By The Admin on December 29, 2010
Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere.
Abercrombie was a friend of Obama’s parents and knew him as a child, and is deeply troubled by the effort to cast doubt on the president’s citizenship.
The newly [...]
Posted in Hawaii, White House
By The Admin on December 29, 2010
Fox News
- Chicago mayoral hopeful Congressman Danny Davis (D-Ill.) insisted that he is not playing the race card as he threatens to turn the African American community against former President Bill Clinton, if he comes to the city of the big shoulders to stump for Rahm Emanuel.
“It’s a friendship card,” Davis said, emphasizing the long [...]
Posted in Illinois
By The Admin on December 28, 2010
CNN
- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a possible Republican presidential candidate, recently caused a major stir. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, he referred to race relations while growing up in Mississippi this way: “I just don’t remember it as being that bad.”
Of course, his state was one of the most racially explosive sections of [...]
Posted in Party Politics, Race
By The Admin on December 28, 2010
Fox News Latino
- The complaint of a Chilean of African descent who said he was fired from the state-run Solidarity and Social Investment Fund, or Fosis, “for being black” sparked a great outcry on Monday.
Fosis chief Claudio Storm said Monday that “the maximum sanction” will be applied if the allegation by Jose Corvacho Toledo, 43, [...]
Posted in International News, Race
By The Admin on December 27, 2010
The Atlanta Post
- We’ve all seen the ads and flyers for the University of Phoenix – an online school which has apparently captivated the attention of many minority students. In the last decade, that institution and many others like it, have exploded onto the education scene and aggressively marketed to students looking for more accessible [...]
Posted in Education
