Read more race relations stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3037/race-relations.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:48:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73669/steele-i-scare-white-republicans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRack up another gaffe for Michael Steele. The Republican National Committee chair has been trying to improve his party’s relationship with minority voters, but he may have been a little too honest in a recent interview with NewsOne's Roland Martin. Martin suggested that white Republicans were "scared" of African Americans,...http://www.newser.com/story/73669/steele-i-scare-white-republicans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 12:32:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73156/white-guy-runs-maine-chapter-of-naacp.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe president of the NAACP doesn’t often go to Maine, the whitest state in the country. But recently Todd Jealous took the Washington Post to a state prison there, to meet his new favorite chapter—one comprised almost entirely of white convicts. It’s run by Billy Flynn, who’s doing 28-to-life...http://www.newser.com/story/73156/white-guy-runs-maine-chapter-of-naacp.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 9:18:44 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71784/rush-got-bum-rap-on-racist-slurs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRush Limbaugh is getting such a raw deal in the media that even Nate Silver—who got his start on the Daily Kos—has come to his defense. Lately CNN and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch have repeated racist statements that appear to be "completely made up," Silver writes. Rush denies...http://www.newser.com/story/71784/rush-got-bum-rap-on-racist-slurs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 11:19:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70507/berlusconi-adds-michelle-to-his-tan-obama-dig.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDaffy Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi thought his first joke about President Obama being "tan" was so funny he repeated it —and this time included Michelle in the fun. "I bring greetings from a man, what's his name? Some tanned guy—Barack Obama," Berlusconi said at a rally after returning...http://www.newser.com/story/70507/berlusconi-adds-michelle-to-his-tan-obama-dig.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 2:35:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69225/slavery-reparations-should-be-obamas-next-stimulus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama is taking so much heat from opponents wrongly convinced that he's keen on redistributing white America's wealth to African-Americans that he might as well go ahead and do it, Naomi Klein writes in the Guardian . Obama's administration has been pursuing "race-neutral" policies that do nothing to close the...http://www.newser.com/story/69225/slavery-reparations-should-be-obamas-next-stimulus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Sep 2009 9:26:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68742/a-post-racial-society-your-toddler-would-beg-to-differ.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagParents, if you think you’re raising color-blind children by avoiding open discussions on race, you’re wrong and could actually be doing the opposite, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman write in a lengthy Newsweek article exposing how babies really learn about racial difference. Many white parents shy away from race discussions,...http://www.newser.com/story/68742/a-post-racial-society-your-toddler-would-beg-to-differ.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 06 Sep 2009 13:30:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68404/south-africa-rages-as-canada-grants-white-asylum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA white South African man won asylum in Canada after a one-man immigration board ruled that his "fear of persecution by African South Africans" was justified, reports the Times of London. Brandon Huntley fled to Canada in April and told authorities he was attacked seven times by blacks calling him...http://www.newser.com/story/68404/south-africa-rages-as-canada-grants-white-asylum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 7:52:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67832/microsoft-apologizes-for-racial-photoshopping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMicrosoft has apologized after eagle-eyed Twitter users and bloggers noticed it swapped a white head onto the body of a black model in an image for its website in Poland. The image on Microsoft’s US homepage, captioned “Empower your people,” shows a white woman, a black man, and an Asian...http://www.newser.com/story/67832/microsoft-apologizes-for-racial-photoshopping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 26 Aug 2009 12:21:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67773/limbaugh-jay-z-diss-means-i-made-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRush Limbaugh says he’s finally an A-lister, the Huffington Post reports, after being name-checked by Jay-Z in a track leaked recently off the rapper’s forthcoming The Blueprint 3 album. “Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls, it’s 2010 not 1864,” goes the lyric from Off That . Replies Limbaugh: “As...http://www.newser.com/story/67773/limbaugh-jay-z-diss-means-i-made-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 19:15:59 CDT