President Obama's Betrayal - Is this fair?

Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:46 PM EDT

A growing chorus of complaints -

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politics, obama, liberal-agenda, politics-of-change

Obama accused of crude, bigoted, xenophobic display against BP

Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:13 PM EDT (the Mail online)

Conservative Mayor of London Boris Johnson and former Tory trade and industry secretary Lord Tebbit have both openly attacked Obama's "anti-BP rhetoric", accusing him of 'petulance' and trying to shift the blame.

bp, politics, obama

If You're Currently Unemployed - Don't Apply

Seeded on Fri Jun 4, 2010 2:10 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants.

jobs, unemployment, us-news, recession

What if the oil spill just can't be fixed?

Seeded on Wed May 26, 2010 3:11 PM EDT (David Roberts - Grist.)

The BP Gulf oil disaster is reaching an interesting phase. People's gut instinct, their first reaction, is to find someone to blame. They blame BP for negligence; the Obama administration for its tepid response; the Bush administration for lax regulatory enforcement.

bp, disaster, environment, gulf-of-mexico

"Racism is difficult to combat because of the idea that racism doesn't exist here" - Brazil's colorblind society

Seeded on Tue May 25, 2010 3:25 PM EDT (BBC News)

With his own mixed heritage Obama would seem right at home here - but if you think Brazil is about to elect a half-black president...don't hold your breath. Matt Frei report from the BBC Prosperity and political power - or the lack of it - are still matters of color...

brazil, race, world-news, denial

...and they're not gonna call ME racist

Seeded on Tue May 25, 2010 12:27 PM EDT (YouTube)

Check out this political ad from Alabama (R)... I'm going to Congress to help stop him from destroying our nation ... and they're not going to call me a racist.

politics, obama, les-phillips

Media suddenly discovers Rand Paul's extremism

Seeded on Thu May 20, 2010 8:23 AM EDT (Salon.com)

The Tea Party favorite says he'd have marched with Martin Luther King Jr., but he opposes the law that forced businesses to serve him. Perhaps the media should also tell people that Libertarians support:

politics, libertarian, rand-paul

Video: SWAT Raid on Missouri Family - for "small amount of pot"

Seeded on Wed May 5, 2010 4:18 PM EDT (Reason Magazine)

SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family's pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on. They found a "small amount" of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment.

civil-rights, war-on-drugs

Colorism: Dark skinned more likely to get death penalty than light skinned...

Seeded on Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:24 PM EST (The New York Times)

Darker-skinned African-American defendants are more than twice as likely to receive the death penalty as lighter-skinned African-American defendants for crimes of equivalent seriousness involving white victims.

race, death-penalty, crime

Professional Bigot - Pat Robertson

Seeded on Wed Jan 13, 2010 4:39 PM EST (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)

Here's Pat Robertson equating an attempt by slaves to claim their freedom with "a pact with the devil:"

haiti, race, world-news

New PRC POLL: Obama, his presidency and race

Seeded on Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:46 PM EST (Pew Research Center)

Some highlights: Obama not paying enough attention to my ethnic group Blacks: 13% Whites: 22% Hispanics: 42% Racially, who is Obama? Blacks - mixed (34%) black (55%) Whites - mixed (53%) black (24%) Hispanics - mixed (61%) black (23%)

race, attitudes, obama, us-news

Photo of Obama and Biden: "they" don't see what "we" see...

Seeded on Mon Jan 4, 2010 3:47 PM EST (Pajamas Media)

Reader Joseph Gautier writes: "If I really wanted to set my dad off, all I'd have to do is send him this photo. The amazing thing is, that it is found on the WH's flickr page. Proving that they don't see what we see."

obama, photo, biden

Rand Paul campaign staffer resigns over racist online postings

Seeded on Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:37 PM EST (Kentucky.com: Homepage)

Images from Rand Paul's campaign staffer's MySpace page - where do they find these people???

race, republicans, bizarro-world

Cutting Military/Defense Spending

Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:35 AM EST (TrueSlant)

America is not imperial in the traditional sense, we are not colonists. We have little interest in actually conquering territory. But we do have an overabundance of faith in the ability of our military to insure our security and our economic interests across the globe.

military, future, spending

Prejudice Fuels Opposition to Obama's Plans

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:22 PM EST (Stanford Knowledgebase)

Subjects were more likely to support a health care reform proposal attributed to former President Bill Clinton than the same proposal from President Obama.

stanford, race, research, us-news, health-reform

Sexist Newsweek - Feature On Palin Criticized

Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:15 PM EST (Media Matters for America)

There are a lot of legitimate reasons to criticize Sarah Palin, her new book, and her policies, but you don't have to stoop to sexism to do it. Newsweek's November 23 issue, however, does just that

sexism, us-news, palin

When it comes to colorism, "Precious" is still the same old, same old.

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:28 AM EST (The Root)

Call it overanalyzing, but is it a coincidence that Precious' dark-skinned mother is physically and verbally abusive, her dark-skinned father is a drug addict who rapes her, and the main character herself is a dark-skinned 16-year-old mother of two? Meanwhile, the teacher, soci …

race, hollywood, arts

Sullivan v Florida: Should a 13 yr. old be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for a non-homicide offense?

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 4:25 PM EST (Slate)

One May morning in 1989, Sullivan, then 13, and two older teens, Nathan McCants, 17, and Michael Gulley, 15, burglarized a home in Pensacola, Fla. They left with jewelry and coins.

How different are dogfighting and football? - Malcolm Gladwell

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 11:41 AM EST (New Yorker)

L.G. willingly submitted his dog to a contest that culminated in her suffering and destruction. And why? For the entertainment of an audience and the chance of a payday. In the nineteenth century, dogfighting was widely accepted by the American public.

culture, sport, head-trauma

Miscegenation is a crime - RNC Facebook pic

Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:58 PM EDT (Raw Story)

Perhaps no one noticed. Perhaps no one cared. But hours after a liberal news forum brought attention to a series of days old controversial photos on the Republican National Committee's Facebook page, the photos were finally taken down.

world, us-news, bizarro

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Judge who "dragged Texas into the 20th century" dies

Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:30 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Dragged it kicking and screaming, for it was [Judge William Wayne] Justice who ordered Texas to integrate its public schools-- in 1971, seventeen years after the Supreme Court's Brown v Board of Education decision made separate schools for blacks and whites unconstitutional.

texas, justice, us-news

"white Americans do not realize how black they are"

Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:30 AM EDT (The Daily Dish)

And superficially, English-speaking white Americans might seem in the same cultural boat as white English people, dealing with a relatively new multiculturalism in an increasingly diverse and multi-racial society.

america, race, politics, culture

The Myth of the Liberal Media

Seeded on Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:59 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)

The notion of a "liberal" national news media is one of the most enduring and influential political myths of modern U.S.

Justice Scalia thinks a cross is a generic symbol, not specifically Christian

Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 12:56 PM EDT (Slate)

Eliasberg: [why not erect] a statue of a soldier which would honor all of the people who fought for America in World War I and not just the Christians. Scalia: The cross doesn't honor non-Christians who fought in the war?

scotus, odd-news, ideology

Violence in America's schools

Seeded on Wed Oct 7, 2009 5:15 PM EDT (Chicago Sun-Times)

Eric Holder: "The Department of Justice is releasing a new study today that measures the effects of youth violence in America, and the results are staggering".

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