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When someone says “I am not a racist” they probably are

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

An interracial couple in Louisiana went to a justice of the peace to get married, but were turned down, being told “We don’t do interracial weddings or marriages.”
But the ironic part is that in an interview with a local newspaper, the justice of the peace, who is an elected official, said he was not a [...]

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Obama refuses to be their nigger. And it’s driving them crazy

Friday, September 18, 2009

Excerpt from an opinion piece in The Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates:
For black people, the clear benefit of Obama is that he is quietly exposing an ancient hatred that has simmered in this country for decades. Rightly or wrongly, a lot of us grew tired of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, mostly because they presented [...]

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How one black man defeated the KKK

Thursday, August 27, 2009

This is both funny and beautiful:

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If Obama tried to break into the White House, he’d get shot

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Last week, Harvard professor Henry ‘Skip’ Gates (who is black) was arrested after he broke into his own home in Cambridge Mass., even after he had shown ID that this was his home. Last night at his press conference Obama was asked about the incident, and joked that if he had tried to jimmy his [...]

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