From The New Yorker: A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital…
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Sunil Tripathi and his mother, Judy Tripathi. Brown University student Sunil Tripathi (right) was at one point accused by Reddit users of being a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, despite no evidence. From NBCNews: “It’s had a huge cost on our family. We are all very depleted right now,…
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From The Micro Aggressions Project: The thing is: people actually had jumped to conclusions, fueling both suspicion and violence across the country. Multiple social networks and communities on the internet began to conduct their own searches for suspects in photographs. Most of these “suspects” turned out to be brown people…
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From America’s Voice: Mitt Romney flat-out said he would veto the DREAM Act, and Newt Gingrich says he’ll weaken it. By doing so, they would both deny the dreams of so many young undocumented immigrants who want to give back to the country they call home. Here’s the bottom line:…
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Seventy years later, let us never forget FDR’s legacy of shame, Executive Order 9066. See also: 70 Years After FDR’s Japanese Internment Camps (12)
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From Colorlines: This Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans who lived along the West Coast. The order came after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the wake of the attack, Japanese-Americans…
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From The Root: Everyone knows it’s hard to talk about fiscal responsibility without referring to a slave ship with President Obama at the helm. OK, so that’s not true at all. But it is the bizarre approach a Republican congressional candidate has chosen to communicate his campaign’s message. (4)
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From ThinkProgress: Joaquin Luna, an 18-year-old undocumented immigrant in Texas, committed suicide Friday night because of his immigration status, family members said. Letters Luna wrote before his death showed that he was worried his immigration status would keep him from achieving his dreams of being an engineer, and he had…
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