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San Francisco, Ca.~On Friday the NSBA's Council of Urban Boards of Education kicked off its meeting in San Francisco with an address by 1960's civil rights activist and emeritus professor at UC-Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies Carlos Munoz Jr. on racial harmony according to the School Board News. In speaking of American democracy, Munoz asked the audience "Will it be an emerging multiethnic, multi-racial democracy-or a neo-apartheid system of white control over a new majority of color?" and followed that by asking "Is our future destined to be one of racial and ethnic conflict that divides our nation, or will...

The 11-Year Old Homophobe by: Don Irvine, April 04, 2007 An 11-year old boy in England was subjected to a homophobic crime investigation by the police because he called a classmate "gay" in an e-mail. The parents of the boy who received the message complained to the police in Cheshire who then opened an investigation and sent two policemen to visit the alleged homophobe at his home. When the parents of the 11-year old boy complained that the police were being heavy handed they told the father that they considered it a very serious matter. The boy told his parents...