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A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.” Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.

Praised for its high-paying jobs and cultural attractions, Washington was rated this year's top city for African Americans by Black Enterprise magazine. The report appears in the May issue.The magazine asked visitors to its Web site to rank their satisfaction with a long list of cities, and then applied economic, census and labor data to come up with its annual analysis of the 10 best metropolitan areas for African Americans. Although Washington is regularly near the top of the list, this is the first year it has come in first. Atlanta and Houston led the list in the previous two...

The Web site for Black Entertainment Television put the question bluntly: "Does it bother you that Hispanics now outnumber African-Americans in the U.S.?" The response has been torrential. One visitor to the site wrote, "Blacks are beginning to experience another wave of racial bias and favoritism not in our favor." The writer complained that employers now have a preference for bilingual applicants, and bemoaned "attempts to replace our threatening stance against discrimination with a Hispanic vote." But another cautioned: "Sounds like the same old trick to me. `Divide and conquer.' Are we really going to let some numbers dictate how...

Dear friends: Go to www.biscet.org and send a welcome back letter to Dr. Biscet in Cuba. It's very simple to do. It will make him very happy to hear from all those friends and supporters who never forgot him and who stood by him during his jailing by the Cuban dictatorship. Send a message to the Cuban dictatorship telling them that dissidence in Cuba will not die, and that democracy and justice will prevail! A letter form has been set up on www.biscet.org You simply go to the page, write your note and a letter will be generated. The letters...

http://www.geocities.com/dcjarviks/Idler/vIIIn61.html =============================================================== Belafonte Croons for Fidel By Mario Ramirez, 3-18-01 Being a life long New Yorker I can very confidently tell you that I have seen and heard almost everything. If it's not Hillary Clinton carpet bagging New York, or the latest charade by Al Sharpton, it has to be the urban legends about alligators roaming Manhattan sewers. It's no surprise that very few things shock or disturb me. So I wasn't the least startled when on March 11, 2001 I had the pleasure of spending a "lovely" Sunday afternoon listening to that consummate performer and ambassador of "goodwill"...