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Racial overtones at healthcare protest Bill Trott (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 3/20/2010 7:09:51 PM
The protests against healthcare reform took an ugly turn on Saturday. Black congressmen told reporters that demonstrators called them the N-word and one representative said he was spat upon. “This is not the first time the congressman has been called the N-word and certainly not the worst assault he has endured in his years fighting for equal rights for all Americans,” said a statement from the office of Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver. “That being said, he is disappointed that in the 21st century our national discourse has devolved to the point of name-calling and spitting.” The statement said the man
suspected of spitting on Cleaver was quickly arrested by police but that the congressman would not press charges. The confrontations came as Democratic House members were going to the Capitol to hear President Barack Obama rally members to vote for the
healthcare overhaul, which Democratic leaders predict will be passed in a House vote on Sunday. A crowd of at least 100 loud, sign-toting protesters gathered around the representatives. “I heard people saying things today I have not heard since
March 15, 1960, when I was marching to try to get off the back of the bus,” Representative Jim Clyburn was quoted as saying on politico.com. “It was shocking to me.” Representative John Lewis, who was severely beaten during a 1965 civil rights march, was among those harassed and called the N-word by protesters as they shouted, “Kill the bill,” according to The Washington Post. “It was like a page out of a time machine,” Representative Andre Carson, who accompanied Lewis, told reporters. Photo credit: Reuters/Mike Segar (Representative John Lewis in a file photo taken during the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver)
First child to receive stem-cell transplant surgery (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 3/20/2010 12:25:30 PM
A ten-year-old boy in Britain was the first child to undergo a stem-cell transplant. The boy received the scaffold of a windpipe from a dead donor. His stem cells were injected in the windpipe before the transplant. The procedure will trigger regrowth of a normal transplant without, hopefully, his body rejecting the windpipe. The ultimate goal is for regenerative growth from a patient’s own stem cells to reduce the need for transplant surgery. Full story at Telegraph. More on science. Permalink| Leave a comment »
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