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  • "Obama IS Cosby:" The Cosby Effect@25

    jimi izrael: Thanks so much for your time, Professor. Sut Jhally: Sure. For those who may not be familiar, thumb-nail the study. The book was an audience study of readings of the Cosby Show, and we were interested in the basis of the popularity of the Cosby Show. We interviewed both black audiences and white…

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  • QUIZ: Not Everything Is About Race. Yes, It Is!

    Every time two different people from two different backgrounds get in a dispute, race may color the dynamic, but most often it is not the dominant instigator—never mind what Jimmy Carter has to say about race in America. This isn’t to say that we are post-racial or that racism is dead. We aren’t, and it…

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  • What Whitney Didn't Say

    I’m glad to see Whitney Houston has found her way back to the music, but I was troubled by the lack of personal accountability in her recent turn on Oprah’s show. Oprah Winfrey has rocks for brains and is generally anti-male, anti-marriage, anti-family and anti-common sense, so there were no surprises, really, when Whitney got…

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  • Segregated Busing

    Rush Limbaugh is at it again, fueling white fear in the America by suggesting that President Obama has emboldened young black kids to attack white kids randomly, and suggests maybe it’s time to go back to segregated busing. As with the Jena Six kerfluffle involving the white kid attacked by black kids, there is almost…

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  • Big Love

    I’m not a fan of weight-loss shows because I’m on Team Big Girl and not for nothing. A recent poll from a dating site confirmed what the barbershop has known for years: Most men think big girls are better in bed. Of course, they have fine personalities, too: Multiple degrees and the whole nine. But…

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  • Kanye's Disgrace

    Kanye West is a disgrace to Beta males everywhere. His outburst last night at the VMAs was uncalled for. He should have been hogtied and ejected like Robert Deniro did Joe Pesci’s cowboy friend with all the lip in Casino. Kanye’s wasn’t an artful expression, an MC challenge or a PSA. It was a Beta…

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  • Tyler Perry: The Right Choice

    There’s been alot of outrage in certain circles behind reports that filmaker Tyler Perry is on-board to write and direct a screen adaption of Ntozake Shange’s play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.” Shange’s work resonates with a generation of young black women eager to define themselves outside of society’s…

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  • Kids Are Prejudice, Too

    According to recent studies, children form their own ideas about race, despite our best efforts. When the kids in one study were asked how many white people were mean, they said “almost none.” When asked about how many black folks were mean, they said “some” or “a lot.”How about that? So, you mean all that…

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  • Memo to Black Women: Get Real!

    I sympathize with black women because it’s true that 71 percent of black grad students are female and that they outnumber black men in the general population 7 to 1. But maybe you’ve heard the one about successful black women being unable to find suitable black mates is not about ineligible men. And if you…

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  • Rihanna's Turn

    I’m sure glad singer Chris Brown was on Larry King to stand accountable for his role in the IPV incident between him and his girlfriend Rihanna. Now, given reports (if TMZ counts)  that she was the instigator, I’m waiting for Rihanna to be charged with domestic violence so she can do her turn on CNN…

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