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  • The wrong story was posted earlier today. Sorry for the inconvenience! This is the eighth entry of “The Chip On My Shoulder Is A Boulder,” a series on the complex relationships between black women and their mothers. The series will run through this week. Previous entries include “The Adoptee,” “The Rebel,” “The Gypsy,” “She Did…

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  • The Snob was on NPR’s News and Notes June 25 talking about a new poll on prejudice, what makes a person legally black, and whether Affirmative Action is necessary. You can hear me explain how I personally benefited from Affirmative Action as McDonnell Douglas wasn’t exactly hiring black folks with engineering degrees before the early…

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  • I’ll admit it. I’m a political wives fan. I love them. Democrat or Republican. Especially if they’re crazy in some kind of way. The more interesting the better. It was fabulous during this election cycle when almost 20 people were running for president and all their wives were out there trying to be supportive and…

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  • I was bored. So … Super TJ! Yay! It’s been forever since I had any good news about my Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of TV News, CNN’s TJ Holmes. Mmmm … delicious. But I digress! Snob reader Fantastically Misunderstood Me came through with some huge, huge news. She claims Holmes will be Upscale Magazine’s “Maleman”…

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  • The jury has spoken! Wednesday Isonprize sent The Snob a clip from The Today Show where they threw up a picture of rapper they said was Jay-Z but who clearly was not Jay-Z, largely due to the fact he did not look like Camel Joe. He actually looked, dare I say it, handsome. Who on…

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  • Name That Rapper!

    Black Snob regular Isonprize posted this to me under my threat on AverageBro’s live-blogging of the BET Awards. (E)ither Jay-Z got better lookin’ or I just forgot what Jay-Z looks like, cause that ain’t Jay-Z. Is that Jay-Z??? Or maybe I got a pair of them glasses in that commercial … Damn. Watch the above…

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  • AverageBro watched so I didn’t have to. Thank you, play cousin! Click here for more!

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