CSI launches report on race and opportunity in NYC

March 16, 2009
The Center for Social Inclusion is proud to announce the publication of One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race, a new report that examines access to services, resources and opportunity in different geographical and racial communities in the New York City metropolitan region.  One Region finds that communities of color are largely isolated from [...]

AP: Clyburn Accuses SC Gov of “Playing the Race Card”

Associated Press (3/13/09)
AP: Clyburn Accuses SC Gov of “Playing the Race Card”
The highest-ranking black congressman questioned Thursday whether South Carolina’s governor was “playing the race card” when he compared using federal stimulus money to Zimbabwe and other nations that printed cash in tough economic times.
Gov. Mark Sanford wrote a letter to President Barack Obama on [...]

Racist NY Post Cartoon on Stimulus Bill

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CSI talking points on race, housing and stimulus

With the federal economic stimulus bill out of Congress and signed by the President, CSI has prepared a second set of talking points intended to ensure that stimulus funds are distributed equitably, and address the needs of communities of color.
Communities of color are especially vulnerable in challenging economic times and it is critical that we [...]

Center for Social Inclusion issues talking points on race and economic stimulus

January 30, 2009.  Center for Social Inclusion Issues Talking Points, Calls for Advocacy to Ensure that Economic Stimulus Does not Leave People of Color in the Cold.
The Center for Social Inclusion (CSI) has released a set of talking points intended to help racial justice advocate affect the implementation of economic stimulus, and to make sure [...]

Obamaforgery.com: Heard the rumors about Barack Obama’s Citizenship? These are the facts.

The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan (1-17-09)

Mark Frauenfelder calls this Obama citizenship video “unintentionally funny.” The Dish concurs. The salient Snopes page is here

StopDog is taking a break!

StopDoggers,
The StopDog team is taking a hiatus, but we hope to be back for the policy debates that the presidential transition will bring.  In the meantime, we do want your feedback on what StopDog should do next!
How can we support more education around symbolic racism, and organizing and advocacy..ya know, help community organizers govern?

Crooks and Liars: Today is the day: Has a real crisis beaten the Lee Atwater school of smear politics?

Crooks and Liars
Today is the day: Has a real crisis beaten the Lee Atwater school of smear politics?
 
If you get a chance to see The Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, you will watch the architect of the modern-day GOP’s political strategy to win elections, which is to smear the other person with slimy personal attacks [...]

HuffPo: The First President Who is Black

HuffPo
The First President Who is Black

Barak Obama was born into an American that was a deeply segregated place. The son of a black father and a white mother, his parents could not even have lived in the same house in 1961 in about 18 different states. Anyone predicting that the son of this union would [...]

Michelle Obama Watch: It Starts Already:Michelle Obama Emasculation Meme

Michelle Obama Watch
It Starts Already:Michelle Obama Emasculation Meme
OH great, I thought we would get a “grace period” here we go with the “Michelle Obama cuts her husband down to size” meme courtesy of the Telegraph. While they did let us know one interesting tidbit, Michelle Obama will be the youngest First Lady Since Jackie O, [...]