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• Suburban Segregation in The North

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 576
  The election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States signaled a new era in race relations.  Race or minority status is no longer an insuperable barrier to holding higher office—or achieving other kinds of success—in American society.  However, it is important that this country’s pride in its ...
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• Harry Reid and Slavery

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 744
  The classical poet A.E. Housman wrote, “For nature, heartless, witless nature.” He might have said the same thing about history, which like nature is neither cruel nor kind; right, nor wrong; it is simply indifferent. It has, as they say, no dog in the fight. If, however, one is looking back and telling ...
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• Sweden: Muslim leader could get to parliament

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 570
  Via Swedish journalist Per Gudmundsons Blog . Gudmundson also links to an interview Waberi gave to the RFSU (Association for Sexuality Education) in 2006. I translate the parts about polygamy below, though Waberi does talk about other Sharia issues as well. Abdirisak Waberi is not the only conservative ...
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• Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, 75, to be flogged for associating with men

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 570
  HUMAN rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to stay a sentence of 40 lashes handed down against a 75-year-old woman for breaching the kingdoms sex segregation rules. HUMAN rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to stay a sentence of 40 lashes handed down ...
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• The Southern Baptist Convention in 1960

  
  Between The Times — Authority: 537
  In 1960, Time Magazine ran a  fascinating profile of the Southern Baptist Convention, which is available online. A number of prominent Convention personalities of the era were profiled as the popular periodical tried to interpert Southern Baptists for a general readership. The article is an interesting glance ...
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• madison alt-errands

  
  propositions press — Authority: 103
  During the fall and spring semesters my commuter rhythm has me spending the first couple days of the week in Chicago. I am at home in Madison for the second, longer half of the week. On that first weekday at home I often run my town errands. Som... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• “Do it in Casablanca!”-Dutch get fed up with Mohammedan demands…

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 552
  Dutch Muslim women demand men be banned from public pool whenever they swim in their burkinisIt seems it is getting more difficult to push people around – over considerations for Islamic...
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• Can We End Discrimination without Ending Segregation?

  
  From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign — Authority: 418
  As part of our effort to mark Human Rights Day , Megan Cottrell wrote an important piece bringing home the theme for Human Rights Day 2009 - ending discrimination . Megan writes: “Discrimination lies at the root of many of the world’s most pressing human rights problems. No country is immune from this ...
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• The NYT segregated shopping guide is out

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  … and available on line , too. White NYT Readers, You May Skip To The Next Page! This gift guide takes a holiday season celebrated by both Caucasians and people of color, and sets apart a page for gifts meant “by and for” a group of people defined only by the color of their skin. Or, as Mary Katharine ...
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• Thoughtless and Racist

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 618
  By Guest Contributor quadmoniker, originally published at PostBourgie I’m going to be vague on location here to avoid giving away too much, but I had a friend who just had to interview a group of homeowners in a portion of the northeast that’s very wealthy and smugly liberal. The group was concerned about a ...
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• Gwede Mantashe opening address to SACP conference – full text

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 123
  OPENING ADDRESS BY SACP CHAIRPERSON, CDE GWEDE MANTASHE, TO THE SACP SPECIAL NATIONAL CONGRESS: 10 DECEMBER 2009.Two and a half years ago Communists and the Alliance partner representatives gathered in the Nelson Mandela Metropalitan University to do a detailed analysis of the political situation in our country and ...
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• Female-only taxi service

  
  La Libertine's Salon — Authority: 115
  I received this item in my Google Reader via Andrea who shares items she likes. The article is written by a woman who met a man from Dubai who told her about an all-female taxi service there where, according to religious laws, women cannot travel with a non-relative male. Veiled to various extents, women also are ...
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• Asproprygos Revisited

  
  THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY — Authority: 115
  I had the great fortune to be able revisit the segregated Roma school that I wrote about in January 2007 and to take more pictures. Following over a year and a half of negotiations, it has been decided (for now) that it is better for the school in Psari Asproprygos to remain as a ghetto school than for the Roma ...
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• Coming to a town near you? Eco-wall or segregation: Rio plan stirs debate

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  Cement-block walls are being built around the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro. Authorities say it’s to save rainforests. The city’s poorest residents say it’s an attempt to shut them out. … The state of Rio de Janeiro began building the wall around Santa Marta in March, and it plans to spend $17 million on ...
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• Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (34): Rosa Parks

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  Rosa Parks’ refusal to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger, and her subsequent arrest, is one of the most famous events in the history of the American civil rights movement . Read the whole story here .  Rosa Parks bus diagram ( source ) ...
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• Sheik Fehmi one year later…

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 552
  Little Fehmi with big  catmeat-mufti HilaliLast year, on the 22nd of November, we posted this:Sheikh Fehmi Naji el-Imam vows to end segregation in mosquesAustralia starts to work its...
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• More Biased Press Coverage of the Supreme Court and Its Ledbetter Decision

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 570
  Press coverage of the Supreme Court is sometimes marred by ideological bias.  Liberal court reporters sometimes distort what Supreme Court justices say, or the facts of Supreme Court rulings, in order to make justices look bad.  One example is the blatantly false claim by an Arizona reporter that Justice ...
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• Scholars from a country that doesnt allow churches or synagogues slam Swiss minaret ban

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 570
  Hypocrisy. That is, it is hypocrisy from a Western point of view. As far as these "scholars" are concerned, Islam is the truth, its truth is self-evident, and therefore the Swiss are obligated to accommodate it in a way that the Saudis are not obligated to accommodate non-Muslim religious observance. "Saudi ...
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• Digitise land records, ease acquisition norms: CII

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) The proposed Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, slated to be introduced in parliament this winter, needs to include provisions for easing land acquisition norms and digitising land records, according to an industry lobby report.The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in its recommendations, ...
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• The Boys of Summer (Paperback)

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 142
  The Boys of Summer (Paperback)…
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