Racial Issues

Sheriff Arpaio Struggles to Answer Examples of Seemingly Bigoted Leadership in Racial-Profiling Trial

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a self-promoting bigot of a politician who influences his deputies with discriminatory ideas that flow down from the top. That was the underlying theme of hours of questioning by Stanley Young, one of the lawyers who representatives Hispanics suing the county in a major racia ... More >>

Andy Tobin's Meeting With the Black Community Actually Seemed Constructive

See Also:Andy Tobin Calls Black Democrat "Very Ghetto" See also: Andy Tobin and Jarrett Maupin II Make Amends Over "Very Ghetto" Comment Some might view Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin's meeting yesterday with members of Arizona's black community as a politically motivated attempt to make amends f ... More >>

Andy Tobin and "Kid Sharpton" Jarrett Maupin II Make Amends Over "Very Ghetto" Comment

We weren't sure how the meeting would turn out between Reverend Jarrett Maupin II -- once considered the protégé to Al Sharpton -- and state House Speaker Andy Tobin, who called a black Democrat "very ghetto" yesterday.Maupin had invited us to the meeting this morning at Tobin's, while Tobin (poli ... More >>

New Voting Laws Could Take Out Obama This Fall

Joe Arpaio Says He's Running for "Spite" at Far-Right Wingnut Convention

Joe at the CSPOA. If you don't want to watch 30 minutes of blather, the highlights are belowThe mutual embrace of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and far right wing extremist groups has been going on for some time now, Arpaio's ludicrous foray into the conspiranut world of birtherdom being but the latest example ... More >>

Russell Pearce Claims "Absolute Legislative Immunity" in False Arrest of Sal Reza

Humiliated 12-point loser and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce figures the rules don't apply to him. That's been a life-long pattern, from the shenanigans that got him fired from his post as head of the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles to the sham candidacy of Olivia Cortes in last ... More >>

Arpaio Corruption: The Feds Have Spoken, But Justice Won't Be Served Until the Sheriff's Indicted

Russell Pearce's Extremist Pals, Including Neo-Nazis, Donate to Patriots for Pearce

Elton Hall (left) proud neo-Nazi and Pearce supporterTo borrow a line from The Blues Brothers, state Senate President Russell Pearce's got the band back together. But it's a band with more extremists than teeth. So to speak.Take the case of Elton Hall, onetime stormtrooper for American Nazi Par ... More >>

Jeffery Harbin, Neo-Nazi, Pleads Guilty to Possessing and Transporting Homemade Bombs; Prison Sentence Capped at Five Years

Image: www.splc.orgJeffery Harbin, 29, of Apache Junction will receive up to five years in a federal prison when he's sentenced this December for making and transporting homemade bombs.​Neo-Nazi Jeffery Harbin of Apache Junction will received up to five years in prison after pleading guilty in fed ... More >>

Gustavo Arellano On Mexican Men and Brown Pride

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 12, 2011

Russell Pearce, Bigot, Claims President Will Need "Papers" to Visit Arizona

Pearce tells a bigot-boy joke at a Judicial Watch panel on immigration Chalk up another racist remark from Sand Land's neo-Nazi-hugging state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce. In D.C. to attend the oral arguments on Arizona's employer sanctions law before the U.S. Supreme Court, he stoppe ... More >>

Anarchists, Nazis and the Battle of 8th and Jefferson

I suppose his hair can grow over that when need be...Phoenix-area anarchists earned the right to wear their Zapatista-like bandannas Saturday in a full-on street battle at 8th Avenue and Jefferson, with anarchists and assorted counter-demonstrators on one side, and the Phoenix Police Department and ... More >>

Neo-Nazi NSM Invades Phoenix November 13: Wanna Do Battle? Why, Send in the Clowns

wikimediacommonsThis is a clown...And so is this, only the one in black is far more ridiculous...A lot of folks have been e-mailing me of late to wonder if I knew that the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement will be back in town on Saturday, November 13, to reprise their performance of last year at ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Apple Day and Targeting African-Americans

Morning Poll: Is the Term "National Poster Boy" Racist?

www.willcurley.tripod.comVernon Parker pulled out the race card.​Congressional candidate Vernon Parker decided to pull out the race card last week, asserting that a phrase used by one of his primary opponents is racist.The phrase in question: "national poster boy."The term was used by Ben Quayle i ... More >>

Governor Jan Brewer's CCA Ties Burn Like Neon, and News for Liberals: J.T. Ready's Still a Neo-Nazi

Augustus Shaw, Arpaio-Endorsed State Rep Candidate From Tempe, was Target of Two State Bar Disciplines; Fired in 2006 From Republic Column-Writing Gig

  Credit: www.shawforarizona.com In 2006, a judge described Augustus Shaw IV, HOA attorney (and now, a state senate candidate), as a shame to his profession.​August Shaw IV, a Republican candidate for state representative in Tempe's District 17, has been disciplined twice by ... More >>

Phoenix Rising Rally Nativists EXPOSED by Dennis Gilman

The cranks are all here in this video of the June 5 Phoenix Rising rally by videographer Dennis Gilman: Russell Pearce, Joe Arpaio, and lesser known wackjobs such as "Chemtrail Chelene" Nightingale, "Loopy Lupe" Moreno, self-loathing, wannabe white-boy Ray Herrera, and black apologist for slavery T ... More >>

SB 1070: Is Arizona Willing to Take a $18.6 Billion Travel Industry Hit or Suffer Long-Term Economic Consequences From Its Dalliance with Ethnic Cleansing?

Jan Brewer, Dean Martin Now (Former) Facebook "Friends" of Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready

FacebookA screenshot of JT Ready's Facebook page as of May 5, 2010Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready's been getting around lately, earning play in the local media by calling Cinco de Mayo "Report an Illegal Day" on behalf of his beloved National Socialist Movement, or showing up to support Sheriff Joe Arpaio' ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 22, 2010

William Gheen, ALIPAC Organizer, Calls on John McCain to Apologize for "Smear Campaign"

William Gheen​William Gheen, organizer of the controversial Americans for Legal Immigration, is calling on Senator John McCain to apologize for a "smear campaign" his campaign has waged, suggesting the group has racist leanings.This is the same guy who just yesterday told New Times ... More >>

Arpaio Visits Houston and the Bigots at Westboro Baptist Church Have a New Target: Jews

Tom Metzger's Buds Dennis and Daniel Mahon Collared for Scottsdale Bombing, Arizona ADL Helped Bring Them Down

White supremacist godfather Tom Metzger at the 2004 Aryanfest, from New Times' cover story "Barbecue Nations" Friday morning, I dropped by the offices of U.S. Attorney Diane Humetewa to attend a news conference announcing the indictment of identical twin white supremacists  ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 4, 2009

Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor Called Racist by the Racists

Sonia Sotomayor, a racist? Riiiiiight.... You know it's taken a turn for the surreal when an obnoxious lout like William Gheen is calling you a racist. Gheen is a nasty piece of work, the founder of the extremist nativist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which is headquartered in Rale ... More >>

Neo-Nazis and Extreme Right-Wingers Love Joe Arpaio, and There’s Evidence that the MCSO Keeps Them Close

Many Faces of Hate Film Series: The Hate Conspiracy -- The Rise & Fall of The Order

Arizona ACLU blasts racial profiling in new report "Driving While Black or Brown."

The Bird exposes Sheriff Joe's racist ties, delves into the Israel Correa madness, and reveals Napolitano as the real Judas

Laugh Factory to Seinfeld: Cough Up the Bucks, Bubee!

Mesa Muttonhead

The veterinary vulture asks, is it merely hoof-in-mouth disease or the ravings of a racist dumb-ass?

Letters

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 19, 2005

Kid Sharpton

Jarret Maupin is the reverend Al's handpicked protégé. Is Phoenix City Hall ready?

The New Racism

Nothing's black and white at Millennium High School

Primary Colors

A Phoenix City Council race is pitting Hispanic hopes against black history

Letters

From the week of April 5, 2001

Race Abater

Geneticist has big news for bigots: Biology doesn't recognize race

Race Tracks

Author Jon Entine comes to Phoenix to dissect the Taboo subject of why blacks dominate sports

Spade & Neutered

Scottsdale's "Looking Forward" is sanitized for your protection

Oscar Performance

Is Motorola Harboring Diversity or Disrespect?

The state's largest private employer pours money into African-American causes--but critics charge its bosses don't walk the talk

Joe Parham Stands Up

Is the African-American psychologist and former Ev Mecham staffer incompetent--or just streetwise?

AMAZING RACE

BLACK LIKE SHE

THE LIFE BEHIND A RACIAL MISTAKE

BLACK LIKE SHE

DISAPPEARING ACTS

IF SLICK WILLY WON'T MAKE THE CASE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, WHO WILL? A NEW TIMES EXCLUSIVE.