Affirmative Action

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• Affirmative Action Comes To Politics In Great Britain

  
  Unambiguously Ambidextrous — Authority: 480
  It’s always good to look to Great Britain as the litmus test for particularly vile, insipid and racist ideas, since they’re likely to work their way through the commonwealth. A perfect case in point is the recent news that political parties will now be forced to declare how many women, ethnic minority and ...
  6 hours ago

• France: Rama Yade In The News

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 148
  Yade Advocates A "True Republic" For French Of Foreign Origin; Argues For American-Style Affirmative Action French Secretary of State for Sports Rama Yade has advocated a "real and not formal Republic" for the French of foreign origin, and called for "affirmative action" (article in French). "If the principles of ...
  2 days ago

• Latest Diversity crisis: the Coast Guard Academy

  
  Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog — Authority: 627
  Heres an excerpt from a long article in the Washington Post : Despite pact, few blacks at Coast Guard school Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and ...
  4 days ago

• Colorblindsided

  
  Ft. Hard Knox — Authority: 477
  Look, I’ll give it to you straight: we’re not hiring someone based on the content of their character; we’re hiring someone based on the color of their skin. For more fun, visit www.DiversityLane.com 
  5 days ago

• XXLMag.com | Before My Condom Self-Destructs

  
  Ron Mexico City — Authority: 104
  [ Bloggers Note: Oh, shit! Wes back! I appreciate your patience and continued support of the hate!] I’m sorry. I’ve got to give it to Big Green on this title. “ 50 Cent’s Condom Campaign Bursts” ? Wowsers. That is SOHH fuckin funny! Even funnier is how they describe the campaign as ...
  6 days ago

• Racial Segregation in U.S. Schools: Illinois Terminates Chicago’s Desegregation Decree

  
  The State of Opportunity — Authority: 119
     All people should have the opportunity to succeed in life, regardless of their race. But a recent Illinois district court decision jeopardizes that possibility.
  6 days ago

• 11/23/2009

  
  Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir — Authority: 566
  Born Again. [IMG: http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/112309.jpg]
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• Open Letter to President Barack Obama : An appeal to pursue during Indian Prime Minister’s visit

  
  Atrocity News — Authority: 115
  November 21, 2009The Honorable Barack Obama,President of the United StatesThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20500Dear President,First of all thank you for making commitment to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history. We expect the fare treatment for our request ...
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• Is Hatred a Basic Human Need?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  We humans are, to use an out-of-date expression, some mighty queer customers.  We have to hate.  All over the world, my fellow human beings have demonstrated to anyone who would care to watch that we just plain need to hate. Why are we twice as adept at hurting as we are at caring? Not very many days ago, a ...
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• Virginia Makes History…Up

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 468
  From From THINK PROGRESS : During a debate on the House floor today over designating 21 miles of the Molalla River as “ wild and scenic ,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who opposes the legislation, tried to claim a progressive environmental record for her party. “Actually, the GOP has been the leader in ...
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• Defending Minority Racism

  
  Guy White: Making Sense On Race — Authority: 473
  The study tracked about 100,000 employees at more than 700 stores belonging to one, unidentified chain from February 1996 to July 1998. The report found that replacing an African-American manager with a white, Hispanic or Asian manager resulted in the hiring of fewer African-American employees. The percentage of new ...
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• Diversity in Practice

  
  EppsNet: Notes from the Golden Orange — Authority: 133
  This is how “diversity” works in practice: Intellectual contention is drowned out in a sea of emotion, much of it phony. Members of designated victim groups respond to a serious argument with “pain” and “shock” and accusations of “hate,” and university administrators make a show of pretending to care. ...
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• How do you like being the Butt of a Joke?

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 139
  Guess what? America has been a giant experimental laboratory for Obamas "on-the-job" training. Who enabled this affirmative action atrocity? During the presidential campaign, many Americans thought that Barack Obama’s lack of leadership experience would not prevent him from being an effective president. His ...
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• Black CT Firefighters Object To White Promotions After Discrimination Case

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 629
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The black New Haven firefighters argue in papers filed Monday that they still have a right to challenge the validity of the promotional exam. ...
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• Affirmative Action, Prop 2 Showdown in Federal Court

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 138
  Affirmative action is one of the few issues that I have yet decided to on. To be sure, I always keep an open mind, and my opinions are there to influence for anyone that can provide a convincing argument, but I have formed a fairly strong belief in most areas. So why is affirmative action different for me? I don’t ...
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• Black churches create hostility toward whites, or merely cater to it?

  
  The Audacious Epigone — Authority: 118
  In a post on the practical benefit of piety among the less endowed, OneSTDV concludes that the primary consequence of the black church experience tends to be an accentuation of black animosity toward whites : The black church creates a racially charged cohort eagerly blaming failure on white racism and lacking any ...
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• Michigan’s Ban On Racial Preferences Moves Closer To Supreme Court

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 629
  From The Detroit Free Press: Michigan’s ban on racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring was in court again Tuesday, another step closer to its assumed destination: the doorstep of the U.S. Supreme Court. “I don’t see how they would give up, and we’re not either,” said ...
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• White men shouldn’t be allowed in sports

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 477
  White men are racists; why should they be allowed to coach football? Only blacks should be hired. Of course, the Black Coaches and Administrators association can’t come right out and say that, because, for now anyway, those evil racist honkies have too much power. They have to play it slow. So [...]
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• Femmostroppo Reader – November 19, 2009

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 139
  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what youve been reading (and writing!) in the comments. (I’m also aiming to add more tags to individual reader posts, to provide better indexing and help more with the similar posts feature, so if you want to suggest a tag to be added, ...
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• FLOTUS talks about herself…again

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 150
  November 18, 2009It’s clear that neither POTUS or FLOTUS can make any remarks without including themselves. And the both make it seem like they had these terrible struggles when they absolutely did not.FLOTUS spoke at South High School, Denver, Colorado – 1500 students – and talked to just 30 of them. Her ...
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