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 for mayor this week. The…
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 room — precisely the kind…
Irina Rodnina (pictured next to a wooden cat who has more feelings than she) is the famous Russian Olympics star who was seen by millions on Friday as she carried the torch that lit the…
The “#MyRightWingBiracialFamily social media effort was started by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, and where she used social media to start a campaign encouraging conservatives who are in biracial families to post pictures of them is…
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 Mother, which concludes its ninth…
Nelson Mandela, perhaps the greatest living human being of our generation, passed away at 95 years of age. I will remember exactly where I was when it happened: on United Airlines Flight 3570 from Chicago…
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 a 2012 interview in which…
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 racism. As the video shows,…
Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama and over, of all things, the Bengazi Embassy Attack: something the Texas politician knows nothing about, except what he sees on…
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, so much so that it’s…
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 black male: one I called…
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 crazy. Yet, there’s a group…
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, fantasy. It used to be…
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 Zimmerman Trial verdict, another juror,…
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 organization when it expires. Here’s…
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 knew there was a risk,…
Samantha Power was, some time ago, it seems, one of this blogger’s favorite candidates to be what she has become: UN Ambassador replacing Susan Rice. What I’ve always liked about Ms. Power, from a distance,…
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 reliable and detailed account of…
Adam Goodes’ was the target of a racist taunt by 13 year old, and a Papa Johns Pizza Employee in Sanford, Florida goes on a racist rant: Two racist incidents that have captured pop culture…
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 has hosted the game a…
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 encounters with me which proved…
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 the ability to set in…
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 realization that the system isn’t…
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 elected to wage war against…
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 wedge between itself and team…
When this blogger was first informed about Salon Editor-At-Large and MSNBC Contributor Joan Walsh’ book What’s The Matter With White People, the first thought was “What The F—?” Is Joan playing with the fire of…
Wow. Let that sink in: “Barack Obama Reelected 44th President Of The United States.” President Obama won reelection gaining 303 electoral votes to 206 for Governor Mitt Romney. Obama also won the popular vote, but…
Social Media has exploded, no doubt, but Pew Research gives us a great idea of just how much it’s become a part of our daily lives. According to its newly released study called Social Media…
Because she was traveling, famed soccer star Hope Solo asked via Twitter for a Presidential Debate update. Her tweet: Another Flight! Somebody update me in the debate! Humor me please! #fb — Hope Solo (@hopesolo)…
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, and walked in search of…
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 Mr. Matthews intended to expose…
Gwyneth Paltrow did something Paris Hilton has never done. Even as Ms. Hilton has been called a racist by some for allegations that she used the n-word to talk about Blacks regularly, the fact is…
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 my Google Alert about Oakland,…
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a guest on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday to talk about his support for President Barack Obama, instead talked about his support for Bain Capital and private equity firms. In the…
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 about $15,000) after his Friday…
Mitt Romney says he’s running against President Barack Obama because he wants to fix the economy. We have someone to do that: Tim Geithner, our current U.S. Treasury Secretary. If Mitt wants to prove he’s…
Well, just a few hours after this blogger declared him the “face of modern racism,” John Derbyshire, earlier today the Contributing Editor For The National Review, has been fired. I feel like breaking in song,…
UPDATE: John Derbyshire Fired By National Review. The National Review Columnist penned a vile, racist variation of “The Talk” – the conversation Black parents have with their kids about how to deal with on-the-street racism…
George A Romero is the king of all things ‘Zombie’ and although he didn’t exclusively invent the genre, he and his early films are certainly the bar by which all standards are set. Zombie fans…
Geraldo Rivera. Got to hand it to him for standing against the blowing wind that’s slamming him in the face for his Treyvon Martin Hoodie blast. This one: On Twitter, Geraldo Rivera’s still devoting his…
Geraldo Rivera’s son’s upset with his Treyvon Martin statements. Well, it turns out that this blogger and a number of people around America aren’t the only ones upset with Rivera’s anti-hoodie remark. If you haven’t…
In the Trayvon Martin Case, George Zimmerman is revealed as a racist who stalked and killed an unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. As the video containing the 9-11 tape shows, Zimmerman actively pursued Martin and eventually…
Tech observers will recall how TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington got on CNN and said that he didn’t know any black entrepreneurs and then essentially said that Silicon Valley was mostly White and Asian because it…
Thanks to ESPN and Google, we can now see that the Jeremy Lin hype is about race. A few days ago some YouTube commenters got a little (well, a lot) hot under the collar about…
When he was with the tech blog TechCrunch, MG Siegler was one of the most visible and consistent tech bloggers out there. He was particularly close to, and a big fan of, Apple Company products,…
The Panasonic Press Conference at the Consumer Electronics Show was full of surprises, from women’s soccer stars Brandy Chastain, Alex Morgan, and Heather O’Reilly and the announcement that olympic women’s soccer would be telecast in…
In 2007, this blogger made a video question for the CNN YouTube Republican Debates for Ron Paul, and it was based on the work of Alan Bernstein of the Houston Chronicle, where he wrote: Texas…
That Ndamukong Suh managed to take the NFL by storm comes as no surprise to anyone who’s seen him play while he was a student at Nebraska. And to be frank, Ndamukong Suh is one…
Ok, this is 2011 in the 21st Century, right? In America. Where we have an African American President in Barack Obama. Right? Ok, so with all of that, why is it that half of Mississippi…
Let’s slosh this around our heads a couple thousand times: Michelle Obama Booed At Nascar. Er, Michelle Obama Booed At Nascar? Yes, Michelle Obama, the American First Lady, was booed At NASCAR. If you really…
Last week, a bit of a row ensued when Tech Crunch Founder Michael Arrington appeared on a segment of a CNN special on black entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and, under questioning by Soledad O’Brien, said…
There was a time, not too long ago, that YouTube had something called the YouTube Partners Program, and was specifically directed at helping constant YouTube contributors to earn a living at making video content. There…
Herman Cain Says Blacks Need To Be Saved. Really, Mr. Cain said that. This is why I don’t like Herman Cain for President. On ABC’s The View on Tuesday, the Black GOP Presidential Candidate and…
Yesterday’s blog called “ Ashley Hebert, Bachelorette Picks White Guy From Group Of White Guys” where I blasted the show for failing to have a diverse cast like that of Big Brother, the CBS show…
I must confess, I’ve watched all of 35 minutes of the ABC show The Bachelorette, and that’s it. I turned the channel. I understand the show does well in places like Orlando, Florida, but, well,…
My video and blog request for YouTube to stop the use of the N-word has started a conversation that’s growing. While this blogger is not interested in debate – the N-word is bed and is…
YouTube allows commenters to freely use the N-word on video pages, and the YouTube video maker, even YouTube Partners like this blogger, are powerless to do anything about it, outside of removing and banning trolls….
