By The Admin on October 21, 2009
Scott Henry, Creative Loafing
- Over the past few months, the leading candidates for Atlanta mayor have dutifully taken part in dozens of public forums across the city, giving the impression that no interest group is too obscure or any issue too unimportant to be addressed.
Last week, however, a politically oriented event was held downtown without [...]
Posted in Georgia, State & Local News
By The Admin on October 16, 2009
A Kansas legislator is promising to get his “RedNeck Rap” video criticizing President Barack Obama back on YouTube.
The video drew criticism because it shows Republican state Rep. Bill Otto wearing a hat describing opossum as “the other dark meat.” A Democratic legislator calls the video “disturbing” and evidence of bigotry, which Otto disputes.
Otto posted the [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on October 16, 2009
The young men of Morehouse College in Atlanta have gotten the word — no more baggy pants on campus.
Further, no sunglasses inside, no “do-rags” or hoods or high-heeled shoes, no jeans at major events, no lewd messages on clothing and nothing normally worn by women.
It’s all part of a new dress code at Morehouse, a [...]
Posted in Education
By The Admin on October 16, 2009
Rosemary Winters and Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune
- LDS apostle Dallin H. Oaks on Tuesday likened the post-Proposition 8 backlash against Mormons to the persecution blacks endured during the civil-rights struggle.
Now Oaks faces a backlash himself.
“Were four little Mormon girls blown up in the church at Sunday school? Were there burning crosses planted on [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on October 16, 2009
A video featuring a Kansas legislator criticizing President Barack Obama’s policies while wearing a hat describing opossum as “the other dark meat” was removed Thursday from YouTube, where the lawmaker had posted it last month.
Republican Rep. Bill Otto said he didn’t remove the video, titled “RedNeck Rap,” and didn’t know why it had been taken [...]
Posted in Race, State & Local News
