Jamelle: This week’s controversy centered on Shirley Sherrod, an official with the USDA who was forced to resign today after a video surfaced of a speech she gave on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website. In the speech, Sherrod talks about an incident that happened when she worked for an agricultural nonprofit and a white farmer Read More
Kai Wright breaks down a recent CDC study about the effect that poverty has on HIV transmission. The study shows a much higher rate of HIV infection among heterosexual poor people in the U.S. But Wright debunks the following too-obvious takeaway from the study: that poverty, not race has the greatest effect on HIV transmission Read More
Joel Johnson at Gizmodo decides to “stalk” a black girl on Twitter: I realized most of my Twitter friends are like me: white dorks. So I picked out my new friend and started to pay attention. She’s a Christian, but isn’t afraid of sex. She seems to have some problems trusting men, but she’s not Read More
I spent most of yesterday off the grid, running around the Omni Shoreham Hotel in DC helping my colleagues pull off an amazing conference for Campus Progress. Van Jones was one of the keynotes (aside: who knew dude was so goofy? I didn’t.) and much of the coverage of the conference has focused on Jones’ Read More
So, I think everyone knows that I’m a big fan of the Sims. Though the third iteration of the game has had its problems, I still spend more money than I should adding on to it. Against my own better judgment, I just bought the most recent expansion pack. It created a whole new town, Read More
The horror! (via Oliver Willis)
What up, my mulattoes? On this week’s rollicking podcast, Monica, Joel and I discuss Arizona’s new immigration law, Thomas Chatterton Williams’s head-scratcher of an essay on Obama, Drake and the evils of hip-hop, and Stephanie Grace, the Harvard 3L whose racist e-mail set the Internet on fire over the past week. PostBourgie: The Podcast – Read More
A Harvard Law student was outed after she made pseudonymous comments to her peers that she felt blacks were intellectually inferior.
[via.] This comment leapt out at my while reading the NYT’s scene story on Arizona’s SB 1070, the state’s draconian new immigration law. …Ron White, 52, said he felt a sense of relief that something was finally being done about “the illegals” — whom he blames for ills like congregating on the streets, breaking into Read More
by Andrea, cross-posted from Racialicious. (TRIGGER WARNING) Well, this is a fine way for me to commemorate Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I survived a young Black man raping me when I was five years old, and I’ve been subjected to decades of the stereotype of the Black male rapist and the racism behind it. So, Read More
