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  • Comedians Have Social Responsibility, Too

    (The Root) In recent years the conversation on whether or not to take comedians seriously when it comes to matters of import has been all the rage.  From Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s daily smack down of the political establishment to Katt Williams and Tracy Morgan on stage.  From Bill Maher with his weekly show…

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  • Super PAC Paints Obama as Racist

    (The Root) — The super PAC situation is getting ridiculous. For those of you who are not familiar with super PACs: A super PAC is a political action committee that is allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money either for a candidate or against one. Super PACs can’t work directly with the candidate…

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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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