Jon Stewart can’t get enough of that Rev. Wright. Neither can the news networks. What’s Obama to do when the souls of black folk keep popping up like skeletons in his closet? Barack Obama just wrapped up a press conference trying to deal with his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. “napalm of truth” that…

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While watching “Hardball” last night the cliche speedometer on the idiomatic phrase “Under the Bus” officially hit 5 million so I feel I can no longer use the phrase in good conscious due to the sheer laziness surrounding its overuse. But I need something to describe that “throw ___ under the bus” feeling so, what…

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I, Danielle Belton aka “The Snob,” will be NPR News and Notes with Farai Chideya (and some other black bloggers) April 30th, this Wednesday, 7 p.m. central standard time. Enjoy my deep dulcet-rich, radio-friendly tones as channeled through a very loud black woman and a nondescript, Midwestern flavored accent smothered liberally in a non-sexy layering…

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Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ and former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addresses a breakfast gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2008.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) I checked out Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Hallelujah strut in Amen Corner of the…

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I’d do it, but I’m not in Atlanta, Ga. Video from All Things CNN Sidenote: He must work out like a fiend if he really eats out that often because I used to go to town in restaurants in the Bako and it did not bode well for my waistline. I don’t care what the…

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I normally don’t get involved in gay speculation, but as I noted in my Incognegro entry on Wentworth Miller, he has an insane gay following and an insane female following and they are constantly involved in trench warfare over which tribe can claim this quiet, unassuming, Ivy-league educated, not-black-black-person. Personally, I’ve already claimed him as…

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My favorite sporadically employed actress has landed herself an new gig. According to ComingSoon.net, Angela Bassett will be joining the cast of “ER.” Angela Bassett will join the cast of the Emmy-winning medical drama “ER” as a regular next season. Bassett will play a tough attending with a troubled past who’s coming back to Chicago…

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