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The efforts of the media to conflate "black people behaving badly" alongside "tea baggers on the march" should be soundly rejected.
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Celebrity apologies are eroding an already deteriorating public culture as they are turning one of the most important human virtues - the ability to seek and grant forgiveness - into public relations events.
Serena Williams just tilted the reputation scale toward insane this week when she threatened to kill the line judge.
I get it: times are tough and demand is high for irrelevant mindless content. I mean, what else would we talk about if we didn't have Kanye's idiocracy?
Is it possible that calling the President a liar was no different than a march through Selma or a lunch counter sit-in? Is it possible that Joe Wilson was engaged in civil disobedience?
Here I am watching YouTube with the original Tube behind me. For that matter, we could have watched these videos on our iPhones.
I hate when news outlets break stories of celebrity deaths by simply coming up with a headline of the person's name followed by the word "dead" in all caps.
The new television season officially begins on Monday -- and it can't get here soon enough.
Apologizing has become some formal social, political, and media condition. It's a ritual and nicety like a thank you; it's part of a political process, like a campaign; it's a media event like a season finale.
It's "awkward public outbursts by public figures" week! Woo-hoo! We can start with Michael Moore. Next up is Joe Wilson. Oh, and Kanye?
These days, we pay loads of attention to the moment of apology and not so much to the follow up, to what the "apologizer" does to make the sorry stick.
Imagine a world where as many people defended targets in real life as they seem to do for Taylor Swift online. Let's talk about the power each of us has to speak up on behalf of those who are marginalized.
Hosny publicly said that he would burn all the books in Alexandria's library that had anything to do with Israel. He also called Israeli culture "racist."
So the kids are officially back in school, and like most parents, I'm delighted to know that my daughters have returned to their familiar routine, a...
Several groups are angry with something said by someone in front of some people somewhere. Someone then appeared in a highly visible public forum where he or she apologized publicly.
