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“Hey Hey It’s Saturday,” a long-running Australian variety show, is under serious fire after it featured a comic group doing a skit in blackface, as a parody of the Jackson Five. The men in disguise, as well as the network, have apologized for the offending skit, but it has barely managed to put a d... |
9 October 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead 2 has a lot of controversy surrounding it, partly because it will arrive almost a year after the original game, which prompted many players of the first title to boycott it unless Valve released new content for it before L4D 2 would arrive. But another source of controversy has been a Houston Chronicle b... |
6 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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At a UN conference on race that took place on Wednesday, the message that the Vatican had to send was pretty clear – the Catholic Church feared that genetic alterations of babies could spawn a new type of racism worldwide. Pope Benedict XVI argues that the ability to alter traits in unborn babies could lead to ... |
23 April 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Nigerian-born Helen Lawal, the 23-year-old Miss Black Britain and, most recently, the freshly crowned Miss York, is the target of a self-confessed racist who thinks she should not be part of the more important Miss Britain competition. A threatening phone call was placed with event organizer Vivienne Lee, and the pol... |
21 April 2009
04:16 GMT |
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Actor Brad Garrett, star of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” is no stranger to getting vocal about the way paparazzi are always in the face of a celebrity whenever they step out in public. However, it’s just now that he’s being targeted by several groups, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Commit... |
17 April 2009
09:31 GMT |
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Resident Evil 5 is the latest iteration in Capcom's survival horror franchise. It was set out to provide a new and unique twist on the events portrayed in the series. It teamed up the main character in the first game, Chris Redfield, with a new and lovely sidekick and dispatched him to Kijuju, a fictional Africa... |
27 March 2009
04:15 GMT |
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The Resident Evil franchise has always been about killing zombies and potentially saving the whole world from an outbreak of one of the many viruses that either the Umbrella Corporation or other companies that followed it released upon unsuspecting victims. So far so good, nobody complained about that. But when Resi... |
16 March 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Recently, snopes received an e-mail from a person complaining about the fact that a Barnes and Nobles book retail shop featured a highly unusual and potentially racist book display. The layout comprised numerous books written by or about president Obama, and all of these volumes were carefully arranged so as to surro... |
28 February 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Capcom is probably more than happy to announce that the demo version for Resident Evil 5, which is available on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, has been downloaded four million times by gamers who are interested in seeing how the veteran videogame series is evolving.Initially, the download was only available... |
25 February 2009
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Researchers are amazed by the fact that the level of racist prejudice sharply decreased in the United States in the Fall of 2008, especially after Barack Obama was designated as the Democratic Party's nominee for President. Psychology professor E. Ashby Plant, from Florida State University, together with profess... |
13 February 2009
05:18 GMT |
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A blood type “frenzy” is currently sweeping Japan, authorities announce, in that all people are very interested in determining what their most outstanding blood-related features are. The country still holds the widespread belief that a person's blood houses a great deal of his or her character, and n... |
2 February 2009
16:01 GMT |
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In a study conducted by researchers from Yale University, the York University, and the University of British Columbia, behavior psychologists learned that people tended to accept more racist remarks than they themselves were willing to admit. For the test, 120 non-black participants were divided into groups, and m... |
9 January 2009
12:10 GMT |
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The Resident Evil franchise is one of the best ones in the horror survival genre, putting players against hordes of zombies or genetically mutated humans in a wide variety of scenarios and countries. Resident Evil 4 gained critical acclaim by taking the franchise to new heights in terms of gameplay and story, which b... |
28 October 2008
01:39 GMT |
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Posting entries on a blog is usually a pleasant activity and some people managed to do a real business out of it. However, publishing messages on a blog sometimes may bring you more trouble than you have ever expected according to recent reports concerning a blogger who may go to jail due to comments posted on his bl... |
22 May 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Despite all its immense creative power and cutting edge sense of style, the fast-spinning fashion world has its fair share of inherent flaws, some kept well hidden, some more obvious. Perhaps the best example of an "open secret" is the belief common among fashion executives that black models do not inspire women to s... |
21 May 2008
03:54 GMT |
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Last year, the Resident Evil 5 initial trailer caused a lot of controversy when it featured an all-black cast in the role of the mutants and recently new questions have been put about the way racism affects the gaming world, after game journalist extraordinary N'Gai Croal remarked: "Wow, clearly no one black wor... |
14 April 2008
06:15 GMT |
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When Capcom launched the newest Resident Evil 5 trailer, sites immediately started stirring up some controversy, basically in relation to the fact that players will be in the boots of the White guy, on a mission to kill the Black, zombie guys. It seems that "the first ignorant article has popped up in the form of a b... |
2 August 2007
04:48 GMT |
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