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Duke CEO compares marriage amendment to Jim Crow laws
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | 1 year ago
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Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers compared North Carolinas proposed anti-gay marriage amendment to the Souths old racist Jim Crow laws during Friday remarks to a Charlotte business group. Responding to a question from the floor about
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S.C. Rep. Clyburn compares voter ID laws to Jim Crow era
Columbia :: SC :: USA | 1 year ago
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Coca-Cola Co. has ended its membership in a conservative organization seen as the incubator for a string of new state laws on voting and a marketer of laws like Florida's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense statute...House Assistant Democratic Leader
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Michelle Alexander: The age of Obama as a racial nightmare
Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 year ago
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As I wrote then, it focused in startling ways on a growing racial divide, one which includes the formation of a new undercaste in America that loses its normal rights at the prison gates and often never recovers them. Her piece offered nothing short
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MRCTV Catches DNC Chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz In Lie About Voter ID 'Jim Crow' Comments
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) about her having described Republican efforts in various states for voter ID laws as "Jim Crow"-like measures. Schultz, who frequently appears on cable news networks in her capacity as Democratic National
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KNIGHT: Voter fraud in this life and the next
Washington :: DC :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Did you know that according to a new Pew study, more than 1.8 million dead people are registered to vote? And that leading Democrats are fiercely opposing new laws that tighten voting requirements? This tells us, just as we suspected, that the zombie
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Jim Crow Never Left
Moscow :: Russia | over 1 year ago
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February 10, 2012 In his article, The Caging of America in the January 30, 2012 issue of The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik quotes Robert Perkin's Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire , who argues that the South is the fountainhead of
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Avondale collector helping to document racist past
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The Republic azcentral.com Avondale resident Andrea Sweet collects objects from a racist past that were designed to stereotype and demean African-Americans. Her area of collecting is called Negrobilia, Black collectibles and Black memorabilia.
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WashPost's Vozzella Gives Credence to Democrats Blasting Virginia Voter ID Proposals As Jim Crow Measure
Richmond :: VA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Virginia Republicans proposing voter ID laws in the state's General Assembly are akin to racist Jim Crow poll workers, lynch mobs, and even Josef Stalin...Howell (D-Norfolk) says Virginia poll workers threw at his father in the days of Jim Crow. They
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Corrigan: Point counterpoint: Voter ID Regulations - from the right
Lawrence :: KS :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Proving your identity is an accepted, routine, and necessary part of society. Driving, flying, making financial transactions, and buying items such as alcohol, tobacco, and firearms all require a photo ID. We are fortunate that voter fraud is not
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Book giveaway underscores necessity of change
Coral Gables :: FL :: USA | over 1 year ago
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In June 2010, I wrote in this space about a book, "The New Jim Crow," by Michelle Alexander, which I called a "troubling and profoundly necessary" work...Namely, that the so-called "War on Drugs" amounts to a war on African-American men and, more to
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