Auditor Courtney Ruby ready to fight in Oakland mayor’s raceSan Francisco ChronicleOakland residents are about to see a different side of City Auditor Courtney Ruby, who announced plans to run…
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NFL-commissioned report finds culture of intolerance in Miami Dolphins locker … – Washington Post
Washington PostAn inquiry into the Miami Dolphins’ workplace conditions found examples of harassment, racism, bullying, homophobia, and overall a culture of intolerance and meanness in one National Football League locker…
‘How I Met Your Mother’ creators apologize for ‘racism’ – USA TODAY
USA TODAYIn television, it’s never good to end a successful sitcom series with people shouting “Racism!” at you on Twitter. That’s the situation faced by CBS’s How I Met Your…
Bob Dylan Charged in France Over Croatia Nazi Remarks – Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalA July 2012 file photo shows singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performing on stage in Carhaix, western France. Associated Press. PARIS—French authorities have filed preliminary charges against Bob Dylan over…
Dez Bryant Sideline Audio Proves Media Racism
Dez Bryant was, as this blogger has asserted, making technical arguments, and not a “gimme the ball” rant that the media immediately interpreted in a great example of media institutional…
Nina Davuluri Wins Miss America: Racists Show Rampant Mental Illness
Nina Davuluri won the Miss America crown on Sunday, becoming the first Indian American to be so honored. That’s should be a cause of celebration, but in America’s complex society,…
Aaron Alexis: Washingon Navy Yard Shooter New, Sad Breed Of Black Male
Aaron Alexis, the Navy IT specialist who went on a rampage and killed 12 people at the Washingon Navy Yard on Monday, is part of a new, emerging breed of…
Miley Cyrus MTV VMAs Not Racist; Grinding With Robin Thicke
Miley Cyrus’ performance at the MTV VMAs was called sexy, raunchy, leud, but to say it was racist, or that Miley Cyrus herself is racist for twerking is just plain…
Geek Culture Has Failed Us
My issue with what “Geek Culture” has become, today, is that it has little to do with science and space exploration and colonization, and too much do with mindless, selfish,…
Juror B29: Trayvon Martin Was Murdered By George Zimmerman
Juror B29 says Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman Just a week on the heels of the first juror to come forward and express her view of the George…
Paula Deen: Smithfield Foods, Like Food Network, Drops; Gets Facebook Bombed
Paula Deen has been dropped by the Smithfield Foods organization out of Virginia, and just three days from Food Network’s decision not to renew Ms. Deen’s contract with the television…
Paula Deen Racist N Word Use: Food Network Drops Deen
Paula Deen. When the Food Network celebrity chef thought it was no problem in making racist n-word fueled comments about every black person from kids to President Obama, she reportedly…
Pro Football Weekly, $8.5 Million In Debt, Ends Business
Pro Football Weekly. After 46 years, Pro Football Weekly has published its last issue. The publication I read religiously when I was a teenager, and because it had the only…
SF Super Bowl L Bid Ignores Oakland, 05 Bid Boss Zennie Abraham
The San Francisco Super Bowl L Bid was successful. It, really, if you think about it, surprisingly, beat back a formidable Miami and South Florida Super Bowl Bid, where Miami…
Jason Calacanis Calls Me A Jerk For Pointing Out Tech Race Problem
Jason Calacanis has an issue, which is unfortunate. In an unnecessary response to my blog post (Jason Calacanis: Ah, Gawker, Mr. C Knows There’s Racism In Tech) pointing to several…
Thomas C. Frazier: Oakland Police Compliance Director Called Racist Police Chief In Baltimore
On Monday, Thomas C. Frazier was appointed “Compliance Director” by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson. In this position, Mr. Frazier will have complete authority over the Oakland Police Department, including…
Christopher Jordan Dorner Uncensored Manifesto And Racism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hN0orl_dTQ Christopher Jordan Dorner Uncensored Manifesto And Racism. Christopher Dorner’s giant manifesto has received a lot of attention. And well it should. It reveals a man torn apart by the…
Christopher Jordan Dorner: Uncensored Manifesto Of Ex-LAPD Officer, Cop Killer
Christopher Jordan Dorner is the fired / retired Los Angeles Police Officer and former Navy Lieutenant. He’s 33 years old and for a set of reasons he details below, has…
NFL Hammers Owners For Lack Of Diversity In Hiring
OK, the NFL issued a statement in the wake of its most terrible record of diversity in hiring in some years. In doing so, the National Football League placed a…
DNC 2012: Charlotte and Hickory, NC, Should Fire Rude, Bullying Cops
Hickory, North Carolina should fire the police officers stationed at 3rd and Tryon Street, at 1:30 AM, Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. I left the CNN Grill at about 1:05 AM,…
Newt Gingrich on Hardball: Twitterverse attacks him as racist
Newt Gingrich just appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, and came away with a performance that earned him Top Twitter Trend status, and hundreds of unflattering Twitter Tweets. If…
Hey CBS San Francisco, Enough With The Oakland Black Male Misery Stories
Can CBS San Francisco, which consists of KCBS and KPIX, lay off the black male misery stories? If it’s not murder, or drugs, it’s this one that popped up in…
George Zimmerman Out On Bail: Hide All Black Boys Now! Trayvon Martin RIP
George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin after pursuing him just because the 17-year-old fit a racial profile Zimmerman had hard-wired into his brain, is out on just $150,000 bail (or…