Cross-posted from Double Consciousness. [Hat tip: xMabaitx and SF Chronicle]...

I’ve been meaning to post about this for ages. Generally — with a very few exceptions — I don’t favor the “replace ______ with the word black” school of criticism.1 This is any argument that takes the general form “Suppose this offensive thing were being sai...

Hilzoy is one of the best writers in the liberal blogosphere, but I have some issues with this post, which my esteemed co-blogger Jeff linked to. Hilzoy was responding to the image you see here, which is currently on the front page of US News and World Report’s “Washington Whispers.̶...

The title of the post is from this Chris Rock video — in particular, from the final minute of the video. Damn straight. True equality isn’t measured in how the extraordinary people do; it’s in how the mediocre do. When schmucks of all types are equal, then we’ve got something...

It just isn’t fair. First, the Democrats nominate a ni–er, one of them to be president. Then America votes for the guy. And now the Republican Party has abandoned its principles, and made their leader a ni–er, one of them: Steele is a passionate supporter of affirmative action prog...

Derik Kirk Kim has been posting about the upcoming movie based on the animation Avatar: The Last Airbender. Although in the original series the four lead characters seemed to be Asian, in the movie the parts have been cast with white actors. Back in my Drama days in high school, I used to dream of b...

I enjoy his plays and movies but I’ve always felt the same as Nichole here about his portrayal of women, which is not all that great: There is little to dispute that [Tyler Perry's] target audience is Black women, so let’s look at the message we’ve received so far from the play. A beautifu...

Antisemitism has been a tangible and, to varying degrees, violent presence in my life since at least third grade, which would have been in 1970 or so, when John Weintraub–it’s amazing that I remember his name–having learned the day before that I was Jewish, came up to me in the pla...

Renee writes: Say it with me, gay is not the new black. African-Americans did not cause the passing of prop 8, and the gay community does not have the right to compare its struggles to the black civil rights movement. I completely agree that gay is not the new black, and African-Americans did not ca...

My Mum grew up in London, and when she was seven she changed schools. They had different routines at her new school and she was a little confused. When the bell rang girls were lining up in two places and she didn’t know where she belonged. So she asked another student where she should go: ...