Read more racist stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/14401/racist.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:58:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74118/couples-retreat-ad-sparks-brit-race-brouhaha.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAudiences in Britain are crying foul over a Couples Retreat poster that omits two black actors who were featured on the US version. A film rep tells the Mail that the change was meant “to simplify the poster to actors who are most recognizable in international markets”—but filmgoers and...http://www.newser.com/story/74118/couples-retreat-ad-sparks-brit-race-brouhaha.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 9:37:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73702/i-agree-with-beck-obamas-racist-murdoch.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRupert Murdoch backed his host over his advertisers in a Sky News interview last weekend, saying Glenn Beck probably shouldn't have called President Obama a racist on the air some months back, but what he said was right. Asked about the Fox host's assertion that Obama made racist comments during...http://www.newser.com/story/73702/i-agree-with-beck-obamas-racist-murdoch.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 9:58:04 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70168/mondale-obama-enemies-show-racist-edge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJimmy Carter isn't the only grand old man of the Democratic Party to see racism in the opposition to Barack Obama's agenda. Walter Mondale, Carter's VP and the subject of a new documentary, said last night that "Having lived through those years, when civil rights was such a bitter issue,...http://www.newser.com/story/70168/mondale-obama-enemies-show-racist-edge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Sep 2009 5:34:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68439/time-for-beck-to-back-up-racist-jab-or-apologize.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe boycott of Glenn Beck by America's biggest advertisers has reached unprecedented levels, writes Eric Boehlert for Media Matters. "All of Beck's big-time advertisers have fled. All of them." And yet Beck and Fox News seem to have a collective case of amnesia and won't acknowledge the reason—Beck called...http://www.newser.com/story/68439/time-for-beck-to-back-up-racist-jab-or-apologize.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 15:43:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65503/beck-obama-is-a-racist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGlenn Beck today called President Obama “a racist,” Politico reports. The Fox News commentator accused the president of having a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture” during a discussion of the Skip Gates scandal on a Fox show. When his interlocutor pointed out that Obama is surrounded...http://www.newser.com/story/65503/beck-obama-is-a-racist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 28 Jul 2009 15:33:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62773/transformers-from-da-hood-spark-racism-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCritics are comparing Transformers to Star Wars , and not in a good way, E! reports. Twin autobots Skids and Mudflap are causing an uproar over ethnic stereotypes. The new characters are from “da hood,” can’t read, and inspired one critic to describe them as—horrors!—“Jar Jar Binks in car...http://www.newser.com/story/62773/transformers-from-da-hood-spark-racism-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 25 Jun 2009 11:51:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61747/bush-41-lay-off-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalling Sonia Sotomayor racist for her now-infamous “wise Latina” remark “doesn't help the process,” former president George H.W. Bush tells CNN. "I don't know her that well but I think she's had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair hearings,” he says. Bush...http://www.newser.com/story/61747/bush-41-lay-off-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 12 Jun 2009 14:56:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60876/newt-backs-off-racist-comment.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNewt Gingrich today backed off his remark that Sonia Sotomayor is a “Latina woman racist,” the Boston Glob e reports. When he heard the Supreme Court nominee’s now-infamous “wise Latina” soundbite, “my initial reaction was strong and direct,” he wrote in his blog today on Human Events. “Perhaps too strong...http://www.newser.com/story/60876/newt-backs-off-racist-comment.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Jun 2009 11:02:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59685/white-supremacist-invited-to-queens-garden-party.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe convicted leader of a far-right political party is heading to the queen's summer tea party at Buckingham Palace, and Brits are furious, reports the Daily Mail . A member of the whites-only British National Party was given an invitation because of his place on the London Assembly. He decided to...http://www.newser.com/story/59685/white-supremacist-invited-to-queens-garden-party.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 21 May 2009 6:15:00 CDT