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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Multiracial Advocacy BLOG is moving. To
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-25976024808552129462013-06-15T14:12:00.000-07:002013-06-15T14:12:51.249-07:00Happy Father's Day!<span style="color: blue;"><b>Happy Father's Day </b></span>to dads like Darius Rucker, featured on this week's cover of <i>Parade <</i>www.parade.com>. The picture below is of Rucker with his family.<br />
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<i>Source: Parade </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-3995896118341705962013-06-15T10:54:00.000-07:002013-06-15T10:54:10.244-07:00Cheerios Ad Parody <br />
A new parody on the Cheerio's commercial is showing up all over the Internet. See it here:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-3785702509284583862013-06-13T15:45:00.000-07:002013-06-13T15:45:22.581-07:00MULTIRACIAL COMMUNITY: ZERO<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Census Bureau: 3 ½ Million Counted—Multiracial Community:
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Most people believe that the United States Census Bureau
(CB) sends them a census form every ten years, compiles the data from those
forms, and their work is done. Not so fast. The CB also takes a nationwide
survey <i>every </i>year called the American
Community Survey (ACS). The results of the latest ACS were revealed yesterday. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The CB did NOT use any classification to identify the
multiracial population. This is a huge blow to the multiracial community. We
were assurance by the CB and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that the
classifications would remain the same as they were for the 2010 Census. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our federal government has, once again, rendered
multiracial people invisible. To say there may be an undercount of the
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Along
with their actions being wrong on so many different levels, I wonder where our
community is on this. Does anyone care or has the multiracial population become
so apathetic toward the issue of appropriate racial and ethnic classification
that it has lost its way completely? WAKE UP!</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our position at Project RACE has always stated that <i>if</i> the CB was going to collect
population statistics at all, they needed to provide <i>accurate data </i>for our racial group. The CB’s American Community
Survey tagline is: “A New Approach for Timely Information.” No kidding. That
new approach got rid of any hope for the multiracial population. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Where are the other advocates? Eric Hamako is supposed to
be representing the multiracial community on the Census Bureau’s National
Advisory Committee (NAC) on Race, Ethnic, and Other Populations. Does <i>he </i>actually understand what happened on
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Where are the academics? I know of at least one that was
in an online chat room (still) taking pot shots at Project RACE and me,
specifically. Another was tweeting about nothing. At that same time, I was quickly reading about
the population survey debacle and contacting the Census Bureau. <o:p></o:p></div>
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the multiracial community really not care to fix the government’s obvious
discrimination and racism towards us? If that is the case, we might as well not
exist at all. We are already invisible in the eyes of <b><i>our </i></b>federal government.</span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-67856560585045667522013-06-12T22:56:00.001-07:002013-06-12T22:56:03.301-07:00Multiracial Community Excluded from Population Data!<span style="color: blue;"><b>The Census Bureau embargoed its release of the American Fact Finder population estimates until tomorrow, June 13. The embargo was broken for the area of Washington DC only. From those estimates and the Census Bureau spokesperson quoted below, there is no way to include the multiracial population. In other words, they report in five major categories (White, Black or African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander) using "Race Alone or in Combination." If they are using some "formula" to reclassify multiracial people, we do not know what it is. We have been assured that we would be given the data on multiracial populations since the 2000 Census.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Apparently the US Census Bureau does not understand that being multiracial means that your races are all equal and no one race is considered "primary." We continue to try and educate them. More on this tomorrow as we obtain additional information. </b></span><br />
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The District is growing progressively younger and whiter, as a steep rise in the number of young white adults has outpaced the growth in African American residents, new census statistics show.</h3>
The city gained about 6,500 non-Hispanic whites in 2012, accounting for almost half the year’s total growth, and they now make up 35.5 percent of the District’s 632,000 residents.<br />
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In contrast, the city last year gained 1,700 non-Hispanic black residents, who make up 48.6 percent of the population. If the 9,300 black Hispanics who live in the city are counted, African Americans maintain the slight majority of 50.05 percent.<br />
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One in 10 residents is Hispanic, both black or white, while Asians account for less than 4 percent of the population.<br />
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The 2012 population estimates from the Census Bureau show a continuation of trends that have dramatically changed the District’s demographic characteristics over the past decade. Although African Americans remain the largest single resident group, their numbers have been on a long slide<a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/black-dc-residents-plummet-barely-a-majority/2011/03/24/ABtIgJQB_story.html"> since the peak in 1970,</a> when seven in 10 District residents were black and people proudly said they lived in “Chocolate City.”<br />
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Over a little more than a decade, the city has rebounded and reversed a population slide that began after residents started moving out to the suburbs. In the past two years, the city’s population has soared by about 30,000 people. That is 10,000 more residents than it gained in the decade preceding it.<br />
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The shift has been as much generational as racial. The bulk of the growth since 2010 has been among people between the ages of 25 and 39. That group has contributed to a baby boomlet, adding 6,000 more children younger than 5. As a result, the median age has dipped slightly, from 33.8 in 2010 to 33.6.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The figures for the District also illustrate some of the complexities of determining race in an era when one of the fastest-growing groups in the nation is people who consider themselves multiracial.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The District’s black population, for example, does not include any of the almost 16,000 residents who say they are two or more races. Ben Bolender, a demographer with the Census Bureau, said that because the census does not ask people to pick a primary identity, there’s no way to determine whether the 9,300 people who said they were both black and Hispanic think of themselves more as one than the other.</span><br />
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But even if all black Hispanics in the District are counted as part of the African American population, demographers agree it is probably a matter of time before they slip below the 50 percent milestone, if they haven’t already.<br />
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<i>Source: The Washington Post Company/By <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/carol-morello/2011/02/28/ABCEisM_page.html" rel="author">Carol Morello</a> and Ted Mellnik, <span class="timestamp updated processed" comparetime="1371060180000" contenttype="article" datetitle="published" epochtime="1371060383000" pagetype="leaf"></span><span class="timestamp updated processed" comparetime="1371060383000" contenttype="article" datetitle="updated" epochtime="1371060180000" pagetype="leaf">Updated: Wednesday, June 12, <span class="time special">11:03 AM</span></span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-2408534444140614002013-06-12T12:57:00.000-07:002013-06-12T13:00:07.605-07:00Census Bureau Estimates do NOT Include Multiracial Community! <span style="color: blue;"><b>The Census Bureau embargoed its release of the American Fact Finder population estimates until tomorrow, June 13. The embargo was broken for the area of Washington DC only. From those estimates and the Census Bureau spokesperson quoted below, there is no way to include the multiracial population. In other words, they report in five major categories (White, Black or African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander) using "Race Alone or in Combination." If they are using some "formula" to reclassify multiracial people, we do not know what it is. We have been assured that we would be given the data on multiracial populations since the 2000 Census.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Apparently the US Census Bureau does not understand that being multiracial means that your races are all equal and no one race is considered "primary." We continue to try and educate them. More on this tomorrow as we obtain additional information. </b></span><br />
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The District is growing progressively younger and whiter, as a steep rise in the number of young white adults has outpaced the growth in African American residents, new census statistics show.</h3>
The city gained about 6,500 non-Hispanic whites in 2012, accounting for almost half the year’s total growth, and they now make up 35.5 percent of the District’s 632,000 residents.<br />
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In contrast, the city last year gained 1,700 non-Hispanic black residents, who make up 48.6 percent of the population. If the 9,300 black Hispanics who live in the city are counted, African Americans maintain the slight majority of 50.05 percent.<br />
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One in 10 residents is Hispanic, both black or white, while Asians account for less than 4 percent of the population.<br />
<br />
The 2012 population estimates from the Census Bureau show a continuation of trends that have dramatically changed the District’s demographic characteristics over the past decade. Although African Americans remain the largest single resident group, their numbers have been on a long slide<a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/black-dc-residents-plummet-barely-a-majority/2011/03/24/ABtIgJQB_story.html"> since the peak in 1970,</a> when seven in 10 District residents were black and people proudly said they lived in “Chocolate City.”<br />
<br />
Over a little more than a decade, the city has rebounded and reversed a population slide that began after residents started moving out to the suburbs. In the past two years, the city’s population has soared by about 30,000 people. That is 10,000 more residents than it gained in the decade preceding it.<br />
<br />
The shift has been as much generational as racial. The bulk of the growth since 2010 has been among people between the ages of 25 and 39. That group has contributed to a baby boomlet, adding 6,000 more children younger than 5. As a result, the median age has dipped slightly, from 33.8 in 2010 to 33.6.<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">The figures for the District also illustrate some of the complexities of determining race in an era when one of the fastest-growing groups in the nation is people who consider themselves multiracial.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">The District’s black population, for example, does not include any of the almost 16,000 residents who say they are two or more races. Ben Bolender, a demographer with the Census Bureau, said that because the census does not ask people to pick a primary identity, there’s no way to determine whether the 9,300 people who said they were both black and Hispanic think of themselves more as one than the other.</span><br />
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But even if all black Hispanics in the District are counted as part of the African American population, demographers agree it is probably a matter of time before they slip below the 50 percent milestone, if they haven’t already.<br />
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<i>Source: The Washington Post Company/By <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/carol-morello/2011/02/28/ABCEisM_page.html" rel="author">Carol Morello</a> and Ted Mellnik, <span class="timestamp updated processed" comparetime="1371060180000" contenttype="article" datetitle="published" epochtime="1371060383000" pagetype="leaf"></span><span class="timestamp updated processed" comparetime="1371060383000" contenttype="article" datetitle="updated" epochtime="1371060180000" pagetype="leaf">Updated: Wednesday, June 12, <span class="time special">11:03 AM</span></span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-20432405352994360932013-06-12T07:21:00.001-07:002013-06-12T07:23:18.828-07:00Loving Day <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Learn more about Loving Day at </b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-55086171204104827022013-06-09T21:33:00.000-07:002013-06-09T21:33:26.815-07:00Conservative vs Liberal View of Multiracial People<div class="news" id="contentWrapper">
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Conservatives are more likely than liberals to
identify mixed-race individuals as Black, according to a series of new
studies by researchers at New York University. Their findings, which
appear in the <em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology</em>, suggest that there is a link between political ideology and racial categorization.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">“A person’s race is often thought to be clear-cut and fixed,”
explains Amy Krosch, a doctoral student in New York University’s
Department of Psychology and the lead author of the paper. “However, our
research suggests that the perception of a person as Black or White is
related to one’s political views and beliefs about equality.”</span><br />
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The study may be downloaded <a href="http://bit.ly/11H5XPq" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The paper’s other authors were: Leslie Berntsen, an NYU undergraduate
at the time of the study and now a graduate student at the University
of Southern California; David Amodio, an associate professor in NYU’s
Department of Psychology; John Jost, a professor in NYU’s Department of
Psychology; and Jay Van Bavel, an assistant professor in NYU’s
Department of Psychology.<br />
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Their findings also showed a link between nationality and racial
classification. The study’s U.S. subjects were more likely to identify
as Black mixed-race individuals labeled as Americans than they were
mixed-race individuals labeled as Canadians.<br />
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The study focused on the principle of hypodescent, which posits that
multi-racial individuals are categorized according to their most
socially subordinate group membership. This principle—“the one-drop
rule”—was applied in the U.S. from the antebellum period through the
Civil Rights Era in order to subjugate individuals with any non-White
heritage by denying them full rights and liberties under the law. It was
also used to send Japanese-Americans—some of whom were one-eighth
Japanese—to internment camps during World War II.<br />
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In the <em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology</em> study, the
researchers explored the possibility of a connection between political
ideology and racial categorization of unknown individuals—and, if so,
what might explain this phenomenon.<br />
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To do so, they conducted three experiments, two of which included
only White American subjects; a third included a racially heterogeneous
panel of American subjects.<br />
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In the first experiment, White female and male subjects were shown a
series of computer-generated adult male faces that morphed real-world
Black and White faces at varying percentages. Subjects were instructed
to categorize each of the 110 faces they saw as either “Black” or
“White.” Subjects’ ideology was measured using an established
seven-point, self-reported scale (1=extremely liberal to 7=extremely
conservative).<br />
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Here, the results showed a link between political ideology and
hypodescent: subjects who self-identified as political conservatives
were more likely to identify the faces seen in the experiment as Black
than were those who self-identified as liberals.<br />
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In a second experiment, the researchers explored reasons to explain
this finding. Previous studies have shown that members of racial
minority groups (e.g., Blacks and Asians) were just as likely as Whites
to apply the principle of hypodescent in making racial judgments. This
suggests that racial categorization is not simply a perspective
exhibited by Whites; instead, it would appear to be more a reflection of
system-justifying biases. That is, conservatives of any race may
maintain traditional boundaries associated with the hierarchical social
order—and, as a result, they categorize multi-racial individuals
according to the most socially subordinate group membership.<br />
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The researchers repeated the experiment with a new sample, seeking to
explain why conservatives are more likely to apply the principle of
hypodescent. The sample of 71 subjects was overwhelmingly white (54),
but was also composed of bi- or multi-racial, Asian, South Asian,
Latino, and Native American subjects.<br />
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In addition to measuring political ideology in this experiment, the
researchers also sought to determine if their initial findings might be
the result of a system-justifying bias. To do so, they gauged the
subjects’ views by administering a Social Dominance Orientation scale,
which includes two factors: group-based dominance (“If certain groups
stayed in their place, we would have fewer problems”) and opposition to
equality (“We should do what we can to equalize conditions for groups”).
This metric has been used in earlier studies to measure racial
categorization.<br />
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Their results showed that, indeed, among conservatives, “opposition
to equality” was a powerful predictor in the categorization of
mixed-race faces as Black rather than White. However, this was not the
case for “group-based dominance.” “These results suggest that
conservatives may be categorizing mixed-race faces as Black to justify
racial divisions that are part of the historical legacy of the social
system in the United States,” the researchers wrote.<br />
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They added that while the findings in this experiment were
statistically significant for its White subjects, the sample size for
non-White subjects was too small to draw any meaningful conclusions.<br />
But these results left open another question: If hypodescent among
conservatives is motivated by a justification of racial divisions that
are part of the United States’ legacy, then such judgments should be
solely directed toward Americans. To test this, the researchers
conducted another experiment in which a third set of American subjects
(all White) were asked to make racial judgments of the faces they
viewed. In this experiment, unlike the previous two, in some conditions
the study’s subjects were told certain faces were “American” and in
others they were informed faces were “Canadian.” These labels of
nationality were randomized—facial images labeled as “American” to some
of the study’s subjects were billed as “Canadian” to others.<br />
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Here they found self-identified conservatives were more likely than
liberals to identify mixed-race “American” faces as Black than as
White—a finding consistent with the other experiments. However, there
was no relationship between political ideology and racial categorization
for “Canadian” faces.<br />
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“It seems reasonable to conclude on the basis of these results that
bias in the process of racial categorization may reflect, among other
things, the motivation to defend and uphold traditional racial divisions
that are part of the historical legacy of the United States,” the
researchers concluded. “Conservatives exhibit stronger system
justification tendencies in general and are presumably more sensitive
than liberals to challenges directed at the legitimacy or stability of
the social order, with its attendant degree of racial inequality.”<br />
“Although it may be tempting to conclude political ideology leads to
biases in racial categorization, the causal relationship is still open
for debate,” cautioned Van Bavel.<br />
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The lead author was supported by a National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship (DGE-0813964) and the research was
supported by a grant from NYU’s College of Arts and Science Dean’s
Undergraduate Research Fund.<br />
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CHICAGO – BROCA, a genetic screening panel that combines BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing with screening for all 18 known breast cancer genes, detected at least one loss of function mutation in 56 of 249 unrelated African American women with breast cancer.</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">African American women are disproportionately affected by early-onset and triple-negative breast cancers, possibly because of a higher frequency of inherited mutations in DNA repair pathways. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The finding of abnormalities in 22% of these women represents the first comprehensive screen of all known breast cancer susceptibility genes using next-generation sequencing in African American women, according to Dr. Jane E. Churpek, who reported the results at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">These high carrier frequencies suggest the importance of screening for all gene mutations in African American breast cancer patients who are diagnosed at a young age, have a family history, or have triple-negative breast cancer.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> The results should be used to encourage testing of at-risk family members to identify those who would benefit from lifesaving interventions, said Dr. Churpek of the University of Chicago.</span></div>
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In the 249-patient study, inherited damaging mutations were seen in 44 of 144 patients with a family history and in 12 of 145 women without a family history of breast and ovarian cancer. Of the 67 women who had triple-negative disease, 20 (30%) had mutations; in the 146 women under age 45, 67 (27%) had mutations.</div>
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"Even in the absence of triple-negative disease and family history, there are patients with gene mutations," she said.</div>
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While the majority of the 56 women with mutations were positive for BRCA1 (26 patients) or BRCA2 (20 patients), other inherited mutations detected in the BROCA panel were found in 10 patients. Those mutations included CHEK2 (n = 3), PALB2 (n = 3), ATM (n = 5), and PTEN (n = 1), she reported. The study population consisted of women who were treated at the University of Chicago cancer risk and breast cancer clinics.</div>
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Having an all-encompassing test like BROCA would allow women to undergo a single test, Dr. Churpek said. Further, advances in technology via targeted genomic capture and next generation sequencing allow this test to be performed inexpensively using 3 mcg of peripheral blood. The current clinical approach to testing requires BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing (<a class="external-link-new-window" href="http://www.bracnow.com/" style="color: #547d9e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BRACAnalysis,</a><i> Myriad) </i>and possible further testing via a genetic panel, which can be expensive and sometimes difficult to get covered by payers, Dr. Churpek said.</div>
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She said there are no plans to market the BROCA test, however. Myriad Genetics holds the U.S. patent on the BRCA genes in the context of cancer diagnostics until 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the legal issues surrounding the gene patent in the case of <a class="external-link-new-window" href="http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/association-for-molecular-pathology-v-myriad-genetics-inc/" style="color: #547d9e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics</a><i>.</i> Oral arguments in the case were heard in April, and a decision from the court is expected before July.</div>
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Dr. Churpek had no financial disclosures.</div>
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<i>Source: </i><a href="mailto:mdales@frontlinemedcom.com" style="color: #547d9e; text-decoration: none;">By: MARY JO M. DALES, Ob.Gyn. News Digital Network</a></div>
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Genetic Variations Impact Warfarin Doses For African Americans</h1>
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<b style="background-color: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">A common genetic variation that can impact the therapeutic dose of the blood-thinning drug warfarin among African Americans has been found, according to a new report in <i>The Lancet</i>.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">The finding revealed that people of African ancestry who have the rs12777823 variant require a notably lower dose of warfarin to achieve all the advantages, compared to those without this single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">Julie Johnson from the University of Florida and lead researcher explained:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br />
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"Adding this genetic marker - found in more than 40% of African American patients in the study - to standard dosing algorithms improved the predictability of warfarin dosing by 21% in these individuals, which has the potential to increase the safety and effectiveness of this notoriously hard to dose drug."</blockquote>
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External link">Warfarin</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;"> is used to prevent blood clots in patients who experience</span><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/atrial-fibrillation/" style="background-color: white; color: #990099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none;" title="What is Atrial Fibrillation?">atrial fibrillation</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">, have a history of blood clots, or after major surgery. It is one of the most prescribed drugs around the world, adding up to around 35 million prescriptions in the USA in 2011.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">Dosage requirements range widely between people, making it hard to get the dose correct. Additionally, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">warfarin contributes to a third of hospitalizations for adverse drug reactions in people over 65 years of age in the USA.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">Previous research has revealed that two genes, VKORC1 and CYP2CP, can account for about 30% of the difference in warfarin response in people of Asian and European descent. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">However, these genetic markers are less predictive of dosing regimens in African Americans.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">In order to pinpoint additional genetic factors that control warfarin dose requirements in African Americans, the investigators examined health information and DNA samples from 533 African-American adults on stable doses of warfarin from the International Warfarin Pharmacogenetics Consortium (IWPC) sites and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">After checking through a range of genomes, the researchers found that the strongest signals were clustered around the well-known VKORC1 and also found a significant link between the rs12777823 variant on chromosome 10 and warfarin dose. This result was verified in an independent cohort of 432 additional African American patients.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">The outcomes suggest that </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">African Americans who carry one or two copies of this polymorphism need a dose decrease of approximately 7-9 mg less per week</b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;"> compared to other patients.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">Mark Alberts, from UTSW Medical Center in Texas, commented on the study saying:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br />
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"Use of genetic backgrounds to help to guide warfarin dosing has been advocated for several years by the US Food and Drug Administration... However, the practical aspects (and limitations) have not been fully appreciated. Genetic testing has several challenges: it is not widely available in some areas; it is costly; and clinicians often can identify the correct dose before test results are available. If these problems were corrected, the actual use of such tests might increase substantially."</blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;"><i>Source: Medical News Today/</i>Written by Kelly Fitzgerald </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-28102322163840091322013-06-06T07:20:00.000-07:002013-06-06T15:17:42.665-07:00Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Rededicated burial site among ‘beautiful vestiges’ of Cape Verde’s Jewish presence</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lisbon’s Chief Rabbi Eliezer Shai di
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There are just 10 Jewish graves at the Jewish burial site in
the Cape Verde capital of Praia—several with Hebrew inscriptions, the oldest
dating to 1864, the most recent to 1918—surrounded by a sea of tombstones in a
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Those 10 graves, however, are reminders of the Jews who
contributed to the growth of Cape Verde and whose descendants remain prominent
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The Jewish burial site was rededicated in early May, thanks
to the efforts of the Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project, Inc. (CVJHP), which
was founded in 2007 by Carol Castiel, who works for <i>Voice of America</i>. </div>
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While many Jews to the former Portuguese colony had come
during the Inquisition, they were for the most part New Christians (Jews
forcibly converted by the Inquisition) who disappeared into the population. A
second wave of Jews—representing some dozen or so Moroccan families—arrived in
the mid-1800s, emigrating directly from Morocco or via Gibraltar to the
trans-Atlantic commercial hub. </div>
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Ensuring the memory of those Jews— merchants and
traders with such surnames as Auday, Benros, Benoliel, Benchimol, Cohen, Levy,
Pinto, Seruya and Wahnon that persist to this day—is CVJHP’s focus.<br />
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He contributed $100,000 in 2010, the largest donation the tiny nonprofit
has received, Castiel says. In a message read at the dedication, his senior
adviser, Andre Azoulay, called the king’s support of the project “representative of Morocco’s attachment to
the preservation of its patrimony—Arab, Jewish or Berber.”</div>
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The project has the support of Cape Verde’s government, too. </div>
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“By preserving the cemeteries, the Jewish Heritage Project
is preserving part of our history and culture,” says Maria de Fatima Lima de
Veiga, Cape Verde’s ambassador to the United States.</div>
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In addition, she says, officials hope that these remnants of
a time when Jews lived in Cape Verde will draw Jewish tourists to the islands.</div>
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The project has been a labor of love for Castiel who first
learned that Jews had once lived on the islands—and their non-Jewish
descendants remain—back in the mid-1980s when she was working on a project for
the African-American Institute and spent time in Cape Verde. </div>
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“To see in a
predominately Catholic country a remnant of the Jewish people—it touched me,”
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Castiel did research, interviewed descendants and wrote
articles about these Jews. “Little did I know that later on I would actually spearhead
the actual restoration of the cemeteries,” she says.</div>
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In early 2007, Castiel met lawyer Richard Popkin by chance;
he offered to do the paperwork to help her create the CVJHP as a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit, which allowed her to begin fundraising and working with Cape Verdean
officials to restore the cemeteries. “If we had waited any longer, they would
have been beyond repair,” she says.</div>
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The restoration of the four burial sites is just one of
Castiel’s goals for the nonprofit. She hopes to put together a symposium in
2015, bringing together scholars who have studied the Jews of Cape Verde,
including those who may have pre-dated
the arrival of the Moroccan and Gibraltarian Jews of the 19th century.
“We hope to have a lively and fruitful exchange among scholars,” she says,
culminating “in a book on the Jews of Cape Verde.”</div>
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This month’s dedication was in a sense a family reunion for
descendants of those early Jews. Among them were two American cousins named
Wahnon, one whose family remained Jewish, one whose did not. Another cousin, Carlos
Alberto Wahnon de Carvalho Veiga, was Cape Verde’s first democratically elected
prime minister in 1991. He, too, attended the rededication ceremonies along
with numerous other Wahnons.</div>
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“There are lots of Cape Verdean descendants of Jewish
families right now; there was quite a crowd, getting and sharing stories”
during the dedication, says John Wahnon, a Silver Spring, Md., resident who is
not Jewish and emigrated from Cape Verde in 1962 at age 20.</div>
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“There probably isn’t a person there who doesn’t have a drop
of Jewish blood in them,” he says, noting his belief that it is important to
know one’s roots, something he has shared with his children.</div>
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Wahnon says he is pleased that the burial sites are being
renovated and rededicated. “We are celebrating the fact that the person was
here and in some form that person contributed to the society in which they
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His cousin, Sheppard, is Jewish—the men’s
great-great-grandfather, along with his son, John’s great-grandfather,
immigrated to Cape Verde. Another son, Sheppard’s great-grandfather, did not
make the move—and lives in New York. </div>
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It was a thrill, Sheppard Wahnon says, “to be somewhere
where my obscure name is known and respected.” He believes the restored burial
grounds will help give descendants of the Jews “a sense of connection with this
past.”</div>
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Pointing to some descendants who have returned to Judaism,
including Nuno Wahnon, the B’nai B’rith International representative in
Brussels, he says, “My hope is for them to start being Jewish again.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Request to Ban Indian Mascots Dismissed by Office for Civil Rights</span></h1>
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The U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights has dismissed <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdcr/MDCR_2-8-13_Discrimination_Complaint_410856_7.pdf">a complaint</a> from the Michigan Department of Civil Rights that sought to ban the use of American Indian mascots and imagery in K-12 schools that receive federal funds. <br />
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The Michigan civil rights department <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/schooled_in_sports/2013/02/mich_dept_of_civil_rights_asks_for_ban_on_american_indian_mascots.html">originally filed its complaint back in February</a>, claiming that the use of American Indian imagery denied equal rights to American Indian students. A <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdcr/MDCR_2_8_13_Supporting_Argument_410857_7.pdf">supporting argument</a> from the department's director of law and policy cited research that suggests such imagery results in "actual harm" to current and future American Indian students.<br />
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Under <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/hq43e4.html">Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964</a>, K-12 schools that receive federal funding are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin. OCR's job in mascot complaints, as described in <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdcr/USDofEd5-31_423125_7.pdf">its response to the Michigan civil rights department</a>, is to determine whether the allegations "are sufficient to constitute a racially hostile environment." OCR defines such an environment as "one in which racially harassing conduct takes place that is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent to limit a student's ability to participate in or benefit from the recipient's programs or services."<br />
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When OCR asked the Michigan civil rights department to identify specific students who had been harmed by American Indian mascots, the department only <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdcr/MDCR_2-8-13_Appendix_A_-_References_410858_7.pdf">cited research</a> as the basis of its complaint. <br />
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"You did not provide to OCR any specific examples of race-based incidents nor identify any students or individuals who have suffered specific harm because of the alleged discrimination at any of the named school districts," wrote Catherine Criswell, director of OCR's Cleveland branch, in the letter dated May 29. <br />
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As a result, OCR determined that the provided evidence wasn't sufficient enough to begin an investigation, and thus dismissed the complaint. <br />
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The Michigan civil rights department received notice of the dismissal on Friday, <a href="http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268748/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=4r2TfCJH">according to the Associated Press</a>, and is considering whether to appeal the decision.<br />
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"MDCR believes the evidence is clear that students are being hurt by the continued used of American Indian mascots and imagery," the Michigan department said in a statement to the AP. "We will continue to look for ways to ensure all students are equally protected."<br />
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If the Michigan civil rights department appeals the ruling successfully, it could end up being costly. Two bills currently sitting in state House committees would <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/schooled_in_sports/2013/05/bill_would_force_mich_dept_to_foot_bill_for_school_mascot_changes.html">force the department to foot the bill</a> for any schools forced to change their American Indian mascots. The legislation would create a $3 million "school mascot reimbursement fund," taken from the department's budget, to cover the cost of changes to mascots, uniforms, billboards, gym resurfacing, and other expenses.<br />
<i>Source: Education Week/</i>By <span class="vcard author"><a class="fn url" href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/contributors/bryan.toporek_3687848.html">Bryan Toporek</a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hate talk won't derail mixed-race Cheerios ad</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A sweet, mixed-race, Cheerios TV spot has become an unlikely hot button for racist, social media response.</span></div>
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Cheerios
— a consumer brand perhaps least-likely to be embroiled in a racially
tinged controversy — has found itself in just that.<br />
Social media
blow-back has been fierce, nasty and unusually racist after the
top-selling, General Mills cereal brand last week began airing — and
then posted online — a commercial featuring a sweet, mixed-race girl.<br />
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In
the ad, she is seeking nutritional advice from her white mother and
black father. The spot ends with her pouring a bunch of Cheerios on the
chest of her sleeping father — believing it will make his heart
healthier.<br />
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Even
in an era when the nation's African-American president is in his second
term in office and with minorities soon to become a majority
population, much of the social media response to the mixed-race ad has
been poisonous, leaving some wondering what kind of reality such
Internet response actually reflects.<br />
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The YouTube comments
section for the ad, which had been viewed more than 1.7 million times as
of midday Monday, was disabled late last week. "We are a family brand
and not all of the comments were family-friendly," says Camille Gibson,
vice president of marketing for Cheerios, in an e-mailed comment. <br />
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Perhaps
the real issue it that it's no longer just edgy brands trying to
portray the real American consumer, says Ken Smikle, president of Target
Market News, a firm that monitors African-American marketing. "We think
of Cheerios as a great American icon," he says. "There are going to be
people who feel that their image of what's American is now being
challenged by these iconic brands."<br />
Call it new reality vs. old prejudices.<br />
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"A
progressive-looking commercial collides with the ugliness of the
Internet," says Barbara Lippert, media and pop culture columnist at
MediaPost.com. <br />
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General Mills is standing by the spot and has no
plans to stop airing it or to take it down from its YouTube channel.
"There are many kinds of families, and Cheerios celebrates them all,"
Gibson says. Despite some serious, negative response online, "it's
been a very positive response overall," she says.<br />
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Marketing
experts are applauding General Mills — which first introduced the brand
in 1941 as "Cheerioats, " and in 1945, changed the name to Cheerios. <br />
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"They
can't bow to this incredible ugliness and underbelly of hatred,"
Lippert says. "If the father had not been black, it would have been
just another spot."<br />
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General Mills, meanwhile, is not bending.
Asked how this might affect casting for future Cheerios commercials,
Gibson replied, "I don't think it does."<br />
<i>Source: </i>Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-27092206085600607782013-05-31T20:34:00.000-07:002013-05-31T20:34:09.915-07:00Thumbs up to Cheerios!<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The vice president of marketing for Cheerios released a statement defending the ad after the backlash. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> 'Consumers have responded positively to
our new Cheerios ad. At Cheerios, we know there are many kinds of
families and we celebrate them all,' Camille Gibson said in the statement. </span><br />
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The anodyne spot features a Caucasian mother, an African-American father and their biracial daughter, but contains no overt messaging, politically correct or otherwise (except that Cheerios are good for you).<br />
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Nonetheless, <a href="http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/its-2013-and-people-are-still-getting-worked-about-interracial-couples-ads-149889">Adweek noted the spot had been propelled onto the front page of Reddit,</a> where it received a plethora of racists remarks. <a href="http://concreteloop.com/2013/05/video-new-cheerios-commercial-ignites-racial-slurs">Concreteloop.com</a> noted a YouTube commentator who allegedly called the spot an "abomination."<br />
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Comments under the video have since been disabled — a sure sign they were overwhelmingly negative.<br />
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It's 2013, but apparently some parts of America are still not ready to see miscegenation when it comes to cereal.<br />
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<strong>"I'm a well-known writer of women's fiction. I want to
incorporate black characters into my books. How does a white woman write
black women correctly? For example, is it disrespectful to have a black
woman have a bit of a thing for white men? What's the best way to
introduce a black female character in a book? Do I write something like,
'Despite being African American, Carissa found blond men attractive'?
Or something like, 'Right or wrong, Carissa loved white boys and had
picked one out to take home with her'?</strong></div>
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<strong>"There's a sad dearth of people of color in romantic fiction.
I doubt it's racism. I think it's mainly because so many white writers,
like me, simply don't know how to get it right, so we stay in our
comfort zone. Any advice?"</strong><strong> <em>--Too White to Write?</em></strong><br />
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If, by saying you want to write black women "correctly," you mean "in
a way that's guaranteed not to inspire any complaints, constructive
critiques or outright criticism," you should probably just stick to your
genre's safely monochromatic cast of characters.<br />
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After all, views on depictions of black women in media are as diverse
as their audiences. We aren't all alike, and our assessments of whether
your book should be awarded a Nobel Prize or used for kindling won't
be, either.<br />
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Of course, you're right to anticipate heightened sensitivity
surrounding the characters you're contemplating, and that's with good
reason. Quick background reading assignment: <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008XOE59C/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=root04c-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B008XOE59C&adid=019WM94ZHFWB6SS40K6D">Iconic</a>:</em> <em>Decoding Images of the Revolutionary Black Woman</em>.
In it, author Lakesia Johnson chronicles how figures from Sojourner
Truth to Gabby Douglas have had to counteract media-fueled negative
stereotypes thrust upon them (angry, emasculating, Mammy and sex object,
to name a few).<br />
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You're probably familiar with those tropes, and with reactions to works like Kathryn Stockett's <em>The Help</em>, the novel-turned-blockbuster film about African-American maids working in Mississippi in the 1960s.<br />
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"Despite efforts to market the book and the film as a progressive story of triumph over racial injustice, <em>The Help</em>
distorts, ignores and trivializes the experiences of black domestic
workers," the Association of Black Women Historians said in a scathing <a href="http://www.abwh.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2%3Aopen-statement-the-help">statement</a>
in response to the film, adding that it "makes light of black women's
fears and vulnerabilities turning them into moments of comic relief."<br />
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To be fair, black writers don't get a pass here, either. The ABC series <em>Scandal</em>, brought to us by Shonda Rhimes (and currently <a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scandal-withdrawal-its-real-thing">causing between-seasons withdrawal symptoms</a> among plenty of African-American viewers), has been <a href="http://womensenews.org/story/sisterspace/130312/media-portrayal-black-women-the-real-scandal#.UaULKtLqnms">accused of</a>
"send[ing] the message through its high-powered protagonist that black
women don't deserve loving and healthy relationships," and "continuing
perpetuation of the stereotype of a black woman whose libido and sexual
urges are so pronounced that even with an education and a great job, and
all these other things, she can't control herself."<br />
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And there's not even room to get into all the ubiquitous teardowns of the work of Tyler Perry. As the Washington Post's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/04/08/casting-kim-kardashian-in-temptation-is-not-tyler-perrys-worst-sin/">Vanessa Williams put it</a>
very diplomatically, his "films are often criticized for their
cartoonish depiction of African-American life and, especially, his
depiction of black women as either abused, struggling beings who are
rescued by good men or ambitious shrews who are brought low by bad men."
Plenty of others take it a step further and call his portrayals
flat-out "<a href="http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2009/08/tyler-perry-more-dangerous-than-bad-rap.html">dangerous."</a><br />
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Clearly, there's no box to check and no source of permission that
will guarantee your work doesn't offend a single reader. But does that
mean you should abandon your interest in making black women your
protagonists and even -- <em>gasp</em> -- protagonists who are attracted to white men? (I can assure you, that's probably not as controversial as you think it is, <em>Scandal</em> being one example.)<br />
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No way, says <a href="http://maritagolden.com/bookstore.html">Marita Golden,</a> author of a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QZABKO/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=root04c-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B004QZABKO&adid=1K3F2AAZKFCG24E2P14T">Skin Deep</a>: Black Women and White Women Write About Race.</em>
"White people, because of the emotional legacy as well as the
historical and political legacy of racism, often feel that they do not
have access to the black soul and the black spirit," she told me, "but I
think writers have the right to write about anything." In fact, she
said, "I really feel that white people should write about black
characters."<br />
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But the key is that "comfort zone" you mention. You have to get there well before you put pen to paper.<br />
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The best way for you to do that, said Golden, is to "stop saying to
yourself, 'I'm writing about a black woman.' Just write about a woman."<br />
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Easier said than done, surely. That's the reason "write what you know" is a literary cliché. And also the reason that <em>Girls</em> creator <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/lena-dunham-fresh-air-girls_n_1496780.html">Lena Dunham decided</a> to skip including women of color in her show altogether (she stopped short of renaming the show <em>White Girls</em>
as some have recommended), telling NPR in 2012 that "there has to be
specificity to that experience [that] I wasn't able to speak to."<br />
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So here's a start. Develop relationships that will allow you to become confident that<em> can</em> begin
to speak to that experience, because you know African-American women as
individuals. "Usually, white people who write meaningful books with
black characters, they do have black people in their lives who they know
deeply and respect," said Golden. To be clear, that's "as friends, not
as research. Serious, meaningful, complete friendships with black
people."<br />
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This is your first step toward allowing your new characters to emerge
more naturally. Not as science projects, in which you're cautiously
throwing in different ingredients and trying to predict the public
reaction. And not through some sort of literary quota system. But by
keeping their individual dilemmas, not demographics, in the front of
your mind as their stories evolve. By seeing them as humans as complex
as your real-life friends.<br />
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"Once you're ready to write a story that doesn't start with labels
and stereotypes," Golden said, "don't worry about race, and don't worry
about the reception of readers. Just write."<br />
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<i>Source: The Root/</i>By: Jenée Desmond-Harris<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">We at Project RACE are very pleased to announce the West Coast Premier of "Crossing the River." This is an amazing film--a <i>must </i>see! </span><br />
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CTR will screen on Saturday, June 1st in the 2:45 pm shorts block<br />
Chinese Theatre<br />
6801 Hollywood Blvd.<br />
Hollywood, CA 90028</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-83090620269291314352013-05-27T12:00:00.000-07:002013-05-27T12:00:17.697-07:00WALMART DID WHAT?! <span style="color: blue;">Another reason to boycott Walmart. This comes a week after they refused to allow multiracial people to mark more than one race on their survey forms. -Susan </span><br />
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leaving, and we don’t mean he scored extra cash. After Joseph left the
store and picked up his wife Keana, the family arrived back at home to
find a cop car waiting.<br />
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"He asks us very sincerely, ‘Hey, I was sent here by Walmart
security. I just need to make sure that the children that you have are
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with your husband and he didn't think that they fit," Keana said she
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of racial insults before, but this accusation that their kids were
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BRUSSELS, Belgium — The appointment of Italy's first black cabinet minister was a cause for celebration for anti-racism campaigners in Europe.</div>
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Their joy was cut short by reactions to Congo-born Cecile Kyenge taking office.</div>
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"This is a bonga bonga government," said Mario Borghezio, a member of the European Parliament representing Italy's Northern League party. "It seems to me she'd be a great housekeeper, but not a government minister."</div>
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Borghezio's comments were widely condemned within Italy and across Europe.</div>
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Yet in the days that followed, more outbreaks of racism illustrated what activists denounce as a trend of growing intolerance fueled by Europe's economic crisis.</div>
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Hungary's third-largest political party warned the country was being "subjugated by Zionism" as it protested against the World Jewish Congress holding a meeting in Budapest.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.6;">In Athens, authorities clashed violently with a Nazi-influenced party whose electoral support has soared.</span></div>
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Fans shouting racial abuse of black players halted a match between two of Italy's top soccer teams.</div>
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"There is definitely an exacerbation of negative perceptions of migrants, and ethnic and religious minorities, with the current economic crisis," said Georgina Siklossy, spokeswoman at the European Network Against Racism, formed by campaign groups from 26 countries.</div>
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"It's become common to accuse migrants and ethnic minorities of stealing jobs, benefiting from social services and abusing the welfare state," she said.</div>
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Pan-European figures on racism are hard to come by, due to differences in definitions and reporting among national authorities. Support for openly racist or anti-immigration politicians is on the rise in several countries, however, and activists report a rise in hate crime and discrimination.</div>
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Greece, the country hardest hit by the euro zone crisis, has emerged with serious racism problems linked to the rise of the Golden Dawn party.</div>
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The Nazi-inspired movement saw its support rise from 0.3 percent in 2009 elections to 7 percent last year — winning 21 seats in parliament with the slogan: "So we can rid this land of filth."</div>
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Its black-shirted followers are blamed for several of the 154 incidents of racist violence documented last year by Greece's <a href="http://www.unhcr.gr/1againstracism/press-release-on-the-presentation-of-the/" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Racist Violence Recording Network</a>, which was set up in 2011 with support from the United Nations' refugee agency.</div>
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In the latest high-profile case, a 14-year-old Afghan boy was left with severe facial scaring last week after a beating from a group of men dressed in black, one of whom attacked him with a broken bottle, <a href="http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/05/14/brutal-athens-attack-scars-afghan-teen/" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Greek media reported</a>.</div>
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“Democracy in Greece is seriously threatened by the upsurge of hate crime,” Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, said after a study visit to the country early this year.</div>
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"Rhetoric stigmatizing migrants is widely used in Greek politics."</div>
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Greece is a special case, says Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, who rejects the idea of a generalized increase of racism across Europe resulting form the economic crisis.</div>
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"The economic crisis does feed into a variety of reactions and racism is one of them [but] it's quite localized and depends on specific local conditions," Dimitrakopoulos said from the agency's headquarters in Vienna. "The data we have does not indicate a general movement across Europe."</div>
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He points to the lack of a Greek-style backlash against migrants in Spain or Portugal, where the economic crisis has also taken a heavy toll.</div>
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In northern Europe, he says, anti-immigration parties have suffered losses in recent Dutch and Danish elections.</div>
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Traditionally a country that exported emigrants, Greece attracted an immigrant influx during good economic times in the 1990s and 2000s. Its location on Europe's southeastern flank has also made it an entry point for undocumented migrants and asylum-seekers from Asia, Africa and Middle East heading into the EU.</div>
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The sudden arrival of newcomers combined with the economic collapse since 2009 have created a perfect storm for racism to develop in Greece. But there are warnings the prolonged recession is whipping up prejudice against minorities elsewhere.</div>
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"In Europe we see rising intolerance; growing support for xenophobic and populist parties; discrimination," Italy's Foreign Minister Emma Bonino warned in speech this month.</div>
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"Fear and prejudice are being spread across Europe mainly by nationalistic and demagogic groups, who are exploiting the current malaise and social despair," Bonino told a conference on the state of the European Union.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GlobalPost in-depth: <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/series/echoes-hitler" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Echoes of Hitler</a></strong></div>
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Data published last year by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights showed ethnic minorities face a high level of hate crime in countries across Europe.</div>
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Eighteen percent of sub-Saharan Africans and a similar number of Roma Gypsies suffered assault, threats or serious harassment, according to <a href="http://fra.europa.eu/en/survey/2012/eu-midis-european-union-minorities-and-discrimination-survey" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the agency's survey carried out in 2008</a>across the 27 EU nations.</div>
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Beyond far-right parties like Golden Dawn or Hungary's anti-Semitic Jobbik, anti-racism campaigner Siklossy says more established politicians are increasingly scapegoating migrants and minorities.</div>
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She says that ignores the positive contribution migrants make to European economies, particularly in countries where declining birthrates are leading to a growing number of pensioners dependent on a shrinking labor force.</div>
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Without new immigrants, the labor force would have contracted between 2000 and 2010 in Britain, Luxembourg and Italy, according to a report last year <a href="http://www.oecd.org/migration/integrationindicators/#d.en.217290" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development</a>.</div>
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Siklossy cites <a href="http://%20http//cms.horus.be/files/99935/MediaArchive/publications/20068_Publication_HiddenTalents_web.pdf" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">studies</a> showing migrants in France make a net contribution of $15 billion to state tax revenues and that Germany's Turkish community adds $49 billion a year to the country's economy.</div>
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<i>Sourch: Global Post.com </i>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/130524/european-racism-greece-italy</div>
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TUCSON — <span style="background-color: yellow;">A federal judge has ruled that the
immigration enforcement policies of the man who calls himself "America's
toughest sheriff" violated the Constitution by using racial profiling.</span><br />
For years, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has ordered his
deputies to detain people they suspect of residing in the country
illegally and to hold them for federal authorities.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The 142-page ruling issued Friday by Judge G. Murray Snow came as
part of a lawsuit brought on behalf of Latino plaintiffs who asserted
that race was a major factor in initiating immigration enforcement
stops.</span><br />
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Snow wrote that the sheriff's practices did in fact rely heavily on
race, violating the Constitution's 4th and 14th amendments. The 4th
Amendment guards against unreasonable search and seizure; the 14th
Amendment was created to cement the rights of U.S. citizens.<br />
Attorney Tim Casey, who represents the Sheriff's Office, said the
agency would comply with the judge's order but pursue an appeal.<br />
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The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office "is disappointed in the decision
reached today," Casey said. "The position was and always has been that
race is not used to make law enforcement decisions."<br />
He also suggested that if there were problems, they arose from
training deputies received from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a
federal agency. "There was some bad training," he said.<br />
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ICE officials could not immediately be reached for comment Friday evening.<br />
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Maricopa County is home to Arizona's biggest city, Phoenix, and has significant Latino and immigrant populations.<br />
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In his ruling, Snow took issue with many of the six-term sheriff's
actions. The judge noted that deputies frequented places where day
laborers gather. In four day-labor sweeps he cited, none of the 35
people arrested was detained for violation of state or local laws, and
all were passengers in vehicles, not drivers.<br />
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Snow issued an order immediately and permanently barring the
Sheriff's Office from detaining or arresting Latinos or stopping Latinos
in vehicles simply because of a suspicion they may be in the country
illegally.<br />
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Snow noted that at one time the federal Department of Homeland
Security — which oversees enforcement of immigration laws — had
authorized the Sheriff's Office to use race as a factor in determining
who should be detained. However, Homeland Security officials have since
retracted that right, an act that formed the basis for most of Snow's
decision.<br />
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Friday's ruling was cheered by immigrant rights activists.<br />
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"Today's decision vindicates the rights of Latinos in Maricopa County
who've been terrorized by discriminatory [Sheriff's Office] practices
and have had their communities torn apart," Dan Pochoda, legal director
of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, said in a statement.
"The court recognized that racial profiling within the Maricopa County
Sheriff's Office is a pervasive and widespread problem that can only be
addressed through substantive, meaningful changes to eradicate this
egregious practice and begin rebuilding public trust."<br />
<em>Source: <a href="mailto:nation@latimes.com">nation@latimes.com</a>/</em>By Michael Mello, Los Angeles Times</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419381841037103670.post-35768847017510424212013-05-24T09:47:00.000-07:002013-05-24T09:47:36.613-07:00Multiracial People Needed<br />
Multiracial People Needed for Study<br />
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Lisa Giamo at Simon Fraser University is looking for participants for a study dissertation about multiracial experiences. If you are interested, please go to the link below.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Teen birth rates in the United States are dropping sharply, especially among Hispanic teens, according to a new government report.</span></div>
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Overall, the rate of birth among teens aged 15 to 19 dropped by nearly one half from 1991 to 2011 -- from about 62 births for every 1,000 teens to 31 births for every 1,000.</div>
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From 2007 to 2011, the most recent time period studied, rates fell 25 percent, from 41.5 to about 31.</div>
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During that time, rates fell at least 30 percent in seven states, and Arizona and Utah each saw a 35 percent drop, said Brady Hamilton, a statistician at the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and a co-author of the report, which was released Thursday.</div>
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All but two states -- North Dakota and West Virginia -- reported drops of at least 15 percent, the researchers found. They tracked live births, not pregnancies.</div>
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"It's good news," Hamilton said. "But it shows there is still much that needs to be examined and done."</div>
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When Hamilton's team looked at birth rates by ethnicity, the decline was steepest for Hispanics, with drops averaging 34 percent overall during the 2007 to 2011 period. In the past, Hispanic teens had a higher birth rate: In 2007, for instance, their rate was 21 percent higher than that of black teens. By 2011, the rate for Hispanic teens was just 4 percent higher.</div>
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In the most recent period studied, birth rates for black teens declined 24 percent, while white teens showed a 20 percent drop.</div>
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"There are still areas where teen births are high and that needs to be examined in greater detail," Hamilton said. State policymakers, for instance, could use the information to address changes to their education programs.</div>
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The largest declines typically were found in the Southeast, Mountain and Pacific states, as well as the upper Midwest.</div>
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The study did not get into the reasons for the decline. However, experts attribute the declines to strong teen-pregnancy-prevention messages, increased use of birth control with the first sexual experience and the use of dual contraceptive methods, such as condoms plus the pill.</div>
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The report is a reason to cheer but not to think the problem is solved, said one expert not involved in the study. The new finding "underscores the remarkable progress this nation has made," said Bill Albert, chief program officer of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C.</div>
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As good as the progress is, Albert said, it's important to realize that "our rates are still higher than in other countries."</div>
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For instance, the teen birth rate in Japan is 4.9 per 1,000, according to United Nations data from 2009 to 2010. In the Netherlands, it's 5.3 -- about six times lower than in the United States.</div>
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Albert believes many factors explain the decline in teen birth rates. "These rates have been driven down by the magic combination of less sex and more contraception," Albert said. More teens are delaying sex, he said, persuaded by sex education or parents, and more are using birth control.</div>
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The peer effect plays a role, he said. When teens hear that their friends are delaying sex or using birth control, it influences them.</div>
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Then there is the "MTV effect." Programs that depict teen moms show the difficulties of pregnancy and parenthood, Albert said.</div>
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"They really do show the challenges of early pregnancy and parenthood," he said. His organization has commissioned surveys to ask teens what they think of these shows. "The overwhelming majority say these shows are sobering, not salacious," he said.</div>
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Efforts to reduce teen births must continue, Albert said, or rates will surely go up again.</div>
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Sergio Garcia’s shocking words about Tiger Woods.</div>
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The ongoing feud between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia, which <a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/05/sergio-garcia-says-tiger-woods-hasnt-been-truthful-in-15-years/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">started during the third round</a>of The Players Championship, has taken an ugly twist. On Monday, Garcia told reporters in England that <a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/05/sergio-garcia-says-tiger-woods-hasnt-been-truthful-in-15-years/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Woods hasn’t been honest in 15 years</a>. Garcia was on stage at the European Tour awards dinner Tuesday, where he was asked by Steve Sands of the Golf Channel, in jest, if he would be inviting Woods over for dinner during the U.S. Open. Garcia’s reply was shocking.</div>
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Via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/may/22/sergio-garcia-remark-tiger-woods-row" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Guardian</a>:</div>
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Garcia later apologized in a statement released by the European Tour, saying that he did not mean the remark to be racist.</div>
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“I apologise for any offence that may have been caused by my comment on stage during The European Tour Players’ Awards dinner. I answered a question that was clearly made towards me as a joke with a silly remark, but in no way was the comment meant in a racist manner.”</h3>
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This isn’t the first time a fellow golfer has made such a remark. In 1997, Fuzzy Zoeller referenced fried chicken as a potential meal Woods may choose to serve at the Masters Champions’ dinner, after he won his first green jacket.</div>
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<td>Approx. 21,494</td>
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<td><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" class="thumbborder" height="11" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_the_Cayman_Islands.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Cayman_Islands.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_the_Cayman_Islands.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_Cayman_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_the_Cayman_Islands.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_Cayman_Islands.svg.png 2x" width="22" /> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayman_Islands" title="Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a> (Approx. 21,494<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cia_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracial_Caymanian#cite_note-cia-1">[1]</a></sup>)</td>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Caymanian" title="Afro-Caymanian">Afro-Caymanian</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Caymanian" title="White Caymanian">White Caymanian</a><br />
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<b>Multiracial Caymanians</b> or <b>Mixed-race Caymanians</b> are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Cayman_Islands" title="Demographics of the Cayman Islands">Caymanians</a> who have ancestry from two or more races.<br />
As of 2013, Caymanian people who are mixed-race are the plurality ethnic group in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayman_Islands" title="Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a>,
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multiracial Caymanians are of mixed black African and white European
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