Over the past few days, I've witnessed discussions turning into flame wars. There's never any good that comes from personal attacks, especially when the personal attacks are targeting the way people read, write and speak.

This is one of the reasons I no longer get involved in discussions at social websites where it'

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Anyone in an interracial relationship must deal with the usual difficulties relationships bring, plus negative opinion from society in general. Meaning that people you don't even know and have never met will often have an opinion (usually negative)

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This landed in my email a short time ago, it’s mind boggling to believe this could still be happening on a college campus in 2007. Below is part of the University of Delaware Office of Residence Life Diversity Facilitation Training manual used just this last August. The full document can be found here.rnrn“A RACIST: A racist is one who is

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This is why John McCain is afraid to attack Barack Obama on his associations with people of questionable character, to put it nicely. Sarah Palin did it and now she is being called a racist. Sarah Palin had the gall to go out in public and talk about Barack Obama’s ties to radical anti-American people, and convicted criminals t

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Shame in Spain. A group of Spanish fans decided to went their anger by racially abusing Lewis Hamilton during the last weekend's Formula 1 test in Barcelona. This is something that hasn't been around in Formula 1. It should be stoped before it grows. What should be done and by whom ? Should "fans" be banned from For

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I won't be going to see "21" and it's not because a review I just read compares the film to a "two-hour commercial for the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Bureau." And it's not because that same review called lead actor Jim Sturgess "not particularly interesting" and Kate Bosworth an "onscreen vacuum."

No, it's

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It seems that there is trouble afoot with Japan-Australian relations. A Japanese pro-whaling video is calling Australia a racist nation and uses images from the Cronulla riots and other potentially Australian video clips. This 10-minute video goes on to accuse Australia of white supremacy, exclusionary nationalism, and a racist ideology.

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Yesterday five hundred people, mostly youth, participated in a vigil mourning the murder of Mario Hornsby, Jr., a high school student who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two hours after the rally, police arrested a 17 year old man in the murder. Police said the community cooperated with the police with information lea

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It’s not a matter of race. It’s a matter of being fed up. Since the day I started watching television as a young child the commercials for poor starving uneducated children in Africa has always been running. And even though my country sends millions and millions of dollars every year to selective African countries to help them

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Several times since announcing his candidacy for president Barack Obama has decided to play the race card. From his statements that he doesn’t look like the other presidents on the dollar bills to “did I mention he’s black” to the most recent example in Obama’s Spanish language commercial in which he basically says that John Mc

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I had heard that this movie was about the skinhead community in a small British town. I started connecting the dots…skinheads=neo-nazis=> British version of American History X. Happily, I was proved wrong. It ventures into Ken Loach and Mike Leigh territory and comes up with something which is quite original and intimately affe

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I waitressed at Dunkin' Donuts when I was a kid, back when the company was still a "local boy makes good" story. So what happened to make the company lose its common sense and its courage in the face of right-wing hysteria? Can a boycott be effective in bringing the company to its senses? In the meantime, my morning rout

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Racism within marketing is tricky; when is target marketing considered ethical and when is it too far? impNERD attempts to answer this question by laying out controversial guidelines. The article also introduces a past lawsuit to the discussion that dealt with advertising to one particular race by a large corporation. What were

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