September 1, 2009
by Frank Gormlie
The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by Cambridge police again raised the issue of racial profiling of People of Color in North America.
As evidenced in President Obama’s attempt at a ‘teaching moment,’ the idea of racial profiling produces heated debate.
Most African Americans remain convinced that law enforcement agencies routinely use their race as criteria in criminal investigations while a majority of Whites and police vigorously dispute this claim.
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July 15, 2009
by Doug Porter
by Doug Porter
Back in the 1960’s the Minutemen were a right wing fringe group that engaged in harassment of civil rights and anti-war activists.
They were organized under the premise that the time was soon coming that paramilitary groups would be called upon to defend the US against the creeping communist conspiracy. As the decade ended, the organization splintered, with various factions arising based on differing views of the need for immediate action.
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