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• XXLMag.com | Before My Condom Self-Destructs

  
  Ron Mexico City — Authority: 100
  [ 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 ...
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• Racial Segregation in U.S. Schools: Illinois Terminates Chicago’s Desegregation Decree

  
  The State of Opportunity — Authority: 120
     All people should have the opportunity to succeed in life, regardless of their race. But a recent Illinois district court decision jeopardizes that possibility.
  19 hours ago

• 11/23/2009

  
  Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir — Authority: 542
  Born Again. [IMG: http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/112309.jpg]
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• Is Hatred a Basic Human Need?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  We humans are, to use an out-of-date expression, some mighty queer customers.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 ...
  3 days ago

• Virginia Makes History…Up

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Defending Minority Racism

  
  Guy White: Making Sense On Race — Authority: 475
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Diversity in Practice

  
  EppsNet: Notes from the Golden Orange — Authority: 134
  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: 433
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Black CT Firefighters Object To White Promotions After Discrimination Case

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  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: 435
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Black churches create hostility toward whites, or merely cater to it?

  
  The Audacious Epigone — Authority: 414
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Michigan’s Ban On Racial Preferences Moves Closer To Supreme Court

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  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: 478
  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 [...]
  5 days ago

• 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: 489
  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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• Male Circumcision (MC) Communication Program Manager Job Vacancy: Academy for Educational Development (AED)

  
  MY AFRICAN CAREER — Authority: 161
  The Academy for Educational Development (AED), an international not-for-profit organization, working in education and training, health and nutrition, democracy and governance, and economic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://myafricancareer.blogspot.com/ for Vacancies, Career Tips and Resume making ...
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• Michigan affirmative action ban under court consideration

  
  Apostle Islands Navigator — Authority: 453
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) A federal appeals court is about to consider a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring.Civil rights groups and University of Michigan students, faculty and applicants say the 2006 ballot measure approved by voters is ...
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• Black Woman Pimps Baby Daughter to Perv Killer

  
  INCOG MAN: Sick of all the BS... — Authority: 466
  Worthless Negress and this country.
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• The perils of an affirmative action president

  
  Bookworm Room — Authority: 622
  Jennifer Rubin has a very good post today about the reasons that the “smart” Obama may be struggling so mightily to be a good president.  She offers three basic reasons that may explain Obama’s ineptitude, whether it touches economics, diplomacy, or national security: First, the punditocracy confused ...
  6 days ago

• Irony: Civil Rights Groups Sue To End Ban On Racial Discriminatio, Overturn MI MCRI

  
  theblogprof — Authority: 679
  "I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!" - Martin Luther King, Jr. This is turning out to be a day of ironies in the news. Martin Luther King Jr. lead a civil ...
  6 days ago

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