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I’m not a big racing fan, NASCAR or otherwise, but I couldn’t avoid feeling all kinds of pissed over the treatment of British Formula One racer and fellow person of color, Lewis Hamilton. I know that America’s European buddies tend to view the US as a backwards racist behemoth that has oppressed it’s black community…
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Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Sen. Hillary Clinton in 2007. At the far left is Sen. Barack Obama. They were there to mark the crossing of the bridge to Selma, Ala., a seminal moment in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. See? This is why you don’t throw…
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SatireBLACK AMERICA DEMANDS WHITE AMERICA TO STOP “MESSING AROUND” AND JUST MARRY HER ALREADY. SCAN News ServiceAthena Le Trelle Hemmings, long time girlfriend of the United States of America, threatened to dump her famous beaux after he refused to marry her. Friends of Hemmings said the break-up happened suddenly when America came up with another…
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Video from Talking Points Memo. The Root also has an article about the Farrakhan Question. I watched some of the debate last night on MSNBC and was pretty disgusted with the gall of Tim Russert’s “Farrakhan” question. Mostly because it made absolutely no sense and seemed to only serve the purpose of reinforcing the giant…
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Video from Defamer.com In case you haven’t heard, during an Oscar montage of past Oscar hosts on Sunday four-time Oscar host Whoopi Goldberg was not included. Never mind she was the first woman, first black and first former Oscar winner to host the Oscars. Who cares. What’s touching is how you can tell how hurt…
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Ditto everything Air America’s Rachel Maddow said. I almost never disagree with her. And way to check that whole news story about the RNC holding focus groups to see how close they could get to RACIST! without being called out as a racist on Obama. Countdown was good last night save for the story then…
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When Clinton supporters go bad: Jose Ortiz, 28, of Philadelphia, Pa. From The Carpetbagger blog, courtesy of the Democratic Underground: Brother-in-law stab another in voting dispute. People, people! Love Barack or Hillary but take your battle to the polls. Not the kitchen floor. If you’re loved one is teasing you because you picked Team Hillary…