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A white South African waitress who was refused a tip by an Oxford student involved in the Rhodes Must Fall campaign has received more than $6,000 in "sympathy" tips after an online campaign on her behalf. Cape Town restaurant employee Ashleigh Shultz was allegedly told by activist Ntokozo Qwabe that he would not give her any service charge on his bill until her "fellow white people" returned South Africa's land to its black population. In an encounter that he described on Facebook, Mr Qwabe gleefully recounted that Ms Shultz had "burst into typical white tears", adding that he was "unable...

In the beginning, black activist Quanell X pledged a protest like those in the civil rights era. He would bus students from Key Middle School to the tony, tree-lined neighborhood of Houston Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra, and they would demand an equal education. Instead, on Friday afternoon, the activist offered free food and a visit from a "surprise platinum hip-hop artist" to persuade about 50 students to board a chartered bus pointed toward Montrose. But the bus never moved. And the artist never showed. Quanell X said he canceled the plan to bus the children from Key to Saavedra's Montrose-area house...

After listening to Air America for a week, I now know what liberal radio is. It is Janeane Garofalo bantering with her co-host about swallowing her own saliva, and then dismissing the American victims of the Fallujah lynch mob as a pack of mercenaries. It is a woman named Randi Rhodes talking dirty and cracking on Condoleezza Rice's "plastic hair." It is an announcer intoning: "The station Rush Limbaugh would listen to if he hadn't lost most of his hearing to drug abuse" - followed, without irony, by an empathetic public service announcement aimed at drug abusers. It is, in...

"Al Sharpton; Maxine Waters; Jesse Jackson and others are to blame for the videotaped beating of Donavan Jackson, the black sixteen-year old, who was roughed up by a white Inglewood Police Officer as the youth resisted arrest and fought with police. These problem profiteers can gather a group of angry blacks in less than an hour to hate the white man and incite a riot, but not to stand up for the reported thirteen million black babies that have been killed in the black woman's womb. You won't hear black leaders shouting about black-on-black crime being out of control, that...