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All fantasy worlds draw from reality, and the Star Wars universe is no exception. As fans flock to theaters to see “The Rise of Skywalker” this holiday week, most of their minds will be on the grand visuals, enduring characters and exciting storytelling, and not on how the films reflect our culture — including its prejudices. But if we take a moment to think about it, George Lucas’s galaxy is, and has always been, far, far away from being an original or an inclusive creation. Star Wars is shot with “Orientalizing” stereotypes — patronizing tropes that represent an imagined East,...

Racial Politics: Unable to pin racism charges on Ferguson policeman Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, Attorney General Eric Holder is using half-baked data to manufacture a case of racism against his entire police force. Holder's race-baiting civil rights crew combed through several years of Ferguson Police Department data on traffic stops, searches and arrests and "found a pattern of racial disparities in Ferguson's police activities." "African Americans are overrepresented in FPD's vehicular stops" and victims of "racial bias," Holder concludes in his report.

Yes, it’s come to this. In a society where any and all things can, and probably will be considered racist at any, if not all, times comes news that one of America’s all-time favorite cartoon shows is now considered racist. The Amazon Prime video streaming service now carries a warning label, a disclaimer, that declares that Tom and Jerry, the 75-year-old slapstick cartoon, contains “some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society.” The Amazon disclaimer continues, claiming that characters like Mammy Two Shoes, a black maid that appears in some episodes “were wrong then and are...

Two Mount Olive physical education teachers have lost their jobs and been stripped of their tenure following racial remarks the two made about African-American students last year, according to the state education commissioner. Two Mount Olive teachers were brought up on administrative charges last year after they allegedly made derogatory racial comments about African-American students. File photo Brigitte Geiger and Sharon Jones were brought up on six administrative charges by Larrie Reynolds, the superintendent, on March 23, 2012 for unbecoming conduct and other charges based on a conversation they had in the locker room on March 2, 2012 that was...

VICTORVILLE (CBSLA.com) — Students at a high school in Victorville said violent fights have been breaking out between African-Americans and Latinos for the past two days. . . . . SNIP I need help from my fellow FReepers. I just cannot wrap my mind around this. How do we apply the usual Liberal "racist" template to this event, when there are apparently no whites around to blame? Who are the racists, here? The blacks? Or, the browns? Or, are both equally racist -- or, since they are non- white, are they given a "get-out-of-all-charges-of-racism-free" cards, meaning that they are color...

Cornell Belcher, speaking on television to Anderson Cooper and Ari Fleischer, accused Herman Cain of racism and bigotry for saying that the explanation for black Americans voting in such a lopsided way for Democrats is that they've been "brainwashed." (96% of blacks are believed to have voted for Barack Obama in 2008; 88% of blacks are believed to have voted for John Kerry in 2004.) Belcher said among other things: ... it's really a teachable moment. You know, if I came on your show, Anderson, and I said, all Jewish people are brainwashed, I probably wouldn't be invited back to...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A weekend television weatherman was fired after he made an on-air racial slur about Martin Luther King Jr., station officials said. Rob Blair of KTNV-TV was delivering the extended forecast Saturday morning when he said: "For tomorrow, 60 degrees, Martin Luther Coon King Jr. Day, gonna see some temperatures in the mid-60s." Jim Prather, vice president and general manager of the ABC affiliate, said Blair stumbled but the excuse was not enough to save his job. "This kind of incident is not acceptable under any circumstances, and I'm truly sorry that this event occurred," Prather told...

<p>San Francisco -- Fuming over the ouster of the city's African American elections chief, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown blamed the firing yesterday on racial politics and all but invited a federal investigation.</p> <p>"If they had done something like this in the South, the Justice Department would have stepped in," Brown said, one day after the city Elections Commission fired Tammy Haygood. "Maybe some of (Haygood's supporters) should ask the Justice Department to step in."</p>