Coming in on the tail end of a meme is always interesting. Sometimes it’s just as hilarious as everyone who was on it from the beginning said it was. Sometimes it’s not hilarious, and rather, just pretty effed up. Case in point: Antoine Dodson, also known as the “Bed Intruder” dude. I was vaguely aware Read More
The Tea Party has advice for folks coming to Glenn Beck’s Aug. 28 rally. It boils down to this: stay away from black people. Which is something we thought the Tea Party was pretty skilled at doing, anyway. (Monica) I’d also like to add, if possible, Tea Partiers should definitely steer clear of 2nd Amendment enthusiasts like Read More
PostBourgie: The Podcast #8: N-word, Please! In this week’s podcast, Monica, Joel and Jamelle discuss the way people misunderstand culture and poverty, “emerging adulthood,” and Dr. Laura’s hilarisad use of the n-word on her radio show. Key Links: A Daily Dish reader blames the disparate life outcomes between blacks and whites on a dysfunctional culture, Read More
I understand there’s been some talk about Betty ’round these parts before. Let me just go on the record as saying that I find Betty Draper to be a terrible human being and an utterly compelling character. Her character was in classic form yesterday. But we’ll get to that.
Every couple of years or so, we seem to get drawn into national conversation about niggers and niggas – or n-words, if you prefer – and which group of people should and shouldn’t be able to use the word. We’re now a week into this silly debate following Dr. Laura’s racist on-air rant without really Read More
Hopefully everyone is as Dr. Laura’d out as I am (giving any racist whose words may offend too much attention is 1) a waste of time and 2) distracts us from the racist institutions and policies that can really f@*! us in the end) but this video from This Week in Blackness, host Elon Read More
(More fried chicken jokes!) Season 3 of the Boondocks ended on Sunday, and I haven’t heard much chatter round the interwebs about it this week. There’s good reason for that: it wasn’t very good. I’ve had mixed feelings about Aaron McGruder since my former blog-mate saw him give a talk at our Alma Mater in Read More
At Colorlines (which has become one of my go-to sources for news, and it should be one of yours), Jamilah King posts about the backlash to this picture of two young men. She quotes Rod 2.0, who writes: The image was snapped of two young men apparently on Atlanta’s MARTA and the Twitpic is entitled Read More
Crossposted from Campus Progress. One in eight Americans — a record high in both raw numbers and percentage of the population — are on food stamps. Many are recent additions due to the recession. Yet food stamp benefits are being reduced to help pay for other recession-fighting programs and secondary food initiatives. Colorlines reports that Read More
