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Frank Sinatra, Other Anti-Racist Icons Who Were Down For Black Folks
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Racists Stay Classy with Georgia Rep. David Scott
From NewsOne: A swastika was found Tuesday painted on a sign outside Rep. David Scott’s district office, an act the Georgia Democrat said reflects an increasingly hateful and racist debate over health care and should serve as a reminder for people to tone down their rhetoric. Scott’s staff arrived at his Smyrna, Ga., office Tuesday…
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VIDEO: Productive Discourse…
The Buzz hasseen more civility at a “champagne and school girls” frat party.
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Clinton Tries Telling Nigeria What to Do
From the Washington Post: ABUJA, Nigeria — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged oil-rich Nigeria to embrace broad political reform and ease tensions that have led to sectarian violence and disrupted energy production in the Niger Delta. In the Nigerian capital of Abuja on the fifth stop in a seven-nation tour…
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Summer’s Biggest Payback
Sorry, nobody’s cutting down your $20,000+ school loan, but under the new income-based repayment program, you can substantially reduce your monthly payments. A single borrower earning $30,000 a year with $40,000 in federal education loans would pay $171.94 per month in an income-based plan versus $319.50 under an income-contingent repayment plan, according to Finaid.org’s loan…
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The Birthers and Jim Crow 2.0
If ever there was a “teachable moment” about race in modern America, now is it. With the birthers and the reparations conspiracy theories and the Nazi imagery at health care meetings, someone’s gotta explain why all these white folks are wilding out. We need an articulate, impassioned race man to clarify things. But not Al…
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Obama Is A Racist? Look Who’s Talking.
Recently, the notoriously inaccurate Fox News host Glenn Beck, who uses rage the way artists use oils or acrylics, made what was undoubtedly his most shocking proclamation to date. While discussing the Henry Louis Gates Jr. controversy on morning chat show Fox and Friends, Beck turned to his colleagues and said quite certainly, “[Barack Obama]…
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VIBE Ain't Dead Yet
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The owners of Uptown magazine, including former Vibe Group Publisher Leonard Burnett Jr., are said to be near a deal to acquire the Vibe brand from CapitalSource, the major debt holder at Vibe when Wicks Group announced its shutdown in June. Wicks Group paid about $35 million, with financing from CapitalSource,…
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Obama: ‘The Status Quo is Not Working for You’
All you needed to hear was “New Hampshire” to know the White House’s game plan. If you want to stage a big political moment, to tie yourself and your message to democracy and revolution and good government—you go to New Hampshire. And so it was that President Obama mounted his retort to the GOP’s town…
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Missed Obama's Town Hall?
Check out The Buzz’s Shorter Obama tweets from the town hall today in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Here’s a sample: Shorter Obama: We need to build an economy that works for everybody. I hate America and freedom Shorter Obama: We have the AMA; y’all have Lou Dobbs Shorter Obama: We are trying to dilute the insurance…
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Blacks and The Health Care Debate
Whenever I see footage of one of the town hall meetings that devolves into ugliness, I’m looking for the Black folks. Or the riot police. Because you and I know that if black folks were ever to act out like this for any reason, there would tazers-a-go-go, dogs and water-hoses and vintage black-jacks swingin’, for…