If Miley Cyrus is an unredeemed hick racist for pulling her eyes back to imitate the Chinese , what to make of Amy Sedaris scrawling "Ching Chong" and drawing buck teeth on someone's book? It was noted in the comments on the Cyrus post that the teen star is from Nashville; hipster comedy goddess Sed...

newVideoPlayer("/larryking_blacklesbian_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Trend alert: Did you know it's very "hot" to be black or lesbian right now? We know it's true because CNN coolhunter Larry King, 112, said so. Everyone laughed nervously. King declared "black is in" on CNN Wednesday after talking to ...

And like Swiss Clockwork, The Congressional Black Caucus shows up and Blacks Fall For It. Have Black folks lost their minds? Not only is Blago using race as a wedge, but so-called “Black Leaders� appear to be enablers and co-conspirators in the game he is playing. I don’t know which is worse -...

Chip Saltsman just naturally assumed handing out a minstrel song called "Barack the Magic Negro" would quickly win him enough Republican friends to become party chairman. So why is everyone so upset??   Saltsman is a big loser just like his old boss, Mike "Failuretown" Huckabee, who once m...

Carmen D puts the latest iteration of the “Magic Negro” controversy in broader context by revisiting an old post of hers on the original source of the conservative meme, a 2007 LA Times op-ed by author (and OG Vast Left Wing Conspirator) David Ehrenstein: Ehrenstein seems to think that B...

Bernie Madoff's alleged $50 billion swindle was a Jew-on-Jew crime. Jewish investors and charities lost a bundle. Now they suffer disgrace of having another anti-Semitic evil-banker stereotype. And Jewish media watchdogs are not helping! “We’re not immune from having thieves and people who engag...

The Anti-Defamation League, eager as ever to publicize menaces to the Jewish people, fears Bernie Madoff's $50 billion swindle has led to a flood of online Jew-hating. Among Internet commenters. How convenient for the ADL! Everyone hates Internet commenters! That makes them the perfect target for th...

Metro, the free paper best known for causing track fires on the NYC subways, ran a cover story yesterday that is totally indefensible, even by the lowly journalism standards of free morning papers. Radar spotted it: a front page splash about an innocent grad student girl who was supposedly attacked ...

This is the New Yorker's new cover, depicting Barack Obama and his wife Michelle in the Oval Office. It accompanies a big article about how Obama maybe was not always about CHANGE but in fact may have been a skilled Chicago politician at some point. The cover promises to become an election flashpoin...

The Black PR Society of New York had its summer mixer at the huge rooftop lounge at 230 Fifth in Manhattan on Wednesday night. But apparently the 40-person group hadn't reserved it for a private event or something (although the website says "Reservations are not necessary since we can very comfortab...