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Tag Archives: Bigotry
TCS: Morning After Calamity – A Kaleidoscope of Poets of Color
Good Morning! __________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Bigotry, Do Nguyen Mai and Justin Chin, Javier Zamora and Lorna Dee Cervantes, Langston Hughes, TCS: Morning After Calamity - A Kaleidoscope of Poets of Color, Yusef Komunyakaa and Lucille Clifton
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TCS: Gold Mountain, Golden Door
Good Morning! ___________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Immigrants, Poetry, Racism, Short Video, The Coffee Shop
Tagged America, Bigotry, Gold Mountain Golden Door, Naomi Shihab Nye, TCS
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Lookout Wimmins iz in your can
By ann summers Family Restrooms have been commonplace for many public institutions and darned if defending family values and traditional marriage has come under attack by well, non-traditional families, darn those sister-wives, extended families, single parents, and orphans. There … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Biology, Child Abuse, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Crime, Criminal Law, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Federal Courts, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Government, Homosexual Rights, Humor, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Mental Health, Neoconservatives, North Carolina, Pedophillia, Police, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, RNC, SCOTUS, State Courts, Tea Party, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bigotry, Law Enforcement, lgbtq, North Carolina, Republicans, restrooms
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Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Has Reportedly Asked the FBI to Investigate a Threatening Tweet He Allegedly Received from the Son of a Mexican Drug Lord Who Escaped from Prison
By Elaine Magliaro John Santucci of ABC News reported yesterday that presidential candidate Donald Trump had asked the FBI “to look into a threatening tweet he received in the wake of a post on the social network he wrote about … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatives, Countries, DHS, Government, Humor, Immigrants, Immigration, Mexico, Politics, Propaganda, Society, United States
Tagged Bigotry, Donald Trump, El Chapo, Republicans
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Get Ready to Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: Mexican Artist Creates Piñatas of Loudmouth Bigot Donald Trump
Posted by Elaine Magliaro Last week, when narcissist, real estate magnate, and reality TV star Donald Trump declared that he was running for president, he said that the United States had become “a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” He accused the Mexicans … Continue reading
Posted in Mexico, United States
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Bigotry, Donald Trump, Mexican Immigrants, Univision
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Zaid Jilani: “How Religious ‘Liberty’ Has Been Used to Justify Racism, Sexism and Slavery Throughout History”
By Elaine Magliaro Zaid Jilani has an interesting article titled How Religious ‘Liberty’ Has Been Used to Justify Racism, Sexism and Slavery Throughout History over at AlterNet. Jilani says that religion has been used for hundreds of years to deny … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Equal Rights, Government, History, Homosexual Rights, Justice, Louisiana, Political Science, Politics, Racism, Religion, Society, States, United States
Tagged Bigotry, Indiana, Jim Crow, Republicans, Sexism, Slavery
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Stateside Indiana: Ridiculing and Speaking Out Against Bigotry
By Elaine Magliaro I’m am so happy to hear that Governor Mike Pence of Indiana “has come in for an extra heaping of scorn on social media” after signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Curtis M. Wong (Huffington Post) said that … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Civil Law, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Democracy, Documentrary Films, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Homosexual Rights, Humor, Justice, Political Science, Politics, Short Video, Society, States, United States
Tagged Anti-Gay Laws, Bigotry, Discrimination, Mike Pence, Religious Discrimination, Religious Freedom Restoration Act
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