Magazine Editor Acclaims Black NFL Player's Divorce From White Woman
January 28th, 2016 5:36 PM
Ebony magazine senior editor Jamilah Lemieux ran to Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson's defense in a Thursday post on Twitter over his apparent choice of clothing, but also took the opportunity to tout how the NFL player "divorced a WW [white woman] when he signed a big contract and got with a Black single mom."
Cam Newton: ‘I’m an African-American QB, That Scares People’
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January 27th, 2016 11:42 PM
So, I suppose it was only a matter of time before Cam Newton took a flaming torch to the house of goodwill he built up by having one of the greatest postseasons in recent memory. But it appears as though he is in the process of doing precisely that right now.
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Matthews: Who'll Watch 'The Two Cuban Guys' If Trump Doesn't Debate?
January 26th, 2016 7:58 PM
Imagine that in some future presidential election, two Mexican-American candidates are vying for the Dem nomination. The Dem frontrunner announces he won't participate in the next debate. And a conservative pundit sneeringly says "who's going to watch a debate between the two Mexican guys?" Now imagine all hell descending on that hapless conservative for his breach of political correctness.
Will…
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Chuck Todd Socks Sanders From Left on Reparations
January 24th, 2016 11:37 AM
It's not easy to get to the left of Bernie Sanders. He is a self-described socialist, after all. But hats off to Chuck Todd: he's managed to do it! On today's Meet the Press, Todd, citing Ta-nehisi Coates, challenged Sanders: why aren't you for reparations . . . because of slavery for African-Americans when you're calling for economic justice on so many other levels? Why do you stop short on…
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Danny DeVito's Oscar Smear: 'The Entire Country Is a Racist Country'
January 24th, 2016 7:57 AM
Tiny actor-director Danny DeVito can make a big charge of American racism on the controversy over the all-white acting nominations for the Academy Awards.
“It’s unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country. So it’s an example of the fact that even though some great people have given some great performances in movies, they weren’t even thought about. We are living in a country that…
Lefty Pundits: Right’s Racial Politics, Ignorance Paved Way For Trump
January 23rd, 2016 3:14 PM
Commenting Friday on National Review’s anti-Donald Trump editorial and symposium, The New Republic’s Jeet Heer and New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait agreed that conservatives are responsible for Trump’s Republican frontrunner status, but differed on which unpleasant right-wing trait, “white identity politics” or anti-intellectualism, was the prime mover.
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'Blackish’ Links Attitudes About Money and Slavery, Then Gets Mad
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January 21st, 2016 9:26 PM
Money, money, money was the theme on Wednesday night’s edition of ABC’s Blackish, titled “Keeping Up with the Johnsons.”
College Football Player Apologizes for Tweet Comparing CFB to Slavery
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January 21st, 2016 9:13 AM
Florida Gators football player Jalen Tabor apologized for comparing the Southeastern Conference to a “Modern Form of Slavery.” Probably because it’s crazy.
Spike Lee Ditches Oscars; Opts for Least Diverse Sports League Instead
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January 21st, 2016 8:31 AM
Spike Lee has made it well-known that he will refuse to attend the Oscars next month. Less well-known is what Spike intends to do with his time when he’s not at the Oscars.
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Chris Matthews Expresses Support for Racial 'Reparations'
January 20th, 2016 10:59 PM
"By the way, I do believe in [slavery] reparations if you could figure out what it would be," Hardball host Chris Matthews admitted to his panel during the "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" segment on the January 20 program.
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WashPost Boosts Left-Wing 'White Privilege' Theory on Race
January 18th, 2016 12:59 PM
The Washington Post's Christine Emba and Karen Attiah promoted the leftist race theory of "white privilege" in a Saturday video posted on the newspaper's website. The two op-ed writers blamed "white privilege" for the hands-off approach to the occupation of the federal wildlife refuge in Oregon: "White privilege means being able to take over a federal building; to be armed to the teeth; and to…
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Congressional Black Caucus Goes on 'Real Housewives of Atlanta'
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January 18th, 2016 2:45 AM
It’s getting all political up in the ATL in this season of BRAVO’s Real Housewives of Atlanta. In the December 20, 2015, episode entitled “Miami Spice,” Phaedra Parks and Sheree Whitfield, both mothers of sons, introduced a political thread into the series. Sitting together and grousing about the plight of young black men in today’s society, Phaedra stated, “They are already an endangered species…
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Harris-Perry Guest Falsely Accuses Republicans of Calling Obama 'Boy'
January 16th, 2016 12:42 PM
On today's Melissa Harris-Perry show, the perpetually outraged Nina Turner of Ohio ripped Ted Cruz and Chris Christie for their language during this past week's debate: "to call the president a boy, those of us who understand African-American history—cause that's exactly what they called him was a boy—and you don't do that to anybody, and especially to an African-American man."
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CNN's Cuomo Gloats Ted Cruz 'Hoisted on His Petard' with Birtherism
January 14th, 2016 9:57 AM
On Thursday's New Day on CNN, during a discussion of whether GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz being born in Canada is responsible for hurting his Iowa poll numbers since last month, CNN co-anchor Chris Cuomo at one point gloated that the Texas Senator has been a "divider" who is being "hoisted on his own petard."
