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Just in case your suspicion that racism persists in courtrooms and television news was waning, a TV exec in Fresno makes it explicit. Sitting as a potential juror in Fresno County Superior Court early last week, Hall said he couldn’t be a fair juror in a Hispanic man’s carjacking trial because research by the station’s newsroom [...] It does the whole ‘magical people of color’ bit, which I recognize is problematic. But the pacing is great , the script is really smart, and the four leads give flawless performances. Furthermore, it’s the second feature by Tom McCarthy, who helmed The Station Agent and was last seen making up stories as Scott [...] My boy Dan’s piece for the New York Times about old racist Warner Bros. cartoons. Cartoons of a Racist Past Lurk on YouTube Among the millions of clips on the video-sharing Web site YouTube are 11 racially offensive Warner Brothers cartoons that have not been shown in an authorized release since 1968. Some of the [...]
Award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead wrote a tongue-in-cheek op-ed piece for The New York Times today. In it he laments the woes of The Guy Who Got Where He Is Only Because He’s Black. Taking jabs at Obama critics who’ve labeled the candidate elitist, Geraldine Ferraro who doubly insisted that Obama has only managed a [...]
Amanda Marcotte. BrownFemiPower is a well-respected, much-read blogger who took up the mantle of immigration as a feminist issue on the innanets. Amanda Marcotte, another well-respected, much-read feminist blogger (who is no stranger to controversy) wrote an article for Alternet that some some people say borrowed liberally from an uncredited BFP (of whom Marcotte was [...]
As determined by the Secret Council of American Negroes. (A little problematic? Yup. But funny as hayl.) SWPL’s Landler, from Heeb. Christian Lander, the guy behind Stuff White People Like, recently got a $300,000 book deal from Random House. The book is due out in August. We’re not sure what that means, really. Just throwing it out there. Stacia and I disagree on the hullabaloo surrounding the cover for this month’s cover of Vogue. She gets the King Kong undertones and said it’s not a battle she cares to get all up in arms about; I think the cover and the fallout encapsulates the kind of thoughtlessness about racial imagery that are endemic to [...] In yet another instance of fraudulent (and/or negligent) journalism, LA Times reporter Chuck Philips and Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin have been forced to recant claims made in an article on March 17 that implicated associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ in the 1994 shooting death of Tupac Shakur. Philips claimed the newspaper had obtained FBI [...] We’ve been trying to figure out if this is, you know, delightfully amateurish. Or intentionally awful. Or unintentionally awful. Stuff Educated Latinos Like, ladies and gentlemen. Apparently educated Latino/as also enjoy diminishing returns? Also, Gary Dauphin over at The Root gets at some of our issues with StuffWhitePeopleLike. This is actually the funniest stuff he’s ever said in his career. But we don’t think he was trying to be funny. (Hat-tip Brokey.) |
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