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Discrimination The act of discriminating The ability or power to see or make fine distinctions; discernment Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice: racial discrimination; discrimination against foreigners. In the words of the immortal Sesame Street, one of these things is not like the other. Specifically, the first two definitions of discrimination are correct, and the third really means: Racism The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. Discrimination or prejudice based on race. Discrimination is a good thing,...

David Duke To Speak Against Iraq War In Virginia This Saturday: Richmond Meeting Will Denounce Jewish Influence Over U.S. Foreign Policy By Overthrow.com Overthrow.com | February 17, 2003 2/18/03 10:28:15 AM EURO Press Release Richmond, Virginia -- David Duke to speak against Iraqi war in Richmond, Virginia, this Saturday. Says Israel, not Iraq, is a threat to world peace and American security. Richmond, Virginia, February 17, 2003 . European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) National President David Duke will speak in Richmond, Virginia, Saturday, February 22, 2003 against the war with Iraq and the need to end support to Israel....

David Duke has returned to the United States and will be talking with federal prosecutors about a plea bargain to criminal charges, his attorney said Monday. Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who ran for governor and the U.S. Senate a decade ago, has been visiting his seriously ill father in New Jersey and plans to return to his home in Mandeville, north of New Orleans, defense attorney James McPherson said in an interview with The Associated Press. "One of the reasons David came back is to see if we can cut a deal," McPherson said. "It's hard to...

City leaders encourage people to oppose Ku Klux Klan rally Last Updated: Nov. 20, 2002 A "No Hate" demonstration against a Ku Klux Klan rally will begin at 11:30 a.m. Saturday outside the War Memorial Center at the lakefront, then march to the federal courthouse. The Ku Klux Klan, the World Church of the Creator and the National Socialist Movement have a permit for their rally at 1 p.m. Saturday at the courthouse, 517 E. Wisconsin Ave. Common Council President Marvin Pratt, Ald. Don Richards and representatives of Mayor John O. Norquist, County Executive Scott Walker and various community groups...

A central theme of Daschle's diatribe today seemed to be that the Dems' commitment to national security cannot be challenged because Senator Inouye and a few others served in WWII. Now there's no reason a person can't have served in WWII and then become a politically craven left wing Senator with an awful national security record.But if we accept Daschle's premise that one's prior (as in 57 years ago) "service" credentials sets in stone their whole party's credibility on the issue at hand, does that mean the Democrats are established as race-pandering hypocrites based on their distinguished Senator, Robert Byrd's,...

After Arrest, Town Shamed by '68 Killing Seeks RenewalBy SARA RIMER ARTINSVILLE, Ind., May 15 — The fate of Carol Jenkins, a 21-year-old black woman who came here to sell encyclopedias, and the reputation of this almost entirely white town have been intertwined since the rainy September night in 1968 when a stranger stabbed her in the heart with a screwdriver and left her to die in the street. For nearly 34 years the outside world assumed that the killer was from Martinsville, with its Ku Klux Klan past, and that the police had covered up for the murderer. Martinsville,...