TAG: race
Will the genius behind this campaign please stand up?
"If there was ever an indication that the industry has a diversity problem, this is it."
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'Stealth racism' stalks deep South
"This World investigates the rise of discrimination in America's deep south as six black youths are charged with an alleged attack on a white student, which could see them jailed for up to 50 years."
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Obama's Stock: Financial Misdealings a Persistent Criticism of African American Candidates
"This past Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Obama purchased stock in companies that stood to benefit from Obama’s policy advocacy in the U.S. Senate."
"Rip out all of the faces from the Skymall Catalog. You will see from all of their smiling faces that they are pleased with their liberation. The images can then be used to create data visualizations of Skymall demographics."
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This Week's Non-Racists: Michael Richards and Clint Eastwood
"It’s this refusal to embrace our racism and deal with the deeper issues that allow racial injustice to continue generation after generation."
Anil Dash on Michael Richards: "Michael Richards lost his shit for the same reason white people always get mad when black people talk at the movies."
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The bizarre story of Michael Oher, left tackle for Ole' Miss.
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"His willingness to headbutt Materazzi makes him more of a hero, not less. Admittedly, since France went on to lose, he's something of a tragic hero, but a hero none-the-less."
Gladwell discusses some of the issues with eyewitness testimony, especially across races. When people see the face of another race they first group it in the racial category then move on to facial features.
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Telling the Truth About Chief Justice Rehnquist
Alan Dershowitz: "My mother always told me that when a person dies, one should not say anything bad about him. My mother was wrong."
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"What those who are afraid of civil society breaking down don't realize is that civil society has already broken down!"
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Big Ben is back, badder than ever
"As racist as it really is, the fact that white people can walk around the Palace in fake black Afro wigs without black folks taking offense is a testament to the power of racial "go beyond" that he has single-handedly generated."
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Fear of reinforcing negative stereotypes, Claude Steele finds, hampers the ability to succeed. The idea is now central in affirmative action and job discrimination fights.
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Henry Louis Gates on the possibilites of getting blacks up to the average
What Spike Lee and Alan Keyes have in common
Henry Louis Gates on the silence of American about the problems in Black culture
Republican's attempts to gain the black vote