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NOT a "Hate" Crime? Thugs attack cabbie, passenger for color of skin : Deadline Live Wi... - 0 views

deadlinelive.info/...ie-passenger-for-color-of-skin hate crime attack passenger color skin
shared by Joe La Fleur on 18 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Joe La Fleur on 18 Aug 12
     
    THREE BLACK TEENAGERS ASSULT WHITE CABBIE AND PASSENGER
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The Reason I Write About Race |The Political Pragmatic - 0 views

thepoliticalpragmatic.blogspot.com/...reason-i-write-about-race.html race racism stereotyping racism in the media I write about race
shared by Fay Paxton on 13 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Fay Paxton on 13 Nov 13
     
    Even though biologically, there are no 'races', just human beings, the classification system which racializes different groups and pegs us according to skin color, has a history dating back to antiquity. Racism is a systemic phenomenon that permeates our values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. We know a great deal about the economics and politics of oppression, while the psychology and history of oppression is neglected. That is why I write about race. I don't write about race to disparage whites or to pour salt on old wounds. Throughout history, there have always been whites who fought shoulder to shoulder with Blacks at great risk and sacrifice to themselves, driven by a sense of humanity, principal and true belief that all men really are created equal and I honor them. I write about race because it shaped our founding and is the heartbeat of this nation.
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Wonkette : Arizona School Demands Black & Latino Students' Faces On Mural Be Changed To... - 0 views

wonkette.com/...s-on-mural-be-changed-to-white arizona school racism
shared by thinkahol * on 07 Jun 10 - Cached
  • thinkahol * on 07 Jun 10
     
    Here we are again.Hard to find even the Gallows Humor in this story, so maybe we won't even try. Maybe it's time to admit that large chunks of America are in the hands of unreconstructed racists and vulgar idiots, and that the popular election of a black man as president just might've pushed these furious, economically doomed old white people into a final rage that is going to end very, very badly. Ready? Here you go: An Arizona elementary school mural featuring the faces of kids who attend the school has been the subject of constant daytime drive-by racist screaming, from adults, as well as a radio talk-show campaign (by an actual city councilman, who has an AM talk-radio show) to remove the black student's face from the mural, and now the school principal has ordered the faces of the Latino and Black students pictured on the school wall to be repainted as light-skinned children.
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Edward D. Kleinbard: Rich Man Whining - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...income-tax-cuts_b_934386.html Edward D. Kleinbard: Rich Man Whining
shared by thinkahol * on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 25 Aug 11
     
    Let's put to bed for all time this trope that half of Americans have no "skin in the game." The income tax is simply one of a suite of federal taxes imposed on rich and poor in different proportions and collected through different mechanisms.

Democracy versus Republic? - 0 views

started by Konstantinos on 30 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
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FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: The Persistent Myth of the Bradl... - 0 views

www.fivethirtyeight.com/...nt-myth-of-bradley-effect.html bradley effect fivethirtyeight obama
shared by Levy Rivers on 07 Oct 08 - Cached
  • A fairly typical example comes in the form of a blind quote from a Democratic strategist this morning at The Politico:A huge challenge for Obama, insiders say, is simply determining how much skin color will matter in November. Race is nearly impossible to poll – no one ever says “I’m a racist” – and no campaign wants it revealed they are even asking questions on the issue.
  • As we have described here before, polling numbers from the primaries suggested no presence of a Bradley Effect. On the contrary, it was Barack Obama -- not Hillary Clinton -- who somewhat outperformed his polls on Election Day.
  • This effect appears to be most substantial in states with larger black populations; I have suggested before that it might stem from a sort of reverse Bradley Effect in which black voters were reluctant to disclose to a (presumed) white interviewer that they were about to vote for a black candidate.
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  • The good news for Barack Obama is that, among the Northeastern states, only New Hampshire appears to be competitive -- and Obama would gladly trade a Bradley Effect in New Hampshire for a reverse Bradley Effect in a state like North Carolina. (Pennsylvania, it should be noted, is also defined by the Census Bureau as being in the Northeast, but in terms of political demography, it shares far more in common with the Midwest).
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Dezeen » Blog Archive » Porta Fira Towers by Toyo Ito and b720 Arquitectos - 0 views

www.dezeen.com/...-toyo-ito-and-b720-arquitectos architecture towers Porta Fira Towers atrium Barcelona
shared by Skeptical Debunker on 05 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The project consists of two towers that perform a subtle dialogue between them. The hotel (PB +25), is designed to turn on itself changing its perception as it is surrounded. Its skin is made of a system of red metal tubes placed with a certain inclination. This perception is complemented by the second tower, which will house offices (PB+22). A pure volume at the first sight, with a glass curtain wall, but the core of which also turns red on itself, becoming, in this way, a reflection of the hotel tower. Between the two towers, and connecting it, there is a common atrium.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 05 Mar 10
     
    Japanese architect Toyo Ito and b720 Arquitectos of Spain have completed two adjacent towers in Barcelona containing a hotel and offices.
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