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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="color:#333333;"><span id="lw_1252623844_3">September 10</span>, 2009 <strong>ColorLines Direct</strong></span><span style="color:#808080;">.</span><span style="color:#333333;"> News and commentary from ColorLines magazine and RaceWire blog.</span></span></p>
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<td width="411" height="224" bgcolor="#e0e8fe"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=t2bl4vAuh4mD6K4ojySL1R3Mxpuq9ODQ" target="_blank"><strong>Everyone needs health insurance &#8212; undocumented immigrants too</strong></a></span>Why is our conversation around immigration so often driven to extremes, both of language and of policy? Perhaps the most talked-about moment of President Obama&#8217;s address to Congress last night followed the dismissal of rumors that the <span id="lw_1252623844_4">new health care</span> plan would cover &#8216;illegal immigrants.&#8217;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Accidental American&#8221; book shows why it&#8217;s wrong and self-defeating to deny rights and services to immigrants.</p>
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The author and activist chats about his new book, white denial and gay rights.</p>
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Dan Choi on becoming the public face for the fight against DADT policies.</p>
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Just who was that shrill voice heckling the President from the gallery at last night&#8217;s healthcare reform speech?<strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=g9K3ZKFTd8foxCa2PPCSlB3Mxpuq9ODQ" target="_blank"><span id="lw_1252623844_10">High School Latina Drop Out Rate Reaches 41 percent</span></a></strong><br />
&#8220;Listening to Latinas: Barriers to <span id="lw_1252623844_11" style="border-bottom:#0066cc 1px dashed;cursor:hand;">High School Graduation</span>&#8221; reports that 98 percent of Latinas want to graduate, but 41 percent end up not <span id="lw_1252623844_12">completing high school</span> in four years or drop out all together.<br />
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</strong><span id="lw_1252623844_14">Glenn Beck</span> has announced that <span id="lw_1252623844_15" style="border-bottom:#0066cc 1px dashed;cursor:hand;">Cass Sunstein</span>, Mark Lloyd, and <span id="lw_1252623844_16" style="border-bottom:#0066cc 1px dashed;cursor:hand;">Carol Browner</span> are his next targets and asked his followers to dig up all the dirt they can on them.<br />
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</strong><strong>Obama&#8217;s Post-Racist Presidency: Is &#8216;Socialist&#8217; the new N-Word?</strong></a><br />
Obama is (take your pick) a Muslim, not to be trusted; a foreigner, illegally holding the office of President; a stealth leader of world domination by the UN; and simultaneously a Fascist and a Communist. More recently, he&#8217;s been called a&#8221;socialist.&#8221; But is racism lurking underneath these charges?</p>
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