Berkeley College Republicans Resurrect “Diversity Bake Sale” Scheme
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 [...]
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 [...]
Study: Black Men Survive Longer In Prison
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 [...]
Poll: 46% Of Mississippi Republicans Think Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal
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 [...]
Virginia Democrat: Republicans Won In 2010 Because Americans Are Racist
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 [...]
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 [...]
One Year Ago Today: The Beer Summit Anniversary
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………………











































