RACED

Honoring The First Black Marines

2011-11-06T01:34:00.002-05:00

Click here.

CT Scans And Minority Children

2011-11-06T01:31:00.003-05:00

From OrthoSuperSite: "African-American and Hispanic children are less likely than Caucasian children to receive a cranial CT scan in an emergency department following minor head trauma, accoridng to a study presented at the 2011 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition."

The Political Outlooks Of Black And White Voters

2011-11-06T01:27:00.002-05:00

Consider this.

"Moving Beyond Civil Rights"

2011-11-06T01:22:00.002-05:00

Check out Stanford law professor Richard Thompson Ford's recent NYT op-ed and his argument that "[i]f civil rights ideals are to be as relevant in the 21st century as they were in the 20th, we must adapt the tactics of the past to the complexities of the present."

"Clarence Thomas: Black Nationalist?"

2011-11-06T01:20:00.001-05:00

Juan Williams takes up the question.

"Black Nationalism For White People"

2011-09-30T16:19:00.002-05:00

Check out Ta-Nehisi Coates' piece in the Atlantic.

"Anita Hill's Long Memory"

2011-09-30T15:59:00.002-05:00

Click here for Andrew Goldman's Q&A with Anita Hill.

More Than Half

2011-09-30T15:54:00.002-05:00

More than half (52.2%) of black children in Nebraska live in poverty. The numbers for other groups living in that state: 49.7% of Native American children, 33.8% of Latino children, and 14/5% of white children.

More Pat Buchanan

2011-09-30T15:43:00.003-05:00

From the mouth of Pat Buchanan (still a commentator for MSNBC!): "I think what he is saying is they bought a lot of liberal propaganda on the liberal plantation and I think he's right!" (Buchanan was referring to Herman Cain's statement that black voters "have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.")

By the way, Buchanan's forthcoming book gives "special thanks to Marcus Epstein for the invaluable assistance and untold hours he devoted to researching ideas, issues, and anecdotes." It has been reported that Epstein "was previously arrested for attacking a woman with a 'karate chop' and calling her the n-word." I'm just saying . . .

Racial Bias In Lead Study

2011-09-30T15:38:00.002-05:00

From the NYT: A class action lawsuit filed against the Kennedy Krieger Institute (affilaited iwth Johns Hopkins University) alleges that over 100 black children were knowingly exposed to lead poisoning in the 1990s as part of a study of the hazards of lead paint.

The Barbara Jordan Stamp

2011-09-16T22:37:00.001-05:00

Click here.

Dahlia Lithwick's "A Killer Issue"

2011-09-16T22:17:00.002-05:00

Dahlia Lithwick's Slate article argues that the "same Republicans who are dubious of government's ability to do anything right have an apparently bottomless faith in the capital-justice system. Everything is broken in America, they claim--except the machinery of death."

"The GOP War on Voting"

2011-09-16T22:09:00.002-05:00

Check out Ari Berman's article in the Rolling Stone. From the article: "Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots."

David Remnick On The Making And Remaking Of Malcolm X

2011-09-16T22:07:00.002-05:00

In The New Yorker.

Driving While Dreadlocked

2011-09-16T22:03:00.003-05:00

John McWhorter's New Republic piece addresses the question why the police are so bad at racial profiling.

Uh Oh

2011-09-14T19:33:00.006-05:00

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that, according to the National Enquirer, Joe McGinnis' new book on Sarah Palin "alleges that, in her twenties, Sarah Palin had hush-hush sex with then-University of Michigan star basketball player Glen Rice. Sort of redefines her stance on 'Drill, Baby Drill,' doesn't it?" According to the Enquirer story, "McGinnis claims Sarah had a 'fetish' for black men at the time . . ." (I know, consider the source, etc., but the story is now out there.)

"Is The South Still Prejudiced?"

2011-09-14T19:24:00.003-05:00

James Swift considers this question.

1 In 4

2011-09-14T19:21:00.002-05:00

That's the number of African-American families suffering from hunger.

Do White Americans Have Better Health Care Than African Americans?

2011-09-14T19:18:00.002-05:00

From the Baltimore Sun.

Eighty Six Percent

2011-09-14T19:16:00.001-05:00

That's the percentage of Americans who approve of interracial marriages.

"Rick Perry's Lethal Overconfidence"

2011-09-14T18:56:00.004-05:00

Check out this terrific Daily Beast piece by my friend and colleague David Dow.

Duane Edward Buck

2011-09-14T18:49:00.002-05:00

From the Texas Tribune:

"The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles today voted against recommending clemency for Duane Edward Buck, rejecting the pleas of his lawyers, a victim he shot and a prosecutor who was on the team that sentenced him to death.

"During Buck's 1997 capital murder trial in Houston, Dr. Walter Quijano told jurors that the fact that he was black meant Buck was more likely to be violent in the future."

A colorblind world?

Time Magazine's 9/11 Commemorative: No African Americans

2011-09-14T18:43:00.001-05:00

The Root reports.

Jacqueline Kennedy On MLK: "That Man's Terrible"

2011-09-14T18:35:00.003-05:00

Read this.

"What If Michael Vick Were White?"

2011-09-14T18:28:00.005-05:00

Sean Gregory discusses ESPN's story asking and answering this question.

The Death Penalty And The Military

2011-09-14T18:24:00.002-05:00

From the NYT: "Racism in the application of capital punishment has been well documented in the civilian justice system since the Supreme Court reinstated the penalty in 1976. Now comes evidence that racial disparity is even greater in death penalty cases in the military system."

"A Poll Tax By Another Name"

2011-09-14T18:22:00.001-05:00

Click here.

Rep. Allen West: Today's Harriet Tubman?

2011-08-21T10:43:00.004-05:00

From the "I'm here to save you" file: Representative Allen West, R.-Fla., has presented his view and critique of the Democratic Party "plantation" and claims that he is the "modern-day Harriett Tubman." But no worries, he's here to lead "us" . . . somewhere. His brother Arlan, who attended a job fair in Atlanta last week organized by the Congressional Black Caucus, says "that kind of conversation and that kind of dialogue is not productive."

Senator Coburn Said What?

2011-08-21T10:20:00.003-05:00

The Tulsa World reports that Senator Tom Coburn told a crowd in Langley, Oklahoma that President Obama does not intend to destroy the United States, "his intent is to create dependency because it worked so well for him." "As an African-American male" Obama received "tremendous advantage from a lot of these programs." I'm not going to even attempt to unpack that, it is what it is and says what it says.

Accidental Shootings Of Black People, Family Dogs

2011-08-21T10:14:00.003-05:00

From Elie Mystal's Above the Law posting: "I just don't like living in a world where shooting my dog is a bigger liability risk for a police officer than shooting me."

Nivea's Controversial Ad

2011-08-21T10:12:00.003-05:00

Can't make it up.

White Voters And The Republican Party

2011-08-21T10:06:00.002-05:00

From the Pew Research Center: In 2008 the Republican Party held a 46-44 percent edge among white voters. The edge today: 52-39.

Steve Harvey On Tavis Smiley And Cornel West

2011-08-21T10:02:00.003-05:00

Watch this.

Another Workplace Noose Incident

2011-08-21T09:53:00.002-05:00

A nurse employed at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston, who happens to be black, found a noose hanging over her desk in the hospital's emergency department. The noose was reportedly placed there by a white male. Concluding that there was no "malicious or threatening intent" motivating "this serious incident," the hospital district is developing a diversity program.

Video Of White Teens Killing Black Man

2011-08-21T09:51:00.001-05:00

From CNN.

Governor Perry's College Transcript

2011-08-21T09:47:00.002-05:00

Check out this story.

"Your Boy"

2011-08-21T09:38:00.003-05:00

Pat Buchanan (still an MSNBC commentator!!) referred to President Obama as "your boy" during an on-air discussion with Al Sharpton on MSNBC. The next day Buchanan said, "Some folks took what I said as some kind of slur. None was meant, none was intended, none was delivered." Oh. OK.

White Supremacist Principal Fired By Catholic School

2011-08-21T09:36:00.002-05:00

Here's the story.

Emmett Till And The Money, Mississippi Gas Station

2011-08-21T09:25:00.004-05:00

The gas station at which Emmett Till allegedly whistled at a white woman is being restored by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The woman's husband and his hal-brother murdered and mutilated the 14-year-old from Chicago.

"Tar Baby"

2011-08-21T09:15:00.004-05:00

Representative Doug Lamborn, R.-Colo., said on a radio show that association with President Obama's policies would be like "touching a tar baby." He later apologized.

Time magazine discussed "tar baby" and its various uses in a 2006 article noting then Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's use of the term.

The "Half-black, Half-Hispanic" Spiderman

2011-08-21T09:11:00.002-05:00

Meet the new Spiderman: Miles Morales. Peter Parker was killed in Marvel Comics' June issue.

On Media And Stereotypes

2011-08-21T09:00:00.003-05:00

WBBM-TV, the CBS television affiliate in Chicago, broadcast an interview with a four-year-old boy (that alone is problematic) as part of a story on the shootings of teenagers in the city. Asked "What are you going to do when you get older?" the young boy responded "I'm going to have me a gun!"

The following was edited out of and not included in the broadcast piece: After saying "I'm going to have me a gun!" the reporter stated "You are! Why do you want to do that?" The boy's answer: "I'm going to be the police!"

Shameful.

"Obama And His Discontents"

2011-08-21T08:57:00.002-05:00

Ta-Nehisi Coates shares his views.

"The Biggest Lie About Race? That It's Real"

2011-08-21T08:50:00.005-05:00

The Root interviews law professor Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century.

Criminal Background Checks Of Applicants

2011-08-21T08:43:00.002-05:00

Last month the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission held a meeting to discuss employer use of criminal background checks and the impact of that practice on African-American applicants. The EEOC's guidelines currently provide that this practice has an adverse impact on black and Latino applicants, and that an employment decision based on an applicant's conviction record is impermissible absent business necessity.

The Racial/Ethnic Wealth Gap

2011-07-26T19:00:00.004-05:00

From the Pew Research Center:

The median wealth of households:
White: $113,149
"Hispanic": $6325
Black: $5677

From 2 To 13

2011-07-26T18:56:00.002-05:00

From the Pew Research Center: The Republican Party's edge among white voters in 2008: 2 points (46% to 44% for Democrats). Today's edge: 13 points (52% to 39%).

"The Jackie Robinson of Cycling"

2011-07-26T18:53:00.002-05:00

From the Wall Street Journal.

Half As Likely To Die In Prison

2011-07-26T18:49:00.003-05:00

From The Root: "Researchers found that African-American men are half as likely to die if they are in prison because they are isolated from alcoholism and drug-related deaths, as well as lethal accidents and certain chronic diseases . . . White men, on the other hand, ar slightly more likely to die in prison than outside it."

Be Careful Who You Mess With

2011-07-26T18:44:00.002-05:00

Daren Abbey, described in this article as a Neo-Nazi, allegedly confronted Marlon Baker, who happens to be black, in an Idaho bar. Baker knocked him out with one punch.

David Dow On The Racist And Arbitrary Death Penalty

2011-07-26T18:40:00.002-05:00

My friend and colleague David Dow's recent NYT op-ed can be viewed here.

Are GOP-Backed Voter Registration Laws the New Jim Crow?

2011-07-26T18:38:00.001-05:00

Bill Clinton thinks so.

The Legacy Of North Carolina's Sterilization Program

2011-07-26T18:34:00.001-05:00

Read this.

The Astros New Owner?

2011-07-26T18:30:00.002-05:00

Check out this Forbes piece on Jim Crane, whose bid to buy the Houston Astros is awaiting the approval of Major League Baseball.

July 4, 1911

2011-06-19T12:52:00.004-05:00

From Jonathan Mahler's piece "From Jackie Robinson to Dead Silence" in the NYT: On July 4, 1911 Rafael Almeida and Armando Marsans, who happened to be Cuban, made their major league baseball debut with the Cincinnati Reds. "The Reds took great pains to highlight the irreproachable ethnicities of their newest employees: yes, they were Cubans, but they were purebred Spaniards, without so much as a trace of African blood."

Charles Blow Remembers His Father

2011-06-19T12:50:00.001-05:00

This is worth reading.

Invoking MLK

2011-06-19T12:41:00.005-05:00

I must admit that this never occurred to me. According to Mike Huckabee, political analysts discriminated against Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour: "There were people who said, 'Nobody is going to elect some white guy from Mississippi with a real, slow molasses-type Southern accent for president of the United States.'" Invoking the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Huckabee said, "I thought our nation had learned something, I thought that maybe we had taken seriously the message of Dr. King who said that we should not be judged by the color of our skin but by the contents of our character." Huckabee added that people "should not be judged by the accent of our speech."

Thoughts?

Robo-Calls And Suppressing The Black Vote

2011-06-19T12:38:00.001-05:00

Read this for the sordid (and alleged) details.

A Nagging Tale

2011-06-19T12:33:00.003-05:00

From the NYT: Madison Phillips "says that he and his mother, Annette Singleton, both black, were turned away from a church shelter by a white woman on the afternoon of April 27, the day of the tornadoes [in Alabama]. And within hours, Ms. Singleton and two of Madison's young friends, who had been huddling with him in his house within yards of that church, were dead."

The Most Racist And Sexist Ad Ever?

2011-06-19T12:31:00.001-05:00

Watch this.

Oh No He Didn't

2011-06-19T12:22:00.005-05:00

In May of this year James Bolling, a Fox host, posted on Facebook and Twitter that President Obama was "chugging 40's in IRE while tornadoes ravage MO." He recently followed that up with this teaser for a segment of his Follow the Money Show regarding a White House visit by the president of Gabon: "Guess who's coming to dinner? A dictator. Mr. Obama shares a laugh with one of Africa's kleptocrats. It's not the first time he's had a hoodlum in the hizzouse." Now that's playing the race, stereotyping, implicit association, etc. cards.

Of course, Bolling later apologized.

"Rescuing the Real Uncle Tom"

2011-06-19T12:19:00.001-05:00

Check out this.

My Race Is . . .

2011-06-19T12:15:00.003-05:00

When filling out a college application, how should an applicant with an Asian mother and a black father describe herself?

Loving Day

2011-06-13T21:03:00.002-05:00

June 12 was Loving Day, the date forty four years ago on which the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia and invalidated Virginia's ban on interracial marriages. For discussions click here and here.

Herman Cain: Obama "Was Raised In Kenya"

2011-06-13T20:58:00.002-05:00

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain on President Obama: "I think he's out of the mainstream and always has been. Look, he was raised in Kenya, his mother was white from Kansas and her family had an influence on him." Silly season never ends.

The Genesis Group

2011-06-13T20:51:00.002-05:00

Read this NYT story on the Genesis Group, a social organization for black Mormons. The group's website can be viewed here.

Prince: A Photo History

2011-06-13T20:49:00.001-05:00

Check this out.

"Candorville: Dropping the N-Word"

2011-06-13T20:46:00.000-05:00

From The Root.

A Memorial Day Shooting In Miami: Video

2011-06-13T20:44:00.001-05:00

Watch this.

Plessy And (Not Versus) Ferguson

2011-06-13T20:31:00.004-05:00

Keith Plessy, a descendant of Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court's infamous 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of the Louisiana trial court judge who upheld Louisiana's separate-but-equal law, have started a new civil rights education organization, the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation.

On Inter-Minority Racism

2011-06-13T20:28:00.002-05:00

"Some minorities uphold White supremacy in what has become multiracial White supremacy," says Dr. Nitasha Sharma.

Fired

2011-06-13T20:25:00.002-05:00

The psychologist and author of the study on the purported unattractiveness of African-American women has been fired by Psychology Today.

"Irish and African Americans changed US History"

2011-06-13T20:22:00.002-05:00

Check out this story.

Sam Garrison, Rest In Peace

2011-06-13T20:20:00.001-05:00

Sam Garrison, the youngest member of the Tuskegee Airmen, has passed away.

"Fat Ho Burger"

2011-06-02T19:34:00.001-05:00

Can't (would never, wouldn't want to) make it up. Watch this.

Eleven Percent

2011-06-02T19:30:00.002-05:00

That's the number of black children with an incarcerated parent; the comparable number for white children is 1.75%.

"When Whites Feel Marginalized"

2011-06-02T19:28:00.002-05:00

Sam Sommers' HuffPost piece considers this subject.

Westboro Baptist Church And (Versus) The KKK

2011-06-02T19:24:00.003-05:00

This CNN story notes that the Ku Klux Klan challenged Westboro Baptist Church protesters this past Memorial Day.

"Is Facebook The New Face Of Racism?"

2011-06-02T19:23:00.001-05:00

Read this.

Gil Scott Heron, Rest In Peace

2011-06-02T19:20:00.001-05:00

Gil Scott Heron has died at the age of 62.

On Memorial Day (Post No. 1000)

2011-06-02T19:18:00.002-05:00

Read David Blight's "Forgetting Why We Remember."

The "Mothership" In The Smithsonian

2011-06-02T19:13:00.002-05:00

Parliament-Funkadelic's Mothership will land at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History. As the song goes, make my funk the P-Funk.

Apple Sued For Racial Discrimination

2011-06-02T19:11:00.001-05:00

Check this out.

Stop With The Analogies

2011-06-02T19:09:00.001-05:00

Dear Tiki Barber: please stop doing this.

Richard Pryor, The First Black President

2011-05-26T18:48:00.002-05:00

Watch this.

Alexander Tureaud

2011-05-26T18:38:00.004-05:00

Alexander Tureaud was the first black undergradudate student at LSU; because of the actions of university officials, faculty, students, and others, he did not complete his first semester. LSU recently awarded Tureaud an honorary doctorate.

Black Women Are Less Attractive? A Rebuttal

2011-05-26T18:35:00.002-05:00

Read this.

Word Association

2011-05-25T02:45:00.001-05:00

I haven't seen this in years: Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live.

The Expanding Black-White Life Expectancy Gap

2011-05-24T19:30:00.001-05:00

Janell Ross reports.

A Pardon For Jack Johnson?

2011-05-24T19:26:00.003-05:00

Senator John McCain and Representative Peter King are pursuing a Congressional resolution seeking a pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world.

2011-05-24T19:21:00.002-05:00

From Gary Younge, writing in The Nation: "Millions of black kids may well aspire to the presidency now that a black man is in the White House. But such a trajectory is less likely for them now than it was under Bush. Herein lies what is at best a paradox and at worst a contradiction within Obama's core base of support. The very group most likely to support him--black Americans--is the same group that is doing worse under him."

Skin Color And Beyonce's New Album Cover

2011-05-24T19:18:00.001-05:00

Check this out. What do you think?

Black Women Are Less Attractive Than Other Women?

2011-05-24T19:10:00.003-05:00

In a Psychology Today article Satoshi Kanazawa wrote that black women are "far less attractive than white, Asian, and Native American women." While the article has been removed from that site, you can check it out here. Can't make it up.

"What's Going On?"

2011-05-24T19:04:00.002-05:00

Marvin Gaye's album "What's Going On?" was released forty years ago.

Fifty Percent

2011-05-24T19:01:00.002-05:00

That's the increase in asthma rates among black children in the period 2001-2009.

The "Huxtable Effect"?

2011-05-24T18:56:00.002-05:00

Did "The Cosby Show" transform racial attitudes? That question is addressed here.

Ron Paul And The 1964 Civil Rights Act

2011-05-24T18:48:00.003-05:00

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has made clear that he would not have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For more on Paul, check out this May 2010 posting.

Marchella Pierce, R.I.P.

2011-05-24T18:33:00.003-05:00

This story is heartbreaking.

RACED

Honoring The First Black Marines

CT Scans And Minority Children

The Political Outlooks Of Black And White Voters

"Moving Beyond Civil Rights"

"Clarence Thomas: Black Nationalist?"

"Black Nationalism For White People"

"Anita Hill's Long Memory"

More Than Half

More Pat Buchanan

Racial Bias In Lead Study

The Barbara Jordan Stamp

Dahlia Lithwick's "A Killer Issue"

"The GOP War on Voting"

David Remnick On The Making And Remaking Of Malcolm X

Driving While Dreadlocked

Recommended

Recommended

Uh Oh

"Is The South Still Prejudiced?"

1 In 4

Do White Americans Have Better Health Care Than African Americans?

Eighty Six Percent

"Rick Perry's Lethal Overconfidence"

Duane Edward Buck

Time Magazine's 9/11 Commemorative: No African Americans

Jacqueline Kennedy On MLK: "That Man's Terrible"

"What If Michael Vick Were White?"

The Death Penalty And The Military

"A Poll Tax By Another Name"

Rep. Allen West: Today's Harriet Tubman?

Senator Coburn Said What?

Accidental Shootings Of Black People, Family Dogs

Nivea's Controversial Ad

White Voters And The Republican Party

Steve Harvey On Tavis Smiley And Cornel West

Another Workplace Noose Incident

Video Of White Teens Killing Black Man

Governor Perry's College Transcript

"Your Boy"

White Supremacist Principal Fired By Catholic School

Emmett Till And The Money, Mississippi Gas Station

"Tar Baby"

The "Half-black, Half-Hispanic" Spiderman

On Media And Stereotypes

"Obama And His Discontents"

"The Biggest Lie About Race? That It's Real"

Criminal Background Checks Of Applicants

The Racial/Ethnic Wealth Gap

From 2 To 13

"The Jackie Robinson of Cycling"

Half As Likely To Die In Prison

Be Careful Who You Mess With

David Dow On The Racist And Arbitrary Death Penalty

Are GOP-Backed Voter Registration Laws the New Jim Crow?

The Legacy Of North Carolina's Sterilization Program

The Astros New Owner?

July 4, 1911

Charles Blow Remembers His Father

Invoking MLK

Robo-Calls And Suppressing The Black Vote

A Nagging Tale

The Most Racist And Sexist Ad Ever?

Oh No He Didn't

"Rescuing the Real Uncle Tom"

My Race Is . . .

Loving Day

Herman Cain: Obama "Was Raised In Kenya"

The Genesis Group

Prince: A Photo History

"Candorville: Dropping the N-Word"

A Memorial Day Shooting In Miami: Video

Plessy And (Not Versus) Ferguson

On Inter-Minority Racism

Fired

"Irish and African Americans changed US History"

Sam Garrison, Rest In Peace

"Fat Ho Burger"

Eleven Percent

"When Whites Feel Marginalized"