More Racist Online Musings From Young Republican Candidate Revealed
Thirty-eight year old Audra Shay's campaign to become the next chairman of the Young Republicans went from obscure to infamous over the past week, aft...
Thirty-eight year old Audra Shay's campaign to become the next chairman of the Young Republicans went from obscure to infamous over the past week, aft...
Disgrasian | Posted 05.07.2009 | Comedy
Is it too much inclusiveness? What I mean specifically is...who the hell are these green people?
AP | Mark Johnson | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics
North Carolina's top liquor regulator resigned Tuesday after sending an e-mail that reportedly showed a watermelon patch outside an altered photo of t...
Chris Kelly | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media
If you read Burt Prelutsky's columns, you'll see that he isn't a racist; he just has a lot of thoughts about how black people should behave. Ah, Christian-sponsored humor. That's not just funny. That's Jesus funny.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.24.2009 | Media
The loud demands will continue that Murdoch back up his kind of sort of apology with real action. But he won't. There's simply too much money in racial trash talk.
Jehmu Greene | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
A cartoon is misinterpreted and black organizations see an opportunity to make noise. Meanwhile, Rihanna is beat down by Chris Brown and commentary in the black community is, "What did she do to cause it?"
Emil Wilbekin | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
Plain and simple, Black folks don't like to be compared to animals -- especially nonhuman primate mammals.
Michael Wolff | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
The fact that Col Allan is now being hung out to dry, and his obituary written, over a cartoon, is more mind blowing to Allan than to anyone else.
Eric Deggans | Posted 02.20.2009 | Media
At a time when the newspaper industry is drowning in red ink, can the New York Post really afford to shrug off an image that has inspired so much anger and condemnation as "just a cartoon?"
Michael Wolff | Posted 02.19.2009 | Media
The Post's editor has described their affect to me as a "post-modern" tabloid, where everybody understands that they are aping, so to speak, its own traditions; it's an exaggeration of an exaggeration, and everybody is in on the joke.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 02.19.2009 | Media
Sean Delonas and the New York Post have hidden behind the horrific details of an event in Connecticut to traffic in racist imagery and gratuitous violence in the name of parody.
Lee Camp | Posted 02.19.2009 | Media
Val Strange | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
MLK's charismatic call for erasing the divide between blacks and whites still speaks to us today. The similarity of Obama's auspicious message is uncanny. And change: Ready or not, here it comes.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
It's nice to see people being comfortable with who they are. Chip is inspiring Republicans around the country to stand up and say "We are white. We are racist. We are proud."
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
There is something very ugly happening out there in the hinterlands these days--a brewing cauldron of racist anger being directed at President-elect Barack Obama.
AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska officials are investigating racist jokes about President-elect Barack Obama that have been circulating on state gover...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 12.05.2008 | World
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — What struck the Brazilian woman most forcibly as she watched U.S. election returns on television was seeing Barack Obam...
Hermene Hartman | Posted 12.03.2008 | Chicago
As we listen to hard working, intelligent people who lived aborted dreams rather than fulfilled ones, you can't help but to wonder if the Black Box will ever be eliminated.
Shola Lynch | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Coming out of a presidential primary and election where race was only skirted around, it is a bit shocking for al-Qaida to take it to the school yard.
Sam Greenfield | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
1) If you are asking for a loan, don't fly in by private jet to firm things up.
AP | JESSE WASHINGTON | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars. Incidents ar...
David Murray | Posted 11.11.2008 | Chicago
It's impossible to know for sure what Woods has done over the last decade to soften up white America for a black presidential candidate with similar qualities.
AP | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
WARSAW, Poland — Poland's Foreign Ministry has condemned a conservative lawmaker who called U.S. president-elect Barack Obama the "black messiah...
Derrick K. Baker | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
In America, sadly, there still are far too many people who see our next president when they see O.J. Simpson.
AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Whether whites supported Barack Obama or not, they don't seem to have lied to pollsters about it. Obama's election triumph on Tues...
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
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ABC News called President Barack Obama's trip to Russia a "breakthrough"...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's...
Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people?
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name,...
The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
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The Daily Beast | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics