While You Were Eating Turkey, The President Elect Speaks
Aggregated from: VivirLatino
Would it have been so bad for the President Elect to mention Indigenous People? ...
go to article »December 4, 2008
On the Fence with Richardson
American minorities are on the fence with President-elect Obama’s decision to appoint New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson as Secretary of Commerce. On the other side of the fence, Mexican Americans are lauding the appointment.
November 30, 2008
Armenian Bloggers Hail Power Return
While most people know Samantha Power as an Obama adviser who has called Hillary Clinton a “monster,” many genocide awareness and prevention activists consider the Harvard professor a hope they can believe in. The Associated Press has noticed that Power, who officially resigned from Obama’s campaign during the Democratic primaries, is on US President-elect Obama’s transition team. This news has encouraged several Armenian bloggers who now feel assured that the author of “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” (2002) will remind President-elect Barack Obama to keep his promise of officially recognizing the WWI Armenian Genocide committed by Ottoman Turks.
November 29, 2008
November 26, 2008
The Obama bandwagon
Aggregated from: England for Obama
Get Your War On is a running series of short animations over on 23/6, in which two office-workers… erm… talk about stuff. Funnily. I’ve seen about half a dozen or so, and they’re excellent - although I notice from the Wikipedia entry that I’ve joined the Get Your War On...
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Make Up Your Minds About Latina Women and Their Uteruses
Aggregated from: VivirLatino
You can't have it both ways. You cannot in one breath say that abortions are the cause of illegal immigration and criticize a woman's decision to have a child outside of marriage especially if both decisions are based in "American uteruses". You can't pick and choose your female reproductive organs....
go to article »November 21, 2008
Death threats against Obama - Shame on you America!
Aggregated from: Siasa Duni
The Secret Service will not provide the number of cases that they are actually investigating. It is a sick American tradition that threats against a new president spike right after an election. But the Service admits that across the nation, local law enforcement officials are seeing more threats aga...
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Religious Intolerance
Aggregated from: My African Diaspora
I’m almost ashamed to dedicate my time or words to this subject. Yet, ignorance and intolerance continue to force me to do so. I’m sure you’ve heard about the Pastor who posted the message: “Barack Obama is a Muslim, This is a sin against the Lord”. Check out the video below: Emb...
go to article »November 20, 2008
Morocco: Hate Crimes on the Rise in the US Following Obama's Election
Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.
Myrtus, a Moroccan living in the U.S., is alarmed by the number of hate crimes across the U.S. following Obama's election to the presidency. ...
go to article »November 19, 2008
Painting the White House black
Aggregated from: Pickled Politics » United States
Heh. President-elect Barack Obama has made his first publicly-known cabinet appointment: Eric Holder will be attorney-general, with a priority to close down Guantanamo Bay. Mr Holder is also the first African-American to be appointed AG. No doubt, for some this will re-inforce their fears that Obama...
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A few facts for the lesson-givers
Aggregated from: SuperFrenchie
As you know, it didn’t take long. As soon as Obama got elected, the arrogant lesson-giving and the heavy-duty bragging, which had never been absent but obviously had to be a bit toned down under Bush, started anew: electing a black man, we’re told, could never happen in Europe. Much less in ...
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