Saturday, November 16, 2013
Ever get confused as to whether something is racist or not? This can help! Jon Stewart and three members of the Daily Show team, PLUS Key and Peele. It doesn’t get much funnier than this.
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The Daily Show is freaking brilliant. You absolutely have to watch this. UPDATE: Don Yelton, the GOP precinct chairman interviewed in this video who said that the new GOP-backed Voter ID law will hurt “lazy blacks”, and will be bad for Democrats, has resigned. And it sounds like his resignation was forced on him.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
I am told that when I was just a toddler my mother took me and we marched with Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Today is the 50-year anniversary of his famous “I have a dream” speech, so it is appropriate to take stock of how much has changed for the better in the last 50 […]
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© Matt Bors Profiling, not just for blacks and hispanics any more. UPDATE: Hat tip to a reader for pointing out this article in Gawker. Be sure to read the comments. It just keeps getting funnier and scarier, all at the same time: Many people don’t want to hear this kind of tough love, of […]
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After a Korean airplane crashed during landing at SFO, a San Francisco TV station screwed up royally by reporting fake racist names for the pilots (Sum Ting Wong, Wi To Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, …). I have no idea if this is true or not, but after a Southwest Airlines flight crashed recently in New […]
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I’m enjoying John Oliver’s summer at the helm of the Daily Show. Also worth a view is Lewis Black’s segment on Texas.
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© Ted Rall Was it my imagination, or was the media trying to turn this into another blockbuster like the OJ Simpson trial? Everyone seems to be riled up, but we still don’t have any real answers as to what to do. I’m thinking that “stand your ground” laws are a very bad idea, but […]
So, within 30 seconds of the crash of Asiana flight 214 at SFO, there was a photo of it posted on Twitter. Almost as quickly, the mainstream media jumped on the theory that the crash occurred because of the Korean tradition of unwillingness to question authority. The theory posited that surely one of the co-pilots […]
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The joke used to be that people would say “I’m not a racist, but…” and then go on to say racist things. Well, the GOP apparently has a new version of that. It may not be acceptable to say racist things in public, but it is ok to accuse our first black president of having […]
Saturday, November 10, 2012
The only way this could be better is if it were a photo of Gene Wilder from Blazing Saddles.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
I found this image on Facebook. I’m not sure if it is valid. First of all, the Washington Territory wasn’t created until 1853, and yet this says the map is from 1846. And the Civil War itself didn’t start until 1861. So this is not a “Civil War Map” and it sure isn’t from 1846. […]
I had the same reaction when I first heard about this (after all, I am a grammar Nazi), but Deon Cole says it so much better than I could.
I remember when I was young, it was not uncommon for some people to say things that were racist, even out loud in public. The civil rights movement managed to make it unacceptable for people to be explicitly racist, but it didn’t get rid of racism itself. Those people just found more socially acceptable ways […]
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Right Wing Watch captured a charming moment with Pat Robertson on The 700 Club. The video clip answers that age old question: Just how out of touch can one man be? Apparently our renowned evangelist has never attended a church picnic. Robertson is a lot like that proverbial sweet, kind, well-meaning, out of touch racist […]
