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...controversy surrounding racist remarks made by former radio talk show host Don Imus—who so very callously referred to members of Rutgers University’s predominantly black women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos” on his syndicated radio show—has very rightly resulted in the firing of the DJ by top brass...
...grown accustomed to an undercurrent in public policy debates that blames black women for an array of social and cultural failures. Without making distinctions, that racist sentiment casts us all as lazy and drug-addled welfare queens, thoughtless breeders of criminals, and unwed heathens who are sacking the sacred institution of marriage. The obverse, of course, is the black woman who presumes to move into the American mainstream. That woman is not successful. She is uppity...
...soon. On my first day in jail, a heads-of-government Southern African Development Community summit met in Tanzania. In its ranks were other veterans of the fight against colonialism, like South African President Thabo Mbeki, many of whose supporters sympathize with Mugabe's demonization of the West as racist. Despite worldwide calls for censure, the conference refused to condemn Mugabe's leadership and affirmed Zimbabwe's right to noninterference. Mbeki was asked to act as mediator between the government and the opposition, but Mbeki told the Financial Times, "Whether we succeed or not is up to the Zimbabwean leadership...
...license to borrow terms other people have taken back can worry even edgy comics. A few months ago, I interviewed Silverman, who argued that her material was not racist but about racism (and I agree). But she added something that surprised me, coming from her: "I'm not saying 'I can say nigger because I'm liberal.' There is a certain aspect of that that I'm starting to get grossed out by. 'Oh, we're not racist...
...devout stood vigil through the night to guard their places of worship from white-robed or otherwise malevolently attired assailants. However, on Monday afternoon, when the perpetrators of the fires appeared in court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk of the state. Matthew Lee Cloyd, 21, Benjamin Moseley, 20 and Russell DeBusk, 20, all white, were drunk and out to use their car headlights to stun and then shoot deer. When that turned into an inebriated fiasco, said DeBusk, "We agreed to break into...