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And Now We're Post-Biracial
So, The New Republic’s John McWhorter sees a “certain crowd” that just isn’t giving the pre-post-racial era a chance. He takes me and Jenée Desmond-Harris to task for our bi-biracial evaluation of the “Cablinasian” thing in the context of the Tiger Woods scandal. Of Tiger Woods and race he writes, “an America in which a…
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Goodbye, 'Cablinasian'
Tiger Woods will spend the winter licking his wounds and pondering his revised feline moniker—now dubbed the “Lion Cheetah” in the blogosphere for his reported string of marital indiscretions. And although I wouldn’t want to be walking in his shoes right now, as a biracial black guy from California just a few years older than…
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Why The Salahis Should Go To Jail
– The Coup “Sneakin’ In” If you’ve ever slid past a long line of impatient partygoers at a packed Las Vegas club on Saturday night, you know how good it feels to get in. Whether you styled-off the bouncer with half a hundred or you were on the VIP guest list, there’s nothing like it.…
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Star-Spangled Muslims
In July, the Islamic Association of Raleigh, N.C., hosted “Meet Your Muslim Neighbor”—an event designed to build bridges and educate the non-Muslim community about different facets of Islamic life and culture beyond common negative stereotypes. Two days later, the FBI arrested seven Muslim men from a neighboring town for alleged involvement in a terror conspiracy.…
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Some of My Best Friends are Uncle Toms
It’s hard being a black Republican these days. That’s one reason why I admire Sophia Nelson. She reps a small-government, Jack Kemp-inspired brand of Republicanism that emphasizes the imperative of fostering entrepreneurship in communities of color. If you’ve ever caught her appearances on CNN or MSNBC, you know she’s a far more credible spokesperson for…
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Obamastan
To hear conservative critics tell it, the United States had everything in Afghanistan under control until President Barack Obama took office and messed with George W. Bush’s ingenious combination of open-ended warfare and diplomacy-by-silent treatment. Unchastened by the hasty run-up to the Iraq War, for a solid month, an assortment of foreign-policy players has tried…
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Fly Little Biracial Balloon Boy, Fly…
If you happen to be a biracial kid stuck growing up in a miscegenation-phobic time-warp like Tangipahoa Parish, La., where Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell apparently refuses to marry interracial couples because he feels “the children will suffer later,” then you, at some point, might have dreamed of floating away in your father’s helium…
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NFL Rushes Past Rush’s Pass Rush
Last week on the air, Rush Limbaugh gleefully pronounced that the only thing more embarrassing to President Barack Obama than attaching himself to Chicago’s losing 2016 Olympic bid was being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “telling everyone how much our country sucks.” That’s unless a cabal of industry titans and media moguls tells you:…
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Mad Men's "I Have A Dream" Sequence
Last night, Mad Men might have taken its most eyebrow-raising cut so far on race relations. (spoiler alert) Even though Carla (Deborah Lacey), Don and Betty’s African American housekeeper, had minimal dialogue, and even though references to MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the murder of four black girls in Birmingham were deliberately oblique,…
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Go Slow, Oslo!
The Nobel Committee livened up an otherwise dull Friday morning with their announcement that President Barack Obama will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Once again tipping their hat to African Americans, after MLK and Ralph Bunche, Obama is the third American black man to win the Nobel Prize—the fourth, if you count Jimmy Carter.…
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