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Ivy League Fooled: How America’s Top Colleges Avoid Real Diversity “Call it the Ivy League’s dirty little secret: While America’s most elite colleges do in fact make it a point to promote ethnic diversity on their campuses, a lot of them do so by admitting hugely disproportionate numbers of wealthy immigrants and their children rather than black students with deep roots—and troubled histories—in the United States.” (Good)

Racial profiling and terrorism: If you want to screen Muslims, you’ll have to target blacks. “The logic of Muslim profiling is simple. First, Muslims are more likely than non-Muslims to plan or commit acts of terror against the United States. Second, Muslims are more likely than non-Muslims to sympathize with al-Qaida or believe that suicide bombing can be justified…a new survey report from Pew adds a twist to the data: Statistically, the group most deserving of scrutiny under this rationale isn’t Muslims. It’s black Muslims.” (Slate)

Grandma Bunks With Jobless Kids as Multigenerational Homes Surge “The U.S. is experiencing a surge in the multigenerational households that were once a common feature of American life, and Hispanic and Asian families are driving the trend, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this month. The number of such households, defined as those with three or more generations living under one roof, grew to almost 5.1 million in 2010, a 30 percent increase from 3.9 million in 2000, the data show.” (bloomberg.com)

Touré Distances Himself from ESPN’s Michael Vick ‘Whiteface’ Saga “Michael Vick has been in the news again…In an unprecedented move, Nike also re-endorsed Vick, something that the company has rarely done with athletes who’ve fallen so quickly out of favor with the public. His name has also been in a news for a controversy he didn’t start.” (colorlines.com)

Group of Black Government Employees Calls for End to the Drug War “(Retired DEA agent Matthew) Fogg covered D.C. for the DEA during the late 80s and 90s. In a statement from Law Enforcement Again Prohibition, Fogg says, ‘I personally witnessed racially biased enforcement procedures when I ran a joint DEA task force…When I requested equal enforcement of upscale suburban areas, I met internal resistance.’ So Fogg never busted down doors in Chevy Chase, McLean, or Bethesda? Shocking.” (reason.com)

The Obamas as just another mixed-status family “Mixed-status nuclear families are at the center of the debate over escalating deportations, as undocumented parents are sent away from their U.S.-born children, forced to decide between taking the children with them, leaving them with relatives here, or returning illegally.” (multiamerican.scpr.org)