The Columbus Dispatch : Owning up to history

The Columbus Dispatch : Owning up to history: "At the same time that Ohio State University is preparing to send the remains of American Indians back to West Virginia, the school is returning tissue and blood samples from Yanomamo tribes, at the request of the Brazilian government.

In northeastern Ohio, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has received a letter from Odawa Indians requesting the return of two wooden ceremonial bowls. The Cleveland Museum of Art is talking with Italian authorities who want several antiquities returned."

Threatened by Mail

Threatened by mail
Friday, April 18, 2008
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Below is a look at local athletes and others the FBI says have received hate mail from Pepper Pike resident David Tuason, who was charged earlier this month. Prosecutors said he threatened to kill or maim them. Nearly all were black men who dated white women or were children of interracial couples. Ollie Thomas, who is black, believes he was targeted because he ran for class president at Mentor High.
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OLLIE THOMAS
Mentor High School track athlete
Received: Around May 30, 2003.
Thomas ran track at Mentor but was in the news more in May 2003 because of the school's controversial senior class president election, an election filled with accusations of ballot-stuffing and racial discrimination. It resulted in co-presidency at the predominantly white school between Thomas and Bob Kinner.
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CLARENCE THOMAS
Supreme Court Justice
Received: Around July 25, 2003.
Thomas is married to a white woman.
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KRISTIN PEOPLES
Former Kent State women's
basketball player
Received: Around April 14, 2007.
Photo of Peoples with her parents, an interracial couple, appeared in The Plain Dealer on Dec. 12, 2006, accompanying a story about the basketball player transferring to Kent State.
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CASEY NANCE
Revere High School girls
basketball player
Received: Around Oct. 10, 2007.
Nance is the daughter of former Cavaliers player Larry Nance, who is black, and Jaynee Nance, who is white. A story and picture of Nance about her decision to play for the University of Dayton appeared in The Plain Dealer on Sept. 28, 2007.
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AL JARREAU
Musician
Received: Around Feb. 4, 2008.
Jarreau married a white woman.
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SEAL
Singer
Received: Around Feb. 6, 2008.
Seal is married to model Heidi Klum, who is white.
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D.J. WOODS
Strongsville High School football player
Received: Around March 3, 2008.
Woods, who is biracial, is often in the news for his athletic achievements. The Cincinnati recruit was pictured with stories on the cover of The Plain Dealer's Sports section and Locker Room section in February.
Tuason is also suspected of sending letters to the following people:
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ST. IGNATIUS SOCCER TEAM
Barry Rice and Justin Morrow
Received: Nov. 30, 2004.
Both Rice and Morrow, who are black, were pictured with their Homecoming dates, who were white, in The Plain Dealer's Locker Room section on Nov. 18, 2004.
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ST. EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL
Unspecified athletes or students
Received: Dec. 2, 2004.
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JASON TAYLOR
Miami Dolphins defensive lineman and former Akron player
Received: Unknown.
Taylor married a white woman.
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DEREK JETER
New York Yankees shortstop
Received: Unknown.
Jeter is biracial.
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TAYE DIGGS
Actor
Received: Unknown.
Diggs married a white woman.
SOURCES: FBI, indictment,
Plain Dealer research.

Alicia Keys: The Difference Between Paranoid and Suspicious

Indianz.Com > News > Column: Nevada Natives oppose nuclear waste

Indianz.Com > News > Column: Nevada Natives oppose nuclear waste: "'A small group of Native Americans, professors and government officials met last week in Nevada to exchange information on nuclear waste issues as they relate to Native Americans.

The discussion was disturbing. Chicagoans and Native Americans alike should be alarmed. One of the big issues discussed week was the transportation of radioactive waste to Yucca Mountain, if the site receives the approval being sought by the DOE from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."

'Dangerously close to having no law' | argusleader.com | Argus Leader

'Dangerously close to having no law' | argusleader.com | Argus Leader: "McLAUGHLIN - This town has the look of a busted up bum, broken and ragged.

A board covering a shattered window in the Boys and Girls Club on Main Street, the charred shell of a nearby house, its roof and second story mostly burned away suggest a waning sense of pride in the place.

McLaughlin, on the Standing Rock reservation in north-central South Dakota, is becoming less like home and more like the midway at a criminals' carnival.


South Dakota's reservations have seen an explosion of juvenile and drug-related crime in recent years, the result of a system where offenders see no officers to arrest them, no means to get them to court and no place to put them if convicted.

Efforts to deal with the problem are stymied by a lack of money, complicated jurisdiction laws and sovereignty issues.

Everybody, it seems, has a story about crime."

Presentation to Support ‘the Heart of the World’ : Intercontinental Cry

Presentation to Support ‘the Heart of the World’ : Intercontinental Cry: "On March 18, 2008, three Indigenous Elders and Spiritual Leaders from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta took part in a presentation at the Poder forum in Miami, Florida, to discuss their land reclamation and restoration efforts.

Home to some 50,000 indigenous people from four different ethnic groups – the Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco and Kakuamo, all descendants of the Tayronas - the Sierra Nevada is the the world’s tallest coastal mountain range and one of the world’s most unique ecosystems."

One guy's lonely mission

Here's an old article on a man who thinks like that bigot who was arrested last week for issuing racist threats to Black celebrities and IRs.

Sad, lonely men who cannot be happy without putting down other people. I wish they get a life and stop telling people what to do or threaten others with physical harm.

YOUTUBE EXCLUSIVE: Send me your stereotypes

Queen Rania is launching her presence on YouTube with this exclusive video.

Watch the clip to hear her message to YouTubers everywhere, and then join in the conversation.

Cedella Booker(Bob Marley's Mom) R.I.P.

Cedella Booker, with photo of her late son,
Bob Marley.

May Mrs. Booker rests in peace.

Fire Witch Rising: Bitter White Whine of the Week: Boycott Absolut

Fire Witch Rising: Bitter White Whine of the Week: Boycott Absolut: "In this image released by the Mexican advertising firm of Teran/TBWA on Monday April 7, 2008, an advertisement created for Swedish Absolut Vodka which ran in Mexico, shows a map of the border of Mexico and the United States where it stood before the Mexican-American War of 1848. The Absolut vodka company apologized for the ad campaign amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers. (AP photo/Teran/TBWA)"

Star Jones on Larry King

Feds: Ohio Man Threatens Black Celebrities

Hat tip: LetsTalkSeriously regarding the man who wrote hateful letters to Black celebrities in IRs:

Feds: Man threatens black celebrities
By MEGHAN BARR, Associated Press Writer Thu Apr 10, 2:16 AM ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio man has been indicted on charges that he threatened to blow up the U.S. Supreme Court and attack black men, including a justice on the court, according to an indictment filed Wednesday.

David Tuason, 46, targeted black men known to affiliate with white women, well-known white women who had relationships with black men, and children of mixed-race parents, federal authorities said.
Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg confirmed that a threat was made against Clarence Thomas but refused further comment. Thomas is the only black justice on the court.

FBI spokesman Scott Wilson declined to name those targeted, citing privacy issues. He would not specify whether Tuason attempted to carry out attacks. The threats began in Cleveland and branched out across the nation, Wilson said.
Wilson said Tuason sent the communications as far back as 20 years and that the threats were sent to places where the targets worked or may have attended functions.

"It's been a very long, enduring case," Wilson said. "Basically it's a case we never gave up on."

An message seeking comment was left after-hours Wednesday at the Cleveland office of Federal Public Defender Dennis Terez, who authorities say is representing Tuason.

According to the indictment, Tuason sent a letter to the Supreme Court building in July 2003 in which he threatened to blow it up. The letter was addressed to an associate justice of the court referred to as "CT."

Tuason claimed "CT" would be "castrated, shot or set on fire...I want him killed."
The letter contained several racially charged remarks.

The indictment says letters were also sent to several Ohio sites, including the Kent State University women's basketball team, several Ohio high schools and the Severance Hall home of the Cleveland Orchestra.

The earliest letter was sent to a high school track team in Mentor in May 2003, according to the document. The most recent threat, to a high school football team in Strongsville, was mailed March 3, according to the indictment.
Investigators said Tuason also sent threatening e-mails to office personnel at Jordache Enterprises.

The threats he's accused of are mostly alike, promising physical violence against black men associated with white women.
Tuason, of Pepper Pike, Ohio, was indicted on two counts of transmitting threatening interstate communications and six counts of mailing threatening communications.

The indictment was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland.

Tuason is in the custody of U.S. Marshals. Each interstate communication charge carries a penalty of up to 10 year in prison and each mail charge carries a penalty of up to five years.

"As far as we know, it's a one-man operation," Wilson said.