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Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio Warn Republicans On Losing Hispanic Voters

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Two prominent Florida Republicans are warning their party about losing the support of the nation’s fastest growing ethnic group.

GOP Candidates Losing To Obama Among Latino Voters

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Republicans are learning that their hard line on immigration comes with a political price.

Cam Newton, Racism, and Black Quarterbacks

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The Panthers rookie is having a historic season. Were doubts that he could succeed colored by race?

20 Most Influential Black Republicans

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John Hawkins has compiled a list of The Top 20 Most Influential Black Republicans. It’s not impressive.

The Rick Perry Hunting Lodge Story: A Trivial Distraction?

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What was written on a rock outside of a hunting lodge in Texas 30 years ago doesn’t really matter all that much.

Rick Perry Faces Criticism Over Hunting Lodge With Racially Tinged Name

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Why does what was painted on a rock 30-odd years ago matter today?

Marcia Anderson Army’s First Black Female 2-Star General

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Marcia Anderson has become the first African American woman to be promoted to a two star general in the US Army.

Are Blacks Abandoning Obama?

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Dick Morris has a penchant for counter-intuitive analysis. And for being wildly wrong.

Is Accuracy Racist?

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Is quoting President Obama without fixing his grammar “racist”? Some say it is.

Berkeley College Republicans Resurrect “Diversity Bake Sale” Scheme

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Responding to an apparently ongoing controversy over diversity standards in admissions, the Berkely College Republicans are holding a Bake Sale: BERKELEY, Calif. — A bake sale sponsored by a Republican student group at the University of California, Berkeley, has incited anger and renewed the debate over affirmative action by asking students to pay different prices [...]

Most Educated American Cities

College towns and lily white enclaves top the list of best educated cities.

86% Approve of Black-White Marriages

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Support for interracial marriage is now almost universal across America.

Obama White, Hispanic Approval Plummets

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President Obama’s approval ratings are at an all-time low. Only 33% of whites and 48% of Hispanics approve. He’s still at 84% among blacks.

Democratic Congressman Says Tea Party Wants To Lynch Blacks

Just so we’re clear that the inflammatory, and uncalled for, rhetoric is not solely a province of the right, I give you Congressman Andre Carson, representing Indiana’s 7th Congressional District: A top lawmaker in the Congressional Black Caucus says tea partiers on Capitol Hill would like to see African-Americans hanging from trees and accuses the [...]

John Lewis’s Ridiculous Arguments Against Reasonable Voting Regulations

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Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.

Fear of a Black Spider-Man

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Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.

Pat Buchanan Calls Obama ‘Your Boy’ To Al Sharpton

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Pat Buchanan referred to President Obama as “your boy” in conversation with Al Sharpton.

Study: Black Men Survive Longer In Prison

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A shocking, but as I will explain below not surprising, study: Black men are half as likely to die at any given time if they’re in prison than if they aren’t, suggests a new study of North Carolina inmates. The black prisoners seemed to be especially protected against alcohol- and drug-related deaths, as well as [...]

Appeals Court Strikes Down Michigan Law Barring Use Of Race In College Admissions

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A Federal Appeals Court struck down an Amendment to the Michigan Constitution today as unconstitutional.

Obama Impersonator Tells Racist Jokes at Republican Conference

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I’ve been arguing for years that what the Republican Party needs is to embrace its crazies and play more to racist elements in its base. It looks like someone’s listening.

Redistribution: Where You Stand is Where You Sit

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Racial Gerrymandering and Idiots

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Cynthia Tucker regrets her support for majority-minority districts.

Republicans and Black Candidates

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Do Republicans like Herman Cain because he’s black?

Bin Laden Op “Geronimo” Codename Offensive?

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Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

Poll: 46% Of Mississippi Republicans Think Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal

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Assuming it’s accurate, this may qualify as the most depressing poll result I’ve seen in quite sometime: Americans nationwide are evenly divided over the issue of same sex marriage. But Republicans in Mississippi are divided over a wholly different wedlock issue: interracial marriage. In a PPP poll released Thursday, a 46% plurality of registered Republican [...]

Mighty White of You

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Breathless hysteria over the trend toward a less white America misses an important fact: most Hispanics are white.

Food and Race

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Whites make more money than non-whites throughout our food distribution system.

Shirley Sherrod Sues Andrew Breitbart

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Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.

Latinos Aren’t Pro-Democrat So Much As They’re Anti-Republican, New Poll Finds

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A new poll finds that Republican policies on immigration are chasing Latino voters straight into the arms of the Democratic Party.

The Leftward Drift Of The Democratic Party

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Oddly, the Democratic Party seems to be responding to the 2010 midterms by moving further left.

Virginia Democrat: Republicans Won In 2010 Because Americans Are Racist

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Virginia Congressman Jim Moran has a long history of making dumb and/or outrageous comments, and he didn’t disappoint in a post-SOTU interview with an Arab language news program: A Democratic congressman is attributing his party’s losses in the 2010 election cycle to the fact that President Barack Obama is black. Speaking to Arab television network [...]

Joan Rivers Ditches Michelle Obama “Blackie O” Joke

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Comedienne Joan Rivers tells Howard Stern why she ditched a joke calling Michelle Obama “Backie O.”

Democrats Seeking White Males

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As noted recently, whites are leaving the Democratic Party in droves. Some black Democrats think it’s time to take affirmative action.

Whites Leaving Democratic Party

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The Republicans are increasingly the party of white America. That’s short term good but long term bad for the GOP.

History 101: Tariffs, Secession and the General Politico-Economics of Slavery

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Those who argue that tariff increases, and not slavery, were the key reason for secession have some basic problems with the historical sequence.

GOP 2012 Hopefuls Turning Their Back On Hispanic Voters?

Inexplicably, most of the potential GOP candidates for President in 2012 are turning down an offer to appear at a political conference aimed at appealing to Hispanic voters: It was billed, in part, as a forum for the 2012 Republican presidential field to speak directly to Hispanics — a replica of the vaunted Conservative Political [...]

Liberty and False Comparisons

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It’s not hypocritical or racist to support an aggressive pursuit of terrorists while getting outraged over abuses of Americans’ liberties.

72% of Blacks Born to Unwed Mothers

72 percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers today, compared to 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans.

Democrats Losing = Racism?

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Is the public anger at Obama really just papered over racism?

I See White People

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The Republican “Pledge to America” is chock full of photographs of Real Americans. And they’re disproportionately old white people.

White Students Minority Among UT Freshmen

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For the first time ever, white students do not make up a majority among freshmen at the University of Texas at Austin.

White Self-Pity

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White America is within thinkable distance of a moment when it will no longer be the majority.

Redistricting and Race

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While Republicans will likely take over some key governorships and state legislature after November’s midterms, America’s changing demographics will limit their ability to gerrymander safe districts.

Was Donovan McNabb Traded Because He Was Black?

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A renowned sports economist argues that black quarterbacks are treated differently than their white counterparts.

Whites-Only Class President Rule Ends at Mississippi School

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A rule allowing only white students to run for class president at a Mississippi middle school has been quickly changed after the Internet brought attention to it.

Ending The N-Word

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Should black people quit using the N-word to set an example for white folk?

Race Card Maxed Out: Void During Black Presidency

Jon Stewart and “Senior Black Correspondent” Larry Wilmore eviscerate Maxine Waters’ claims that she and other corrupt members of the Congressional Black Caucus are being investigated for ethics charges because she’s black.

One Year Ago Today: The Beer Summit Anniversary

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CNN notes that it was one year ago today that President Obama, Vice-President Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, and Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Office James Crowley met over beer (Biden’s was apparently non-alcoholic) in the White House Rose Garden. It was a great event that helped ease racial tension nationwide. Oh, wait a minute………………

Obama: African-Americans ‘Mongrel People’ (Other Americans Too!)

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President Obama went on TV and said something true. What was he thinking?

Abigail Thernstrom: New Black Panther Case Is “Small Potatoes”

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Conservatives aren’t as united over the “outrage” of the New Black Panther Case as you might think.

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