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The Tea Party and the KKK: What They Have in Common
The Daily Beast‘s Jamelle Bouie explores what the Tea Party and the Ku Klux Klan may actually have in common. While Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) was wrong to compare the Tea Party to the white supremacist organization in an email blast, Bouie explains that the two groups are not entirely unrelated. Florida Democrat Alan Grayson…
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What I Learned From 'Many Rivers to Cross'
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross provides a rare and provocative view of American colonists as the architects of slavery and racism, Jamelle Bouie writes at the Daily Beast. It also takes a hard look at Africans who sold other Africans into slavery. Even if you accept that race is a social construct, separated…
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Tea Party: Obamacare Was Never Approved
The Daily Beast‘s Jamelle Bouie examines the Tea Party’s plans for its next battle against President Obama in the aftermath of its devastating shutdown defeat. Members are now charging that Americans never approved the Affordable Care Act, he says. This was supposed to be Jim DeMint’s moment. As head of the Heritage Foundation, chief sponsor…
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Tea Party Not Worried About Those Hurt by Shutdown
The Daily Beast‘s Jamelle Bouie upbraids members of the Republican Party for failing to acknowledge kids with cancer, food stamp recipients and others who have been gravely affected by the partial shutdown of the federal government. For Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), the government shutdown is just a “temporary inconvenience.” The libertarian lawmaker is right…
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Black Names: What's the Problem?
Jamelle Bouie, writing at the Daily Beast, concludes that the perennial debate among some whites about so-called unconventional black names says more about white ethnocentrism and racial inequality than black culture. Reddit isn’t just a clearinghouse for interviews, animal pictures, and crazy stories. It’s also a place where people ask questions and have discussions. Yesterday,…
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Why Won't Conservatives Stop Fighting Obamacare?
Congressional Republican leaders have finally acquiesced in their fight against President Barack Obama’s health care reform and have even developed a plan of their own that essentially acknowledges they’re powerless to kill it, Jamelle Bouie writes at the Daily Beast. But their conservative Tea Party cohorts continue to rally tirelessly and ineffectively to defund it.…
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What Was Missing From Obama's March on Washington Speech?
In a piece at the Daily Beast, Jamelle Bouie says that although President Barack Obama did address economic fairness during his speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, he missed an important point about racial justice. As president of the United States, Barack Obama is the highest-profile legacy of the civil-rights movement,…
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'Racist': Does the GOP Know the Meaning?
In a piece at the Daily Beast, Jamelle Bouie weighs in on a Republican lawmaker’s unwittingly absurd comment that the president’s tax on tanning beds is, um, “racist” because black people do not use them. The only way to describe the tax as “racist,” Bouie writes, “is to turn the word into a mindless insult.”…
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Exposing the Myth of Black-on-Black Crime
Jamelle Bouie writes at the American Prospect that the only reason conservatives and others focus on black-on-black crime as an issue separate from white-on-white crime is to defend widespread suspicion of black males, especially those who are young. In writing about the myth of “black-on-black crime” this week, I’ve gotten a huge number of responses, from…
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EW Jackson's 'Slavery' Comments and Conservative Voters
E.W. Jackson’s recent controversial comments against his own race and government programs are a ploy to gain white voters, writes Jamelle Bouie in the Daily Beast. His most recent statement concerns his disdain for the anti-poverty programs passed by President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. During a rally in Newport News, Virginia—just a few miles…
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