Racism

I recently watched a television show about standards of beauty around the world. I sat in awe as little Chinese girls went ga-ga for White Barbie, and their mothers and sisters stood in a drive-thru line to have a surgeon slice away the fat from their eyelids to make them more Euro-chic.

Google search suggestions can often provide a pretty funny window into the human mind by revealing the bizarre questions people frequently ask.

It seems as if the health care vote has awakened racism on the right wing as many protesters have turned to civil rights era racist tactics such as calling Black congressmen the n-word and spitting on them. Now right wing activists angry at the recent health care vote have sent faxes of a noose to […]

From WSJ.com: More human-rights groups are expressing concern about the use of social-networking sites to spread racism.

What is it about Wal-Mart that breeds so much trouble? It isn’t clear whether or not the person who made the announcement was an employee or just an intrepid racist shopper who found their way to the P.A. system microphone. Either way, apart from being ignorant, this stunt sounds really juvenile. The store later used […]

From the Washington Post: All of this talk about a post-racial America where black people are seemingly thriving, partying at the White House with Jay-Z, and enjoying unprecedented access and opportunity is really starting to irk me because it is simply not the reality of most black Americans.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats heard it all Saturday — words of inspiration from President Barack Obama and raucous chants of protests from demonstrators. And at times it was flat-out ugly, including some racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress.

From NYDailyNews.com: An admissions director hired to recruit the best and brightest to a Bronx private school claims toxic campus housing left his son with brain damage.

Cynthia Tucker wrote a good article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution countering the Pro-Life campaign that abortion is Black genocide. Here are some excepts.

From HuffingtonPost.com: Rush Limbaugh hurled a racist comment towards embattled New York Governor David Paterson on his radio show Tuesday.