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race relations stories: 117 news summaries

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White Guy Runs Maine Chapter
of NAACP

From prison, that is— he says being a felon makes you a minority

Nov 3, 09 9:18 AM CST
(Newser) - The president of the NAACP doesn’t often go to Maine, the whitest state in the country. But recently Todd Jealous took the Washington Post to a state prison there, to meet his new favorite chapter—one comprised almost entirely of white convicts. It’s run by Billy Flynn,... More »

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race • prison • race relations • NAACP • race in prison • Todd Jealous

nate silver

 Rush Got Bum Rap 
 on  Racist Slurs 


Face it, liberal media: Claims he said that stuff look pretty bogus

Oct 15, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh is getting such a raw deal in the media that even Nate Silver—who got his start on the Daily Kos—has come to his defense. Lately CNN and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch have repeated racist statements that appear to be "completely made up," Silver... More »

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media • NFL • St. Louis Rams • Rush Limbaugh • race relations • CNN • Nate Silver • Rush Limbaugh racist quotes

 Berlusconi 
 Adds Michelle 
 to His 'Tan 
 Obama' Dig 

'Even his wife is suntanned,' Italian leader chuckles

Sep 29, 09 2:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Daffy Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi thought his first joke about President Obama being "tan" was so funny he repeated it —and this time included Michelle in the fun.  "I bring greetings from a man, what's his name? Some tanned guy—Barack Obama," Berlusconi said... More »

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Barack Obama • race • politics • Michelle Obama • Italy • race relations • Silvio Berlusconi

OPINION

 Slavery Reparations Should Be Obama's Next Stimulus

Time for the president to break his long silence on America's racial divide

Sep 12, 09 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is taking so much heat from opponents wrongly convinced that he's keen on redistributing white America's wealth to African-Americans that he might as well go ahead and do it, Naomi Klein writes in the Guardian. Obama's administration has been pursuing "race-neutral" policies that do nothing to close... More »

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Barack Obama • African Americans • race relations • slavery • President Obama • reparations

ANALYSIS

A Post-Racial Society? Your Toddler Would Beg to Differ

Kids learn racial difference early, and parents aren't helping

Sep 6, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Parents, if you think you’re raising color-blind children by avoiding open discussions on race, you’re wrong and could actually be doing the opposite, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman write in a lengthy Newsweek article exposing how babies really learn about racial difference. Many white parents shy away from... More »

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race • children • parents • race relations • racism • post-racial • desegregation • babies

South Africa Rages as Canada Grants White Asylum

Charges of racism after one-man board approves refugee

Sep 2, 09 7:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - A white South African man won asylum in Canada after a one-man immigration board ruled that his "fear of persecution by African South Africans" was justified, reports the Times of London. Brandon Huntley fled to Canada in April and told authorities he was attacked seven times by blacks calling... More »

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race • Canada • South Africa • race relations • asylum • African National Congress • political asylum

(Newser) - Microsoft has apologized after eagle-eyed Twitter users and bloggers noticed it swapped a white head onto the body of a black model in an image for its website in Poland. The image on Microsoft’s US homepage, captioned “Empower your people,” shows a white woman, a black man,... More »

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Microsoft • Poland • race relations • Photoshop

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh says he’s finally an A-lister, the Huffington Post reports, after being name-checked by Jay-Z in a track leaked recently off the rapper’s forthcoming The Blueprint 3 album. “Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls, it’s 2010 not 1864,” goes the lyric from... More »

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entertainment • Rush Limbaugh • race relations • circumcision • rap music • Jay-Z • President Obama • Jay-ZTV • Blueprint 3

OPINION

'Post-Racial' Proclamations Fizzle Fast

Gates incident, rise of birthers indicate issue's persistence

Aug 7, 09 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s election was supposed to be a healing moment, proof that we’re in a post-racial America. “Didn’t last very long,” writes Roger Simon of Politico. Today America seems as racially divided as ever. Exhibit A: the birthers, who say Obama’s “an alien... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • post-racial • Henry Louis Gates Jr • birther

OPINION

 Gates: 'Thank 
 God' for Cops 


But don't forget about racial profiling

Jul 31, 09 4:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The beer meeting at the White House has come and gone, but Henry Louis Gates offers a postscript: "I thank God that I live in a country in which police officers put their lives at risk to protect us every day," he writes in the Root, where he... More »

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Barack Obama • race • police • race relations • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

(Newser) - Turns out the president was right: the beer summit was pretty boring. In fact, it wasn't even the first time Skip Gates and Officer Crowley had gotten together after the arrest. "Even before we sat down for the beer, I learned that the two gentlemen spent some time together... More »

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police • race relations • Cambridge • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

(Newser) - It's happy hour at the White House. President Obama, Joe Biden, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and James Crowley are clinking beer glasses in the White House Rose Garden, but alas, the media isn't invited to listen in. Earlier, the president sought to tamp down expectations, noting that he's "fascinated... More »

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police • White House • beer • race relations • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

Boston Cop Suspended
After Racial Slur on Gates

Calls him 'jungle monkey' in email

Jul 29, 09 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The fallout from the Henry Louis Gates arrest continues: A Boston cop has been suspended for referring to Gates as a "jungle monkey" in an email, the Globe reports. Officer Justin Barrett, 36, faces a disciplinary hearing next week and could be fired. He used the phrase while describing... More »

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Boston • race relations • Cambridge • racial slurs • Boston Police Department • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

A President, a Prof, and a Cop Walk Into the White House ...

Trio will have that beer Thursday evening

Jul 27, 09 9:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama has set a date for a conciliatory beer with a Cambridge police sergeant and the Harvard professor he arrested, ABC News reports. James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates will visit the White House Thursday for a frosty brew and some racial reconciliation. On the menu, according to CNN,... More »

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White House • beer • race relations • Budweiser • President Obama • Harvard University • Red Stripe • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley • Beck's • Blue Moon

the backstory

Gates and Crowley: Unlikely Sparks for Racial Fireworks


Jul 27, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - A closer look at Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley, and the details of what transpired between them, leads the New York Times to find them the unlikeliest of men to have sparked a racially heated debate. Contrary to earlier reports, Crowley, a diversity trainer praised for his... More »

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race relations • racism • town and gown • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

(Newser) - Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Cambridge cop who arrested him both say they will take up President Obama on his offer to have a beer at the White House. "It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this... More »

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African Americans • race relations • Massachusetts • Harvard • President Obama • police action • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

UPDATED

Obama Regrets 'Acted Stupidly' Jab at Cops

Prez: I could have 'calibrated' remarks on Gates arrest differently

Jul 24, 09 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama today backpedaled from his comment that the Massachusetts police who arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. “acted stupidly,” the New York Times reports. In an unannounced appearance at the daily White House briefing, Obama said he “could have calibrated” his words more carefully in speaking on... More »

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African Americans • police • race relations • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

(Newser) - The Gates controversy might finally change—for the better—the way the media portray President Obama on race issues, writes Brent Staples in the New York Times. "Up to now, he has been consistently and wrongly portrayed as a stern black exceptionalist who takes Negroes to task for not... More »

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race • African Americans • discrimination • race relations • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr

OPINION

Gates' Rage: It's Class, not Race

'Gates is Ivy League pissed with a dash of Black anger. Not the other way around.'

Jul 24, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Skip Gates isn’t outraged because he was the victim of racial profiling. He’s outraged because the cops didn’t recognize his Ivy League credentials, a fellow black Ivy Leaguer writes anonymously on This Week in Blackness and Salon. "He didn’t resent being identified as Black; he... More »

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Ivy League • police • race relations • racism • Harvard • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Skip Gates

Mass. Cop Won't Fault Obama Over 'Acted Stupidly' Jab

But prez should get the facts on Gates bust first

Jul 23, 09 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Asked if he blamed President Obama for saying he’d “acted stupidly” in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley took the high road, the Boston Globe reports. He told a radio show today it was “regrettable” that anyone would speak without knowing the “... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • Harvard • racial profiling • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

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