
Vogue’s Beyonce Cover, Racist? Posted by: Annika Harris | Filed in: News & Culture 5:30PM, Tuesday March 17th 2009 Comments (13) Some folks have gotten their panties in a bunch over Beyonce’s cover for the “Shape Issue†of Vogue. Beyonce is one of only five black women to grace the cover of Vogue …
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Two months into the administration of the first African-American president, Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press takes a look today at some of the “old racial stereotypes and Internet-fueled falsehoods” about President Barack Obama that have “flourished.” There was that New York Post cartoon portraying the president as a monkey, that California mayor resigning after [...]
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by raymondobe on March 18, 2009
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Same old Same old The Streets are always watching. That night,as I lay on my bed listening to the dogs bark, I began to wonder how much more I could take, and I began to get a terrible feeling inside my chest and a tightness at the back of my throat, and I jerked upright with my head spinning and stared into the [...]
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For instance, a British soldier writes to complain that in an English port part of a well-known restaurant is barred to “coloured troops”. ?He says that the employees of the restaurant disliked discriminating against coloured soldiers, and that a group of British soldiers near said what they thought about colour prejudice. He adds that his [...]
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