Category: Society

The White House – Blog Post – Celebrating LGBT Pride Month

The White House – Blog Post – Celebrating LGBT Pride Month:

(Via The White House.)

Keep it real, O.

Michael Jackson’s Mirror. – Ta-Nehisi Coates

Michael Jackson’s Mirror. – Ta-Nehisi Coates:

“I think, despite the jokes and the sarcasm, we all knew what the plastic surgery was about. There was the stuff that MJ did that we joked about because it was weird, and there was the stuff he did that we joked about because it made us uncomfortable, because it told us something really ugly about the way things are and about ourselves too–I’m not talking just about white people, it’s 2009 and ‘good hair’ hasn’t gone out of style quite yet. I think things are different from the way they were in Jackson’s heyday. But not so different that it’s funny.”

(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)

YouTube – John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner

YouTube – John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner:

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(Via YouTube.)

Funny.

What Single Women Can’t Learn From Michelle

What Single Women Can’t Learn From Michelle:

“Black women hoping for a monopoly on black men have to realize that they’re like General Motors in a Toyota world—either develop your own hybrid technology or prepare to go out of business. “

(Via The Root.)

Newscoma » Racist And Ridiculous

Newscoma » Blog Archive » Racist And Ridiculous:

“Christian Grantham talks to Ms. Goforth, who admits she sent the email.

When I asked her if she understood the controversial nature of the photo, Goforth would only say she felt very bad about accidentally sending it to the wrong list. When I gave her a second chance to address the controversial nature of the email, she again repeated that she only felt bad about sending it to the wrong list of people.

I sent it to the wrong list of people? Huh.”

(Via Newscoma.)

My problem isn’t with the racists so much as it is with the GOP environment that would give them aid and comfort.

Obama Orders Stephen’s Haircut – Ray Odierno

Obama Orders Stephen’s Haircut – Ray Odierno | June 8, 2009 | ColbertNation.com:

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Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Stephen Colbert in Iraq

(Via The Colbert Nation.)

When the President plays into your show, that’s pull.

For The Slavery\Civil War\Reconstruction Buff In You – Ta-Nehisi Coates

For The Slavery\Civil War\Reconstruction Buff In You – Ta-Nehisi Coates:

“I don’t say this to be provocative, but there is no way to get around this–Slavery was big business. The antebellum Southern economy didn’t have slavery as an unfortunate appendage–it was it’s trunk, not a branch. We’re not even talking about the damage done to the slaves themselves. “

(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)

Great, great post. Why I read this blog religiously.

The Importance Of Being Politically Correct – Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Importance Of Being Politically Correct – Ta-Nehisi Coates:

“Liberal Tolerance is the long war, it’s the long game. It’s Barack Obama, at his core. Liberal tolerance–not Jesse Helms–argued for interracial unions. Liberal tolerance is what allowed Obama to neutralize Rev. Wright, and make his race speech. Liberal tolerance is what allowed him to go to Notre Dame and talk with empathy about abortion. Liberal tolerance bets on the future. It presages that world (the world of today) that the GOP has spent very little time preparing for.
Below is a video of Tom Tancredo claiming that La Raza is the Latino KKK.  But Tom Tancredo knows very little about Latinos, La Raza or the KKK. He is the embodiment of conservative ignorance. He is the apex of Schiavo, ‘white hands,’ creationist museums, and, presently, the notion that the thrice-married should carry the banner for marriage.”

(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)

Why conservatives and racist keep ending up in the same sentence. (Go to the main article too. The video says it all.)

The Power Of Appointment – Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Power Of Appointment – Ta-Nehisi Coates:

“More likely, when you have a party, in which people feel comfortable coming to rallies and saying on camera that they won’t vote for a black guy, then that party will have people asserting the right to mispronounce Sotomayor’s name. That party will have people arguing that Sotomayer’s food choices are evil.  It’s highly unlikely that that party will have some sort of sophisticated tolerence game at the ready. They are who they are.”

(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)

Indeed. You are what you repeatedly do. Damn the “Party of Lincoln” talk.

Jesse Ventura Speaks: Wants Cheney on a Waterboard, Bush Worst President | ChattahBox News Blog

Jesse Ventura Speaks: Wants Cheney on a Waterboard, Bush Worst President | ChattahBox News Blog:

(Via Chattabox News Blog.)

Jesse body slams. The best question is at the end of the second clip.