Category Archive: Race
MSNBC’s Martin Bashir – Immigration and the Heritage Foundation
May 12, 2013Racial arguments are once again rearing their ugly head in the immigration debate. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
MSNBC’s The Cycle – The Voting Rights Act
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LA mayoral candidates blurring the lines of race and identity
March 1, 2013This post originally appeared on NBLatino. Politics boils down to box checking. It’s not a perfect prediction, but the boxes we check on our Census forms—religion, race, ethnicity, sex, even region—do a pretty good job of describing our political preferences. Voters and candidates fall into Continue Reading →
Voting Rights Act, A Thing of the Past?
February 21, 2013This post originally appeared on NBCLatino. These days, voting is largely uneventful. You show up at the polls, check in, vote, and get your sticker. Long gone are the days of having to take a literacy test, such as that used in Alabama in 1965 that was Continue Reading →
MSNBC’s Politics Nation – Gen. Powell Comments on the GOP
January 16, 2013According to Gen. Powell, there is a dark vein of intolerance that runs through some segments of his party. Regrettably, this intolerance has existed since the founding of our country but has been repackaged from explicit to implicit manifestations. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world Continue Reading →