Meet Dube Egwuatu. He was shot three times with a pellet gun for wearing an Obama t-shirt in the streets of . . . London? We get it: Not everyone abroad is banging the Obama drum, but pulling a trigger isn’t exactly the best way to make one’s case.
Barack Obama was cool as a cucumber [...]

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I’ll freely admit that I don’t have a hint of blue in my collar. You’d have to go back to Grandpa Nelson before you could find someone in my lineage who has any legitimate claim to really understanding the mentality of labor forces such as steel workers. But I’d say there’s a tendency among good [...]

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Although the talk about race in the current presidential election has been a long time coming, it is now here and in plain view. A September 2008 AP/Yahoo poll confirmed what everyone secretly thought: Race is an issue: “If there was no racial prejudice among voters, Sen. Barack Obama would receive about six percentage [...]

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When remarks made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright moved from YouTube to the boob tube back in March, Barack Obama’s religious beliefs came into question and took the sting. But what about John McCain’s religious beliefs? McCain is a long-time Episcopalian who now claims to be Baptist, despite having never been baptized in a Baptist church. [...]

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My friend’s co-worker actually received this at her work e-mail address. From a vendor. Isn’t that crazy? Someone she barely even knows - someone who means to do business with her - is sending her this filth. The person who sent this must think everyone’s on the same page when it comes to race-hating. Which [...]

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The first image above is a button that was on sale at the Texas GOP Convention.  According to Politico’s Ben Smith:  “The speakers were generally respectful of Obama, the Dallas Morning News reports, but this is the sort of stuff that the RNC has been warning state parties about for months.”
From P+P contributor Ryan [...]

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There just might be a (wonder)wall of racism in Britain against importing hip-hop.

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Obama’s answer to the Pastor Wright controversy this weekend included this video and appearances on the television networks— including Fox. Obama attempted to provide background on how he came to know and respect Reverend Wright and gave assurances that he never heard the man make these kinds of inflammatory comments— never while Obama was “in [...]

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How much do Obama’s pastor’s comments matter? There are pundits now convinced that the Pastor Wright YouTubes have rendered Barack Obama unelectable. Some initial polling suggests the Wright controversy may indeed influence voters. Others believe the controversy has been rightly handled or mostly amounts to a distraction and will have little effect on the election.
Some [...]

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“Die, N-word, we don’t want to see you ‘round here no more.”
It was just last summer that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick made this statement during an NAACP sponsored “funeral” for the ‘N’ word.
But during his state-of-the-city speech Tuesday night, Kilpatrick brought the word back to life.
“In the past 30 days, I’ve been called a [...]

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The Jena 6 are attracting attention all over the country. Thousands of people rallied in Jena, Louisiana, (pop: 3,000) this morning in support of the six African American students charged for beating up a white student last December. Read about it here.
And here in Los Angeles, crowds came out all over the city. One of [...]

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Sarko the Terrible will probably win in France. So maybe then they’ll begin talking about the race problem.

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Sometimes “Martin’s got cooties!” and “Madison just peed her pants - again!” aren’t the only things hollered on the playground. In an event as likely as pigs taking flight, trashy British tabloid The Sun has gotten serious and pulled together a cross-section of kids to talk about the racial slurs they’ve been stung [...]

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Web Reel:
A video camera, a small town, and a six-foot hot dog rubbing itself in condiments. But why?

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You’re black, gay, and gettin’ hated. So where’s Al Sharpton? Where’s Jesse Jackson?

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