Monday, June 13, 2011
Herman Cain: Obama "Was Raised In Kenya"
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain on President Obama: "I think he's out of the mainstream and always has been. Look, he was raised in Kenya, his mother was white from Kansas and her family had an influence on him." Silly season never ends.
The Genesis Group
Plessy And (Not Versus) Ferguson
Keith Plessy, a descendant of Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court's infamous 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of the Louisiana trial court judge who upheld Louisiana's separate-but-equal law, have started a new civil rights education organization, the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation.
On Inter-Minority Racism
"Some minorities uphold White supremacy in what has become multiracial White supremacy," says Dr. Nitasha Sharma.
Sam Garrison, Rest In Peace
Sam Garrison, the youngest member of the Tuskegee Airmen, has passed away.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Eleven Percent
That's the number of black children with an incarcerated parent; the comparable number for white children is 1.75%.
Westboro Baptist Church And (Versus) The KKK
This CNN story notes that the Ku Klux Klan challenged Westboro Baptist Church protesters this past Memorial Day.
The "Mothership" In The Smithsonian
Parliament-Funkadelic's Mothership will land at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History. As the song goes, make my funk the P-Funk.
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