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  • There's discrimination, then there's discrimination

    I have always maintained that I will ride with any partner who passed the same tests I did. I don’t know why a higher percentage of whites passed those tests - and neither does the city. Throwing out an unpopular test under political pressure when you don’t understand the results is wrong - and stupid. Maybe the whites had more time on the job and ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by SocialWriter on May 28, 2009
  • Robert the Bruce of the Crusade issue

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    Posted to XX Factor by Independence on August 11, 2008
  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008
  • A Young(er) Woman's Perspective....Why Hillary (not Gloria)

    In recent days a steady stream of women have celebrated and lauded Gloria Steinem's recent piece in the NYT. Many encourage others to circulate the piece further. Respectfully, I disagree. Ms. Steinem's piece, though well intentioned I'm sure, pits the women's movement against the civil rights movement. Such false competition is divisive, ...
    Posted to Politics by batnib on January 16, 2008