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Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told the Huffington Post today that the gay rights group the Log Cabin Republicans model themselves after “Uncle Tom,” the servile black slave character in the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The liberal, openly gay congressman told the website he was “appalled” by the group’s support of Republican Party: Frank then laced into the Log Cabin Republicans, who spoke highly of the GOP last week in Tampa, with its executive director, R. Clarke Cooper, commenting that gay GOPers felt more welcome than any time in the past. “Frankly I’ve been appalled to see the Log Cabin club,...

There are over 200 black newspapers in this country, hundreds more black-owned or black-operated radio stations, black TV and black Internet blogs. Additionally, there are black radio and TV programs on white radio and TV stations, all of which promote their very existence as being to provide news, lifestyle and entertainment about the black community to the black community. We all love black media for giving us what the white media could never give us – information from a black point of view, which is sometimes 180 degrees from a white point of view. Yet there is a segment of...

Question: When is it permissible in the United States to call a distinguished African-American an "Uncle Tom?" Answer: When he's a Republican and you're a Democrat. Click here for Screen Shot of Item on The Daily Kos (which has been known to remove items if they prove to be to "hot.")That's the way it is over on the Daily ("Screw 'Em) Kos. You see, it seems that Secretary of State Powell is in the minds of these twisted people guilty of.... guilty of.... what? Of being a Republican? Of being an African-American that doesn't seem to want to follow the...

‘NEW GENERATION OF TOMS’ Sharpton made some of his most inflammatory remarks of this campaign season Thursday night, disparaging front-runner Dean’s record on race issues and mocking African-American leaders who endorse white candidates as a “whole new generation of (Uncle) Toms.” Some of Sharpton’s remarks drew standing ovations, despite the fact that he showed up about two hours late to the 38th Annual NAACP Connecticut State Conference where he was the keynote speaker. Sharpton’s attack on Dean follows the former Vermont governor’s recent endorsement by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.). “Let’s look at Dean’s record,” Sharpton said. “I ain’t going...