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July 21, 2008

US Attorney Fired over Racist Comment Against Nigerian Immigrant

Aggregated from: AfricanLoft » USA

Another case of prejudice against Nigerians in the US and everywhere has been established against a top official of the US government, Roger Adams, a US government Attorney who prepares presidential pardons for US President George W. Bush, for describing Nigerians as “not very honest,” Empowered...

July 18, 2008

Messy Jesse does it again

Aggregated from: SIASA DUNI

When Fox News aired the clip of civil right activist Jesse Jackson saying that he wanted to castrate Barack Obama, the media pounced on the major gaffe, forcing Jackson to repeatedly apologise to the Illinois senator and his family. Now it’s being revealed that Reverend Jackson made potentially mo...

July 17, 2008

What Barack Obama means to South African politics

In South Africa, a country with its own difficult history regarding racism, an interesting debate has broken out in the blogosphere regarding what a Barack Obama candidacy -- and a possible presidency -- would mean to politics, and politicians, everywhere, writes John Liebhardt.

Obama responds to New Yorker satire cartoon

Aggregated from: SIASA DUNI

The cover of the July 21 issue of the New Yorker magazine has caused a stir in the political circuit and prompted reprimand from the Obama campaign. The magazine depicts the presumptive Democratic nominee for President and his wife in a decidedly anti-American cartoon. Illustrator Barry Blitt drew t...

The US in the world: Barack Obama may turn out to be no different than previous presidents

Aggregated from: Thought Leader, Mail & Guardian Online

Most people in the world, according to an Associated Press report, prefer Barack Obama for president of the United States. This optimism is somewhat understandable, given the global vigilantism of the ruling cabal that was identified by Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as the chief of staff of former ...

Caribbean-Americans pushing for their own box on the 2010 census

Aggregated from: kiskeácity

Excerpts from an article on CaribbeanWorldNews.com:The campaign to get Caribbean nationals accurately counted by the U.S. Census in 2010 will kick off officially in New York on June 20, 2008.“Being visible in America begins and ends with the U.S. Census,” proclaimed CaribID2010 chair Felicia Per...

I Don’t Feel Snubbed

Aggregated from: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

The New York Times says that Muslims in America feel snubbed by Barack Obama. Well, I don’t feel snubbed. I don’t feel snubbed because I have never been courted for my "Muslimness". I am not used to being courted so I don’t know what being politically snubbed feels like. ...

Is Obama changing the south?, openUSA

Aggregated from: open Democracy News Analysis - USA

Some Republicans seem to think so. He may not have the muscle to turn Republican bastions against John McCain in the presidential election, but some GOP representatives fear that Obama's mobilisation of black voters may have lasting consequences for congressional races throughout the region. ...

What were they thinking?

Aggregated from: J O T M A N . C O M

The editors of the The New Yorker just had the brilliant idea to assemble every right-wing myth about Obama into a single cover illustration. Not surprisingly, some folks are not amused. The cover is so over-the-top, in fact, that I suspect the issue will become an instant collector's item. I... ...

July 16, 2008

Obama and misusing the expression

Aggregated from: Egyptian chronicles

Back to the American elections. Obama said that he misused the expression when he said that Jerusalem should be under the Israeli Control in front of AIPAC. I guess you remember this big blunder which is against the Security Council order of 1967 the very famous 242. He had to retreat especially tha...