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How Conservative Elites Stoke Racist Anxieties to Gain Power and Split Blacks and Whites

Chauncey DeVega, AlterNet. February 5, 2012.

Conservatives have created a story of white victimhood, because it is easier than critically engaging the real problems facing America.

Not All Black Intellectuals Think Alike

Melissa Harris-Perry, The Nation. May 31, 2011.

The oft-repeated sentiment that African-Americans should avoid public disagreements and settle matters internally to present a united front is just plain wrong.

Why Don't White Audiences Go See Black Movies?

Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. May 10, 2011.

New research suggests white audiences tend to stay away from movies featuring minorities due to the assumption that the film “wasn’t made for me.”

Massive Race Divide: Blacks Will Never Gain Wealth Equality With Whites Under the Current System

Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. May 21, 2010.

A new study shows African Americans are tumbling out of the nation's economic orbit on a tragic trajectory that will never let them achieve parity with whites.

Why Top GOP Candidates Skipped the Black College Debate

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. September 28, 2007.

Is it as simple as saying that the GOP's leading candidates for presidency just don't care about black people?

The War on Drugs is Still a War on Blacks

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. June 27, 2007.

Recent surveys of drug habits among Americans found that blacks and whites use drugs at equal rates, yet blacks are more often prosecuted because the laws are biased against them.

Is Illegal Immigration the Greatest Threat to Blacks Since Slavery?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. June 22, 2007.

The idea that illegal immigration is a threat to blacks has accomplished one thing for sure -- further polarizing blacks and Latinos.

Group calls on Dems to leave Fox debate out in cold

Evan Derkacz, April 5, 2007.

"If the KKK... had a cable news network, would it be appropriate to collaborate with them?"

Obama, "magical 'igger"?

Evan Derkacz, March 22, 2007.

John Ridley: Damned if you vote for him, damned if you don't...

Richards' N-Word Diatribe

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. November 21, 2006.

If the 'Seinfeld' comedian got called out for using the n-word, so should black people who use it in jest or endearment.

Unemployment Rate Improved for Everyone in 2011, Except for Blacks

Jorge Rivas, December 31, 1969.


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