The Pound Cake Speech.

The ‘pound cake speech’ comes up in conversation a lot around here, so we figure we should put it up for the people who were unfamiliar with its content.

A lot of people agreed with what Cosby said in his speech; we were not among them.

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Now All We Need Is a Study on Pound Cakes and Police Shootings.

Legendary comedian and classist bourgie Negro icon Bill Cosby once infamously criticized poor black folks for spending all their money on $500 sneakers instead of educational toys and claimed they had mixed-up priorities. A backlash ensued.

According to Slate‘s Ray Fisman, who points to a new study about race and consumer tendencies, [...]

All The Noose That's Fit To Print.

Between the Jena 6 and that Columbia University professor, nooses have been all over the news lately. NPR wonders if that’s due to a rise in racist incidents involving nooses, or a rise in their coverage. There’s a pretty well-done profile on The Wire‘s David Simon in The New Yorker (spoiler alert for [...]