Racism

Several countries are known to carry products with labels that are insensitive and demeaning to people of African descent and China is one of them. These products are becoming more and more noticeable as more African Americans travel to China on business. Nivea Apologizes For Racist “Re-Civilize Yourself” Afro Ad Is This Summer’s Eve Ad […]

Mark Esterhuysen, a South African talk radio host, is out of a job days after he unleashed a F-word-laden diatribe against racism and police brutality, live on the air Tuesday morning. “F— racism, f— the pigs who killed Andries Tatane, f— the AWB,” Esterhuysen said in the audio. He ended his 41-second rant promoting his blog (markesterhuysen.blogspot.com), Twitter, […]

A thread that encouraged visitors to post their racist threads called “What extremely controversial thing(s) do you honestly believe, but don’t talk about to avoid the arguments?” nearly shut down the social networking site Reddit in the “Ask Reddit” section. The large number of people trying to post their “controversial opinions” forced Reddit administrators to […]

President Obama’s speech this Saturday night was controversial for more than just his call for African Americans to “stop complaining.” It has become even more of a hot topic for how the Associated Press spelled “complaining” in the headline of the story. The AP wrote “complainin” with a dropped g. Now, the debate amongst many […]

A fan taunted one of the National Hockey Leagues few Black players by throwing a banana peel at the player during a shootout attempt in a preseason game last week. The player, Philadelphia Flyers Wayne Simmonds, said he wasn’t shocked by the banana peel that came from the top level and landed right in front […]

Seventeen New York police officers were indicted Friday after a probe into one officer’s drug ties grew into a controversy with officers caught on tape making racist remarks and discussing various wrongdoings. “That’s how a lot of cops talk,” one source told the New York Daily News. “The difference here is it’s all on tape.” According […]

At least four Arizona State fans attended Saturday’s college football game against the University of Missouri in Blackface. The broadcast, which aired on ESPN, showed four young white women with their faces, necks and arms painted all Black. Arizona State would win 37-30, thus validating the practice of white (and other) folks painting their faces […]

Since taking office, President Barack Obama has faced a barrage of disrespect. From conservative pundits constant slip-of-the-tongue references to Obama as “Osama,” Glenn Beck claiming the president “hates white people” and even Donald Trump’s overhyped demands to see the president’s birth certificate, critics have levied some very brazen, almost radical assaults against Obama. And while […]

I’m criticized incessantly at my Factotum-type day gig—well, actually not at the gig, because I’m the HNIC there, but every month we have this thing, a Manager’s call, where bosses from sites around the country phone in and discuss topics. I dread these things like the Black Death. Without fail, there’s some nit to pick […]

Nivea has apologized for an advertisement they placed in Esquire that featured a clean cut African American male throwing a mask of a face with an Afro and beard with the title “Look Like You Give a Damn. Re-civilize Yourself.” People quickly turned to social networking and Twitter to voice displeasure over the ad. “The […]

Black women are complaining that the Transportation Security Administration is engaging in a new, humiliating brand of racial profiling: pat-downs of long, natural hair-dos. According to an article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times, these body searches are happening even when total-body scans aren’t setting off alarms: On June 30, a young African-American […]

A new report from the Applied Research Center found that a majority of young people understand that race continues to play a significant role in education, the criminal justice system, immigration, employment and other sectors of society. TheGrio.com writer David A. Love analyzes the “millennial attitude,”  positing that the youth don’t really understand how racism […]