Colleagues of mine at work told me about this today and I just thought it was worth a mention.

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national "birth defect" that denied blacks the same opportunities as whites when the country was founded.

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Back on Track (6): America's Equal Opportunity

The band wagon is alive. The crowd is pleased with the kind of repertoire being played on. As far as the music industry - all ages are welcome to show (or participate) their talent. There is a show - off of learnt skills and naturally inborn talent as a musician.

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Equal Rights, Equal Opportunity=American Way?

America, that is, the United states=equal opportunity for all! Or does it? Capitalism is the American Way. We the people... all have the opportunity to raise our financial standards. Or do we? What do you think?

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Frank Ricci has been a firefighter here for 11 years... The last time the city offered a promotional exam...Mr. Ricci did well, he said, coming in sixth among the 77 candidates who took the exam.

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The government-funded targeting of the children of our servicemen and servicewomen by Christian religious organizations is an issue that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has been gathering information on for some time now.

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A Christian woman claims she was fired from her job because she greeted callers with "Merry Christmas," but the vacation rental company says it's no Scrooge and the woman is just a disgruntled employee.

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December 22, 2008 St. Louis Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- More than a dozen members of the Missouri National Guard have accused their top general of discrimination on the basis of race and gender.

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Military Chaplain Endorses Creationism at Mandatory Event

I've seen so many truly insane, not to mention blatantly unconstitutional, ways that the military is playing with the mental well being of our troops since I began working for MRFF that I really didn't think it was possible for me to be surprised by anything anymore.

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Amid the postelection glow of racial harmony lurks a sobering fact: racial disparities persist - in just about every measurable form - and they won't simply melt away because the nation has a black president.

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A coalition of atheists and agnostics wants the new White House to protect young military members from what they see as rampant religious discrimination in the services.

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The transition Web site for President-elect Barack Obama says the new administration will not discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. More Articles

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Excerpt from article: "In a world where an absolute majority of black children are born and raised in fatherless homes, where most black kids never finish high school and where the murder rate among blacks is several times the national average, surely there must be more urgent p …

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To say that Senator John McCain has a problem with women is an understatement. The Republican presidential candidate has recommended his wife for a topless biker pageant, joked about rape and even expressed his opposition to legislation seeking equal pay for women.

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Until recently, the impact of Title IX, the law forbidding sexual discrimination in education, has been limited mostly to sports.

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Already weakened by several court rulings and state referendums, affirmative action now confronts a new challenge to its reason for existing. Barack Obama's political success could hurt affirmative action, a much-debated policy he supports.

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Of course the Bush administration discriminates on the basis of politics, that's the only reason they want to serve in government. From FEMA to Iraq to the DOJ, the last 8 years have been guided by the core principle that government should be used to exploit, profit, and punish.

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This is a good thing.

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MAN-EATING Edie Britt did it in Desperate Housewives and singer Pink did it beside a motocross track, but in a society which prides itself on equal opportunity, the number of women who ask men to marry them is minuscule. Ladies looking to even the score are in luck today - with  …

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Sex equality will take generations to achieve at the current "painfully slow" rate of progress, the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said today in a final report before being wound up by the government after more than 30 years fighting gender bias across British society.

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With the exception of female TV writers, women and minority scribes have made little progress of late in attaining fair employment and earnings in Hollywood, according to a report commissioned by the WGA West.

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Now the Army National Guard is telling its unit level Equal Opportunity representatives that it is OK to discriminate against atheists.

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"The rich are not like you and me." "The poor will always be with us." Get real and accept it we are told. Give alms and aid to the poor, tax the rich. Establish private foundations, be a responsible trust baby and give.

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In the wake of community criticism, Target Corp. is reassigning its Muslim cashiers who refuse to ring up pork products for religious reasons to other jobs at the stores.

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