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"""Charlottesville Deputy Mayor’s Troubling Twitter Feed: “I Hate Seeing White People” and “Beanpole White Women…” (VIDEO)""" Charlottesville Deputy Mayor Wes Bellamy is on the hot seat again for a history of racially-charged, sexist and divisive posts on social media which are again attracting unwanted scrutiny for the officials who run the embattled Virginia town. Bellamy stepped down from a post on the Virginia Board of Education after his Twitter history went public but he still serves as the deputy or vice mayor of Charlottesville, according to news reports. With all the finger pointing about racial strife, hatred and responsibility coming...

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While hundreds of thousands are dying due to the callous indifference of the military junta in Burma and millions are fleeing oppression and hunger in Robert Mugabe’s brutal Zimbabwe, the U.N.’s farcical Human Rights Council (HRC) is focusing its attention elsewhere — the United States, the freest nation on the face of the earth. This week sees the arrival on U.S. soil of Doudou Diene, the U.N. special rapporteur charged with investigating “racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” in America. Diene, a French-educated lawyer from Senegal, will spend three weeks touring the country, from Washington and New York to...

Moving Ideas Network - reports AIDS in the United States (Feb. 2, 2007): “In the US … more than half of all new [AIDS] cases reported each year are among African American individuals. ... This [is] a disturbing commentary on the social realities of racial politics and racism in the US. Called ‘the disease that doesn’t discriminate,’ AIDS is becoming emblematic of a society that, whether institutionally or irrationally, intentionally or inadvertently, does. The prevalence of AIDS in the black community in the US speaks to widely acknowledged deficiencies in the black population’s access to basic resources like education, health...

Warming up on the touchline, a black player jogs toward fans at the Parc des Princes soccer stadium. As he gets closer, a barrage of monkey chants explodes _ "OOOH! OOOH! OOOH!"_ and racist insults fill the air. Such scenes are increasingly common at the home stadium of Paris Saint-Germain, or PSG, one of France's top soccer teams, and are finding expression in elite soccer leagues across Europe, raising fears that a global sport that calls itself "the Beautiful Game" is getting uglier. ... "Understand one thing: PSG has no police authority or lawmaking power," the club's director of communications,...

HAYWARD -- Jeff Cook didn't see this one coming. Cook was assailed during the Hayward Unified School District Board of Education meeting on Wednesday night by members of the Latino community who were outraged by comments the new trustee made prior to a meeting last month. A procession of leaders and members of the Latino community took turns calling Cook a "racist, bigot" and "xenophobe" after he referred to Latinos as "illegal aliens" and "selfish" during his opening comments of the Jan. 14 board meeting. Cook called Wednesday's attack "pretty vicious," and said he simply wanted to voice his disapproval...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution took to the Senate floor Tuesday to criticize his Democrat colleagues over the content of leaked memos regarding President Bush's judicial nominees. Cornyn recalled an April 2003 letter that all 10 freshmen senators wrote to the leadership asking for a fresh start in the judicial nomination process. Cornyn warned, "Any tactic or strategy used by a partisan minority now to obstruct President Bush's nominees, if successful, if allowed to proceed, will no doubt be sought to be used in the event a...

It was Inauguration Day, and in the judgment of one later historian, "the atmosphere in the nation's capital bore ominous signs for Negroes." Washington rang with happy Rebel Yells, while bands all over town played 'Dixie.' Indeed, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who swore in the newly elected Southern president, was himself a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Meanwhile, "an unidentified associate of the new Chief Executive warned that since the South ran the nation, Negroes should expect to be treated as a servile race." Somebody had even sent the new president a possum, an act...