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    the never-ending story

    I know some of you are probably tired of hearing about Katrina and all the debacles that have followed it. You want to get back to the fun-loving old days of Poplicks where we posted about life-sized R. Kelly dolls and see-through skirts (both, oddly, related to Japanese folk but let's not go...
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    Media Racial Bias

    Just some more examples of how things get twisted based on race: WHEN DESCRIBING BLACK PEOPLE, ITS "LOOTING": http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530 WHEN DESCRIBING WHITE PEOPLE, ITS "FINDING"...
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    Racial InJUSTICE

    The Bush administration has punished a Justice Department official who dared to tell even a mild truth about racial profiling by law enforcement officers in this country My first thought when I read the story was that burying the messenger who tells uncomfortable truths has always been a...
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    Hazy Shade Of Criminal

    By this time, everyone in America has heard of Natalee Holloway - just the latest in a string of white women who've made front page news and 24 hour cable shows, aka the latest damsel in distress whose misfortunes have gripped America's attention (joining dubious company with Terry Schiavo and...
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    The Upward Mobility Myth

    Maybe we don't all have the same opportunities According to our founding document and our national myth, we are all created equal and then it's up to us. Inequality in material things is mitigated in two ways: first, by equal opportunity at the start, and, second, by full civil equality...
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    Putting The Punch In Punchlines

    Meet Larry the Cable Guy, arguably the most successful white comedian in America today. You've probably heard of him since LTCG had the top-grossing comedy tour last year, beating Chris Rock. His latest album, The Right to Bare Arms, is the highest-charting comedy record since 1978. This CD is...
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    Chicken Hawks,YOUR COUNTRY CALLS!

    the branches of our military are currently having trouble meeting their yearly quotas of enlistments, in fact, most will not, strange because in our vast country of some 270 or so million, there are so many of you who whole heartedly support bush's cause in iraq. Well, your president needs you...
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    White Supremacist Matthew Hale Gets 40 years in Judge Murder Plot

    That guy is a little skinny prick, he talks like a little fairy. And he says he didn't do anything wrong... I hope he rots in hell same guy behind the murders of Judge Lefkow's husband and relative... and another one bites the dust. hes a scum bag and hell get wuts coming to him. he...
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    Saving Eddy Zheng From Deportation

    Eddy Zheng: To Be Deported for Not Being An American Citizen http://www.blogger.com/profile/4208258 I met Eddy Zheng in San Quentin Prison a few years ago. My friend Gary Chandler, along with other Poetry for the People alums, became creative writing instructors in the prison and invited...
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    HOT 97: Why Asian Americans Are So Angry & What We Should

    We have so little room in American society for intelligent discussions about racism, difference, and what a better world could look like. Sometimes you get so angry at the way things are that a catalytic moment comes along and allows you to pour it all out. Half-formed discussions are forced to...
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    Watch What You Say: In Defense Of Ward Churchill

    Bush II Press Secretary Ari Fleischer once famously stated during a White House press briefing: "All Americans.. need to watch what they say, watch what they do." He made this statement two weeks after 9/11, in which the atmosphere in this country was so intolerant of dissent that it was...
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    White House: Deficit Will Hit Record $427B

    White House: Deficit Will Hit Record $427B http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...dget_deficits_6 This is what you get when you have one political party in charge of the entire federal government. No fiscal controls at all. No checks and balances. Runaway pork. Budget planning as if there...
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    White House: Deficit Will Hit Record $427B

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/budget_deficits_6 This is what you get when you have one political party in charge of the entire federal government. No fiscal controls at all. No checks and balances. Runaway pork. Budget planning as if there are no...
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    Two Tenured Professors Resign From UCLA

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050122/ap_on_re_us/professors_resign_1 Two Tenured Professors Resign From UCLA Sat Jan 22,12:35 PM ET LOS ANGELES - Two tenured art professors have resigned from the University of California, Los Angeles, because the school refused...
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    my opinion on Iraq

    The thing I've noticed is that the people who support the war tend to latch onto concepts such as terrorism and WMDs as if they were both emminant threats to the U.S. Beyond that however, they seem to shut out everything else which I feel is sad because ultimately it means they simply want...
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    my opinion on Iraq

    The thing I've noticed is that the people who support the war tend to latch onto concepts such as terrorism and WMDs as if they were both emminant threats to the U.S. Beyond that however, they seem to shut out everything else which I feel is sad because ultimately it means they simply want...
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    Britain's Prince Harry - A Nazi

    http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050112/wl_uk_afp/britainroyalsharry You'd think they'd have schooled him better than that. Oh well, so much for the English educational system.
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    Best Sketch Comedy Show today?

    Im going have to say Dave Chappelle Show by a landslide. He's skits are fresh, brave, and hiralous....great writing.. (Rick James skit,blind Black man as a KKK leader, Prince Sketch, Wayne Brady Cameo,real world sketch) For the 1990's,In Living Color(Homey the clown :)
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    Best Sketch Comedy Show

    Im going have to say Dave Chappelle Show and In Living Color(Homey the clown :). great writing.. especially the Chappelle writers. (Rick James skit,blind Black man as a KKK leader, Prince Sketch, Wayne Brady Cameo,real world sketch)