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Barbara Ransby Responds to Dr. Gates' Reparations Article
On Colorlines, Barbara Ransby weighs in on Dr. Gates’ reparations positions and takes exception to it. Below is an excerpt of her thoughts. Gates essentially absolves Americans of the guilt, shame and most importantly, financial responsibility for the horrific legacy of slavery in the Americas. How does he do this—through a contrived narrative that indicts…
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Is Your Mother a Prostitute?
Forget about the calls to boycott Arizona for its ridiculous “racial profiling is cool” anti-immigration law. If black folks need our own agenda, boycotting the Miami Dolphins should rank high on our to-do list. Maybe you heard by now that Dez Bryant, a wide receiver from Oklahoma State and the first-round pick of the Dallas Cowboys in…
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Obama Gives 'Los Suns' Nod on Cinco de Mayo
The Phoenix Suns players’ decision to change their jerseys on Cinco de Mayo in protest of Arizona’s draconian new immigration law got a presidential blessing, of a sort: “I know that a lot of you would rather be watching tonight’s game,” President Obama said this evening to a crowd assembled at the White House Rose…
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Food-Free Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day
I don’t like eating money. That’s what it feels like whenever we go out for a nice dinner. As I’ve said, I love shopping, and love finding great deals. There’s nothing really gratifying about a $50 food bill unless it’s accompanied by at least five full bags of groceries. Yet this Sunday, like every Mother’s…
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Second Thoughts on Offshore Drilling
If they’re already complaining at Galatoire’s in the French Quarter about the impact of the oil spill, I wonder what Mrs. Chase and the brothers at Dooky Chase are saying. As the pending disaster snakes its way toward the Gulf Coast like a creepy crawler, the toll it will surely exact is the zillion-dollar mystery. Restaurants and cuisine are the…
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Brooklyn's Finest: Cop Tapes Cops
The Village Voice has exclusive access to secret recordings taken by a Brooklyn Cop. What he documented may or may not surprise you. Made without the knowledge or approval of the NYPD, the tapes—made between June 1, 2008, and October 31, 2009, in the 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant and obtained exclusively by the Voice—provide an…
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The Man Who First Noticed the Car in Times Square? Senegalese. And Muslim.
Think Progress points out an interesting fact not getting much play in the media surrounding the attempted Times Square bombing: Yet one fact being ignored in the American media’s sensationalist narrative about the failed bombing is that the man who was responsible for police finding the bomb was Muslim. The UK’s Times Online reports that…
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Today in Postracialism: 32 Black Republicans Running for Congress
In the largest such black Republican surge since Reconstruction, 32 hopefuls are on the ballot for this fall’s congressional elections: The House has not had a black Republican since 2003, when J. C. Watts of Oklahoma left after eight years. But now black Republicans are running across the country — from a largely white swath of…