There’s no way on earth that any kind of major immigration reform will pass between now and November, 2012. Democrats should push the issue anyway, though, because (a) it’s a big political winner and (b) if Republicans take enough of a beating among Latino voters in 2012, they may change their tune and help pass …
Post-racial America
Brother Can You Spare Some Ratings
And Obama continues to kick Trump’s ass: A supersized edition of Donald Trump’s competition series Celebrity Apprentice spanned three hours, going head-to-head against the rest of primetime on Sunday. But, NBC’s three-hour telecast — which saw Star Jones and LaToya Jackson fired and NeNe Leakes quitting — didn’t fare so well: Celebrity Apprentice (7 million …
You Say Muslim, I Say Terrorist
Somehow, as every day passes, we manage to find bigger and bigger assholes out there: A ninth grade algebra teacher was suspended from a Texas school district after making offensive comments to a Muslim student in front of the entire class. “The teacher told the student that ‘I bet you’re grieving,’” the mother of a …
Just put your lips together and blow
I felt sick to my stomach when the White House released Obama’s birth certificate. I was afraid this was the moment where it all came tumbling down, when the United States showed that it couldn’t handle having a black person as president, that this presidency would soon be politically delegitimatized somehow. Three days later I …
I’ll Give Him a Little Credit
Well done, Mittens: Expected Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney tread on socially dangerous ground last night as he talked about the need to “hang” a misery index around the neck of Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president. Romney almost immediately caught himself, with the English major declaring “metaphorically” speaking, but the mix of nervous …
I Guess This Is Proof Enough
Yesterday, Rand Paul demanded that Donald Trump prove he is a Republican. I think we have found all the proof we need that he is, in fact, a member of the GOP: During a TV interview Tuesday morning, Trump–who spent his high school years enrolled at the New York Military Academy–said, “I actually got lucky …
It should be an awkward night at the Washington Post table…
The video that ABL posted earlier should fill us all with shame–as the man said it is 2011. And yet, we are still dealing with this crap. The old racism is moving out of the shadows. A lot of white folks are embracing a variety of codes that basically just call the President of the …
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