27 Things You Had To Deal With As The Only Black Kid In Your Class
“You know, I don’t even see you as black.”
“You know, I don’t even see you as black.”
The recession has harmed black Americans, male and female, more than it’s harmed men. So why do we keep hearing the gender story?
White families studied in a new report are now almost ten times wealthier than black families.
This showed up two days ago on the Twitter feed of the president of the University of Texas College Republicans. She has neither confirmed nor denied she wrote it, but her account was switched to protected shortly after this was posted. The kicker is that the previous president of the University of Texas College Republicans was forced out due to a similarly offensive tweet. History retweets itself, y’all.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul used to publish a libertarian newsletter in the ’80s and ’90s. They were not, shall we say, sane. From those newsletters, here are some racist/homophobic/anti-semitic musings on everything from AIDS to Hate Whitey Day (aka Martin Luther King Jr. Day). Paul says he didn’t write any of the following quotes, but they all appeared under his name. Yiiiiiikes.
The new tell-all from Joe McGinniss—The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin—isn’t even out yet, but the skeeziest bits are already oozing into the media septic tank. Here are the tabloidiest allegations leveled at Sarah and Todd Palin from The National Enquirer’s report on the book. View List ›
Here are 34 celebrities who’s lineage is much more interesting than you would have thought. Who knew? View List ›
Disgusting. Authorities in South Africa are trying to find any information regarding this photo and the welfare of the child therein. The Facebook user who posted it goes by the name “Eugene Terrorblanche.” Police contact information can be found here. WARNING: This is truly an awful image. We can only hope it’s staged. View List ›
Dove vehemently denies this ad was intended to be racist. Unintended racism isn’t much better. View Image ›
Trending as we speak on Twitter. It’s Stuff White People Like, minus the wry self-effacement, in 140 characters or less. Here are a few of those tweets. It’s true, though…we’re the only ones who put our kids on leashes, run the wrong way in horror movies and care about the Royal Wedding. #clichés_are_clichés_for_a_reason View List ›
A CD player with a firm grip of the obvious. This car came with GPS and Blackdar. View Image ›
Gwyneth Paltrow is the new black.
Awesome new Tumblr devoted to a marketing savvy black bear. As soon as he’s finished eating you, he’s got a conference call about a big media buy. Much more over at Marketing Client Bear. View List ›
It’s Friday the 13th, so black cats are suddenly everywhere, right? Right? Well, I regardless, here are some black LolCats to help you celebrate this dark day. View List ›
Professional Golfer Michelle Wie has her own new blog, read it for insights into her life.
When you are making decisions for your bicycle teams new uniforms, it’s best to stick with the classic black bicycle shorts, for obvious reasons. View Image ›
A black lab does a little jig. I bet she’s got some Irish Setter in her. Watch Video ›
“I have to say its quite funny…” Watch Video ›
Software giant apologises for altering a photo on its website to change the race of one of the people in the picture.
Microsoft’s website in Poland replaces a friendly looking black man found on their English site with a creepy looking white guy. Microsoft has since apologized and changed the image back, but that hasn’t stopped the Something Awful forums from taking it and running with it. View Image ›
Not our kind, dear.
“Motorola H800 Slider Bluetooth Headset, Black” from Motorola is surging on Amazon.