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The Real Affirmative Action Babies
Last Sunday, veteran Washington Post journalist Juan Williams and conservative author Shelby Steele wrote two opposing op-eds on the pending death of affirmative action. Williams opined that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was too optimistic when she predicted that affirmative action, born with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, had at most 25 more years to…
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Twitter Hi-Jinks: How Black Are You?
Sometimes, we’ve gotta keep it light. A sample from the #HowBlackAreYou trending topic: soulrebelJ: I still call my little brother booky. @jenjanea: I love a fish fry, always lived in Black neighborhoods, don’t trust the po-po & am prob more educated than u @elonjames: I have a Pavlovian lyrical response to the phrase “Who the…
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Beauty, the Brush and Black Girl Pain
At first blush, it looks like a familiar ritual in many black homes: A little girl with abundantly gorgeous, kinky-curly coils sits down with her mother/caregiver for a little grooming. Like most little girls, she’s none too happy to be participating in said ritual. So she lets her displeasure show. And that’s when a harmless…
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The Original Moonwalk
I was 9 when Neil Armstrong took that “one small step for man,” and even as a kid, I wasn’t impressed. The moon? Please. On Star Trek, they were whizzing by moons in other galaxies, and Tintin, the protagonist of my favorite series of graphic novels (even in the ‘60s they were way too fancy…
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Young, Gifted and Slack
Gov. Sarah Palin isn’t using the title “Reverend” yet, but that could be her next move. She’s well on her way to becoming a conservative Rev. Al Sharpton in whiteface. At least she’s not known as “Sarah the Fisherman.” (Unless she forgets to take down the “Gone Fishin’” sticky note on her office door in…
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Harry Allen vs. Kirstie Alley
No reasonable person could possibly dispute that Harry Allen is the media assassin up in this joint, but I was a little perplexed by his most recent choice of targets on a recent Twitter hit. It seems Fat Actress Kirstie Alley is a fan of the Fat Boys (ironic, right?) and Black people in general…
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Palin's New Jack Pity
Maybe Sarah Palin is just tired of it all in a “stop the bus, I want to get off” kind of way. Probably not. Yesterday, Double X’s Emily Bazelon took a charitable stab at taking Palin at face value by asking, “does Sarah Palin have a point?”—maybe there’s no way she can push a legislative…
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The Two Childhoods of Michael Jackson
When Michael Jackson gave up the ghost recently, we may have witnessed an eerie embodiment of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. In both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel and in the Oscar-nominated film version starring Brad Pitt, Benjamin Button ages in reverse: Born a shriveled old man, he dies a newborn baby. As an 11-year-old…
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The Ten Laws of Blog Beef
To the extent that I care, I have to ride with Perez Hilton on the recent punching incident involving him and the Black Eye Peas. Of course you know, any brother who dresses like Peter Pan is going to be sensitive to any questions about his manhood. So Perez was wrong for calling Will. I…
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Justice Thomas Dissents
1 Cite as: 557 U. S. ____ (2009) Opinion of THOMAS, J. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 08–322 NORTHWEST AUSTIN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DIS- TRICT NUMBER ONE, APPELLANT v. ERIC H.HOLDER, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL, ET AL. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA [June 22, 2009] JUSTICE THOMAS,…