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Post-Racial or 'Post' Racial?
The New York Post’s Wednesday cartoon depicting two police officers shooting and killing a chimpanzee, purportedly parodying the Monday police shooting of a pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Connecticut after it mauled a friend of its owner, with the caption, “They’ll have to find someone to write the next stimulus bill,” has been challenged by Rev.…
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Racist "Stimulus" Cartoon Unnerves NYC
New Yorkers are outraged this afternoon. The New York Post published a cartoon depicting two NYPD white police officers shooting [to death] a black chimpanzee on a city sidewalk. The caption above the cartoon reads: They’ll Have to Find Someone Else to Write the Next Stimulus Bill. Hey, I know the Republicans refused to support…
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Fashion Week a la Michelle
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Michelle’s style sneaks up on you because underneath it all the first lady has a simple sartorial equation: Mix the practical with panache. This belted coat from Andy & Debb will keep her warm and…
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Bringing Up Old Ish
The article, for your perusing and pondering pleasure. The Buzz’s Final Thought: Michael Vick willfully broke the law and paid the price for doing so. Having paid his debt, he should be allowed to live his life as a man who once broke the law and is (hopefully) attempting to rehabilitate his life following a series…
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Forming a Q
As the banks, the car manufacturers and the other birds of the nest strain for their morsel of the stimulus package, The Buzz can’t help but wonder about the basics of business and the spirit of a capitalist economic system. Let’s, for a moment, deliberately oversimplify capitalism for the purpose of argument. The capitalist foundation in America, in its…
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The Oscars and The "Colored" Component
The 81st Oscar Awards will air Sunday and the heat is on. Like usual, the “colored” component to the Oscars is low, but let’s illuminate what is there. And, interestingly enough, there’s quite a few this time around. There’s the Best Picture and Director nominee Slumdog Millionaire, the story about the Muslim children of Mumbai,…
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Best Actor in Blackface
I would classify myself as an intensely proud black man. And I feel completely comfortable saying that Robert Downey Jr. deserves his Oscar nod. Denying Tropic Thunder’s smart satire simply because the artists involved are white is simplistic and short-sighted. Frankly, I find Tyler Perry’s use of trite black American archetypes equally as problematic as blackface.…
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A Seat For A Lady (And Others)
I was in criminal court yesterday, waiting for a hearing to start. (I suppose I should clarify here that this was work-related and not, thankfully, personal….) One of the lawyers who’d come to observe at the hearing was waiting with the rest of the press for the court administrators to open the door. It was…
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Cherry Pickin'
USA Today: Say what you will, but the man does not waste time. The New York Times: It’s no Purple City Byrd Gang, but it will do. The LA Times: The truth? You can’t handle the truth! The Chicago Tribune: The last name Burris is having a rough couple of months. Check out our take…
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Of Fools and Democrats
There is an old saying, or there should be, that God looks after fools and Democrats. Look at Roland Burris, the political has-been and perennial loser who got one of the all-time greatest second chances in American politics and blew it by lying under oath to a state impeachment panel. Still, Burris is a U.S.…