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For Your Reading, NewsAugust 24, 2010 3:22pm

1930 to 2010: What’s Changed?

We should be very alarmed when hatred gets to such a point that a man walking through a crowd may be harassed for simply looking like he belongs to certain ethnic or religious group. We don’t need to wait for a government which condones actions like that to take power before we become alarmed at the dark undercurrents which are present in our own community.

It’s not 1930s Germany and we will never let it be. But American resilience to… Read More

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Ben Y.
For Your ReadingJune 10, 2009 11:26pm

Deeply Depressing Realities

NY Politics = Race

Lurking just underneath the partisan battle that broke out this week is an uglier, longer-running rift within the Democratic Party. For years, Latino lawmakers have resented playing junior partner to the state’s powerful black establishment, which has supplied New York with a mayor for its largest city, a governor, and, last winter, the first black Senate majority leader: Malcolm A. Smith, who held that post until Mr. Espada and Mr. Monserrate defected this week.

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Chas