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'Nation of Immigrants' Mantra Doesn't Really Work for Blacks
It’s important to remember how most African Americans’ ancestors actually came to this country, Maya Rupert writes at the Huffington Post. For a phrase designed to inspire feelings of inclusion and acceptance, the familiar mantra “we are a nation of immigrants” makes many in the black community feel excluded and uncomfortable. And now that efforts…
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Defending Tim Scott's Blackness
Being a Republican doesn’t preclude a black person from dedication to the African-American community, but to some, this idea is debatable. The Huffington Post‘s Maya Rupert writes that after it was announced that Rep. Tim Scott would take over Jim DeMint’s term in the Senate, many began to question whether the South Carolina Republican was…
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Why It's Wrong to Call Gay Republicans 'Uncle Toms'
The Huffington Post‘s Maya Rupert explains why Rep. Barney Frank’s use of the term was entirely inappropriate. The backlash from Barney Frank’s recent comment comparing the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay and lesbian Republicans, to “Uncle Toms” at the Democratic National Convention prompted him to take to The Huffington Post to publish an…
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Gay Marriage: Stuff White People Do?
This week the Human Rights Campaign released a number of previously sealed documents from the National Organization for Marriage, the nation’s largest group to oppose marriage equality. Among the documents are several that detail one of NOM’s primary strategies: playing the race card. These documents reveal that NOM engaged in a concerted effort to “drive…
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The NBA: Where Racism Happens?
In October, when an amicable end to the NBA lockout looked unlikely at best, Bryant Gumbel made headlines for criticizing the league’s intransigence during negotiations. In a controversial commentary, he accused NBA Commissioner David Stern of acting like a modern-day plantation owner and “treating NBA men as if they were his boys.” Gumbel was roundly…
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Your Take: When Cops Look the Other Way
On July 30, at 3:00 a.m., five young, African-American lesbians were attacked outside the Columbia Heights Metro station in Washington, D.C. According to a police report filed by the victims, two men threatened them after one of the women declined their romantic advances by explaining that she was with her girlfriend. That girlfriend, Yazzmen Morse,…
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