Stacey Dash (pictured) is well aware that she has recently pissed a lot of people off and now she’s saying sorry, sort of. In response to being rightfully accused of victim-blaming on the subject of sexual assault, Dash has offered an apology, though one that deflects from full culpability. You know, thereby making it meaningless. […]
On Wednesday, the Washington Post asked Senator John McCain (R-AZ) how would his former running mate, Sarah Palin (pictured), do if she decides to run for president? The man who has long thought himself a maverick gave a very polite and undoubtedly politically safe answer, “She’s very interesting. And I’m sure she’d do great.” SEE […]
I do not envy Michelle Obama’s (pictured) position. No matter how innocuous her actions are — say, simply tackling childhood obesity with exercise and carrots — they are overly politicized. So many exploit her for their agendas even when she does not. The First Lady’s choice to forgo wearing a headscarf during an impromptu visit […]
Dinesh D’Souza is a documentarian with the sensibility of a YouTube conspiracy theorist. Megyn Kelly is a FOX News anchor who infamously went on an on-air tirade about Santa Clause and Jesus being White (she’s since told New York Times magazine she was “joking”). Naturally, these are the people well-equipped to discuss the subject of President Barack Obama […]
In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Ohio State Buckeyes fans did what many hooligans do after their team of choice wins the college football champion on Monday night: they tore sh*t up. This is not an uncommon practice, but it is no less interesting to see how they were portrayed in the media for […]
There are multiple lessons to learn from the terror attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, but so far, many are electing to see this issue linearly. As in, the notion that Islamic extremism is bad, and its most recent target, Charlie Hebdo, is a great symbol of the virtue of free speech. […]
There have been two violent assaults on institutions that speak to the power of freedom of speech, but only one of them is securing major attention in mainstream media. RELATED: FBI Seeks Man After ‘Deliberate’ Bombing Of Colorado Springs NAACP Office Since reports hit the news of gunmen storming the Paris offices of French satirical magazine […]
More often than not in America, it’s perfectly fine to be in support of or facilitator for policies that perpetuate White supremacy so long as you aren’t directly linked to direct expressions of racism. That, more than anything, is the root of Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise’s (pictured center) current troubles in the fallout of it being revealed that he […]
You have to be a special kind of parasite to politicize death, but fortunately for those working in politics, media, and law enforcement such a strain can only serve to propel you in your field. It’s been less than a week since the shooting deaths of two NYPD officers at the hands of the clearly disturbed Ismaaiyl Brinsley, […]
I don’t remember the first time I donated blood in great detail because the process was much ado about nothing. I sat down to see a nurse, a needle, a band-aid. A thank you for my donation followed and I went about my day. It would take a very long time before it dawned […]
This week, former Florida governor Jeb Bush took to his Facebook page to announce that he has “decided to actively explore the possibility of running for President of the United States.” In other words, Bush would like everyone — but most especially Rand Paul, Chris Christie (and Mitt Romney hiding in a dark corner) — to know that […]
Despite two recent decisions by grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island not to indict White police officers in the killings of two unarmed Black men and the international protests those decisions sparked, a new NBC News/Marist poll finds that whites are very confident in law enforcement’s ability to police Black and whites equally. In the […]