Read more racial tension stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/25715/racial-tension.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:51:40 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72888/prof-gates-cop-crowley-have-another-round.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe black college professor and the white cop at the center of a racial firestorm this summer, and who later famously had beers on the White House, were spotted last night having a round at a bar in Cambridge, Mass. Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley chatted over suds...http://www.newser.com/story/72888/prof-gates-cop-crowley-have-another-round.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 29 Oct 2009 21:45:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69790/gop-riding-a-wave-of-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRacism is alive and well in today's America and the Republican Party is feeding off it, Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times . Nobody should need Jimmy Carter—who wasn't above pandering to racists himself in his 1976 presidential campaign—to point out the racist undertones behind many of...http://www.newser.com/story/69790/gop-riding-a-wave-of-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 19 Sep 2009 7:20:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69699/obama-backlash-isnt-about-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt's a mistake to see the growing backlash against President Obama through the prism of race, David Brooks writes in the New York Times . The anti-Obama movement springs not from racism, but from the long American tradition of popular distrust of the urban elite, argues Brooks. He notes mostly white...http://www.newser.com/story/69699/obama-backlash-isnt-about-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 1:25:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69482/drudges-play-of-bus-beating-draws-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA fight on a school bus in Illinois is generating lots of attention across the country. A videotape of the incident shows black teens beating a white classmate while some onlookers cheer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Police are investigating but have backed off an initial statement that the attack...http://www.newser.com/story/69482/drudges-play-of-bus-beating-draws-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 15 Sep 2009 16:24:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66329/racial-anxiety-fuels-town-hall-protesters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe mob-like scenes at recent town halls are "something new and ugly," writes Paul Krugman, who notes that 2005's protests against Social Security privatization never saw baying crowds and congressmen hanged in effigy. The New York Times columnist is unconvinced that the mobs are in the pay of well-organized conservative...http://www.newser.com/story/66329/racial-anxiety-fuels-town-hall-protesters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 07 Aug 2009 8:30:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64964/gates-real-offense-speaking-truth-to-power.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSo much for our post-racial society, writes Carol Rose in the Boston Globe . If we needed any evidence that "racism is alive and well," look no further than the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Harvard professor was charged with disorderly conduct not because police mistook him for a...http://www.newser.com/story/64964/gates-real-offense-speaking-truth-to-power.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Jul 2009 19:44:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62956/jena-6-defendants-walk-with-no-jail-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFive black students accused of beating a white classmate in Louisiana pleaded no contest to misdemeanor civil battery today, ending a trial that triggered a huge civil rights demonstration, the Alexandria Town Talk reports. Critics said that the so-called "Jena Six," originally charged with attempted murder, were treated harshly for...http://www.newser.com/story/62956/jena-6-defendants-walk-with-no-jail-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 26 Jun 2009 19:33:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61102/wise-latina-reference-a-favorite-of-sotomayors.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSonia Sotomayor’s now-infamous “wise Latina woman” statement wasn’t an isolated incident, CQ Politics reports. The phrase crops up multiple times in speeches delivered from 1994 to 2003 and released yesterday ahead of the Supreme Court nominee's Senate confirmation hearings. Some speeches contain the same line exactly; others simply refer to...http://www.newser.com/story/61102/wise-latina-reference-a-favorite-of-sotomayors.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 05 Jun 2009 13:27:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60213/what-theyll-say-to-fight-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSonia Sotomayor’s opponents are already polishing their script, Politico reports. They’ll call her radical, racist, and stupid—albeit via softer buzzwords. She’s a “judicial activist” fond of “identity politics,” with a questionable “intellect.” Here are the charges against her: She lacks “intellect”: In a New Republic article, former clerks said...http://www.newser.com/story/60213/what-theyll-say-to-fight-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 May 2009 10:13:37 CDT