Tag Archives: Racism

Debacles In Blackface

January 29, 2019

By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®

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On Thursday morning, Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel was a rising star. His career was in ruins by afternoon.
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Blackface, Florida, Halloween, Megan Luloff, Megyn Kelly, Michael Ertel, Race, Racism

Protesting King Tut

November 30, 2017

By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®

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On a liberal campus, fellow students push back against those who would hijack lectures and stifle open discussion.
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College, Higher Education, Lucia Martinez Valdivia, Protest, Racism, Reed College, Reedies Against Racism

Remembering History By Forgetting It

September 19, 2017

By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®

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Some residents of a Florida city founded 60 years after Appomattox have a fuzzy memory of their community’s Southern history.
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Civil War, Eula Johnson, Florida, History, Racism, Reuben Stacey, Segregation, Von Mizell, Walter Clark

A Symbol Of Hate At The House Of Justice

May 23, 2011

By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®

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In the decade following the end of the Civil War, paramilitary groups and mobs in Caddo County, La., murdered approximately …
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Confederate Flag, Felton Dorsey, History, Louisiana, Racism

Arizona’s Experiment In Large-Scale Profiling

April 26, 2010

By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®

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Arizona recently passed a law that practically orders the state’s law enforcement officers to engage in racial profiling. The bill, …
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Arizona, Federal Immigration Policy, Illegal Immigration, Immigration And Customs Enforcement, Jan Brewer, Racial Profiling, Racism, Xenophobia