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Sexual Offenders – What Can We Do?
The recent case of sexual offender Phillip Garrido is a complicated one. Without question. Garrido was convicted of rape and kidnapping in the 1970s. He registered as a sexual offender with the state of California and then a decade later abducted 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard. He checked in with local authorities regularly. He followed all…
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Africans in Moscow Fear Racist Attacks
Contrary to popular cyber-belief I do not dig through the internet searching for news of a racist globe. Well, unless I’m feeling particularly marginalized on a given day or frenzied due to a weekend overload of carbs and sugars. ANYWAY… Moscow is having some problems with their African community. And no, Africans are not trumping…
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Cleveland Clinic Will Not Hire Smokers
We all know hundreds of hospitals are staffed with smoking, out-of-shape, McDonalds-eating employees. I’ve sat in the offices of nurses and doctors who hurry me through yearly physicals and then run out for a smoke break or a bite of pastrami on white bread. If you haven’t had a similar experience then you’re lying to…
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Tarantino Takes on Holocaust. How About Slavery?
Quentin Tarantino’s recent cinematic success Inglourious Basterds is on everybody’s To-See list. The “Holocaust Revenge” story follows a group of Jewish soldiers who seek revenge on Nazi soldiers by bashing their heads with baseball bats. Yes, it’s supposed to get gloriously gory. I haven’t seen the film yet, but I’m anxious to support what I…
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Black Men in England March to Save Black Boys
I came across an interesting article from Derby, England. A group of black men, aptly called Men of Black Ancestry, have decided to walk through the streets of Derby to promote positive black male role models. The men will walk through areas where gangs and violence between young men of color are rampant. The mission…
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Muslim Woman Beat for Drinking Beer
In 2007 Malaysian model and Muslim Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno was caught drinking a beer in a bar. In July 2009 Shukarno was sentenced to six strokes of the rattan [bamboo-like] whipping cane for drinking the beer. Note to reader: Sharia Law prohibits alcohol consumption among Malaysian Muslims. Now I usually pride myself on not…
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Spike Lee and His Love for Musicals and Black Artists
Spike Lee’s Passing Strange opens today in New York City. And if you know anything about what’s what in the advancement of black expression in the American arts [or want to know] then you should know everything about Passing Strange. The hit Broadway musical about a young black man determined to look beyond his imposed…
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South African Runner's Gender Questioned
South African runner Caster Semenya is under investigation for her gender. The 18-year-old track and fielder won the 800-meter Women’s gold medal at the World Athletics Championship in Berlin yesterday. Semenya won with a record-breaking 1 minute, 55.54 seconds. That’s beyond impressive. I ran the 800-meter in high school and couldn’t break 2 minutes and…
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Rep. Barney Frank Chastises Obama-Nazi Remark
It’s absolutely hilarious that a Dartmouth College student would walk into a town hall meeting with a picture of Obama defaced like Hitler. It’s down right radical that Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank refused to engage in a conversation with the student who compared Obama’s health care policy to a Nazi policy. It made my day…
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Prisons, Prayer and Budget Cuts
Standish Maximum Security Prison may shut down in October. That’s an interesting blow for the good people of Standish, Michigan. One, it was just announced that the Standish facility was being considered for the relocation of Guantanamo detainees. Two, it’s the largest employer for the town and that means folks won’t have a means to…
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