Editor’s Note: Lengthy and worth reading. (VIDEO) EXCERPT from Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Beast: Imagine for a moment that Barack Obama had never attended Jeremiah Wright’s church in Chicago and had decided to attend services, and proselytize for, a black separatist, nationalist church that refused to allow whites to participate in crucial religious services MORE…
EXCERPT from Rinku Sen | Salon.com: I despair for our country on days like these. How long before paranoia and fear, recast in the language of moral fortitude (stand your ground!), cut so deeply into the beautiful American friendliness, open-mindedness, and generosity that I have grown up with? How many Trayvon Martins, Brisenia Floreses and MORE…
EXCERPT from Susan Campbell | Salon.com: The shooting at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin is the day’s worst example of hateful violence — but it is not, sadly, the only one. Early Monday morning, someone set fire to the Islamic Society of Joplin during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. The mosque couldn’t be MORE…
EXCERPT from Alleged Sikh temple shooter former member of Skinhead band | Southern Poverty Law Center: The man who allegedly murdered six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee yesterday, identified in media reports as Wade Michael Page, was a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a racist white-power band. In 2010, MORE…
EXCERPT from Austin Cline | Atheism.About.com: There are lots of good reasons to be critical of Al Sharpton – too many, in fact, to recount here. Because of this, though, we should be willing to acknowledge when he does things right. One place where he is very right, and trying to hold other black leaders MORE…
EXCERPT from Evangelical radio host calls blacks ‘drug-addled addicts’ for taking welfare | The Raw Story: The director of issues analysis of a conservative fundamentalist Christian organization on Wednesday accused the Democratic Party of trying to make African Americans into “slaves” and “drug-addled addicts” with welfare benefits. “The Democrats as a party, I believe, they MORE…
A new Washington Post / ABC election poll, according to Post writer Scott Clement, suggests that, Substantial prejudice still exists for both Mormons and African Americans, despite shifting views on both groups since Barack Obama and Mitt Romney first ran for president four years ago. Sizable pockets of voters say they would be uncomfortable with MORE…
EXCERPT from David Edwards | The Raw Story: A black couple in Crystal Springs, Mississippi says that a predominantly white Baptist church refused to let them get married because of their race. Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson told WLBT that the day before they were to be married, the pastor of First Baptist Church of Crystal MORE…
Political Research Associates’ new report, Colonizing African Values, seems to have dented the MSM’s almost Africa-proof hide, for once. Here’s a summary of the hubbub from Malika Redmond at RH Reality Check: Even as delegates gather in Washington, D.C. for the XIX International Aids conference, Political Research Associates released its latest report, Colonizing African Values: How MORE…
EXCERPT: Adherents to Christian Identity believe that whites of European descent can be traced back to the “Lost Tribes of Israel.” They advanced the belief that white Europeans are the true Israelites. This belief is known as British-Israelism. On the shores of America in the early twentieth century, British-Israelism helped to advance anti-Semitism, and later MORE…
A group of pastors in Alabama says that they are not racist even though only “white Christians” were invited to their three-day conference, which will include a cross burning and be attended by Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members. Residents in Guin, Alabama became outraged earlier this week after they noticed flyers posted around the town MORE…
EXCERPT: [W]hy has this small Southern town drawn national media attention? A seemingly innocuous flier is to blame. The flier promotes an annual Pastor’s conference to be held on the 4th, 5th and 6th of July. In bold print below the title on the flier is written, “All White Christians Invited.” The organizer of the MORE…