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Original Technorati articles tagged “affirmative action”

• in Politics
  Democrats Want a Primary Challenger to Obama
  Will Any Democrat Challenge Obama?
  by / on Aug 30, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Diversity And Isms
  Diversity is about dignity, respect and most of all being human. We spend too much time looking for our differences when we have so much in common to celebrate
  by SaharAndrade / on Jul 6, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Is Glass Ceiling For Women a Myth? Part 3
  Looking at the obstacles women face; it becomes evident that the problems are from both sides: women and organizations and since it takes two to tango- solutions have to originate from both sides
  by SaharAndrade / on Mar 15, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “affirmative action”

 

• Duke’s Black Students Insulted by Racially Charged Duke Study

  
  EUR This N That | Urban Black News Blog — Authority: 466
  Duke has gotten somewhat of a reputation for being racially insensitive.   Last March, Jalen Rose was under fire for his remarks about the school and his idea that a lot of black students from the inner city may share. He said that “Schools like Duke don’t recruit players like me” or black kids from [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Ward Connerly Facing Misdeed Allegations By Former Staffer

  
  Acting White — Authority: 99
  I continue to believe that Affirmative Action needs a revision, to focus on the greater inclusive group of economically-disadvantage Americans, rather than race, gender, or otherwise. This would exclude well-off minorities, while including those whites held-down by their meager economic background. Anti-Affirmative ...
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• Uhhh... No Comment

  
  DarkStar Spouts Off — Authority: 103
  Affirmative-Action Foe Is Facing Allegations of Financial Misdeeds "He also said the group had reduced his pay to $850,000. One reason Mr. [ Ward ] Connerly has been a particularly effective advocate is that he is black. Mr. Clegg said there were “few people who can do or would do what he does,” adding that ...
  2 weeks ago

• In intercaste marriage, facts decide offspring’s status: Court

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 506
  New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday said that the determination of caste of a person born of a marriage between a tribal and a non-tribal cannot be determined in complete disregard of attending facts of the case.In such a marriage, there may be a presumption that the child has the [...]
  2 weeks ago

• ANGRY WHITE DUDE QUESTIONS FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING

  
  Angry White Dude — Authority: 514
  Yesterday was the national holiday for Martin Luther King’s birthday. This article was posted last year but is every bit as relevant this year. I wanted to repost it for our new dudes and dudettes. ARE MODERN BLACKS THE FULFILLMENT OF KINGS DREAM? On the eve of Martin Luther King Day in America, I urge you ...
  2 weeks ago

• Serves Him Right? Ward Connerly Accused Of Profiteering

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 708
  The most prominent Black foe of affirmative action is being accused of financial mismanagement of donations to his own cause. Ward Connerly, for years the champion of white conservatives and the bane of Black liberals, is alleged to have received excessive compensation on behalf of his American Civil Rights ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ward Connerly Faces Allegations of Fiscal Misdoing

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  Ward Connerly
  2 weeks ago

• Affirmative Action has to go!

  
  IowaDawg's Blawg — Authority: 124
  Before I get into the subject at hand, I have to mention just ONE instance of this blog getting a backlink from another blog. I do not go out and actively find blogs and say, want to exchange links? Nor do I buy links. I have found that when I write up something or post [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Civil Rights Aren’t Free — Demand Funding for Enforcement!

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 108
  The Obama administration will release its budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 in the next few weeks. This will be the first budget proposed since last summer’s agreement to raise the debt ceiling, which committed the federal government to reducing spending by $1 trillion over the next decade. No doubt the new ...
  2 weeks ago

• Beaver Cleaver: Keep On Pushin’

  
  Countenance Blog — Authority: 124
  RCP : Rep. Cleaver: White President Could Be Pushed More Than What We Would Push Obama To Do Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri) on getting something done about high black unemployment: “A white president, frankly, could be pushed a great deal more than we would push President Obama because nobody would accuse ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do African Americans benefit from Affirmative Action?

  
  African Mango Diet Pill Review — Authority: 140
  GoonSquadX Asked: Do African Americans benefit from Affirmative Action? Do African Americans benefit from Affirmative Action? For things like universities and such? Answers: Secular Humanist Answered: Sure. Almost all minorities do, including women. Nic Answered: Yes. Some debate whether or not its ...
  2 weeks ago

• Liberals Having a Wonderful Time: David Krayden

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 408
  By David Krayden They already have an NDP interim leader in Bob Rae and now the Liberal Party of Canada will have NDP policies to match. The Grits are meeting this weekend at a policy convention in Ottawa to define themselves – yet again. In its attempt to compete with the socialists for best left-wing performance ...
  2 weeks ago

• Networking Specialist

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  1. Oversee secure campus network architecture Develop, maintain and update a network security strategy to accommodate physical, procedural, and content security aspects. Implement electronic security measures within the campus network system to ensure highly available and reliable network access. Work ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inside Duke: hurting the ones we love?

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 102
  This very interesting study had access to comprehensive data ranging from Duke admissions office evaluations of applicants, to students intended majors and subsequent shifts, to grades awarded and student composition (including abilities!) for each course offered at Duke. Interesting factoid: 40% of fathers of White ...
  2 weeks ago

• 1/12 Quote Of The Day

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 126
  "As long as there’s any industry that makes money and garners publicity on portraying blacks as put-upon victims who cannot function in a free society without government largesse, there will be concerted efforts to keep race front and center. That’s not to say people can’t or shouldn’t notice differences ...
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• Video Of The Day

  
  Black & Right — Authority: 554
  Canada ain’t much better than we are down here….
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• Skipping Evidence in Favor of Conclusions

  
  The Education Optimists — Authority: 402
  Tonights Chronicle of Higher Education features a story of great policy relevance. Under the headline "Study Disputes Claims That Preferentially Admitted Students Catch Up," author Peter Schmidt describes the results of an unpublished paper by Duke researchers as calling "into question other studies that play ...
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• NAACP Calls for Economic Boycott of St. Louis City/County

  
  Missouri Political News Service — Authority: 414
  This excerpt from a press release from the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP further proves that the NAACP is a tired and irrelevant organization offering more tired and irrelevant ideas: NAACP State Quarterly meeting in Columbia, Mo. – On Saturday January 7, 2011 the NAACP Missouri State Conference supported ...
  3 weeks ago

• Affirmative Pretense or Self-delusion

  
  The View from Alexandria — Authority: 97
  Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote: There is, of course, a lot of pretense or self-delusion (you can take your choice) in all that pertains to affirmative action. Those words came to mind this morning when I received an EEO/AA Program Policy Statement from my employer: The University … is an equal employment ...
  3 weeks ago

• For Many, "Its That Time of Year": Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) Revision

  
  Employer Law Report — Authority: 454
  Many federal contractors and subcontractors use a calendar year for their written affirmative action plans (AAPs). That means their AAPs are typically being reviewed and revised shortly after January 1. Working with companies over the years to help them develop and revise AAPs and advising companies during OFCCP ...
  3 weeks ago

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