PostRacialist
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqYy273FiN4&border=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Seriously. It was like bringing a wooden spoon to a nuclear war. Jay-Z and Drake have recently put out a little ditty called “Off That” because we all know that Jay-Z is never retiring. In the song he proclaims the many things that we are now “off,” including sagging jeans and large chains…
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While I’ve been in New York Governor David Paterson has made some highly interesting statements about his poll numbers, the media and race. On a radio show, Paterson blamed some of his low standing with the public on a vicious press fueled in some parts by racism. More after the jump.
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Something about the angry people, mostly white, with signs, screaming things have caused Rep. James Clyburn, pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement to have what I sometimes jokingly call a “slavery flashback.” That’s a moment where you see something that causes a chill to run down your spine, something you know about deep in your…
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For a reference point she is referring to a black representative in Congress, Democrat David Scott, who had a contentious town hall and later found a swastika painted on his office headquarters. He, naturally, was all, what the bloody ‘ell and claimed to be a victim of people’s bigotry. My representative in the Senate, Claire…
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Seems “the president is a racist” doesn’t work to well for people trying to sell you soap, legal services and car insurance. From Gawker: After Glenn Beck called the president a racist Nazi, some of his advertisers decided that bottomless white rage is off-brand: Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance ads no longer appear
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From NewsbustersIs there a racial undertone to the “Barack Obama as Joker” agitprop going around? Philip Kennicott with the Washington Post seems to think so. (T)he poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the “urban” makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster
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It’s inevitable. Baring some Hitchockian turn of events, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is destined to become the first Latino and third woman to sit on the highest court in the land. While a majority of Republican senators plan to vote no, because of their minority status their no votes will largely be a symbolic protest. Sotomayor…
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