I found this on Gawker today. It linked to an article on The Root by John McWhorter. In his column he tries to dissect the essence of blackness in “Blackness: A Quick and Dirty Primer.” He attempts to define “blackness,” which is where he starts to befuddle me. He bases most of the perspectives of…

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NAACP President Julian Bond The black organization that baffles me the most, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is calling for the Democratic National Convention to change its mind and seat the delegates Dean and the boys stripped from Michigan and Florida. In a Feb. 8 letter to DNC Chairman Howard Dean,…

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When The Snob was a reporter in California she was often assigned all the token assignments revolving around African-Americans. At first I didn’t mind it as I was the only black person in the newsroom and I felt it was important to get socially relevant stories about blacks in our newspaper. But I soon began…

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I found this originally on Young Black and Fabulous and felt compelled to blog about it. Largely because it addresses the word “nigger.” Nas told CNN at the event that this is the name of his upcoming album which he wanted to promote. He said he also wanted to point out that the word nigger…

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Found on Crunk + Disorderly. Obama in wax. The new Barack Obama wax figure was presented to the public for the first time today at Madame Tussauds Washington D.C. As a potential sign of things to come, the Senator’s figure was positioned behind the Oval Office desk with Bill and Hillary Clinton on one side…

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Found this on The Carpetbagger Report today (which has become one-stop-shopping for Obama slander). Seems a bunch of conservative bloggers got their panties in a bunch over some volunteer Obama supporters flying a flag with controversial Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara on it. Aye yi yi! What to do? Es horrible! Let’s all squeal like Commie-fearing…

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10,000 years of war … From Crooks and Liars:

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