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Note to Michael Steele: Black /= Charisma
On September 1st, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele graced the stage in Washington once more for a town hall meeting hosted by the young black Republicans of Howard University. (For the sake of full disclosure I have to admit up front that I was, at one point, a Republican. I have since been exorcised…
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This Week in Blackness: Barack Obama is the Worst. President. Ever.
After watching a LOT (read: 20 minutes) of CNN in conjunction with “Meet the Press” last Sunday, I finally came to the conclusion everyone really wanted me to. Barack Obama is, in fact, the WORST. President. Ever. Want proof? Check out Episode 5 of Season 2 of “This Week in Blackness,” presented by the Brooklyn…
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Charlie Sheen: What's Black Got to Do With It?
I’m not sure you’re aware of this — but there’s this actor named Charlie Sheen, and he’s having an itsy-bitsy meltdown, and it’s getting just a smidgen of press coverage. Before last week, I hadn’t mentioned the name “Charlie Sheen” in years. He was a part of the Hot Shots film franchise when I was…
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Let's Call Trump's Language What It Is
Oh, look. The president has a birth certificate. Apparently he isn’t a sleeper terror agent trying to bring down the country. What a relief. But even after Obama’s press conference on Wednesday, during which he revealed the document that some people claimed didn’t exist, Donald Trump and his fellow Birthers haven’t given up the fight.…
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We Get It: Black People Like Twitter
Apparently black folks are terribly interesting. I mean, everything we do is fascinating. The way we vote. The way we dance. The way we apparently don’t say “muthaf—-er” when we’re asking for a glass of iced tea. We’re just so fascinating. So when black Americans started using the social media service Twitter, a slew of…
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Dear OWS: Welcome to Our World
During the Occupy Wall Street crackdown a few weeks ago — when efforts to shut down the Occupy movement hit cities all across the country — there was a cry of outrage. We read about and witnessed attacks by police on peaceful Occupiers that seemed very foreign to some. The police’s blatant disregard for the…
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Newt Gingrich Doesn't Like Poor Children
A word from Newt Gingrich, front-runner in the GOP 2012 primaries: Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods, have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, so they have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day; they have no habit of “I do…
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Take Back the Capitol: Lessons for OWS
“What are they yelling?” As I stood across the street from the first stop on the Take Back the Capitol march yesterday, away from the throng of activists, organizers and Occupiers from across the country, I watched as regular non-protesting people reacted, sometimes in confusion. Many of them looked incredulously upon the chanting crowd standing…
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Why Forbes' Column Crossed the Line
OK, folks. How come no one told me that it’s Slander Poor Black Kids Month? Was there a memo that went out? No one could send me a Facebook message about this? If you’re not aware of what I’m talking about, let me enlighten you. First Newt Gingrich explained recently that poor black children don’t…
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Inaugural Elongated thoughts
Black culture and political satire. Elon James White is a writer and satirist and host of the award-winning video and radio series This Week in Blackness. Listen Monday to Thursday at 1:30 p.m. EST at TWIB.FM and watch at TV.TWIB.ME/LIVE. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Tumblr.
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