Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton finally unleashed her campaign’s “secret weapon” this year, but it apparently has been in storage for quite a while and needs an update; consider Bill Clinton’s recent comparison of the contentious GOP debates to “those rap tunes on MTV”and today’s reference to kids “getting hopped up on crack.” As far as […]
http://twitter.com/#!/FirstTeamTommy/status/453261120154116096 MSNBC’s Touré used the word “racist” and “racism” quite a bit in a monologue today, but this time he was defending a person against the allegation instead of throwing it at somebody. Touré, who can find a racist around any corner for almost any reason as long as that person subscribes to the “wrong” […]
Last Friday, National Review’s Jonah Goldberg wrote a column about Ben Carson’s growing popularity in the GOP presidential race. As he observed: How strange it must be for people who comfort themselves with the slander that the GOP is a cult of organized racial hatred that the most popular politician among conservatives is a black […]
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced the suspension ofhis presidential campaign tonight, which inspired writer Anil Dashto conclude that Jindal was on alosing track from the start, having abandonedhisIndian American identityandvalues in favor ofbeing “divisive and combative,” which we’ll assume is synonymous with Republican. Unfortunately, Jindal in particular has been targeted for ethnic purity, fromthe Washington […]
Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong was a trailblazer despite the openly racist industry in which she worked. Remembering her story and contemplating how much things have changed. View this image › Justine Zwiebel / Hulton Archive / Getty Images The following is a bonus chapter from Anne Helen Petersen’s Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, […]