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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 ethnic hatred relies on the immediate and unconditional repudiation of this sort of behavior. People rallying around hate and proposing the limitation of one group’s constitutional and civil rights for the appeasement of “the majority” must always swiftly be revealed … More >>

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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. I hate to ever get into the term meritocracy, as it has been so heavily abused by Republicans over the years – and being a white guy who actually believes in affirmative action (while hardly a slam dunk solution for racial equality, … More >>

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