PostRacialist
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This was a case originally ruled on by Supreme Court candiate Sonia Sotomayor where she sided with the lower court, upholding the city’s right to throw out the written firefighting tests when too few minorities passed them. More after the jump.
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In the first of the Pryor & Wilder Racial Rainbow chats, one of my female friends, aka “Wilder,” takes on the BET Awards with The Snob. “What the hell is this?” was all Wilder asked over and over and over again as we watched the BET Awards together. Naturally, she didn’t last the whole show,…
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I have friends who happen to be white. Like good friends. Like the kind who will drive you to the emergency room at midnight and sit with you for almost 10 hours. And since we both share in each others worlds I often find myself the only black person at the party and sometimes they…
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfOnW276SwQ&hl=en&fs=1&] You know who’s not good enough to shill shampoo for French cosmetics maker L’Oreal? Most of the people who read this blog. While they hired faces like Beyonce, Kerry Washingtion and Eva Longoria to convince women of color to buy their over-priced products, behind the make-up counter L’Oreal was a tad less “We…
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The obsession with skin-lightening: Is it ever okay to bleach? By Lamees Al Mubarak We’re forever being told by those who should know better that beauty is “only” skin deep. Well, for many black women and a few black men, that’s disturbingly deep. As Trading Standards convictions confirm that sales of illegal skin-lightening creams continue…
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by Maco L. Faniel Breaking news! Congress apologizes for slavery!Yes, I said it right! Last week the U.S. House of Representatives issued what has been called an “unprecedented” apology for the institution of slavery and for the subsequent Jim Crow laws. OK, Clap for a minute and do the Roger Rabbit. I’ll wait.Your minute is…
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Starting next week there will be a new feature on The Snob as part of our efforts to increase the intellectual discourse between people of different backgrounds. To kick the series off, we will be starting with the Pryor and Wilder’s Racial Rainbow Chats which are exactly what you think they are — conversations about
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