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11.20.2009 6:54 pm

Letting his true self shine

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This past Saturday, while giving a speech at the “Rolling Tea Party”, anti-climate change and energy independence activist David McAuther let his true self shine, when he used the racist slur “raghead” to describe the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan. …

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10.21.2009 2:57 pm

NFL needs a refresher course in history

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For an organization proud of its history the old boys club known as the NFL needs a refresher course in history. Bulletin to the NFL: The US is a free-market economy (despite the last 18 months) under a democratic form…

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10.21.2009 2:52 pm

Using my windfall to buy a stake in the Rams won’t be easy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
President Obama is poised to shower senior voters with $13 billion (of money we don’t have) in the form of $250 checks next year.  (Next year is an election year but these $250 bribes, er, “stimulus” checks, and the plan…
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10.19.2009 4:51 pm

When you can’t fight with facts, lob the racist label

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I have listened to Rush Limbaugh faithfully for about 14 years, and never heard him make a truly racist remark. In fact,  few days ago I heard “the Hutch,” former black NFL player Hutchinson who now is a minister in…

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09.21.2009 3:28 pm

Acknowledging errors on both sides would be fair

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This is to columnist Leonard Pitts:
In your article titled “The ‘Culture War’ is real and scary”, you indicate that you don’t know who coined the term “culture war”, but you suspect it was only intended as a figure of speech. …
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09.17.2009 6:17 pm

Rush responded as we would have expected

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A white teenager is beaten by black teenagers on a school bus in Belleville.

I suppose it would have taken more basic decency than Rush Limbaugh has ever possessed for him to not have dishonestly, divisively, and cruelly distorted the incident…

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08.03.2009 5:25 pm

The right to be right and the law of dealing with the law

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

All the media coverage of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and the subsequent remarks of President Obama brought up old memories  for me.  Many years ago when my children were little I was stopped by the Collinsville…

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07.30.2009 6:46 pm

Much can be learned from Gates/Crowley incident

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
There is much to be learned from this incident.. Profiling and stereo-typing do exist and  exists similiar to a two way street. Mr. Gates was tired,  frustrated  and hyper-sensitive to race issues. He profiles the officer as being prejudiced and reacts based on that…
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06.04.2009 6:26 pm

It could be driving skills, not racism

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Responding to the recent article citing statistics of racial profiling while driving in the state of Missouri. Before laying blame on the law enforcement community for these numbers, perhaps the broader picture should be painted first.

 

It’s wrong that blacks are…

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06.02.2009 5:59 pm

Is this how we want our Supreme Court installed?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Boy our politicians don’t care who knows how they feel. They call the new Supreme Court candidate racially wrong since  she was picked. Now they’re going to quit calling her that because it may hurt their elction hopes..It hasn’t been proven…
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