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  • More Dumb Stuff Richard Cohen Says

    It’s hard being a 72-year-old white guy in America. You grew up in a different time. You’re used to being accepted as the “norm” of your society. For decades you’ve had all the privilege that “whiteness” has provided in America—yet the country you know is changing. Ideas that were completely reasonable and normal are now…

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  • Kanye West’s Ego Can’t Change History

    (The Root)—The Confederate flag has been getting a lot of press recently. You’ve probably read stories of students wearing the flag to school, the flag being waved at the gates of the White House and the “that’s not what it means” debate. Is it Southern pride or the symbol of American oppression’s past? Most Americans…

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  • This Is What Anti-Gun Legislation Looks Like

    (The Root) — It took me a long time to become comfortable with the n-word*. I see kids today throwing it around with wreckless abandon, but the n-word was incredibly hurtful for me when I was growing up. Having it hurled at me as I walked through school and in my neighborhood was something I…

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  • Is Recent Attack Ad a New Low for NRA?

    (The Root) — I used to think that the National Rifle Association was not only superpowerful but also fairly smart. But since the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., I’ve changed my mind. Hard. After the debacle of a press conference during which NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre babbled on blaming everything besides guns for gun…

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  • Coulter: White People Don't Have a Gun Problem

    (The Root) — You have to appreciate when someone on television flat out says what you think they think. Ladies and gentlemen, Ann Coulter … To say I’m shocked at Coulter’s assertion would just be a lie. This is Ann Coulter. She says ridiculous nonsense on a regular basis. But on top of her magically…

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  • Blacks Did Not Vote Against Their Self-Interest

    (The Root) — I genuinely try to listen to black Republicans when they’re explaining why blacks should want to be a part of the Grand Old Party. The problem with that is then I end up hearing things like this. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The Rev. C.L.…

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  • Planned Parenthood: A Black-Family Destroyer?

    (The Root) — One of the more annoying ploys that occasionally gets pulled out of the Republican bag of tricks is the  “But what about the Negroes?” shell game. I call it a ploy because it can’t be argued in any reasonable fashion that the GOP actively wants to help the black community. They don’t…

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  • Tax Rates and the GOP Ideology

    (The Root) — You have to just love how Republicans negotiate. In a few weeks, America will be going over the proverbial fiscal cliff, meaning that taxes will go up while severe spending cuts will be implemented across government in ways neither Democrats nor Republicans want. And yet in another standoff, conservatives are refusing to…

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  • Treating Fox News Like Fox News

    (The Root) — Fox News has a slight news problem — the problem being that Fox News isn’t exactly news.  This isn’t some new concept. Fox News is often laughed at by progressives and Democrats because of its often blatant attempts to smear anything that has the faintest hint of a nonconservative idea on it.…

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  • A Black Republican Explains 'Black Anger'

    (The Root) — Thank Zeus there are Negroes out there who can break down how the Negro mind works for white people so that they can understand why we be so mad. Mychal Massie, a conservative writer and member of a black conservative think tank, recently decided to explain to white America why “many blacks…

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