Lena Dunham inadvertently found herself in the middle of a race debate after Lisa Lampanelli tweeted a picture of the twosome with the caption: “Me and my nigga @LenaDunham of @HBOGirls — I love this beyotch!!” Lampanelli’s tweet set off a firestorm of criticism by Twitter users and writers, prompting her to eventually address it. Rather…
Latanya Sweeney seems to think she’s cracked an interesting facet of Google’s search algorithms. Sweeney, a MIT researcher, discovered that searching for ”black sounding” names are up to 25 percent more likely to be served with an arrest-related ad. “There is discrimination in delivery of these ads,” she concludes. From The Physics arXiv Blog: Sweeney’s interest is in the ads that appear…
After my pictures started making the rounds on deviantArt, tumblr and 4chan, it became pretty clear that my cosplay brings all the racists to the yard, and they’re like…white cosplay is better than yours.
GRRRRRR…. Old black wise black lady voice: “Only trouble SistaTV’s World is White Folks…” Why do I even have to fucking write this? Oh yeah, because frankly, white people — Can I call you white people? We’re all post racial friends here aren’t we? — sometimes you’re dicks to your black friend. Some of you…
I remember watching a gay rights activist on a television interview discussing the importance of “natural alliances” in the struggle for equality. He stated that “African-Americans” were a “natural ally” for gay people as a result of the similarities in our shared experiences. I also remember thinking to myself, “Good luck with that one.” While Blacks and homosexuals have clearly endured similar…
A slew of anonymous billboards have emerged on bus shelters across the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn and they all speak to one simple message: we as a nation are not past racial discrimination. “Racism Still Exists” is the title of the advert campaign that is seeking to broadcast the way racial disparities continue to impact…
In a comprehensive list that touches on the relentless insults — both blatant and subtle — that many black women face on their daily beauty journeys, Gradient Lair makes it very clear that conforming to standards of Eurocentric beauty is so 2012. Tackling everything from patriarchy to weight bigotry, the list seems to have it…
Though “Django Unchained” is doing extraordinary well at the box office, not everyone took kindly to Director Quentin Tarantino’s decision to turn slavery into a Western film. Many thought the movie’s witty dialogue, comic relief by way of chatty Ku Klux Klan members and sensationalist ending trivialized one the most traumatic period in American history….
The word nigger has power. It throbs with so much hatred and history, that modern society subdues it with quotation marks, abbreviates it in a pathetic attempt to dilute it’s meaning or utters the completely ridiculous “n-word” just to make it palatable for the masses. Conservative politicians will vilify poor, black Americans as welfare scavengers,…
Yesterday, we celebrated the start of the New Year, and for many African-Americans, the end Kwanza, the week-long Afrocentric celebration between Christmas and New Years. While approximately two million black Americans celebrate the holiday, one Republican state senator is totally over the idea. While Fox News has repeatedly pedaled the idea that there is a…
