From the New York Times, we have a gift guide just for women of color. It includes nail polish (a portion of the profits go to the vaguely described “people of Haiti”), a book about makeup specifically for Asian faces (one can only assume it includes Asian faces that range in color and shape from Read More
If an alibi and the absence of a criminal record aren’t enough to keep you out of prison, then surely DNA evidence should be enough. Right? Thirty-five years ago, a 9-year-old boy was raped in a field near his Lake Wales home. Five months later, a 19-year-old man was convicted of the rape and sent Read More
John McWhorter writes something that I agree with: Tiger Woods, in designating himself truly a mutt rather than Black By Default, is ahead of the curve. There are those who think he was supposed to declare himself “black” because of how, say, police might see him. But to do that would be to deny that Read More
So I’m not all that familiar with the right-wingish site Ace of Spades but was drawn there earlier today, when the eponymous blogger unleashed a righteous rant and threatened to bust out the “banhammer”: If you have a racial axe to grind, if you are kind of pissed off about minorities, stop posting on the Read More
Both Shani and Jamelle were guest-bloggers at The American Prospect‘s TAPPED blog last month, doing bang-up work and considerably upping the incidence of hip-hop lyrics as blog post titles over there. Not to be outdone, quadmoniker is headed to The Prospect in a more permanent role, replacing the dope, departed Dana Goldstein as an associate Read More
I’ve been a vegetarian* for a little over four years now, and a big reason was Eric Schlosser‘s meticulously reported Fast Food Nation. In it, Schlosser argued that the big, unsanitary factory farms which produce our meat were breeding grounds for bacterial infection and possibly even mad cow disease — an unsettling state of affairs Read More
It’s official — the public option has finally been put to rest, and in it’s place are a set of measures which arguably are a much — much — better deal. Here’s Talking Points Memo with the details: As has been widely reported, one of the trade-offs will be to extend a version of the Read More
Watch The Truth about Islam in News | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com I caught a bit of Wafa Sultan on The Brian Lehrer Show yesterday morning. Sultan has capitalized on her 2006 YouTube rant against Islam and it’s treatment of women by writing a new book, called “A God Who Hates.” I’m not Read More
Patterico, a conservative blogger, describes his “pontifications” as “harangues that make sense.” Assuming the definition of sense has remained relatively constant, this can’t possibly be the case. Especially when the blogger in question — in a post linked approvingly by America’s Worst Race Theorist — cites African-American discomfort with interracial marriage as a modern-day example of racism. Ignoring Read More
(x-posted from U.S. of J.) Judging from the reactions I’ve read today, I think I’m one of the few progressive bloggers who isn’t particularly bothered by President Obama’s reluctance to spell out exactly what he wants in a health care bill. That is, I understand why progressives would be upset: by (some) Senate Democrats’ own Read More
