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Black celebrity gossip site Bossip regularly irritates me with their use of misogynist terms to denigrate black women. One of the regular features is “Ho Sit Down” which disparages all blacks who support Clinton over Obama as essentially “hoes.” This is very vulgar, like a lot of their terms Bossip uses regularly to describe black…
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Jena 6 protesters in Washington, D.C. in 2007 and Civil Rights protesters in 1960s Seattle, Wash. I found this comment lurking in the latest Bossip post (“JFK 2.0???“) on Obama, highlighting the Kennedy endorsement. It’s by someone going by the moniker “Crazy Black Lady.” “Motor Mouth” Maxine Waters just (sic) endored billary clinton for president.…
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Did anyone else watch our beleaguered Leader of the Free World sleepwalk his way through (thank Jesus) his last State of the Union address? I caught parts of it and the Democratic response, which was super Dullsville as well. Seriously, that was the best the Dems could come up with? But I shouldn’t be surprised…
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No matter how many times I see this word in print I can never remember the definition. quixotic: adj. 1. Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; 2. idealistic without regard to practicality. Capricious; impulsive: “But honestly, it doesn’t matter how many delegates (John) Edwards eventually gets. It…
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Read a great article on Salon.com laying out how people have twisted the meaning of Toni Morrison’s words when she called Bill Clinton the “First Black President.” It wasn’t a compliment, as most think. It was a reflection of how the Republicans had dogged Clinton with such vitriol that it was comparable to the irrational…
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It’s a story about racists who’ve finally got the point that it’s unsavory to refer to blacks as “niggers” and have adopted a new, seemingly iodine vernacular. Calling blacks “Canadians.” Um … OK? They could have kept the “n” word if they weren’t so intent on saying it in print or with recording devices around.…
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In Georgia and California they’re looking for a few good homes for the victims of Michael Vick’s criminal dog fighting empire. I’m glad there are folks who will take the time to rehab a pit bull that’s been raised to kill. Maybe jail will cure Vick of his incredible hubris. And stupidity. Which ever comes…
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