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  • American Racism Caught on Film
    8 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    These photos speak for themselves.
    http://soapbox.townhall.com/story/2005/9/6/165052/2340

  • New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Press conference: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee
    New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors
    Press conference to announce plan to save lives and demand role in rebuilding effort
    HOUSTON - A national alliance of black community leaders will announce the formation of a New Orleans People’s Committee to demand a decision-making role in the short-term care of hurricane survivors and (…)

  • Katrina Survivor: “They died for no reason but lack of organization”
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MALIK RAHIM is a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, a housing rights activist and recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council. He lives in the Algiers neighborhood, the only part of New Orleans that isn’t flooded. They have no power, but the water is still good, and the phones work. Their neighborhood could be sheltering and feeding at least 40,000 refugees, he says, but they are allowed to help no one.
    This report from New Orleans was published by the San (…)

  • Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans?
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ANNE RICE La Jolla, Calif.
    WHAT do people really know about New Orleans?
    Do they take away with them an awareness that it has always been not only a great white metropolis but also a great black city, a city where African-Americans have come together again and again to form the strongest African-American culture in the land?
    The first literary magazine ever published in Louisiana was the work of black men, French-speaking poets and writers who brought together their work in three (…)

  • What Happens to a Race Deferred
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JASON DePARLE
    WASHINGTON
    THE white people got out. Most of them, anyway. If television and newspaper images can be deemed a statistical sample, it was mostly black people who were left behind. Poor black people, growing more hungry, sick and frightened by the hour as faraway officials counseled patience and warned that rescues take time.
    What a shocked world saw exposed in New Orleans last week wasn’t just a broken levee. It was a cleavage of race and class, at once familiar and (…)

  • Bush Wanted These People To Die
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President’s photo-op may fool you, but not me
    by Jennifer Monroe
    NEW ORLEANS, LA — (OfficialWire) — 09/04/05 — More than five days after it should have happened, thousands of storm victims in New Orleans and the surrounding area are finally being bused and airlifted to safety.
    Because the Bush administration does not want to admit the truth, the public isn’t being told how many people were killed by Hurricane Katrina’s floods and how many more American citizens succumbed waiting to be (…)

  • The Victims, ’Largely Poor and Black’
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID GONZALEZ
    The scenes of floating corpses, scavengers fighting for food and desperate throngs seeking any way out of New Orleans have been tragic enough. But for many African- American leaders, there is a growing outrage that many of those still stuck at the center of this tragedy were people who for generations had been pushed to the margins of society.
    The victims, they note, were largely black and poor, those who toiled in the background of the tourist havens, living in (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina: Is Looting a Question of Skin Color?
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by SPIEGEL ONLINE
    If the pain and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina wasn’t enough, now the looting has started on the streets of New Orleans. But many people simply need to feed their families and are consequently forced to "borrow" food from waterlogged grocery stores. So what makes somebody a looter? And does it have anything to do with the color of their skin?
    It didn’t take long for reports of looting to filter through. No sooner had Hurricane Katrina’s winds died down, than (…)

  • Pop Quiz
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pop quiz:
    1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
    a. Superman b. Jay Leno c. Harry Potter d. a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
    2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
    a. Olga Corbett b. Sitting Bull c. Arnold Schwarzenegger d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
    a. Lost Norwegians b. Elvis c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women d. Muslim male (…)

  • A Gay Israel?
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    In 2004, a group of gay activists took over Cato Island, a small sand bar in the Coral Sea off the northeast coast of Australia. They planted a rainbow flag on the beach and declared it the world’s first gay kingdom in protest of anti-gay legislation in Australia. When I originally read this news story I got a good laugh while I drank my morning coffee.
    After a recent spasm of anti-gay violence in several countries, I’m no longer chuckling. The merits of founding a nation (…)