| August 25, 2008 | -
Barack Obama announced Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, as his running mate, even though Biden voted for the war in Iraq and for NAFTA and once said that Obama was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
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Information Week
Source 2:
The Washington Post
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| June 29, 2008 | - Some Obama supporters were taking his middle name, Hussein, as their own; “My name is such a vanilla, white-girl American name,” said Ashley Hussein Holmes.
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The New York Times
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| June 5, 2008 | - Senator Barack Obama, having amassed more than the 2,118 delegates needed to secure a majority, was acknowledged as the Democratic presidential nominee and claimed victory before a crowd of almost 20,000 people in St. Paul, Minnesota, knocking knuckles with his wife, Michelle, in a gesture known as “dap.” “It thrilled a lot of black folks,” said author Ta-Nehisi Coates. “He wears his cultural blackness all over the place. Barack is like Black Folks 2.0.”
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New York Times
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| May 5, 2008 | - Mildred Loving, a black woman whose 1958 marriage to a white man led the Supreme Court to declare bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional, died at age 68.
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Boston Globe
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| October 3, 2007 | - A white family in Florida found three burning crosses in its back yard.
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Local6
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| August 31, 2007 | - City officials in Houston, Texas, were investigating a “Ghetto Handbook” distributed by the local police to its officers. The booklet, subtitled “Wucha dun did now?” contained, among other items, a glossary that would enable the police to communicate “as if you just came out of the hood.” Terms defined in the glossary included “foty” for a 40-ounce bottle of beer; “aks” for “to ask a question”; and “hoodrat” for “a scummy girl.”
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Houston Chronicle
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| August 24, 2007 | -
Researchers found that cornrows can cause permanent bald patches.
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BBC
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| August 3, 2007 | - Bob Allen, a Florida State Representative who sponsored a bill to curtail sex in public parks, said that he recently offered oral sex to a man in a park because he was afraid of black people.
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AP via myfoxtampabay.com
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| July 30, 2007 | -
A gene that preserves intense emotional memories was discovered in 12 percent of African Americans and a third of Caucasians.
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ABC News
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| June 24, 2007 | - The military was concerned about a marked drop in the number of African-American recruits since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars; “We just want to make sure,” said Marine Commandant General James Conway, “that we continue to look like America.”
- The military was concerned about a marked drop in the number of African-American recruits since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars; “We just want to make sure,” said Marine Commandant General James Conway, “that we continue to look like America.”
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ABC News
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| June 6, 2007 | - In England, gingerists, or people with a bias against red hair, were subjecting the auburn-headed to slurs like “you ginger bastard” or “you right ginger whinger.”
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BBC News
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| June 2, 2007 | - A family in England claimed that they were being chased out of their neighborhood because they are redheads.
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BBC
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| April 15, 2007 | - A study surveying African-American women in the Mississippi Delta found that a majority of respondents believe anyone who gets AIDS deserves it, especially if he or she is a homosexual, bisexual, or prostitute, and that the U.S. government created HIV/AIDS to destroy the black race.
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The Clarion-Ledger
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| April 14, 2007 | -
German national television released a videoclip of an army instructor in Schleswig-Holstein telling one of his soldiers during a machine-gun drill, “You are in the Bronx. A black van is stopping in front of you. Three African Americans are getting out and they are insulting your mother in the worst ways . . . Act.”
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AP via CNN
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| February 2, 2007 | -
Delaware
Senator Joseph Biden praised Illinois Senator Barack Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” said Biden. “I mean, that's a storybook, man.”
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salon.com
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| December 11, 2006 | - Moses Hardy, who at 113 was the second oldest man in the world and the last surviving black U.S. veteran of World War I, died in Mississippi.
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local6.com
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| December 4, 2006 | - A police officer in Tempe, Arizona, was criticized for telling two black men that they could get out of their littering tickets if they rapped. “The dangers of littering,” rapped one of the men, “you will get a ticket. If you ain't wit' it, you better be experienced.” “It's important,” said Reverend Jarrett Maupin, “for police officers to realize that black people do not speak hip-hop.”
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Yahoo News
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| November 20, 2006 | - A Houston teenager was sentenced to jail for sodomizing a Hispanic teenager with a patio umbrella while shouting “White Power!”
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AP Via CourtTV News
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| November 20, 2006 | - Actor Michael Richards, who played Kramer on the TV show Seinfeld, was videotaped repeatedly screaming a racial epithet at a heckler.
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MSNBC
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| November 16, 2006 | - The city council of Greenleaf, Idaho, passed an ordinance that makes it mandatory for most residents to own a gun so that the town will be able to protect itself from refugees from natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
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MSNBC
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| October 11, 2006 | - The U.S. Department of Justice accused blacks of suppressing the white vote in Mississippi.
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New York Times
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| September 25, 2006 | -
Senator George Allen of Virginia denied allegations that he had once stuffed a deer's head into a mailbox belonging to an African-American family.
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Salon
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| September 21, 2006 | - In Maryland, the National Black
Republican Association ran radio ads claiming that Martin Luther King was a Republican and that Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan.
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nbc4.com via google news
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| September 21, 2006 | - Nawar Shora of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said that “the average Yousef” thought of an FBI agent as a “middle-aged white guy talking in their sleeve.”
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Washington Post
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| September 8, 2006 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized for saying that Cubans and Puerto Ricans were “very hot,” due to their mixed “black blood” and “Latino blood.”
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New York Times
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| September 5, 2006 | -
Kenya's Human Rights Commissioner said Kenyans “get a thrill out of seeing a white man in a powerless position.”
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New York Times
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| August 24, 2006 | - In Coushatta, Louisiana, nine black students were sent to the back of a school bus to make room for white children.
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The Shrevport Times via Drudge Report
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| August 21, 2006 | -
Virginia
Senator George Allen called an Indian-American man with a mullet a “macaca.”
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Washington Post
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| June 29, 2006 | - A study showed that rich people get more sleep than poor people, white people get more sleep than black people, and women get more sleep than men.
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Reuters
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| June 16, 2006 | - Scientists found that African-American adults hear better than white adults.
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All Headline News
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| June 14, 2006 | -
Marine Corporal Joshua Belile apologized for appearing in “Hadji Girl,” an Internet-distributed
video in which he plays guitar and jokes about killing an Iraqi family. “They should have known,” he sang, “they were fuckin' with a Marine.”
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The Mercury News
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| May 18, 2006 | - It was revealed that in 2004 a group of Republican lawmakers wrote letters to the IRS calling for a probe of the NAACP.
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Guardian Unlimited
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| May 16, 2006 | -
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said that he would prefer not to hug a tar baby.
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The White House
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| April 5, 2006 | - In North Carolina, Duke University cancelled its lacrosse season after an African-American stripper was allegedly gang-raped by white lacrosse-team members. Soon after the allegations emerged, Duke lacrosse player Ryan McFadyen sent an email to fellow team members inviting them to another party featuring strippers. "i plan on killing the bitches as soon as the walk in," he wrote, "and proceding to cut their skin off while cumming in my duke issue spandex."
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The Smoking Gun
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| March 22, 2006 | -
St. Louis talk show host Dave Lenihan, discussing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a potential NFL commissioner, said: "She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon." He repeated: "A big coon." Lenihan apologized, said that he meant to say "coup," and was fired.
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FOX News
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| February 1, 2006 | -
Genetic tests found that 30 percent of African Americans have white male ancestors.
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USA Today
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| January 18, 2006 | -
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that the rebuilt New Orleans "will be chocolate at the end of the day." He clarified: "You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about." One New Orleans resident said that Nagin "used the wrong dairy product."
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CNN.com
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| December 25, 2005 | - Montgomery County, Maryland, bought the original Uncle Tom's cabin.
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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| December 12, 2005 | -
Australian
whites rioted against people of Arab descent.
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The New York Times
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| December 6, 2005 | - The supreme court of Italy ruled that it is not necessarily racist to call someone a “dirty negro.”
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Reuters
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| October 25, 2005 | -
Rosa Parks died.
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The New York Times
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| October 23, 2005 | - A Louisiana barber, tired of telling African-American customers that he doesn't know how to cut their hair, put a sign outside of his barbershop that read "whites only."
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KATC3
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| October 20, 2005 | - Lamb and Lynx Gaede, thirteen-year-old twin sisters who perform as the band Prussian Blue, were under criticism for singing songs that praise Rudolph Hess. "We just want to preserve our race," explained Lynx.
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ABC News
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| October 16, 2005 | - Tens of thousands of African Americans rallied in Washington, D.C., to mark the tenth anniversary of the Million Man March. Louis Farrakhan charged America “with criminal neglect” but did not repeat his allegations that the New Orleans levees had been blown up by bombs.
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BBC News
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| September 30, 2005 | - During his radio program William Bennett, former U.S. Education Secretary, said, "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
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WLTX.com
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| September 13, 2005 | - Seventy-two percent of African Americans polled said that George W. Bush does not care about them.
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Democracy Now!
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| September 12, 2005 | - A poll found that President Bush's job approval rating among African Americans was 2 percent, plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
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Bush popularity keeps dropping
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| September 5, 2005 | - “George Bush,” said rapper Kanye West, “doesn't care about black people.”
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The Mercury News
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| September 2, 2005 | - About 57,000 troops, many assigned to combat operations, entered the New Orleans area. “This place is going to look like Little
Somalia,” said a brigadier general.
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Army Times
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| August 26, 2005 | - In Brooklyn, New York, a recurring hip-hop party night called "Kill Whitie," marketed to white people, was under criticism as racist. Fans of the party, which offers free admission to anyone with a bucket of fried chicken, defended the event as "funny."
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MSNBC
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| August 18, 2005 | - A study found that white people tend to get better, more thorough health care than African-American people.
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The Washington Post
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| June 17, 2005 | -
Ralph Nader said that the efforts of the Democratic Party against him had made him feel like a nigger.
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Daily News Daily Dish
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| June 8, 2005 | - In Augsburg, Germany, zoo officials were being criticized for a planned attraction that will show elephants and rhinos in their "natural environment" by surrounding them with black men in grass skirts.
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The Scotsman
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| May 23, 2005 | - In Waxahachie, Texas, the high school student yearbook neglected to include a girl's name in a photo caption, referring to her instead as “Black Girl.”
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AZCentral.com
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| May 11, 2005 | - It was uncertain whether Boston could host a convention for minority journalists in 2008 because the city has a law requiring that all Native Americans who enter the city be arrested.
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Boston Globe
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| April 6, 2005 | - A social-studies teacher in Georgia was in trouble for putting on blackface.
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WSBTV.com
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| March 29, 2005 | - Noting their mutual hatred of Jews, a neo-Nazi in Florida called on Al Qaeda to join forces with the Aryan Nations.
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CNN.com
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| March 11, 2005 | - A falling tree crushed the legs of Edgar Killen, a Mississippi
Baptist minister and Ku Klux Klansman currently facing trial for the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.
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Reuters
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| March 10, 2005 | - A study showed that African-American men die at nearly twice the rate of white men of a similar age.
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Detroit Free Press
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| February 11, 2005 | -
Anti-Semitism was on the rise in London; there were complaints of arson, beatings, and the mailing of a snuffbox filled with excrement.
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The Independent
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| January 10, 2005 | - The Supreme Court ruled that the Ku Klux Klan could adopt a highway in Missouri.
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Reuters
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| January 3, 2005 | - Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in Congress, died,
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ABC News
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| December 24, 2004 | - A study found that doctors talk less when treating white patients than they do when treating black patients.
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AJC.com
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| October 18, 2004 | - An analysis of government data showed that the net worth of the median white household is 11 times greater than that of Hispanics and 14 times greater than blacks'.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 13, 2004 | - People in Detroit were debating the wisdom of creating an "Africa Town" district, where the city would give special loans to black businessmen.
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New York Times
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| October 7, 2004 | -
Republicans in Oklahoma were running television ads showing dark-skinned hands accepting welfare checks.
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Associated Press
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| June 11, 2004 | -
Brigitte Bardot was convicted of inciting racial hatred.
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Associated Press
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| May 11, 2004 | -
David Duke got out of jail and began performing his community service hours by working for the European-American Unity and Rights Organization.
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New York Times
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| May 8, 2004 | - Someone desecrated the grave of James Byrd Jr., the black man who was dragged to death behind a pickup in Texas, for the second time.
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New York Times
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| May 1, 2004 | - Vandals defaced 127 graves with swastikas and other Nazi symbols in a Jewish cemetery in Alsace.
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New York Times
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| April 27, 2004 | - The Anti-Defamation League released a report showing that European anti-Semitism is on the decline, though negative attitudes toward Israel are up.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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| February 22, 2004 | -
Health and Human Services officials admitted that a report on racial and ethnic disparities in health care was altered to make it seem more upbeat. "There was a mistake made," said Secretary Tommy Thompson.
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New York Times
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| January 23, 2004 | - An American diplomat in London declared that referring to the American Jewish lobby is anti-Semitic.
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Independent
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| January 1, 2004 | - Six men were indicted for burning a cross in the yard of a Georgia woman who was dating a biracial man.
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New York Times
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| December 2, 2003 | -
Zimbabwe's government proposed making it easier to seize farms from white people.
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New York Times
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| November 25, 2003 | - A Ku Klux Klan member was accidentally shot in the head during an initiation ceremony in Tennessee, though the initiate, who was tied to a tree with a noose and shot with paint pellets, was unharmed.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| November 17, 2003 | -
Racists, a new study found, tend to be mentally exhausted by encounters with people from different races.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 12, 2003 | - A judge in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, was in trouble for dressing up in blackface for Halloween.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 11, 2003 | -
Rush Limbaugh, who was forced to resign from ESPN after he made unkind comments about a black football player, admitted to being a drug
addict.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 10, 2003 | - Four white Texans were arrested for beating a retarded
black man unconscious.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 26, 2003 | -
British health officials apologized for telling a black woman whose lower leg was scheduled to be amputated that she would have to pay $4,700 if she wanted her prosthesis to match her skin color; a white limb, she was told, would be covered by the National Health Service.
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Reuters
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| July 27, 2003 | - The NAACP called for an inquiry into the death of a black man who was found hanging from a tree with his hands tied behind his back; local police had concluded that the man, who had been dating the daughter of a white police officer, had committed suicide.
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AP
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| June 24, 2003 | - The United States Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan law school's use of affirmative action in its admissions process and overturned a Texas
sodomy law, saying that "the state cannot demean [homosexuals'] existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime."
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 18, 2003 | -
President Bush issued guidelines banning racial profiling except in cases of terrorism and national security.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 18, 2003 | - There were riots in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where black residents have long complained of police harassment, after a motorcyclist died during a police chase.
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Associated Press
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| April 8, 2003 | -
The prison population in the United States exceeded 2 million last year, the Justice Department announced, and it was estimated that 12 percent of black men between the ages of 20 and 34 are incarcerated.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
New polls in South Africa revealed a growing nostalgia, even among blacks, for apartheid.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
Congressional Democrats said that the 2000 census missed 6 million people, including 1.2 million Hispanics and 750,000 blacks; the census also counted 3 million people twice.
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| September 3, 2002 | -
A new study found that there are almost 200,000 more black American men in prison than in college.
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| July 23, 2002 | -
A family sued a Virginia Pizza Hut for $2 million, claiming that they were refused service because they are black; the restaurant insists that it had run out of cheese and could not produce any more pizzas.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
A white couple who underwent in vitro fertilization treatment in England gave birth to black twins.
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| June 4, 2002 | -
President Bush told religious leaders in Moscow that Americans “hold dear what our Declaration of Independence says, that all have got uninalienable rights.” President Bush met with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and somehow thought to ask him: “Do you have blacks, too?” Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, interrupted the conversation and explained: “Mr. President, Brazil probably has more blacks than the USA. Some say it's the country with the most blacks outside Africa.” Cardoso was later heard to say that Bush was still in a “learning phase.”
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| April 16, 2002 | -
The Internal Revenue Service admitted that it paid $30 million to taxpayers who claimed a phony “black slavery” credit on their income tax returns.
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| February 12, 2002 | -
Giant Food Stores of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was in trouble for putting up a sign that read: “In honor of Black History Month, we at Giant are offering a special savings on fried chicken.”
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| January 22, 2002 | -
Somebody burned a cross in the yard of the black mayor of Newport, Tennessee, three days before a scheduled Ku Klux Klan rally; the Klan denounced the incident. “It was a stupid thing,” said the grand dragon of the Tennessee White Knights of Yahweh. “We do not burn crosses in people's yards.”
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| December 25, 2001 | -
The death sentence of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther, was thrown out after twenty years.
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| December 18, 2001 | -
Cracker Barrel, the restaurant chain, was sued for discriminating against blacks.
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| November 27, 2001 | - Some American police chiefs were refusing to go along with the federal government's order to round up and question 5,000 legal Muslim immigrants, saying it smacked of racial profiling, which is illegal.
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| September 11, 2001 | - After much hullabaloo, the delegates who remained at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance agreed to condemn the old European slave trade and to express concern about the “plight of the Palestinians under foreign occupation.” After two days of throwing stones at Catholic schoolgirls who were on their way to school, Protestants in Belfast decided to throw a pipe bomb.
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| September 4, 2001 | - Secretary of State Colin Powell stayed away from the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance because some countries were insisting on using impolite language to criticize Israel for being an unkind master.
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| July 17, 2001 | -
Race riots continued in England.
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| July 10, 2001 | - A new study of 300,000 Nissan car loans found that blacks paid an average $800 more than whites.
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| June 12, 2001 | - The United States Commission on Civil Rights released its report on the Florida
election, concluding that blacks were widely disenfranchised by the actions of state officials and calling for an investigation by the Justice Department.
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| June 5, 2001 | - A nominee to be an agriculture bureaucrat was in trouble for making an ill-considered remark linking economic success to race.
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