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New Haven Firefighters: Are They Really Wrong?
The ruling yesterday to support the white firefighters in New Haven is certainly a win for whites. Particularly, it’s a win for whites that have been trying to articulate reverse racism and discrimination for years. Although I do believe reverse discrimination is possible, it remains an imbalanced issue. Why, you ask a brother? It’s what…
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Obama on Gay Rights: 'I'll Get to It, I Swear'
Remarks from the LGBT Pride Month Reception at the White House, courtesy of the LA Times: “It’s good to see so many friends and familiar faces, and I deeply appreciate the support I’ve received from so many of you. Michelle appreciates it and I want you to know that you have our support as well. …
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Shameless Joe Jackson
On the red carpet at the BET Awards, as CNN’s Don Lemon interviewed him, Joe Jackson was contemptuous and put-off, willing to give only terse, perfunctory answers to complicated questions. Jackson, resembling a baked potato in a pair of cheap sunglasses, came off more as a gold miner eager to stake a claim than the…
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Why Shelby Steele Is Right
I can’t believe I am writing this. But I am. Shelby Steele is right. Not in the conclusions expressed in his recent article in the Wall Street Journal about Judge Sonia Sotomayor and what her nomination reveals about President Obama’s supposed contradictions. That is the stuff of fantasy. But Steele is right about one thing:…
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A Reversal to the Right
When the conservative-dominated Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of upholding Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, and 8-1 to strike down a school’s decision to strip search a 13-year-old middle school student in a search of drugs last week, it seemed certain that the Supreme Court planned to lower the hammer in the…
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Blipsters' Bust
The L.A.-based trio SA-RA Creative Partners has been in the music game for nearly a decade, producing joints for Erykah Badu, Jurassic 5 and John Legend, and releasing cult, underground hit singles such as “Glorious” and “Fish Fillet.” The group—comprised of Om’Mas Keith, Shafiq Husayn and Taz Arnold—have a knack for mixing high-end glamour with…
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Affirmative Action Assumptions
The New Haven firefighters’ case just decided by the Supreme Court has raised the issue of affirmative action again. Which got me to thinking about how certain people assume that if you’re a person of color, you must be where you are because of how you look. I have talked with black students who are,…
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New Haven Was Wrong, the Court was Right, and Affirmative Action is…Still Important?
The Supreme Court has spoken today, in a 5-4 ruling in favor of the firefighters in the controversial New Haven case (Ricci v. DeStefano), and they have once again opened up a serious Pandora’s box. This case has always troubled me on the merits because it smacks of “well intended “affirmative action policy that does…
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Jackson Family Values
Katherine Jackson has filed for guardianship of Michael Jackson’s three children, which would be fine if at least two of them didn’t have a biological mother. Debbie Rowe, his ex-wife and the mother of the children, just recently revealed that she was inseminated with someone else’s sperm—-which black people have long suspected—-so there isn’t even…
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Obama’s Perfect Pitch on Iran
More than two weeks after the disputed Iranian elections and the beginning of a brutal government crackdown on those protesting the result, the unrest continues. Just this past weekend, Iranian police used tear gas and clubs to disperse a crowd of at least 2,000 demonstrators and detained British Embassy staff members whom they accused of…
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