The Lies of Texas Are Upon You
We tell people not to mess with Texas but that's because we reserve the right to mess it up ourselves, which we are doing quite effectively.
We tell people not to mess with Texas but that's because we reserve the right to mess it up ourselves, which we are doing quite effectively.
Michael Shaw | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Dave Zirin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
In 1918, the first black heavyweight boxing champion defeated a racist "great white hope." But when the Obama Administration takes a right hook to the face, it just smiles through bloodied teeth.
Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
If only what's happening right now in the Land of the Free were a movie, we could dab the cold sweat from our collective brow, walk out of the theater, and into a reality that isn't nearly as frightening.
Jonathan Rieder | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Now that the dust from the Gates dust-up has settled, a bit of perspective is in order. Glib invocations of a color-blind society were always too breathless.
Niall Ferguson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
So it's racist to compare President Obama with Felix the Cat? Oh dear, the seemingly dead body of political correctness just twitched. Let's try logic, shall we?
Caryl Rivers | Posted 09.11.2009 | Home
The revelations of Barack's true identity as an alien could backfire against the anti-Obama forces. People just might like the idea of a superior, super-intelligent being running the country.
Eugene Volokh | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media
Are all references to white "urban" criminals actually secretly to blacks? Were the references to William Ayers, too?
Steven Weber | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics
These birthers are throwbacks, confederate civil war re-enactors, desperately trying to get back to the America of their dreams rather than dwell in the America that is their reality.
David Horton | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics
Anyone who is concerned about conserving the environment which supports human beings is anti-human, while anyone who happily destroys it, for short-term profit, is pro-human.
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 08.31.2009 | Comedy
Obama and Gates drank purely foreign libations while Crowley's choice, Blue Moon, is, like Obama, only half American. Is this really the message we need to convey as our economy struggles to climb out of recession?
David Doody | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
These people -- Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly -- simply say things to make people look at them; to make people watch and listen to their shows.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
A morning show that appeals to whites uncomfortable with the idea of racial integration in America? For the media brand experts at Fox, why the heck not?
Peter Daou | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
As Obama's poll numbers drift downward and the health care debate grinds on, the political landscape is shifting and Republicans smell blood.
TPM | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
An interesting pattern has emerged in the last few weeks, as President Obama's ratings have started to come down to Earth: You can really see a type o...
Wajahat Ali | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
One wonders what chaos would erupt if Obama had explicitly called out the arrest for what it actually represented: stupidity and racism.
Fort Worth Star Telegram | NATHANIEL JONES | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Four Grand Prairie police officers and a dispatcher are on paid administrative leave after a racist e-mail about President Barack Obama was circulated...
Derrick K. Baker | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
The honest among us don't have any misgivings that a black president immediately or eventually will wipe out racism as an institution.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
UPDATE:Atwater, California Councilman Gary Frago has apologized for sending around racist anti-Obama emails to other city officials. "I made a mistak...
The Daily Beast | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
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...
AP | Mark Johnson | Posted 06.06.2009 | 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 04.23.2009 | 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 03.27.2009 | 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 03.26.2009 | 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 03.26.2009 | Media
Plain and simple, Black folks don't like to be compared to animals -- especially nonhuman primate mammals.
James Moore | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics