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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/19/09

    In reply to Mississippi Fights to Remain Number One in Institutional Racism
    And yet they are probably going to continue the fiction that Ole Miss and Mississippi State are actually two separate institutions.
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    Image of EddieTheDane EddieTheDane
    11/19/09

    In reply to Mississippi Fights to Remain Number One in Institutional Racism
    Mississippi
    God damn
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/18/09

    In reply to Mississippi Fights to Remain Number One in Institutional Racism
    The argument for programs "pulling their financial weight" is why only PE is taught in redneck schools. You think Arithmetic pulls its own weight? When is the last time you went out and bought a ticket for one?
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/18/09

    In reply to Mississippi Fights to Remain Number One in Institutional Racism
    Well, the chairman of the Republican Party is of African-American descent, so racism's solved!

    New GOP motto: If it ain't swinging from a tree, there's no racism to see!
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    Image of Cicada Cicada
    11/18/09

    @Trai_Dep: That's much better than their old motto : If it ain't draggin' from a truck, then we're in luck!
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    Image of random_play random_play
    11/18/09

    In reply to Mississippi Fights to Remain Number One in Institutional Racism
    This proposal does not go far enough. All the historically black and women's colleges should be merged into one Giant Historically Black Female Robot!
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    11/18/09

    @random_play: It could be the Spelman of educational world domination!
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/18/09

    In reply to Mississippi Fights to Remain Number One in Institutional Racism
    Perhaps the courts will have to step-in, but what I found somewhat troubling in the linked article is the way, the prose and quotes kept referring to the affected institutions as "black colleges".

    As Pareene points out and the article occasionally admits, they are "historically black colleges". To simply call them "black", sort of screams separate, but equal.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/18/09

    In reply to Mississippi Fights to Remain Number One in Institutional Racism
    I hate to agree with Haley Barbour on anything, but Hillman College students never seemed busy enough for me. I mean, how did Dwayne Wayne not fail out?
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    09/03/09

    In reply to Michael Steele Insults Blacks, Whites Equally
    I wish someone would track down Steele's family - if he is human - because it's like he sprang full-grown from a committee meeting.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    09/03/09

    In reply to Michael Steele Insults Blacks, Whites Equally
    The only relevant question here is if Rush Limbaugh (or whoever is the white person who is really in charge of the Republican Party) approves of all of this.
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    Image of AlmostDream AlmostDream
    09/03/09

    In reply to Michael Steele Insults Blacks, Whites Equally
    It was actually Laura Bush, and people were pissed because secret service shut down the entire campus and bussed in students from other universities for the speech. Howard students weren't even allowed in.
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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    09/03/09

    @AlmostDream: Correct, it was Laura Bush, not Hillary.
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    09/03/09

    @AlmostDream: It was a political firestorm, the way I remember it. I love how the Howard University administration simply failed to tell the students that Bush was going to be there. They took to locking students in university buildings! I'd be livid, and especially so if it were Bush that was impacting me so tangibly.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    09/03/09

    @AlmostDream: You are right, fixed. Fucking with soul food night broke the Bush administration's back.
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    Image of jackvinyl jackvinyl
    09/03/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: ummm.. . not fixed.
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    09/03/09

    @jackvinyl: fine. fixed.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    09/03/09

    In reply to Michael Steele Insults Blacks, Whites Equally
    That dog looks shocked and ashamed to be photographed with Steele.
    There are no Republican terriers.
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    09/03/09

    @City_Dater: Michael Steele cavorts with terriers!
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    Image of jackvinyl jackvinyl
    09/03/09

    @sarrible: the GOP has a big tent - big enough for Boston terriers, just no French Bulldogs.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    09/03/09

    In reply to Michael Steele Insults Blacks, Whites Equally
    At least Michael Steele wasn't there on Soul Food night. That would have been the height of Republican entitlement.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    09/03/09

    In reply to Michael Steele Insults Blacks, Whites Equally
    It amazes me that this technology hasn't improved since Soul Man. Anyway, good try, Mr. Rove, but everybody knows it's you.
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    Image of Sonadelite Sonadelite
    08/18/09

    In reply to The Gawker Guide to Racial Profiling Outrage
    I agree - as a brown woman in a turban, racial profiling is going to happen. For some reason, it always happens to me when I have cleavage, and if I'm covered up, it's less likely to happen. So if you're a brown person with cleavage, apparently you're asking for it.

    I do object to a few things - when the TSA allows self pat downs of turbans in their bylines, and when their personnel in certain airports (oh in my case Phily) neglect to inform you of that option, I have a problem. Or when I'm chemically swabbed (I wish I was kidding) when I'm traveling with three other twenty somethings that weren't even pulled aside, I have a problem. Logic dictates we would all "allegedly" be involved, but the TSA doesn't work with logic.

    Then there was this one time when they felt the need to go through every single item in my bag in an airport in Rochester (seriously, Rochester?), and this petite grandmother got offended on my behalf and unloaded a can of verbal whopass on the staff. That was pretty sick.
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    Image of skymotel skymotel
    08/18/09

    @Sonadelite: Points to the Rochester grandmother for speaking on your behalf.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/17/09

    In reply to The Gawker Guide to Racial Profiling Outrage
    I used to get profiled as a drug dealer when I traveled, especially if I showed cleavage. Boys and people were always wondering if there was anything down in there. Now I almost always have my five-year-old with me when I travel and I swear, I could be smuggling bricks of heroin on his person and my own, yet we breeeeze right through every time.

    Caveat: No matter your skin color or last name, travel with a rugrat or little person and you are golden.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    08/17/09

    @BookishLookish: "Ma'am, regulations require that I make sure you don't have anything between your bra and your skin and the female agent is on break. Now, let me just slide in behind you, un-tuck your blouse, and...[unintelligible]... Oh yeah, everything seems to be in order. Nothing foreign in there or anything. But now it appears that I'm smuggling something in my pants! HaHa! Enjoy your fight, miss."
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/17/09

    @CaptainFantastic: Oh, CapFan, you naughty boy.

    "But, Officer, it's only fair if I give you a thorough inspection too. Your wand looks so...powerful. My plane doesn't leave for another hour and I see your colleague is motioning for you to take your break...."

    I would love to continue this scene, but I don't provide this kind of service for free and I don't think Gabey & Co.'s gonna pony up.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    08/17/09

    @BookishLookish: [www.sadtrombone.com]
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    Image of levari levari
    08/18/09

    @CaptainFantastic: cap, don't enable her. book has been turning all her posts lately into 'bookie needs nookie III' and i am disturbed and puzzled. i want dorothy parker, not samantha jones, dammit!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/18/09

    @levari: It's summertime, miss, and I've switched from martinis to sex on the beaches (teaches of Peaches). And you'll take what I give you and you'll like it.
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