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• New Orleans Cop acquitted of police brutality in beating of black senior citizen

  Published: July 25, 2007, 7:08 pm

  Tags: Lance Schilling, Racist Judges, Stuart Smith, Robert Evangelist, Frank Marullo, Power Games, Robert Davis, Racism, Race, New Orleans Katrina, Racial Profiling, Police Brutality, Politics

  His assailant uttered a racial epithet during the attack, he said. “I don’t remember very much after that point,” Davis said. Franz Zibilich, one of Evangelist’s attorneys, said his client “acted appropriately and well within police standards.” Dr. Frances Smith, who treated Davis at an emergency room,

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• A final word on the Debate

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Power Games, Racial Profiling, Bill Bradley, Political Expediency, Cnn Presidential Debates, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, 2008, Race, Fundraising, Hillary, Al Gore, Politics

  Black and Brown forum over racial profiling. He made the point that Al Gore had the power to get Clinton to act in a way nobody else could. Bill Bradley spoke about the racial divide and the racial disparities in our nation with an eloquence and conviction that Gore didn't. None of it mattered in the end. Gore out organized Bradley

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• September 11, 2007: Looking for daylight

  Published: September 11, 2007, 10:07 pm

  Tags: Law, Media Journalism, 2008 Election, 9 11, Civil Liberties, Fisa, Foreign Affairs Magazine, Jane Harmon, Racial Profiling

  the recurring episodes of racial profiling he endures when he has to travel on business. While her husband takes the searches he endures in stride, "I have mixed feelings about this issue. On one hand, I can understand that our country needs to profile certain people based on a pre-conceived notion that all middle easterners are a threat to

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• Louisiana black caucus appeals to Gov. Blanco

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:38 pm

  Tags: Jena 6, Racist Prosecution, Jena Louisiana, Punitive Punishment, Gov Kathleen Blanco, Police Prosecutorial Misconduct, Criminal Injustice System, Racism, Race, Racial Profiling, White Supremacy, Power Games, Politics

  that followed a series of racially charged incidents in the small town of Jena, Louisiana. The next thing for us to do is look at the appellate process and look at what can be done through the Legislature, LaFonta, a New Orleans Democrat, told BlackAmericaWeb.com. Bell is one of six black youths to face criminal charges in connection

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• We don’t live in a Democracy….

  Published: September 18, 2007, 11:58 pm

  Tags: Andrew Meyer, Barack Obama, Corporate Media, Jena 6, John Kerry, Lennox Yearwood, Politics, Power Games, Race, University Of Florida, Capitol Hill Police, Firedoglake, Police Prosecutorial Misconduct, Police Brutality, Politics Of Fear, Racial Profiling, Racism, Star Span

  We live in a racist police state. Case in point, the fake furor over the tasered student at a John Kerry speech at the University of Florida. While I won’t defend the obnoxious conduct of this kid that provoked a physical confrontation, it didn’t ever merit him being tasered while Senator Kerry told them to leave him be.

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• To the Jena 6: Just hold on, change is coming

  Published: September 20, 2007, 10:10 pm

  Tags: Al Sharpton, Black Politics, Criminal Injustice System, Jena 6, Jesse Jackson, Louisiana Politics, Politics, Power Games, Race, Jena Louisiana, Mychal Bell, New Orleans Katrina, Political Expediency, Punitive Punishment, Racial Profiling, Racism, Racist Prosecution

  symbol of neglect and racial indifference and Jena, Louisiana has provided the nation with another. There is nothing particularly unique about the disproportionate felony charges meted out to these six teenage boys, this happens everyday to black children somewhere in America, as Al Sharpton has pointed out. What is unique is the

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• Ladymag Lookback: In 'Cosmopolitan', White Women Have All The Fun

  Published: September 21, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Consumerist, Cosmopolitan, Gawker, Iman, Ladymag Lookback, Maghag, Racial Profiling

  Apparently white women were the only ones having lots of drunk, safe sex in the late '70s: Another curious thing about the October 1977 issue of Cosmopolitan is that there is nary a woman of color to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Urge Congress to Stop Racial Profiling

  Published: October 13, 2007, 7:03 pm

  Tags: Racial Profiling

  Many Americans know about racial profiling -- the practice of using race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion as the primary factor in deciding who to subject to law enforcement investigations. In fact, hundreds of thousands of minorities know about it from suffering the humiliation of being stopped by police while driving, flying, or even

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• Sense and Sensibility

  Published: October 23, 2007, 9:56 pm

  Tags: Humor, Racial Profiling

  Sense and Sensibility is not only a great work of English Literature, it's also supposed to be the strongest quality of all good law enforcement officers. Apparently, nobody in the Carolina locality I was driving in last night got the memo. As a club member in good standing, I am one of those Negroes that drive around with his brights

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• African-American math professor compares racism in Britian and US

  Published: November 7, 2007, 9:09 am

  Tags: Academic Persecution, Academic Racism, Any Black Man Will Do, Black Faculty, Death Threats, Eugenics, Mit, Racial Profiling, Racism, Revisionist History, Sacred Cow, United Kingdom, United States, Vanderbilt University

  When I was a graduate student, one episode seared on to my consciousness the very great difference between British and American academics in terms of how racism is tolerated. read more

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• Congressman Uses McKinney Racism Defense

  Published: November 22, 2007, 11:38 am

  Tags: Political, Congressman, Danny Davis, Dui, Oppression, Police Officers, Racial Profiling, Racism, Sobriety Test, Traffic Violation

  said he was the victim of racial profiling because he was pulled over early in the morning while driving a few of his friends. Two white police officers pulled him over and issued a $75 ticket because he went over the center line.... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• Black ACLU official accuses black troopers of racial profiling

  Published: December 5, 2007, 10:17 am

  Tags: Racial Profiling

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• Racial bias rising post 9/11, says study

  Published: December 7, 2007, 4:53 pm

  Tags: Maru, Politics, Racial Profiling, Zool Suleman

  BC residents are feeling less safe and facing more discrimination, says the first study on racial profiling in the province. The study, which will be released in full in early 2008, was conducted by the MARU Society...read more

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• Giuliani’s Christmas Ad (Revised)

  Published: December 21, 2007, 2:07 pm

  Tags: 2008, 9 11 Demagogery, Federal Indictment, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Gop Wedge Issues, Gop Presidential Candidates, Homewrecking Whore, Humor, Nypd, Politics, Race, Police Brutality, Political Expediency, Politics Of Fear, Racial Profiling, Racism

  Copying front runner Mike Huckabee and sinking in national polls like a stone, a desperate Rudy Giuliani came out with his own holiday ad to deceive and reassure gullible Republicans. Rudy: There a many things I wish for this Holiday Season. I wish for peace with strength, secure borders, a government that spends less than it takes in,

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• A Stunning Incident In The UK

  Published: December 22, 2007, 11:22 am

  Tags: Daniel Sylvester, Racial Profiling, Driving While Black, Excessive Force, Police Brutality, Racism, Law Enforcement, Race

  “International” isn’t just corporate hyperbole: Police fired a 50,000-volt Taser into the head of a 45-year-old company director who later proved to be unarmed and innocent. Daniel Sylvester, the owner of an east London security firm employing 65 staff to guard council offices, pubs and nightclubs, was driving home on October 20

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