Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Into the Belly of the Beast: A Conservative Goes to YearlyKos

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:24 pm

  Tags: Race Issues, Daily Kos, Blogs

  turn anyone away because of race. And yet, there it is. Does that say something about the netroots? About America? Or is it inconsequential? The fact that is that if it had been a GOP event and that high percentage of whites were in attendance, we'd never hear the end of it. So perhaps the netroots will grant conservatives a little leeway in

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• NYT: U.S. Making Life Miserable for Illegals, Says Unlabeled Hillary Pollster

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Culture Society, Immigration, Race Issues, Editorials, Julia Preston, Mexico, New York Times

  U.S. hostility to amnesty for illegal immigrants from Mexico is not only hurting illegals here, but crippling poor Mexicans in Mexico as well. So says the New York Times, taking its talking points from a survey performed by a pollster. To be precise, a Democratic pollster who studies Hispanic voting trends for Hillary Clinton's presidential

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• Quote of the week from New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

  Published: August 11, 2007, 2:27 pm

  Tags: Race Issues, Racist Black Democrats, Clueless Wonders

  Via Nola.com (emphasis added): Responding to a TV reporter’s question about whether New Orleans’ murder rate hurts the city’s tourism economy, Mayor Ray Nagin on Thursday called the phenomenon a “two-edged sword.” “Do I worry about it? Somewhat. It’s not good for us, but it also keeps the New Orleans

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• Don Imus violated the Rutgers womens basketball teams’ ‘civil rights’

  Published: August 14, 2007, 7:31 pm

  Tags: Law Judiciary, Race Issues, Clueless Wonders

  … so sayeth a lawsuit filed by the lawyer of one of the ‘defamed’ players: Don Imus is facing his first lawsuit from a player on the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team for derogatory comments that cost him his job as a radio host in April, ABC News has learned. Kia Vaughn, star center for the Rutgers Women’s Basketball

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• Dissecting the infamous outer Mike Rogers

  Published: September 4, 2007, 11:05 am

  Tags: Social Issues, Race Issues, Gay Community Issues, Racist Black Democrats, Clueless Wonders, Democrat Racial Hypocrisy

  follow the gay line on issues of importance to them, like gay marriage, and other so-called gay “rights” issues. In the case of Craig, Rogers and Co. were after him for that very reason, as if to suggest that gay Republicans are hypocrites for believing that there is an overwhelming societal benefit to keeping marriage between

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• Reuters Unnecessarily Hypes Racial Gap In Medical Care

  Published: September 8, 2007, 9:19 am

  Tags: Medicine, Race Issues, Reuters

  The headline (via MSNBC) is ominous: Racial gaps may exist in kidney cancer care -- 5-year survival rates have increased for whites, but not blacks, study finds. But beginning with the second paragraph, we're provided with a big "nevermind": There are disparities in the treatment and outcome between older black and white patients who

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• Is the First State Racist for Not Having a Black Supreme Court Justice?

  Published: September 9, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: Law, Race Issues, Delaware, Wilmington News Journal

  the country -- regardless of race. In addition, these activists claim that the ever-nebulous notion of "diversity" is a benefit in and of itself. But they are countered by Delaware's first black state court chief justice, who, in addition to noting that the state political establishment is aware of the situation and has "reached

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• Rutgers women’s basketball player drops lawsuit against Don Imus

  Published: September 12, 2007, 4:14 pm

  Tags: Breaking News Stories, Race Issues

  Sanity prevails. For now, anyway. Prior: Kia Vaughn: Don Imus violated the Rutgers womens basketball teams' civil rights'

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• WashPost Plays Down Democrat Loss on Iraq, Plays Up GOP Racism Charges

  Published: September 19, 2007, 8:13 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Elections, Iraq, Race Issues, Tavis Smiley, Pbs, Washington Post

  explain how pandering on issues like amnesty and "affirmative action" aren't exactly going to please the conservative base. Late in the piece, one anonymous GOP adviser suggested the obvious: "Why would [the candidates] go into a crowd where they're probably going to be booed?" Bacon concluded by noting that

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• Behar Suggests Republicans Too Busy at 'Klan Meeting' to Attend Minority Debates

  Published: September 19, 2007, 1:17 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Race Issues, Republicans, Joy Behar, Tavis Smiley, Pbs, The View

  A presidential election must be approaching: liberals are playing the Republicans-are-evil-racists card. People will recall the notorious NAACP commercial from the 2000 campaign suggesting that, for the sin of failing to adopt a hate-crimes law to its liking, George W. Bush was the equivalent of someone who dragged a black man behind his car on a

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• CNN's Malveaux Hits GOP Over Race Relations, Citing 'Jena Six'

  Published: September 20, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Crime, Political Groups, Race Issues, George W Bush, Suzanne Malveaux, Government Amp Amp Press, Video

  whether or not the state of race relations is deteriorating in this country and specifically in your party. Your thoughts? MALVEAUX: Do you think this is a defining moment in race relations? MICHAEL FLETCHER, WASHINGTON POST: What do you say to those who criticize you for not speaking out on the situation in Louisiana, particularly given your

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• CNN.com, USAToday.com Bury Coverage of 'Jena 6' Beating Victim

  Published: September 20, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Crime, Race Issues, Cnn Com, Usa Today

  not, never has been about race. It's about finding justice for an innocent victim, holding people accountable for their actions. That is what it's about," he said. USAToday.com's report on the march, written by Marisol Bello, did not mention Justin Barker at all, but focused exclusively on the march and the prosecution of one of the

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• Unexpected: Rapper 'Ja Rule' Blasts MTV, Homosexuality

  Published: September 21, 2007, 1:21 pm

  Tags: Race Issues, Sexuality, Ja Rule, Mtv

  what is. There's a lot of issues we can address besides hip-hop, but they want to put everything on us like we're the problem. But see, and this is going to be a shameless f---ing plug, but I said, "when everyone wants to point the finger, and ask why there's so much corruption, they only need to look in the mirror." It starts with

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• Nightly News' Leads With Jena 6,' Ignores Beaten White Kid

  Published: September 21, 2007, 12:36 pm

  Tags: Crime, Duke Lacrosse, Naacp, Race Issues, Racism, Brian Williams, Byron Pitts, Charles Gibson, Jena 6, Katie Couric, Martin Savidge, Terry Moran, Abc, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, World News

  comes to stories surrounding race, aren't interested in merely reporting the events. Instead, underlying virtually every article and news segment involving such delicate matters is a desire to inflame racial tensions in our society rather than assist in quelling them. Such was certainly the case in how Hurricane Katrina was reported in 2005, how

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• AP: La Raza Is Civil Rights Group, Minutemen Are Vigilantes

  Published: September 21, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Double Standards, Fact Checking, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, La Raza, Naacp, Race Issues, Racial Issues, Frances Semler, Maria Sudekum Fisher, Associated Press, Journalistic Issues, Non Political Bias

  the advancement of one race over another- as a civil rights group, but allows La Raza to frame the Minutemen as an 'extremist group'. Since Fisher apparently cannot be bothered to perform any real research, I shall assist her. La Raza is a Spanish word meaning 'The Race'. The National Council of La Raza is a racially-based organization

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