http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/race/ en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:46:27 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416528/posts Katy Graves 10 Dec. 2009 Free Men or Slaves? Almost every people group has been subjected to slavery and indentured servitude at some point in the history of our world. Our ancestors were treated like work animals. They were told what to do, how to do it, when to do it. They waited for their masters to give them food, clothing, and shelter. They were told what work they were capable of doing and allowed to only do that work. These people were “given” to each other to produce more workers and to bring money to their owners. They were... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416528/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:46:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415468/posts What does Avatar have to say about race? That’s what the blogosphere is asking this week. Annalee Newitz got things going this weekend with an essay on io9.com, Gawker’s sci-fi blog, about how the film is essentially “a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people.” (Read responses here, here, here, and here.) The racial themes in Avatar are pretty hard to ignore. We’ve really got it all here: colonialism, passing, “going native,” (literal!) jungle fever. And director James Cameron isn’t exactly subtle about linking the alien Na’vi with minorities here at home. It’s no accident... doublex.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415468/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:42:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413412/posts ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (CBS) ― Click to enlarge1 of 1 David Muneton, an eighth grade honor student, needed reconstructive facial surgery after being savagely beaten by a gang of 11 students on Dec. 18, 2009, in Engelwood, N.J. David Muneton, an eighth grade honor student, needed reconstructive facial surgery after being savagely beaten by a gang of 11 students on Dec. 18, 2009, in Engelwood, N.J. Police said as many as 11 students beat up the eighth-grader leaving him severely injured, and he may even lose his sight. CBS 2 HD spoke with some of his friends about what led to... WBCBSTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413412/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:57:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413705/posts ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- An eighth grade honor student from Englewood, New Jersey, was hospitalized after being jumped and badly beaten Friday by as many as 11 students, police said. David Muneton, 13, was recovering after reconstructive surgery to his face but was in danger of losing his eyesight. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413705/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:26:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413117/posts Every year I post a pre-Christmas piece on the farce that is Kwanzaa. This year will be no exception. Note, some of the newspaper articles I quote are several years old so some may no longer be online. Each year, with the onset of Christmas, we are treated to another gauzy, fluff piece about how great Kwanzaa is by yet another PC spewing newspaper columnist. This year, among many others, we find aggrandizement such as the Progressive's "Kwanzaa is more relevant than ever in recession," the Chattanooga Times Free Press with theirs titled, "Common ground," or the one from the... http://www.publiusforum.com/2009/12/22/kwanzaa-created-by-a-rapist-and-torturer/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413117/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:59:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412111/posts A young married couple, Paul and Nancy, were neighbors of mine back in the seventies. Nancy was extremely excited because an unexpected opportunity arose for her to attend college. This would broaden her horizons and enable her to pursue opportunities beyond her then-current minimum-wage jobs. Paul was dead set against it. He confided in me, "I'm afraid if she gets educated, she may not want me anymore." I thought, So rather than allowing Nancy, whom you profess to love, to be all she can be, you would prefer to keep her down. In the eighties, I was a member of... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412111/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:35:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410822/posts The wide racial gap in health is growing in Chicago, a major new study has found. ..."What's happening is that, as advances become available for these different diseases, white people are able to gain access to advances, and black people are not," said Steven Whitman, director of the Sinai Urban Health Institute. "It's absolutely essential to understand the underlying structural issues that are causing these disparities: those are racism and poverty." Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410822/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:04:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410187/posts Throughout the totalitarian West, the Marxist internationalist elites, while busily flooding their countries with tens of millions of third worlders, have introduced specific measures to keep the native populations down and in check. These measures have come in the form of hate crimes laws. The laws state that a crime is not just a crime if we can find a deeper motive, such as hate of a specific race, sex, religion or sexual orientation. Thus the Lords of Humanity have given themselves the power of God to know what is inside the hearts of men. In practical terms, what this... Pravda http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410187/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:50:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410185/posts MANCHESTER – Police charged six Hesser College students with felony riot early Tuesday morning when confronted with 50 screaming students while answering a call about an out-of-control fight, police said. The incident took place during finals week, and the six students, three of them women, appeared in Manchester District Court Tuesday. Five face additional misdemeanors such as assault or resisting arrest. All were held on $1,000 cash or surety bail. They were forbidden from returning to the Hesser College campus unless allowed by college authorities. Police Chief David Mara said he is satisfied with the way police acted, but several... New Hampshire Union Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410185/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:39:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410073/posts There's more money and less intellectual effort in judging, vilifying and diminishing Tiger Woods than in providing the public a lens to understand him and a sports world/culture that long ago was perverted by television's money and fame. It takes no courage or thought to recognize Tiger's personal failure. He, as far as we know, shamed his wife and family. We can assume Tiger's Swedish wife adopted our American marriage value of strict monogamy, and she is mortified and shocked that her ridiculously famous, handsome, billionaire husband gave in to the temptation of road beef. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410073/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:58:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406607/posts A Times Square bloodbath was narrowly avoided because the machine-pistol-toting thug who fired at a cop flipped the gun on its side like a character out of a rap video, causing the weapon to jam after two shots, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. When scam artist Raymond "Ready" Martinez held the MAC-10-style gun parallel to the ground, it caused the ejecting shells to "stovepipe," or get caught vertically in the chamber, the sources said. The gun is designed to be fired only in a vertical position. If he had fired the weapon -- which had another 27 rounds in the clip... N.Y Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406607/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:24:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406215/posts Asian students to file federal civil rights complaint against Philly School District. Superintendent Arlene Ackerman still doesn't get it: She "announced new security measures and diversity programs" and said "We're not going to continue to make this an Asian vs. African American thing. This is not just about demands of one racial group. It is about the needs of everyone." In addition, she "suggested the attacks were being sensationalized by the media, and urged the community to stop assigning blame and move forward." And the kicker: "Also at the news conference, Ackerman and some South Philadelphia students said that the... The Colossus of Rhodey http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406215/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:34:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406205/posts The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund said yesterday that it would file a federal civil rights complaint accusing the Philadelphia School District of failing to address violence against Asian immigrant students at South Philadelphia High School. The complaint will claim that the district violated the students' right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment, said Cecilia Chen, a staff attorney with the organization. Chen said the complaint would be filed with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. The news came on a day when the city schools chief and South Philadelphia High principal spoke out publicly... Philly.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406205/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:16:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405961/posts A new addition to the New York Times annual Holiday Gift Guide has sparked a minor uproar after a blog devoted to critiquing the paper termed it "racist." Included in this year's guide, which was published in November, is a page titled "Of Color/Stylish Gifts." This first-time feature is described by the paper as "gifts created for and by people of color." After going virtually unnoticed by critics for a month, the guide's been widely slammed in the past week as a collection of "backhanded insults" which are "bordering on offensive" and "out of touch." Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405961/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:24:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404205/posts True story: a man is laid off from a Wall Street job for over a year. He submits resume after resume -- because the Street is hiring for his skill -- but never gets the call. Finally, a friend, who knows a hiring manager at a Bracket Firm recommends the man highly. The hiring manager's first question is, "what color is he?" He explains that he has to hire an Asian this week, that a white man -- no matter how qualified -- will not fulfill racial hiring quota. He explains that, in fact, he must hire X blacks, X... My Favorite Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404205/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:18:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404199/posts There's certainly an argument to be made that college football's Bowl Championship Series (BCS) isn't an ideal system, but just to what degree should the federal government come in an regulate this multi-billion dollar industry? According to Andy Staples, a writer for Sports Illustrated's Web site, SI.com who appeared on the Fox News Channel's Dec. 9 "Studio B," the industry should revamped from a regulatory aspect because of issue of "fairness." He was asked by host Shepard Smith why it is appropriate for Congress to be meddling in the college football. "It is funny because everybody says, ‘Why is Congress... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404199/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:14:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403483/posts Black Gangs Vented Hatred For Whites In Downtown Attacks'I Hate You F---ing White People,' Woman Shouts At Victim Black gangs roaming downtown Denver often vented their hatred for white victims before assaulting and robbing them during a four-month crime wave, according to interviews and court records obtained by 7NEWS. "I hate you f---ing white people," said a black woman in a large group of black men, according to the victim who was beaten up as he and three buddies left a LoDo bar after midnight on Aug. 30. "F---- you, white boys," the woman added, according to the 25-year-old Westminster... TheDenverChannel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403483/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 04:43:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403358/posts The Detroit Public Schools posted the worst scores on record in the most recent test of students in large central U.S. cities. The scores came on the Trial Urban District Assessment, a national test developed by the Governing Board, the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education and the Council of the Great City Schools. The test for urban districts is part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress test given to school districts nationwide. “There is no jurisdiction of any kind, at any level, at any time in the 30-year history of NAEP that has... Crain's Detroit Business http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403358/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:46:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403036/posts I expected this argument to be made, but not in the pages of the Washington Post; I assumed it would come as a blog post. Eugene Robinson takes leave of his senses in his attempt to spin Tiger Woods as either a racist or a self-hating minority — or a little of both — by complaining that Tiger’s mistresses have too much in common. Guess what that might be? "Here’s my real question, though: What’s with the whole Barbie thing? No offense to anyone who actually looks like Barbie, but it really is striking how much the women who’ve been... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403036/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:45:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401535/posts Politically Correctness is intended to politicize not civilize a society. It is said to be racially motivated to question a morally twisted Middle-Eastern Army Officer shouting “Allah Akbar” before his shooting rampage toward his fellow countrymen, and yet it is not so to omit the WASP from the racial compositions of American society in a Social Study. “No one said anything about the WASP race, why is that?” asked my mixed-races 9 year old daughter. It was the WASP Americans who framed and founded this Republic, and Politically Correctness views other races as inferior to this supreme achievement. If the... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401535/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399950/posts Human geneticists have reached a private crisis of conscience, and it will become public knowledge in 2010. The crisis has depressing health implications and alarming political ones. In a nutshell: the new genetics will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more than feared about human evolution and inequality, including genetic differences between classes, ethnicities and races. About five years ago, genetics researchers became excited about new methods for “genome-wide association studies” (GWAS). We already knew from twin, family and adoption studies that all human traits are heritable: genetic differences explain much of the variation... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399950/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 04:54:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399089/posts They will usually accept the backhanded compliments without complaint: "Hey, you're pretty fast for a white dude." They will smile when they get tagged with a nickname like Eminem or K-Fed. (Get it? They're Caucasian guys trying to do what African-Americans tend to do better.) White running backs will take all the good-natured teasing you've got, and they'll ask for only one thing in return -- the football. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/phil_taylor/12/02/white.rushers/index.html?xid=CBSsports#ixzz0YbX8glUZ Get a free NFL Team Jacket and Tee with SI Subscription Sports Illustrated http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399089/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 06:28:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398512/posts A race for mayor of Atlanta headed for a recount on Wednesday after a knife-edge election that exposed a racial fault line running through the biggest city in the U.S. Southeast. Former state Senator Kasim Reed declared victory overnight when official results from the runoff vote showed him beating city councilwoman Mary Norwood by 758 votes out of 83,000 cast. But Norwood declined to concede defeat and is almost certain to demand a recount under rules that permit one when less than 1 percent of votes cast separates the candidates. Norwood, who led an initial round of voting November 3,... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398512/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:44:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398074/posts Union Violence: An African-American is beaten up at a political rally by thugs shouting racial epithets, and after three months his assailants are charged with the moral equivalent of jaywalking. Why wasn't it a hate crime? The beating of Kenneth Gladney by people wearing the purple shirts of the Service Employees International Union outside a Missouri health care town hall meeting three months ago met all the classic definitions of a hate crime. Time was, the beating of a black man outside a protest rally, and the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators, would be headline news. Gladney was working... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398074/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:42:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394719/posts How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socio-economic class and gender... Thomas A. Hirschl, Cornell professor of development sociology and first author... James Booth, Cornell professor of biological statistics and computational biology, and Leland Glenna, a sociologist at Pennsylvania State University (who has a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School) -- found, for example, that "white support for Republicans is fractured by religious tradition, biblical authority, social class and gender," while black support for Democrats is equally strong across religious tradition, biblical authority, social class and gender,... PhysOrg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394719/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:48:18 GMT