The latest Romney campaign dog-whistle (fog horn???) below. Of course, Newt Gingrich is involved. Here come the criminalizing, racialized archetypes, as predicted, so many months ago, by Kay Whitlock CI: Criminalizing President Obama: Welfare Queen/Lazy Black People Wanting What Belongs to Whites As he sought the presidency thirty years ago,…
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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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This is absolutely brilliant. Excerpted from the Borowitz Report: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today released the following letter to the American people: Dear American People: Yesterday, comments I made about poor people made me look terrible. This always seems to happen when I say what I really believe. The…
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From Center for American Progress: President Reagan . . . actually increased taxes “in seven of his eight years in office, including one stretch of four tax increases in just two years.” Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman [noted] that “no peacetime president has raised taxes so much on so many…
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On Gratitude, Politics, Staying Sane and Human Consciousnessby Seeta Persaud “I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.” — Carl Sagan Happy New Year friends! I hope you had a glorious and…
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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. The Year of the Vote by Nancy A.…
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