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Democracy In Action: 350lb Man Protests Wisconsin Restaurant’s All-You-Can-Eat Policy

May 21, 2012 No Comments by

Two things about America: we believe in democracy, and we’re the most obese nation on the planet. Yes, more people would probably vote this year if they were given a plate of free food in exchange for casting a ballot. Having said that, here’s an example of what a true American patriot is all about. [...]

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TSA, “the Illegals” and Why Mention of Project Mayhem Makes Me Giggle

May 20, 2012 1 Comment by

My local headlines were all a-fluffered about the recent discoveryof  Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole (ohl-oo-moo-YEE’-wah oh-YEH’-woh-leh), an illegal immigrant from Nigeria who has been punching a clock at Newark International Airport for over two decades now. According the New York Times, the real Jerry Thomas was shot to death in July 1992 in front of the Y on Parsons [...]

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Right-Wing Group Says: Minority Births “Not A Good Thing.”

May 18, 2012 1 Comment by

So, for the first time in history, according to a Census Bureau report published by the New York Times, last year over 50% of all babies born in America, were babies born to minorities. So what does this all mean? OK, well let me cue Public Enemy’s classic album, “Fear Of A Black Planet” before I explain. [...]

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Wait, is Barack Obama Gay? Uhm, is He Still Black?!!

May 16, 2012 2 Comments by

Last week after Pres. Obama’s made his “evolution” on gay marriage public, my initial thought was: great, now they’re going to say that Obama is gay, and all gay people are now going to vote for him because of it. You know, pretty much in the same way all black people voted for him in [...]

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Post-Racial Update: Republican KKK Leader Running for Sheriff Invites Media to Cross Burning

May 14, 2012 1 Comment by

As if Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio wasn’t bad enough, in steps Shaun Winkler, a white supremacist running for sheriff. As a Republican, Winkler hopes to become Bonner County, Idaho’s next sheriff. As anybody running for office will tell you, media attention is something welcomed and often sought by candidates. That said, not one [...]

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Amendment One: Wasn’t North Carolina The “Good” Carolina?

May 14, 2012 3 Comments

I think that one of my proudest moments in life happened at the beginning of this year: my younger brother – a heterosexual Black adult male – joined me in the fight against Amendment One by taking a photo with me, donning “Vote Against” t-shirts. For about a year, I’ve worked tirelessly against the passing [...]

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North Carolina’s Amendment One, Same-Sex Marriage, & Me

May 14, 2012 No Comments

Some may be familiar with North Carolina’s Amendment One to the state constitution, which is stated to explicitly state that same-sex marriages are to be illegal in the state of NC. I don’t claim to know everything about everything, but as I understand it; same sex marriages already WERE illegal in NC. Now I have been [...]

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Obama’s America: White New Jersey Mother Arrested For Tanning 6-Year-Old Daughter

May 02, 2012 9 Comments

Apparently things are pretty bad for white folks in America these days. Sure, we’re post-racial; and yes, the country is being headed by a guy with black skin. However, with the crippling white unemployment rate in this post-recessionary jobless economy, coupled with the usual centuries-long internalized oppression forced upon them by slavery and that Jim Crow thing– [...]

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Female Sexual Assault + Hate Crime = How Men Turn Lesbians Straight?

May 01, 2012 3 Comments

What would you do if you came home and accidently discovered your daughter making out with another girl? Would you be surprised? Hurt or alarmed? Would you think she’s going through a ‘growing phase’ and then seek therapy for her, you know, so that she could fix her problem? You might even be so desperate for help that [...]

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“Occupy the Department of Justice”: Trayvon Martin, Mumia Abu Jamal, & Mass Incarceration

Apr 28, 2012 1 Comment

Remember the silly talk last year that suggested that the Occupy Movement was racist? Well, it’s spring again; and, though the revival of tent cities has been slow. Check out the following video to see what occupy activists of color engaged in this past week. Given the recent rise in interest to the cries of [...]

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South Carolina Pushes Abortion Ban for Low-Income Victims of Rape & Incest

Apr 27, 2012 5 Comments

It looks like my right-wing friends in South Carolina are up to their usual foolishness again. This time, apparently an unborn fetus has more rights than a woman (or child) reliant on the state health insurance system — you know, mostly low-income women who happen to be a victims of rape, or incest? And, to [...]

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