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“Racist” iPhone app

May 1, 2009 – 5:21 am

From NZ Herald
An iPhone application where the aim is to kill off islanders has been criticised as racist by members of the Pacific Island community.
Pocket God opens with a “meet the islanders” screen, before brown-skinned men wearing hula skirts are shown on an island with a volcano in the background.
To score points, the player kills [...]

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Janet Albrechtsen and the bitter end

November 6, 2008 – 12:08 pm

Albrechtsen’s column this morning (“is America a racist nation after all?”) is a sour piece, the heading tells you everything.
Colin Powell was moved to tears. Condoleezza Rice expressed her pride as an African-American, George Bush and John McCain were both gracious in acknowledging the ‘healing’ that Obama’s win will do for America’s centuries old [...]

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