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POPSRacism and Discrimination at the Secret Service E. Desmond Hogan, a lawyer for the black agents, said the agents were “shocked but not surprised by the late production of significant evidence of racism at high levels in the Secret Service.” “The government’s delay,” Mr. Hogan said, “follows a pattern of the Secret Service stonewalling plaintiffs and ignoring court orders, depriving African-American agents of the fundamental evidence of race discrimination that is key to their claims.” The lawsuit, which has dragged on through years of litigation, was filed in 2000 by 10 black agents who charged that they were unfairly denied promotions. The agency employs about 3,200 agents, about 10 percent of whom are black.
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POPSWhat is the Human Cost of Racism? When I think about discrimination in the workplace, I think about a Pakistani-American man I know whose colleagues at an internet start-up told him they didn't want to leave him in the office alone in case he blew up the building. When I think about the impact of racist stereotypes in the media, I think about the black children in Kiri Davis's short film A Girl Like Me, and how 15 out of 21 of them chose the white doll over the black doll in her recreation of Kenneth B. Clark's doll test. When I think about Eurocentrism in our education system, I think of an Afro-Latino man I know whose third-grade teacher told him that Africans lived like monkeys until the white man brought them to America and saved them from their own wretchedness. If we want to mobilize people to take action against racism, facts and statistics are not enough. We need to put a human face on these issues.
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POPSEgyptian Blogger Eastern Bird writers about Rama Yade It's not Rama Yade's - the current French State Secretary in charge of foreign affairs and human rights - political views what made the Egyptian blogger Eastern Bird write the following post (Ar). In fact, she inspired him to write about a totally different subject
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POPSJena 6 Style Nooses for Sale Osama bin Laden doesn't need to do anything. All he needs to do is sit back and wait because the good citizens of the United States are going to destroy themselves.
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POPSIrony: Republic Party Could Be Defeated by Racism Southern White Republicans are nothing more than old Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats) who fled the Democratic party, especially after Lyndon Johnson began to support Civil Rights. Republicans of any other race are fools to support the party that hates them, (with a handshake and a smile they are so easily fooled). What a turn of events if the Republican party is defeated by racism, which is the source of its power. Their defeat will be a great day for America. I will throw a week long party if that happens! Yeah!
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