Arab Surf Music, Whopper Imperialists, Post-Racial HBCUs, Certificates of Whiteness, Immigration Settlements, and Presidential Coinage

• Did you know Dick Dale, the Doors, and Dylan Swayed to Arab Music? No, then check this out.
  
• Indian Country Today deconstructs the imperialist idiocy of the Whopper Virgin ads.
• Salman Rushdie blasts Arundhati Roy over Mumbai Attack comments.
  
• io9 asks: Will it soon be acceptable to select the sex of your baby?
• Meanwhile, Digital Journal, ponders the fate of HBCUs in the post-racial era of Obama.
• PZN looks at structural racism and the Obama presidency.
• Professor Zero discusses certificates of whiteness.
• Racism Review presents Black & Blue: Black Cops Face White Racism.
• Tampa Bay Online asks: Is the Recession causing a migrant exodus or influx?
• WSJ answers: US Workers Crowding Out Immigrant Laborers.
• CBS: New Focus on Anti-Migrant Hate Crimes after Murders in NY.
• Houston Chronicle: Houston firm to pay $21 million in Immigration case.
• NAM: AZ Border Patrol Agent sued for millions, Government implicated in wrongful death suit.
• The American Prospect: Unions come to Smithfields.
  
• Lists! Metromix counts down 8 things we won't miss about '08.
• Obama now a special limited edition coin [video].