Black happiness is on the rise. Or so it seems. Is it because of Barack Obama? Or is something else at play in the land of societal equality and community equilibrium? Last week, The New York Times tried to quantify the new “Black Satiety” in the following graphic:
Walmart are being accused of Racism for marking down a Black Barbie to $3.00USD while selling the White Barbie for the full price of $5.93USD. Some argue Walmart needed to be more sensitive to issues of Race in the marketplace and that the company needs to sell all Barbies for the same amount. Walmart replied, with a stone ear against a burning fire engulfing them, that they needed to move inventory and the Black Barbies had to be discounted so they would sell better.
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We are a nation of masks — we repress our true feelings and protect our basic being. On the surface, we claim we are all equal and that skin color doesn’t matter and that technology is agnostic, non-atavistic, non-discriminatory and non-evangelistic. Today, we have been forced to know better by peeking out from behind our masks to divine the reality before us.
We all know, and can generally identify, what “Racism” is and what it means and how it hurts all of us — but what is that thing some people call “Reverse Racism?”
Baseball player and steroid user Sammy Sosa appears to now be hiding from his crimes against the game by changing his Race. The dark-skinned Sosa is now the bright white Sammy. Say it ain’t so, Sammy, say it ain’t so:
In the wash of the Barack Obama win, there are strange thunderings going on below the surface level of local, human, interaction. Many of our area neighbors, and casual acquaintances, cannot believe we — “The White Folk” — voted for Obama, and I cannot help but wonder why.
The United States is now the number one nation of the incarcerated in the world. The Pew Center on the States released a new report that one in 99 Americans is a prisoner in the nation’s overcrowded jail and prison system.
Continue reading → One in 99: Number One as the Prison Nation
I suppose it had to happen sooner than later.
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I suppose it was inevitable: Don Imus of “Rutgers Nappy Headed-Hos” fame is back on radio as of Monday and one can only begin to wonder about the why of his return.
Continue reading → Return of the Racist: Don Imus on ABC Radio
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