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Meanwhile, Back in Wisconsin: Busting Out of Jail The Hard Way – Nathan Middleton Wanted His Mother to Provide Explosives and a Car for His Jail Break

• December 20, 2013 • Comments Off

Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Pregnancy/Pre-Natal Issues, Rape/Sex Crimes, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: African Americans, Aprina Paul, Black Women, Blacks, Brittney Humphrey, Butch Cassidy, Children, Criminal Complaint, David O'Leary, District Attorney, Evansville WI, Inmate, Jailbreak, Kelly Mattingly, Mexico, Middleton, Mother, Motherhood, Nathan Middleton, Prison, Prosecutor, Public Defender, Rock County, Rock County Jail, United States

How Do I Feel About Flori-DUH After The Zimmerman Trial?

• July 15, 2013 • 5 Comments

Posted in "Stand Your Ground" Laws, African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Gun Violence, Hate Crimes, History, Murder/Manslaughter, National Issues, Race
Tags: African Americans, Black Teens, Black Youth, Blacks, Bugs Bunny, Caribbean, Children, Common Sense, Florida, Golden Age of Warner Bros. Cartoons, Gun Violence, Guns, Home, Jordan Davis, Latinos, Marissa Alexander, Mexico, Murder, Racism, South America, Trayvon Martin, United States, Voter Suppression, Warner Bros.

Racism at The BBC: “Top Gear” Hosts Castigated for Derogatory Remarks Against Mexicans

• February 6, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, European History, Immigration, Mexico, National Issues, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Reality Shows, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, United Kingdom
Tags: "Top Gear", Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Mexican, BBC, Globalization, Immigrants, James May, Jeremy Clarkson, Labor, Laborers, Latinos, Mastretta MXT, Mexican Americans, Mexican Labor, Mexicans, Mexico, NAFTA, PBS, Racism, Richard Hammond, Stereotypes, United States

The Drug War in Mexico: What is Really Going On?

• September 1, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Drug Overdoses, Education, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Mexico, Obama Administration, Race, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Anglo, Assassin, Bruce Livesay, Cocaine, Crime, Drug Cartels, Drug Dealer, Drug Trade, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, Eggs, Employment, Enforcer, Free Trade, George W. Bush, Hiring Illegals, Illegal Immigrants, Illicit Drug Trade, Interstate 35, La Barbie, Latinos, Marijuana Dealer, Mayor, Mexico, Migrants, NAFTA, New York Times, North Texas, President Barack Obama, President Felipe Calderon, Racism, Real News Network, Safety Violations, Salmonella, Texas, Ton, Tons, United States

“Brown Man Thinking Hard”: Don’t Believe Everything the Media Says About Haiti

• January 19, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, Class, Haiti, Health, History, Journalism and Ethics, People of Color, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: Africa, Alfred Metraux, C.L.R. James, Central America, Education, Haiti, Kindle, Maya Deren, Mexico, Noam Chomsky, Randall Robinson, Read, Reading, South America, Talking Back to Your Television, The Caribbean, Voodoo, Voudou, Wikipedia.com, Zora Neale Hurston

A Can of Watermelon-Flavored Soda: Another Racist Depiction? (w/Update)

• October 18, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cuba, History, Journalism and Ethics, People of Color, Race, The Rest of the World
Tags: Advertising, African Americans, Barack Obama, Blackface, Blacks, Canada, Cawy Bottling Co., Cawy Lemon Lime, Central America, China, Coco Solo, Common Sense, Depiction, Jupiña, Mainstream, Makeover, Market, Materva, Mexico, Miami FL, MInstrelsy, New Mexico, Post-Racial, Racial, Racism, Racist, Self Image, Spain, Target Stores, The Mainstream Media, Utopia, Watermelon Soda, Yerba Mate

An Update About the H1N1 Virus in Wisconsin

• May 1, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Cooking, Health, History, Journalism and Ethics, Mexico, Obama Administration, The Rest of the World, Wisconsin
Tags: 1918, 4H Club, Adams County, Associated Press, Centers for Disease Control, Farmers, H1N1, Mexico, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Ozaukee County, Relenza, Rock County, RSS Feeds, Sheboygan County, Swine Flu, Tamiflu, Vaccine, Waukesha County

In Case You Believe That We’re Goners…(With An Update)

• April 26, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Health, Journalism and Ethics, Mexico, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "12 Monkeys", "Outbreak", "Shaun of the Dead", "The Andromeda Strain", AIDS, Antibiotics, Antiviral Drugs, Bird Flu, Centers for Disease Control, Common Sense, Elderly, End of Days, Fear, Gays, Human Race, Hysteria, Infants, Jehovah's Witnesses, Latinos, Mexicans, Mexico, Nostradamus, Pandemic, Panic, Sensationalism, Swine Flu, The Mainstream Media, Virus

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