - The security camera footage broadcast by CNN shows a grisly scene: a black man in Jackson, Mississippi, being fatally run over by a pickup truck after he was viciously beaten in a motel parking lot on a Sunday morning in June. Prosecutors say a group of white teens chose the man at random. They say the alleged ringleader, an 18-year-old now charged with murder, laughed about it afterward and boasted in a phone conversation about how he "ran that n----- over."

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Shocking photo created a hero, but not to his family

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By John Blake - May. 17 (Review) - The mob was already waiting for James Zwerg by the time the Greyhound bus eased into the station in Montgomery, Alabama.

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The Torture Apologists

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - May. 05 (Editorial) - The killing of Osama bin Laden provoked a host of reactions from Americans: celebration, triumph, relief, closure and renewed grief. One reaction, however, was both cynical and disturbing: crowing by the apologists and practitioners of torture that Bin Laden's death vindicated their immoral and illegal behavior after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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The collapse of Detroit

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Scott Martelle - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - Imagine for a moment that every single person living in the city of San Jose, plus another 150,000 or so, just up and left. Vanished. Poof. Gone. Leaving their homes, business buildings and factories behind. That is, in effect, what has happened to the city of Detroit, according to 2010 U.S. Census data released this week.

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Israel: The ugly truth

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - By Mya Guarnieri - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - As it slides further into open and violent racism, Israel offers the Western world a reflection of itself. There was that jarring week in December ...

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Decoding the Tea Party's ire

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Eugene Robinson - Nov. 02 (Opinion) - The first African American president takes office, and almost immediately we see the birth of a big, passionate national movement - overwhelmingly white and lavishly funded - that tries its best to delegitimize that president, seeks to thwart his every initiative, and manages to bring the discredited and moribund opposition party roaring back to life. Coincidence? Not a chance. But also not that simple.

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Politicians' Latino strategy: Blame the other guy

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Ruben Navarrette Jr. - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - With just days until the midterm elections, political parties aren't doing Latino outreach. They're taking the easy way out and doing Latino "outrage."

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Pakistan's Pashtuns Feel More Alone Than Ever

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Radio Free Europe - By Shaheen Buneri - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - Pashtuns straddling the Pakistani-Afghan border face serious challenges to their survival, and it's very hard for them to know whether the world recognizes their numerous sacrifices in the ongoing war, or whether all of them have simply been dismissed by the outside world as Taliban supporters and sympathizers.

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When Thought Becomes a Crime

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Richard Cohen, Washington Post - Oct. 19 (Opinion) - Almost as bad as hate crimes themselves is the designation. It is a little piece of totalitarian nonsense, a way for prosecutors to punish miscreants for their thoughts or their speech, both of which used to be protected by the Constitution (I am an originalist in this regard). It is not the criminal act alone that matters anymore but the belief that might have triggered the act. For this, you can get an extra five years or so in the clink.

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Resist those who would rewrite the history of civil rights

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Sep. 20 (Opinion) - Attempts by some conservatives to rewrite the history of the civil-rights movement are disturbing. Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. sets the record straight, reminding people that history even with its rough edges, needs to be embraced.

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Beck rally is symbolic violence on King

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Alan Boraas - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - Glenn Beck's assertion that it was mere coincidence the "Restore America" rally fell on the 47th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is pure fabrication. In fact, the Restore America event is a textbook case of symbolic violence.

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Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected -€”the Waterworld of white self-pity.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Christopher Hitchens - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - One crucial element of the American subconscious is about to become salient and explicit and highly volatile. It is the realization that white America is within thinkable distance of a moment when it will no longer be the majority. This awareness already exists in places like New York and Texas and California, and there have even been projections of the time(s) at which it will occur and when different nonwhite populations will collectively outnumber the former white majority. But it also exerts a strong subliminal effect in states like Alaska that have an overwhelming white preponderance.[more ...] United States - Glenn Beck - California - White American - New York

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I Have a Scheme

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Aug. 28 (Comedy News) - Glenn Beck wants to reclaim the civil rights movement on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

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Dr. Laura, Sarah Palin, and the fight over free speech

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Ken Paulson - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - In the wake of Dr. Laura Schlessinger"s decision to end her radio show after repeatedly using a racial epithet, she"s spent quite a bit of time talking about freedom of speech. "I want to regain my First Amendment rights," Schlessinger said, contending that special-interest groups were limiting her freedom to express herself.Sarah Palin jumped in and tweeted, "Dr.Laura: don?t retreat ... reload!

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Howard Dean: Fox News 'absolutely racist' in Sherrod flap

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Matt DeLong - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - In a heated discussion on "Fox News Sunday," former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said that Fox's conduct during the Shirley Sherrod firestorm last week was "absolutely racist."

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This crime was a symptom of a wider sickness in the police

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Tracie Washington - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - These charges have been a long time coming. I was in New Orleans throughout the floods and in the days after, and I still remember the sense that something had gone amiss when we first heard of the incident on Danziger Bridge, the way our anger grew.

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Megyn Kelly's minstrel show

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Dave Weigel - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - So why obsess over the Panthers? Is it turnabout for the way that liberals elevate the craziest tea party activists, or the way they call them racist? Because it's obviously not a search for justice or a muckraking effort to discover reverse racism in the DOJ. If this is an effort to make sure that King Samir Shabazz is prosecuted for intimidating voters, why not try to find some voters he intimidated? Why, instead, as Kelly and Glenn Beck have opted to do, show video of the Shabazz yelling about "crackers" at a street fair before the election? No one disputes that he hates white people -- just watch one of the tapes from the times Fox News invited his colleagues on to discuss how they hate white people.

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Profiling's enabler: High court ruling underpins Arizona immigration law

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Gabriel J. Chin, Kevin R. Johnson - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - Supporters and opponents of S.B. 1070 assume that racial profiling is unconstitutional, largely because many Americans believe that it ought to be. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court has approved the racial profiling permitted -- indeed encouraged -- by S.B. 1070.

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Rand Paul's Libertarian La-La Land

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Eugene Robinson - May. 25 (Opinion) - Not so fast, everybody. Rand Paul can't abruptly disavow the extremist views on civil rights that he's been espousing for years and expect us all to just move along. Was he lying then? Is he lying now? Or has the Tea Party movement's newly crowned Mad Hatter changed his mind?

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The Proud Ignorance of Rand Paul

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Ta-Nehisi Coates - May. 20 (Opinion) - But what about red-lining? Does Paul know anything about blockbusting? Does he think banks should be able to have a policy of not lending to black businesses? Does he think real-estate agents should be able to discriminate? Does he think private homeowner groups should be able to band together and keep out blacks? Jews? Gays? Latinos?

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Rand Paul, telling the truth

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Weigel - May. 20 (Opinion) - If we use "gaffe" in its proper, Kinsleyan form, that's what U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul issued to NPR yesterday, and that's what he defended on Rachel Maddow's show last night. He told the truth about his stance on the Civil Rights Act. I've posted the video and transcript below the fold, because I find it fascinating to watch Paul stand by his philosophical and legal stance and refuse to dissemble in a way that would, you know, get people to stop accusing him of some archaic form of racism.

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Rand Paul won't answer Civil Rights Act question

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Ben Smith - May. 20 (Comment) - Paul has suggested in the past -- and been attacked for suggesting -- that the federal government has no place regulating private business decisions, even on issues like race and accomodations for the disabled, and was pressed on the question -- three times -- on NPR just now:

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