Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education (Critical America)
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Ze German liberals have an idea. Not content leaving people defenceless by stripping them of gun ownership which an earlier story proved works in the hands of homeowners, more kool-aid drinking liberal numbnuts have followed up with another love-they-criminal suggestion. The reason for the high crime they say is because of the walls. Remove the physical barriers between you and the criminal savages...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- New study examines impact of segregation on the prevalence of high-cost loans in U.S. metro areas. Subprime loans disproportionately located in segregated areas.
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
On 5th November 1968, Richard Millhous Nixon won the U.S. presidential election following a turbulent campaign that saw the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy , as well violent protests on the issues of race and the Vietnam war. Nixon, the Republican candidate, received 301 votes from the Electoral College and 43.4% of the popular vote; the Democratic candidate, Hubert Humphrey,...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Steve Walt in Foreign Policy on America’s backing for racial segregation in Palestine: The two-state solution was on life-support when Obama took office, and at first it appeared he might make a serious effort to nurse it back to health and make it a reality. At least, that’s what he said he was going to do. [...]
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
• King's daughter elected as first female SCLC leader • Issue of gay rights may dominate agenda She is a firebrand baptist preacher at the forefront of American black politics, whether speaking at the Democratic National Convention, at which Barack Obama was nominated as presidential candidate, or as one of those chosen to eulogise Michael Jackson at the singer's star-studded memorial service....
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
From the Seattle Times The Rev. Bernice King has been chosen as the first woman to head the civil rights organization co-founded by her father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced her election as its eighth president Friday morning. Interim President Byron Clay called King and said she accepted the position. I find this disturbing. King has made a...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
USA: King Daughter To Run Civil Rights Group Well, yesterday's news report said that the results were getting announced next week but clearly not. The daughter of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been elected president of a civil rights group co-founded by her father. Bernice King will be the first woman to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which her father...
Orange Television Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Posted by Tom Murphy In the late 1960s, a US primary school teacher named Jane Elliott was horrified by the racial segregation and injustice she saw taking place around her. So, she devised a controversial experiment that she hoped would demonstrate to her all-white class how poisonous and destructive racism was. Forty years on, Channel 4 brought Jane Elliott to the UK to re-enact her "blue eye/brown...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
With tours of Soweto and Number Four prison, South Africa's biggest city is confronting its apartheid history head on Go to Cape Town for the waterfront, for Table Mountain and for the wine country. Go to Johannesburg for ... what, exactly? Among tourists, the debate is usually a one-sided affair: in Cape Town, we'll relax with sunshine and chardonnay in one of the world's great holiday destinations;...
Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
After rising concerns about the treatment of Illinois nursing home residents , the Illinois Senate’s public health committee met today to discuss racial disparities in quality and care. The hearing stemmed from an investigation by the Chicago Reporter magazine that identified inequities between nursing homes where the majority of residents are black and homes where a majority of residents are...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Fifty years after a white author darkened his skin and travelled through the American Deep South to expose racial segregation, the BBC's Kevin Connolly reflects on the tradition of blackface.
An Examined Life (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
I understand that there are some folks in the Catholic Church who do not agree with everything the Church teaches, but this one goes beyond mere dissent to the level of sheer stupidity. Maureen Fiedler, a Sister of Loretto with a PhD from Georgetown, writes in the online edition of the National Catholic Reporter (where else): Imagine for a minute that it’s 1954, as segregationists faced Brown...
The Stupid Shall Be Punished (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
I really enjoyed reading this story about WWII Submarine Veteran Edgar Martin. Although he didn't make a war patrol, he did serve under legendary CO Slade Cutter on USS Requin (SS 481) after Cutter's history-making patrols as Captain of USS Seahorse (SS 304). My favorite part of Martin's story: There were, Martin soon found out, other benefits to being part of a submarine crew: benefits such as 80...
Televisionary (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Apartheid is an ugly word, conjuring up images of racial segregation and hatred from a time in the not-too-distant past of South Africa. PBS' new political thriller Endgame, which airs Sunday evening as part of the public broadcaster's Masterpiece Contemporary wheel, dramatizes not the plight of the common South African man and woman under the draconian decree of apartheid but rather the machinery...
Tony Shelley - Thoughts - Feelings - Words - Images (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
You would have had to be languishing somewhere in the outer regions of Neptune, not to have picked up on all the hype and venomous backlash concerning BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time. From the outset, i was never in any doubt that the BBC were right to invite this tragic , delusion d individual onto the programme, but what a waste of an opportunity. Instead of nailing him down...
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