Video Of White Teens Killing Black Man

From CNN.

Governor Perry's College Transcript

Check out this story.

"Your Boy"

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

Here's the story.

Emmett Till And The Money, Mississippi Gas Station

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"

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

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

On Media And Stereotypes

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"

Ta-Nehisi Coates shares his views.

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

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

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

From the Pew Research Center:

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

From 2 To 13

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"

From the Wall Street Journal.

Half As Likely To Die In Prison

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

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

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?

Bill Clinton thinks so.

The Legacy Of North Carolina's Sterilization Program

Read this.

The Astros New Owner?

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