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26. Mike Lillis, “Trayvon Martin’s parents suggest racial profiling was responsible for his death,” TheHill.com, March 27, 2012, http://thehill.com/homenews/house/218613-trayvon-martins-parents-suggest-racial-profiling-was-responsible-for-his-death-, accessed June 2012.
27. Rosalind S. Helderman, “Rep. Bobby Rush chided for wearing hoodie on House floor for Trayvon Martin,” Washington Post, March 28, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/rep-bobby-rush-wears-hoodie-on-house-floor-for-trayvon-martin/2012/03/28/gIQAlf8WgS_blog.html, accessed June 2012.
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31. Mytheos Holt, “Al Sharpton Threatens Civil Disobedience if George Zimmerman Not Arrested,” TheBlaze.com, March 30, 2012, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/al-sharpton-threatens-civil-disobedience-if-george-zimmerman-not-arrested/, accessed June 2012.
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35. Nancy Pfotenhauer, “The Real Reason the Left Is Attacking ALEC,” USNews.com, April 23, 2012, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/nancy-pfotenhauer/2012/04/23/the-real-reason-the-left-is-attacking-alec, accessed June 2012.
36. 2011 Florida Statutes, Chapter 776, Justifiable Use of Force.
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44. Rebekah Wilce, “Breaking News: Coca-Cola Dumps ALEC,” PRWatch.org, April 5, 2012, http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11413/breaking-news-coca-cola-dumps-alec, accessed June 2012.
45. Bedard, “Coke caves in face of Democratic boycott threats.”
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47. Ben Smith, “Obama on small-town Pa.: Clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia,” Politico.com, April 11, 2008, http://www.politico.com/blogs/
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49. Kyle Drennen, “MSNBC: ObamaCare Protesters ‘Racist,’ Including Black Gun-Owner,” Newsbusters.org, August 18, 2009, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/08/18/msnbc-no-mention-black-gun-owner-among-racist-protesters, accessed June 2012.
50. Noel Sheppard, “Morgan Freeman: Obama Made Racism Worse, Tea Party Will Do ‘Whatever [It] Can To Get This Black Man Outta Here,’ ” Newsbusters.org, September 23, 2011, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/09/23/morgan-freeman-obama-has-made-racism-worse-tea-party-will-do-whatever, accessed June 2012.
51. Matt Kibbe, “Another actor, another baseless tea party racist claim,” DailyCaller.com, October 18, 2011, http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/18/another-actor-another-baseless-tea-party-racism-claim/, accessed June 2012.
52. Ibid.
53. Kenneth T. Walsh, “Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests,” USNews.com, March 2, 2011, http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/03/02/obama-says-race-a-key-component-in-tea-party-protests_print.html, accessed June 2012. The article is an excerpt from Walsh’s Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2010).
54. Jim Hoft, “Racist Leftist Infiltrators Driven From Tea Party Rallies,” TheGatewayPundit.com, April 16, 2010, http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/04/racist-leftist-infiltrators-driven-from-tea-party-rallies-video/, accessed June 2012.
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56. Touré, “The Racial Cold War Is Heating Up,” Time.com, April 11, 2012, http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/11/the-racial-cold-war-is-heating-up/, accessed June 2012.
57. Jonah Goldberg, “Playing the race card again,” Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2012, http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/27/opinion/la-oe-goldberg-trayvon-martin-race-20120327, accessed June 2012.
58. Heather Horn, “Europe Sees History of American Racism in Trayvon Martin Killing,” TheAtlantic.com, April 3, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/europe-sees-history-of-american-racism-in-trayvon-martin-killing/255362/, accessed June 2012.
59. “MSNBC’s Michael Eric Dyson Smears Conservatives as Racists: View Obama Like ‘He’s a Moron, He’s An Orangutan, He’s An Animal,’ ” Weasel Zippers, April 16, 2012, http://weaselzippers.us/2012/04/16/msnbcs-michael-eric-dyson-smears-conservatives-as-racists-view-obama-like-hes-a-moron-hes-an-orangutan-hes-an-animal/, accessed June 2012.
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65. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).
66. Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York: Ballantine Books, 1999), 208.
67. Tom Wolfe, “These Radical Chic Evenings,” in Wolfe, The Purple Decades: A Reader (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982), 183–84. The essay originally appeared in New York magazine on June 8, 1970, as “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s.”
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2. Ylan Q. Mui, “Americans saw wealth plummet 40 percent from 2007 to 2010, Federal Reserve says,” Washington Post, June 11, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fed-americans-wealth-dropped-40-percent/2012/06/11/gJQAlIsCVV_story.html, accessed June 2012.
3. Stuart Varney, “Barack Obama Wants to Control the Banks,” Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879833094588163.html, accessed June 2012.
4. Robert Schmidt and Rebecca Christie, “Geithner Says Banks May Convert Shares, Seek Private Investment,” Bloomberg.com, April 22, 2009, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=afdcZEesYddk&pid=newsarchive, accessed June 2012.
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11. Russell S. Sobel, “Public Health and the Placebo: The Legacy of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act,” Cato Journal, Vo. 21, No. 3 (Winter 2002), http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj21n3/cj21n3-7.pdf, accessed August 2012.
12. Judson MacLaury, “A Brief History: The U.S. Department of Labor,” DOL.gov, http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/dolhistoxford.htm, accessed June 2012.
13. Todd DePastino, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 197–99.
14. Ibid.
15. “Excerpt from John T. Pace’s testimony given before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, July 13, 1951,” http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/lessons/view_lesson.php?id=45, accessed June 2012.
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17. DePastino, Citizen Hobo, 199.
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19. Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism (New York: Broadway Books, 2009), 150.
20. DePastino, Citizen Hobo, 199.
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