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A major criticism among the black left is that President Obama is able to get away with acts that would incur the wrath of the public if committed by a white person. Examples include his tendency to abandon independent-minded black people for political expediency (Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, Shirley Sherrod), publicly shaming the black community [...]
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Several months ago, I wrote about a BBC poll question asking if gays should be executed. It seems that CNN is determined to show American media can be as homophobic as its British counterpart. On March 6, anchor Kyra Phillips had a discussion on whether homosexuality could be cured. Its guest was noted ex-gay Richard [...]
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Media visibility is an issue I feel strongly about, as the representation of people in popular culture reveals much about society’s feeling towards that group. That is why I was pleased to read about Flipping The Script: Beyond Homophobia in Black Hollywood, a panel sponsored by the Writers Guild of America to discuss homophobia and [...]
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Are you willing to pay for information you get from the web? That is a question that is being raised in light of Google’s decision to limit the amount of free information people can obtain via Google News . The aggregator site currently allows users to access full stories from newspapers and magazines. Publishers, most [...]
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