Category Archives: race

Fairness boycott gets national coverage

October 9, 2009 – 12:21 pm

The Fairness Campaign’s call to boycott Woody’s Tavern over another alleged racial incident involving the bar’s owner, David Norton, was covered in The Advocate this week. The national news magazine is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the country.
From The Advocate:
Now, a group called the Fairness Campaign is urging Louisville residents to ditch Woody’s by [...]

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Fairness Campaign to boycott Woody’s Tavern

October 5, 2009 – 3:06 pm

The Fairness Campaign is calling for a full boycott of Woody’s Tavern in response to another alleged racial incident involving the bar’s owner that took place last month. The LGBT rights organization is demanding that David Norton, who also owns Magnolia Bar & Grill in Old Louisville, sell Woody’s — a popular gay bar [...]

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Bullitt County KKK Adopt Avon Lady Tactics

July 30, 2009 – 6:27 pm

Speaking of klansmen — and hate groups in general — a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan is going door-to-door in Shepherdsville, leaving their propaganda fliers all over the place and not even getting charged with littering, solicitation or first degree douchebaggery (which is apparently not a crime).
The fliers, which say they are from the [...]

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Lunchbox: Halloween edition

October 31, 2008 – 1:00 am

Cool toys: Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2008 include a retail DNA test, just in case you have some immediate paternity questions.
Mr. Hope’s hangmen caught: Two UK students were arrested for hanging an Obama effigy from a tree on campus. They said it was in response to the Palin mannequin hung from a balcony in [...]

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No black Republicans

September 4, 2008 – 3:02 pm

With the historic nomination of Barack Obama on the Democratic side guaranteeing to bring out the black vote like never before (many suggest it’ll shatter the GOP’s lock in the south), the C-J examined why there are so few black GOP delegates at the Republican National Convention this year.
Basically everyone says Obama is the leading [...]

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Kentucky’s race problem goes international

May 21, 2008 – 3:00 pm

The mainstream spotlight on Kentucky’s race factor vote in the Democratic presidential primary has gotten coverage halfway across the world.
From AlJazeera (English):
“…I just don’t want to vote for a–.”
More bad press for the Bluegrass.
Secret’s out. Was it ever in? (pb)

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Kentucky’s race problem goes international

May 21, 2008 – 3:00 pm

The mainstream spotlight on Kentucky’s race factor vote in the Democratic presidential primary has gotten coverage halfway across the world.
From AlJazeera (English):
“…I just don’t want to vote for a–.”
More bad press for the Bluegrass.
Secret’s out. Was it ever in? (pb)

By FatLip | Comments (0)