I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Delegates at a meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People voted this week to adopt a resolution calling on tea party organizers to denounce racists in their ranks. The NAACP cited the claims of three black congressmen who said they were spit on (video here) and called racial epithets by protestors; and pointed to what they said was bigoted language on signs carried by others at tea party events.
Many tea party organizers have condemned the resolution and Sarah Palin said she was “saddened by the NAACP’s claim that patriotic Americans … are somehow racists.”
In April The Independent reported on a University of Washington study of race and politics showing how supporters of the tea party movement—the vast majority of whom are white—view blacks and Hispanics. Of the 45 percent of whites who said they strongly or somewhat approve of the tea party movement, the study report showed, “only 35 percent believe Blacks to be hardworking, only 45 percent believe Blacks are intelligent, and only 41 percent think that Blacks are trustworthy.”
