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A group of restaurants in Ohio have banded together to make sure Charles Ramsey never has...
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This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the...
The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two — Arsenio Hall — to do the same for minorities.
“I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.” - Donald Trump
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“I’m Dreaming (of a White President),” Randy Newman
Read: Yahoo! News
How did [birtherism] grow to the point where half of Republican primary voters believed it? It wasn’t just the silence of Republican leaders, it was the failure of people like Tom Brokaw to just dismiss it as racism from the beginning,” Maher wrote.
“People like him are always championing ‘balance’ over objectivity,” he continued. “They have to bring everything back to a discussion about how ‘both sides’ are guilty, instead of doing his job as a referee. If every single journalist just simply labeled birtherism what it obviously is — racism — the cancer wouldn’t have infected half the party. Maybe 25% or so, but most would be like, ‘Okay, this isn’t socially respectable.’”
“Every journalist knows [birtherism] comes from a racist place, so why can’t they all be as no-bullshit about it as Chris Matthews?” Maher wrote.
I agree with Ed that Clint Eastwood’s approach was an example of thinking outside the box, and despite what amounts to a firestorm of criticism, may well do the job in a way that no politician’s speech could have accomplished.
Simply put, Eastwood’s job was to make it OK to laugh at President Obama, and to vote against him without worrying that one might be a racist for firing the first black president.
Context here
On a hot mic, reporter David Chalian of Yahoo News said “they are happy to have a party with black people drowning.”
RNC Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Said ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’
Fear of a Black President
As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama reveals the false promise and double standard of integration.
Read: The Atlantic
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Joseph Ross of Dayton said he was stunned when he checked into Room 233 he had reserved at Motel 6 at 3850 Hauck Road in Sharonville the afternoon of July 27 prior to attending Macy’s Music Festival in Downtown Cincinnati. He turned on the TV and saw “Hello N……” superimposed on the motel’s guide channel.
“I turned the TV on and glanced at the screen. I did not like it one bit what I saw on the motel’s channel,’’ said Ross, 60, who is Black. “I reacted with a few choice words. Then I rubbed my eyes and looked again at the TV screen. I could not believe what I saw.’’
Read: Cincinnati Herald
