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• Utah Business Refuses Business to Atheist Group

  
  Peacock Panache — Authority: 152
  By Tim Peacock Photo Courtesy Atheists of Utah The Christian Post reported Wednesday about a Utah business that has refused to do business with an Atheist group citing their personal religious objections to the groups message.  TIKI Printing of West Valley - the Utah company in question - is ...
  1 week ago

• Failing to Notice a Big Difference

  
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  Bleeding heart civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander argues that the criminal justice system in America is blighted with racial animus to the degree that it is the functional equivalent of the Democrat created Jim Crow system. She says it here . Alexander has gained national recognition for her scholarly work ...
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• Reince: King of Denial!

  
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  By Jeff Simpson Reince Priebus, head of the republican party, recently did what republicans do best - spend a bunch of money needlessly, to figure out a problem that was easily understood, then do nothing with the money spent.  Otherwise known as GOP Rebranding . The partys top activists will spend much of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Work ahead for Scottsboro Boys pardons

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 163
  Though the Alabama Legislature has cleared the way for posthumous pardons of the Scottsboro Boys, much work — from legal documents to public hearings — remains before the names of the nine black teens wrongly convicted more than 80 years ago are officially cleared. The Scottsboro Boys were convicted by all-white ...
  2 weeks ago

• California Senate takes step in the right direction to curb wasteful spending on low level drug possession.

  
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  California Senate Approves Common Sense Drug Sentencing Reform Bill S.B. 649 Would Help End California’s Overincarceration Crisis by Reducing Needless and Costly Incarceration for Low Level Drug Possession and Freeing Up Money for Programs Proven to Reduce Recidivism FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2, 2013   ...
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• Black Twitter Flexes its #BlackPrivilege

  
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  Black Twitter Flexes its #BlackPrivilege When racism rears its ugly head on social media, leave it to ‘Black Twitter’ to clap-back and upend rhetoric meant to denigrate black folks, and turn it into a clever and teachable moment steeped in the type of sardonic satire meant to make perpetrators of said racial ...
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• 50 Years Later, Recalling the Young ‘Foot Soldiers’ of the Civil Rights Struggle

  
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  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In May 1963, thousands of Birmingham school children faced police dogs, fire hoses, and possible arrest to demonstrate against segregation. Now, 50 years later, those who were part of what became known as the “Children’s March” say they don’t want their story to be forgotten. “We were ...
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• 1897: John Gibson, under Jim Crow

  
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  On this date in 1897, John Gibson was hanged for murder. In its particulars, the case itself was as minute and forgettable as a homicide ever could be: Gibson got into a spat with a plantation overseer over the theft of 20 or 25 cents from his wages. Later that night, still steaming and now drunk, he called the boss ...
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• Prison House of Textbook History: Remembering the Chicano Blowouts

  
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  sikivu_hitchinson-godless.jpg by Sikivu Hutchinson 1968, the year of the biggest high school walkout in U.S. history, was not so different than the present. “Then, as now, there was no room for analyses of sexism, racial apartheid, heterosexism, and patriarchy and how our lived ...
  2 weeks ago

• GOP Answer to LGBT Public Accommodation Discrimination: Grow Your Own Food

  
  Peacock Panache — Authority: 152
  By Tim Peacock Mike Hewitt (R-Walla Walla) In the growing fury over protecting the LGBT community from discrimination in public accommodation, the GOP in Washington state apparently has an interesting new answer when confronted by difficult questions: gays can "grow their own food." The answer ...
  3 weeks ago

• Police Privilege and Conflict with Diversity Initiatives

  
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  On October 01, 2010 Sam Houston State University (SHSU) student Aman Abdulaziz  was stopped by campus police for a parking violation that quickly escalated into a police brutality incident as shown in the officer’s dash cam (and in the image below).   (Aman Abdulaziz image from here . Used with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Felony Disenfranchisement Is Jim Crow Era Holdover

  
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  Benjamin Todd Jealous - Last week, the Delaware State legislature approved a constitutional amendment to all but remove the last Jim Crow-era voter suppression law from its books. The amendment, passed at the urging of the Delaware NAACP, allows people with nonviolent felony convictions to vote after their release ...
  3 weeks ago

• About three-fifths full of it

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 611
  When someone tells you that we need a “conversation” on something, invariably it turns out that what this someone really wants is a lecture on that something, of which you are expected to be the docile, nodding recipient. And maybe that wouldn’t be so bad, if they actually knew what they were talking about. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rand Paul: Black Like Me

  
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  Its like, for the whole fifty years of his sheltered life, Senator Aqua Buddha lived in a parallel Libertarian universe where compassionate, visionary Republicans ushered in the Second Great Emancipation of the downtrodden Negro race
  5 weeks ago

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