The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, introduced Jeremiah Wright during the NAACP’s 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner. Rev Anthony address the racism that has been lauded at Rev Wright and those who dare to speak truth to power. As he [...]
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Last week, CNN accused Michael Moore of fudging the facts and cherry-picking numbers from different academic studies to make his arguments stronger. On CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Wolf Blitzer (video) aired Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s senior health correspondent, “fact check” report that attempted to verify the facts Michael Moore’s 2007 film ‘SiCKO.’
Moore was furious [...]
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It really is not surprising to know that FOX News Channel does not respect minorities at all. As Fox News was covering one of the biggest corruption cases in US history, they apparently felt that all black Congressmen look alike. While reporting on the story of Democratic Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson’s indictment of 16 counts [...]
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Police Chief William Bratton has ordered 60 members of an elite Los Angeles Police squad to “stand down” and have been taken off the streets due to their actions at the May Day immigration rally. After examining the videos of the MacArthur Park incident, Bratton said:
“I’m not going to defend the indefensible,” Bratton told journalists [...]
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Last night before I went to bed I thought I heard on the news that the Los Angeles Police Department fired rubber bullets and used tear gas on a group of peaceful marchers who were attending a the pro-immigration rally in MacArthur Park. This morning, RAW Story and Brad Blog confirmed what I thought I [...]
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