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“Young black women today are nearly an inch shorter than white women their age and about half an inch shorter than black women born in the late 60s, according to an analysis of CDC data by John Komlos, a professor of economics at the University of Munich in Germany.” [Link]

Black Votes Could Put Red States In Play For Obama

News America Now — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:11:06 +0000

“Appearing on Meet the Press, NBC’s Chuck Todd noted that early voting is ‘through the roof,’ and that turnout is threatening John McCain even in states that lean his way, including Georgia and North Carolina. Turnout among African-Americans might be ’somewhere between 95 and 100 percent in some of these states,’ he noted, upturning some red-leaning southern states.” [Link]

Houston Cops Used Tasers On Blacks More

News America Now — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:09:03 +0000

Cop Gets Tasered

“Of 1,417 Taser deployments by officers between December 2004 and June 2007, nearly 67 percent were used on black suspects, according to an audit conducted for the city by a team of criminology, statistics and mathematics experts. About 25 percent of Houston’s population is black.” [Link]