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POPSLiving in the Republic of Teahadistan: Black Humor He was so hated by the Southern conservatives that they left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican, where they acquired instant influence. Their descendants are the backbone of the Tea Bagger movement. The Baggers' rise is not due solely to their own aggressiveness, though they have plenty of that. They've formed an alliance with the corporations, who need footsoldiers for the class warfare they wage relentlessly. The corporations pay the Baggers to fight against their own best economic interests – fairer taxation, better health care, higher wages – and the Baggers are willing as long as they're also allowed to harass people of the wrong race or religion or nationality or sexual inclination. They're happily hateful. From the Arkansas Times, not the New York Times. A little history that Herman Cain should learn.
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POPSCaucasian Criminal of the Day: Michael Gargiulo could be responsible for up to 10 murders Racial and ethnic data must be treated with caution because of the varying circumstances under which such information is recorded or reported ....Race and ethnicity may be recorded from observation or from self-identification. The use of race or ethnic descriptions may reflect social customs rather than genetic or hereditary origins. Moreover, existing research on crime has generally shown that racial and ethnic identity is not predictive of crime behavior within data which has been controlled for social and economic factors such as education levels, family status, income, housing density, and residential mobility. (Minnesota Dept. of Public Safety 2000)
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POPSBlack Run America: The Obama Cabinet How many "black" people do you see in that photograph? The majority of the Obama Cabinet are "white," and yet according to white supremacists like Antara, we live in a "black run" America. Now, the phrase "Black Run America," tells me that race plays a dominant role in the opposition to Obama. Here is what race means. Race is a socially constructed process that produces subordinate and superordinate groups. Racial stratification is the key social process behind racial classifications. The meaning of race depends upon the social condition upon which it exists ... ...race exists socially because human beings exists socially in world shaped, in part, by human beings ...Race is, above all, a system of ideas by which men and women imagine the human body and their relationships within society. - Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie, by Tukufu Zuberi, xviii
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POPSLIUSA Florida: Republican Candidate is a White Collar Criminal Now, if he was poor , conservatives would be upset about a mere accusation of Medicare fraud and accuse him of stealing from taxpayers. They'd want him in jail, probably forever. But Rick Scott is wealthy and committed medicare fraud so he can run for governor and conservatives and independents will vote for him because they adore white collar criminals . Note: he associates himself with accountability (see photo). :LOL:
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POPSLIUSA: Who really won the Castle/O'Donnell Delaware race? "Tea Partiers" who support O'Donnell, and who claim to give a damn about representative democracy and self-governance, would be wise to finally start taking notice of the real threats to our supposedly inalienable right of self-rule. HINT: The threat ain't ACORN.
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POPSLiving in the USA: Survey - Are Tea Partiers Racist? " The survey also showed that Tea Party sympathizers are whiter, older, wealthier, and more well-educated than the average American. ... "just as likely to be employed, and more likely to describe their economic situation as very or fairly good, ... If you listen to language, it's always about 'taking our country back.' —as in time... Bositis finds the movement's arguments about reckless federal spending unpersuasive. Why, he asks, weren't they up in arms when President George W. Bush launched two costly wars and created a new unfunded mandate with his Medicare prescription-drug plan? Why didn't they take to the streets when he converted a surplus into a massive deficit? ... Given modern societal norms, "they know they can't use any overtly racist language," ... "So they use coded language"—questioning the patriotism of the president or complaining about "socialist" schemes to redistribute wealth.
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POPSLiving in the USA: Requiem for Detroit Can't clip the video. Video is in 8 parts and the links are posted to the right of the video. A BBC production directed by Julien Temple. Worth watching. The Ford Motor Company actively brought race hatred to Detroit. Two towns were built for workers: Inkster for blacks and Dearborn for whites.
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POPSGlenn Beck, Van Jones and Race Regarding Obama, he has had immense difficulty seeing past the president's skin. He said Obama was elected because of race instead of his policies. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906080010 He has portrayed the Democratic health care reform effort as "the beginning of reparations." http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907220015 He has said that Obama plans to "settle old racial scores through new social justice." http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907240012 So it should have come as no surprise when Beck, who believes it is actually Obama, not himself, who "has real issues with race," http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270045 said the president had "exposed himself as a guy" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people." http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907280008 The next day, he said "I think the president is a racist." http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907290012 The Color of Change boycott started soon afterward. http://colorofchange.org/beck/
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POPSGQ’s Jim Nelson Frankly Talks About Race in His Editor’s Letter Here are some of Nelson’s greatest hits: Then made his more ignorant racist claim yet: “This has been a country built basically by white folks.” Which, apart from ignoring the entire history of slavery, is the subtext of every song I’ve ever heard by Toby Keith. Fox News commen-hater Brian Kilmeade, while chatting about a Swedish study that shows marriage can delay Alzheimer’s suddenly went all Third Reich on his co-hosts: “We keep marrying other species and other ethnics. The Swedes have pure genes, because they marry other Swedes…They have a pure society. In America, we marry everybody. So we’ll marry Italians and Irish. does not apply to us. My Irish-English-German-American head spun. Does that mean I’m definitely getting Alzheimer’s?
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POPSThe Concept of Race I want to be clear from the beginning, we do know of any gene, no one has ever found a gene, I'm not saying they don't exist, but in all the searching, no one ever has found a gene in which one so-called race has 100% of one form of the gene and some other race has 100% of another form of the gene. There are no single genes that differentiate Africans from Asians, Asians from Europeans, Europeans from Australian Aborigines and so on.
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POPSThe Burden of Transcending Race For blacks, the worst thing it seems (at least in the minds of whites) is to be seen as black, which is no doubt why so many whites think it's a compliment to say things to black folks like, "I don't even think of you as black," not realizing that the subtext of such a comment is that it's a damned good thing they don't, for if they did, the person so thought of would be up the proverbial creek for sure. the success of Barack Obama has proven, perhaps more so than any other single thing could, just how powerful race remains in America. His success, far from disproving white power and privilege, confirms it with a vengeance.
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POPSDocumentary Exploring Race and Humor The documentary filmmaker is a high school media literacy and English teacher, (user name tstorm). The documentary makes no judgments about what is funny, and it isn't heavy handed. It's an exploration of the intersection of race and humor in U.S. pop culture as manifested in comedy. Clips from Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Chris Rock standup, interview with Dave Chapelle, and more.
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