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A black USDA official in Georgia has resigned after publicly admitting she didn’t help a white man trying to save his farm to the “full force” of her power and instead referred him to “one of his own.”
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Tea Party Express spokesman, Mark Williams has officially hit a new low. On the Wolf Blitzer show, Roland Martin asked Williams to tell racists they were not welcome in the Tea Party. Click here to see how Williams responded.
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Rush Limbaugh eulogized Yankees owner, George Steinbrenner, on his show yesterday. For some reason he decided to make his eulogy race based, claiming that Steinbrenner was a “cracker” who created a lot of “African-American millionaires” and “fired a lot of white guys.” What is wrong with Rush Limbaugh?
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will propose a resolution this week condemning racism within the tea party movement. Click here for details.
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President Barack Obama plans to meet Thursday with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer — their first face-to-face since the governor signed the state’s controversial immigration reform law. The president has called the Arizona law misguided.
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While Jena Sheriff says he is trying to rid his community of drugs, critics accuse him of exacting revenge against Black residents. At 4 a.m. on July 9, 2009, more than 150 officers from 10 different agencies gathered in a large barn just outside Jena, Louisiana. The day was the culmination of an investigation that Sheriff Scott Franklin said had been going on for nearly two years.
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Catherine Ariemma never intended for students to be offended by the sight of four Ku Klux Klansmen at Lumpkin County High School. But that’s how senior Cody Rider said he felt last Thursday when he looked up and saw the students — dressed in white hoods and sheets — walking through the school cafeteria.
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Are children color blind in America? CNN has come to the conclusion that a large percentage of them are! CNN ran a pilot last night called “Black or White: Kids On Race” where they evaluated both white and black children on how they reacted to a color chart of cartoon kids.
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According to a report at Radaronline, Avatar star Laz Alonzo has accused an On The Border Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles of racism for denying him service.
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Wal-Mart officials are looking at security tapes after an announcement was made for “all black people” to leave a store in South Jersey. Click here for details.
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The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a “literacy test” to protect America from presidents like Obama — a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.
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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and televangelist Pat Robertson are no strangers to insensitive, racially charged comments, but the two crossed a line recently with comments regarding the earthquake tragedy in Haiti. Watch this video of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann giving an inspired response to the hateful comments made by Limbaugh and Robertson.
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The trial for Heather Ellis began in Missouri this week. Ellis is facing 15 years in prison on charges stemming from her changing checkout lines at Wal-Mart. Her trial has exposed elements of racism in the small Missouri town.
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Those who oppose President Obama have been using a Bible Verse, Psalms 109: 8-9, as a rallying cry against him.
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A Clayton County judge has granted bond for a South Georgia man charged with attacking an Army reservist outside a metro Atlanta Cracker Barrel. <!–more–?
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