From Reuters: More than half of Americans support President Barack Obama’s apology for U.S. troops burning copies of the Koran, an incident that triggered a spate of bloody protests and attacks on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday, 56 percent of those surveyed backed Obama,…
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Forty percent of America identifies as conservative, 36 percent as moderate, and 21 percent as liberal. But how people politically “identify” and what people actually believe and practice doesn’t always add up. From CAP: According to a Pew survey released this month, more than half (57 percent) of lower-income Republicans…
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Criminal InJustice† is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal InJustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. Criminalizing President Obama by Kay Whitlock The 2012 presidential…
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From CAP: On this day consumed by all those warm and fuzzy feelings, we thought it would be sweet to acknowledge some of the recent actions, policies, and initiatives that caused our progressive hearts to race, uplifted our spirits, brightened our outlook, strengthened our hope for the future, and made…
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A symposium was held earlier this year, entitled: “Perceptions of Race and Racial Inequity in the Obama Era.” Unsurprisingly, but still dumbfounding nonetheless, a set of findings determined that “many Whites see the racial pendulum as having swung beyond equality to a place where anti-White prejudice is now a bigger…
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