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• SHOOT FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER: Teen Killed By Neighborhood Watcher
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 3/20/12

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How many of our kids wear hoodies in the rain?  How many of our kids get shot because they are wearing hoodies in the rain?  Well, at least one…this week.  America is scratching its collective head over the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.  The Florida teen was walking back to a friend’s house with a bag of Skittles and an iced tea during half time of the NBA Playoffs. He was allegedly...

• OH HALEY NO: No Commemorative License Plate Honoring KKK Grand Wizard
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 2/21/11

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Here’s a nifty idea for a new vanity plate,”KKKROX”…it’ll go so well on my new Ku Klux Klan commemorative license?#@*! !  Oh, boy, what an absurd idea.!  The Mississippi legislature proposed a special Nathan Bedford Forrest tag, the first grand wizard of the KKK (and Forrest Gump’s namesake).  When pressed to denounce the action, Governor Haley Barbour said that there wouldn’t be such a tag. ...

• FLAME THROWER: Haley Barbour's Racial Comments
• Posted by Opinionated MAMA • 12/21/10

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No, nobody’s burning crosses on lawns in Mississippi, but we might have to hold Haley Barbour’s feet to the fire on this one!

The Governor of Mississippi and potential Republican Presidential candidate, Haley Barbour, told the Weekly Standard of the Jim Crow days that he doesn’t “remember it as being that bad.” He also said that the White Citizen Councils in those days kept the peace and kept...

• STABBED IN THE BACK: NY Cabbie’s Anti-Muslim Attack
• Posted by • 8/26/10

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New York city cab driver, Ahmed Sharif , was stabbed by a passenger who first asked him if he was a Muslim.  When the driver, who is from Bangladesh, said yes, 21-year old, Michael Enright, attacked him with a knife.  The cabby locked his attacker in the back seat and the man was apprehended and  is now being charged for the crime.  Ironically, Enright works for a non-profit promoting cross...

• TRASH TALK: Dr. Laura Makes Apology For Using "N" Word
• Posted by • 8/15/10

Dr. Laura Schlessinger made a public apology in response to her on-air “N” word rant last week.  Dr Laura used the “N” word 11 times during an on-air conversation with a caller Schlessinger described as “hypersensitive” to race.  Dr. Laura wrote on her website that she was using the “N” word to make a philosophical point; that the use of the word is judged differently depending on who is using...