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Poll: Is Race a Factor in the LeBron James 'Backlash'?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- Is America upset with LeBron James, and does it have to do with race? After the basketball sensation held a live PR event known as "The Decision" on ESPN, during which he announced he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers to play alongside Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat, a stream of articles has criticized the NBA great for what many considered a shameless publicity-seeking stunt. In an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien on Wednesday, James and his childhood friend Maverick Carter were asked a similar question. O'Brien: Do you think there's a role that race ...
Acid Attack Hoax Stirs Concerns Over Racial Profiling
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 17) -- For weeks, police in Vancouver, Wash., searched for the black woman who walked up to Bethany Storro and threw acid in the white woman's face, causing second-degree burns and sending her reeling in pain. Except, there was no attacker. Storro, who told reporters she could hear the acid "bubbling and sizzling" on her skin, now admits that she lied about the attack and caused the disfiguring burns herself. Now, some are asking whether the story is another case of racial profiling in which the media is all too willing to accept the idea of an African-American as a ...
Feds to Monitor Arizona for Any Racial Profiling
By not in system - AOL News(July 11) -- Although Arizona's new immigration law raised concerns that it might result in racial profiling, Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the Justice Department lawsuit seeking to overturn it focused tightly on the federal government's prerogative to set immigration policy because that provided the strongest legal basis for the case. ...
Holder Says Feds Will Watch for Racial Profiling if Arizona Law Takes Effect
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAlthough Arizona's new immigration law raised concerns that it might result in racial profiling, Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the Justice Department lawsuit seeking to overturn it focused tightly on the federal government's prerogative to set immigration policy because that provided the strongest legal basis for the case. Holder said on CBS' Face the Nation that if, Arizona's statute does go into effect, his department would keep its options open to see if racial profiling is occurring and to act on that basis if it was. The Arizona measure would require police and other ...
My Reggie Love Date: Race Didn't Matter, and FishbowlDC Doesn't Get It
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyIn the June issue of Marie Claire magazine (on newsstands now) I write about a set-up courtesy of one Maureen Dowd -- yes, that Maureen Dowd. "I've got a guy for you. He's so hot, it's perfect." That guy just happened to be President Barack Obama's "body guy," or personal aide, Reggie Love (formerly of People Magazine's Hottest 25 Bachelors). It was the spring of '08 when MoDo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, "decided to take it upon herself to find me a man," I recount in Marie Claire. I was hesitant, of course. I mean how could the woman I'd helped with a computer ...
Majority of Arizonans Favor New Immigration Law
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFifty-two percent of Arizonans support the state's new immigration law with 39 percent opposed to it and 9 percent undecided, according to a Rocky Mountain Poll conducted April 15-25. That's roughly the same outcome that a New York Times/CBS News poll,conducted April 28 - May 2, found nationally: 51 percent said the law, aimed at reducing the number of illegal immigrants in the state, was "about right," while 36 percent percent said it went too far, 9 percent said it did not go far enough, and 4 percent were undecided. A Gallup poll conducted April 27-28 also had 51 percent of those who had ...
Airport Security: Is Israel the Answer?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, Alex, there's one obvious solution to the rampant dysfunction you so colorfully describe in that hilarious recap of your recent journey from India back to the United States. And I can sum it up in one word: Israel.Over the past week or so, much ink has been spilled over the pros and cons of airport security techniques as diverse as body scanners (child porn?), passenger profiling (racist or just plain smart?) and the prohibition on bathroom breaks during the last hour of the flight (cruel and unusual punishment?). Surprisingly, what people aren't talking so much about are the methods ...
Feeling Safer at the Airport Yet?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyIn the past couple of weeks, a range of new airport security measures have been called for or implemented. Some, like a restriction on holding any items in your lap during the last hour of your flight, barely lasted the week. Others, like the full-body scanners that create a complete image of the person being scanned, seem destined to stick around. But it's the newest one that may turn out to be the most controversial: As of Monday, all passengers with a passport from or traveling through one of 14 countries (Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi ...
Newt Gingrich on Terrorist Threat: 'It's Time to Profile'
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 31) -- Nearly one week after the attempted bombing of an American airliner, Newt Gingrich writes that the Obama administration is more concerned with "protecting the rights of terrorists" than protecting the lives of Americans and calls for "profiling for terrorists." ...
Colin Powell: Skip Gates Could Have Avoided Arrest
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGen. Colin Powell says that Harvard Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates could have avoided arrest and the ensuing controversy by just talking calmly to Cambridge, Mass., Police Sgt. James Crowley and coming outside his house. "I'm saying Skip, perhaps in this instance, might have waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer and that might have been the end of it," Powell says in an interview with Larry King, airing Tuesday night on CNN. Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> Powell added that the whole ...
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