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“Racist circumcision outrage”

April 18, 2012

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Apparently, some folks haven’t gotten the memo that creating a cake and allowing a white person to don black face to imitate a black woman undergoing female genital mutilation circumcision could be possibly perceived as racist. Case in point: Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth’s participation in a “racist spectacle” in which she carved up [...]

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>Mom accused of circumcising daughter

March 11, 2010

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>Another shocking story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A 35-year-old mother was arrested for allegedly circumcising her 10-month-old daughter, police said. The LaGrange woman is currently being held in the Troup County jail without bond, Sgt. Chad Mann told the AJC. She faces female genital mutilation and child cruelty charges, Mann said.  “A relative changing the [...]

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