When retailers and restaurants offer freebies, the point is to draw attention—not controversy. The only reason to protest 7-Eleven for giving out free Slurpees or Haagen-Dazs for dishing out free ice cream cones might be that the complimentary serving sizes are too small. But what do you expect when you’re paying $0? Now, though, a …
racism
Mixed-race issues in Obama’s race speech
The news cycle has shifted its focus to the 4,000th American soldier killed in Iraq, to James Carville turning all apostolic on Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton’s slightly revised version of a trip to Bosnia.
Yet I’m sitting here at work, hours past deadline, still thinking about Barack Obama’s speech on race.
You of course have …
When a racist is outed as a…minority
To be filed under N, for nyah, nyah:
You’ll recall that James Watson, the Nobel winner and world-famous geneticist, was widely outed recently as a rabid racist. You’ll recall that he’s been spouting garbage like Africans have lesser intelligence, Latinos are genetically programmed to be …
