Racists for Obama

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How badly is the campaign going for John McCain? Ben Smith reports that he’s even struggling to hold on to the white racist vote:
An Obama supporter, who canvassed for the candidate in the working-class, white Philadelphia neighborhood of Fishtown recently, sends over an account that, in various forms, I’ve heard a lot in recent weeks. “What’s crazy is this,” he writes. “I was blown away by the outright racism, but these folks are f***ing undecided. They would call him a n—-r and mention how they don’t know what to do because of the economy.”
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St. Cloud profiling exposed

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St. Cloud State University (SCSU) students, faculty and staff, and St. Cloud citizens, most of them persons of color, expressed embarrassment, frustration and anger during the October 9 Council on Black Minnesotans (CBM) hearing on racial profiling. An overflow crowd attended the three-hour hearing at the 300-seat Atwood Theater on the St. Cloud State University campus. Continue Reading

Criminal justice system is used to control and weaken Blacks

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Racial profiling just one of several strategies employed
The struggle against racial profiling is directly linked to the historic freedom struggle of Black people. From 1619 to 1865, the struggle for freedom was against racial slavery, and from 1865 to 1968 it was against racial segregation. In this post-civil rights period, the main struggle is against the criminal justice system and the prison industry. Opinion: Criminal justice system is used to control and weaken Blacks
Throughout American history, the government has created institutions that functioned to maintain White privilege and supremacy, resulting in the continuing oppression of Black people. One major arm of the government that is used to control Blacks is its criminal justice system. Continue Reading

Council on Black Minnesotans takes on St. Cloud racial profiling

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Public hearing to address allegations of ongoing police harassment of people of color
According to many Black St. Cloud residents, racial profiling of persons of color by St. Cloud police officers is still going on. The Council on Black Minnesotans (CBM) will hold a public hearing on racial profiling October 9 at St. Cloud State University (SCSU). Continue Reading

St. Cloud still reeks of racism

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Can local Blacks summon the courage to force change? Let’s adopt, alter and restate a popular neoconservative formula for identifying ducks (feathered, flat-billed, web-footed foul in the family of Anatidae) to describe St. Cloud racism. If St. Cloud condones racism, maintains racism, and boasts a psychopathic history of racism, it’s racist. Continue Reading

Stereotypes of African-American Women

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Mirael Goss lives and goes to school in Minneapolis. She is entering the 10th grade at Washburn High School and was a 2007 Youth News Intern. As a young African-American woman, Mirael was troubled by stereotypes of African American women, and how they affected them in her community, which is the focus of her youth news report. Mirael Goss lives and goes to school in Minneapolis. She is entering the 10th grade at Washburn High School and was a 2007 Youth News Intern. Continue Reading