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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is on a crusade. He’s banning African-American studies from public schools, claiming they impose a political agenda on school kids. This is a brazen case of projection. DeSantis is not protecting kids from a political agenda. He’s ensuring schools indoctrinate them with a white-supremacist version of US history. Rev. Al Sharpton… Read more.
Believe it or not, I was a big fan. Don Imus, who tested the limits of shock radio with his irreverent attacks on celebrities, politicians, racial and ethnic groups, women, gay people and practically anyone whose head stuck up out of the foxhole, died on Friday in College Station, Texas. … After years on the… Read more.
Comedian Bill Maher is known for his politically incorrect schtick. He knows better than anyone that nothing guarantees viral attention in this age of social media quite like a snarky point, sick prank, or salacious photo. Moreover, it’s self-evident that the aim of most points, pranks, and photos is not to provoke enlightened thought or… Read more.
[I]f she takes this path to (presumed) racial absolution, Black folks will think Pascal is not only a closeted racist but a shameless cynic to boot. After all, we know all too well that this venal reverend would grant racial indulgences to the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, in a minute, for an extortionate fee, er, contribution (to a slush fund… Read more.
After weathering one of the most embarrassing days in her career, during which her racially insensitive remarks were disseminated on the Internet, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal is ready to begin the ‘healing process,’ and reached out to the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. ‘I’m being proactive,’ the executive tells The Hollywood Reporter. ‘And I want to accept responsibility for… Read more.
I am stupefied by all of the psychoanalysis media outlets are devoting to the fact that Reverend Jesse Jackson’s was “caught on tape” saying the following about presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama: See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith based … telling niggers how to behave … I wanna cut his nuts off. Frankly, I am neither… Read more.
