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From Angry Asian Man: “Looks like George Allen isn’t the only guy with some racial skeletons in his closet to answer to. On the other side of Virgnia’s Senate race: Webb Denies Ever Using Word as Epithet. Jim Webb has his share of baggage too…”
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What a waste of time. “The veteran rapper will be bringing his wisdom to New York City’s exclusive YorkPrep School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in an effort to teach privileged youngsters the art form of hip-hop…”
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“Although the race-based tribes have since been liquidated, there is still a great deal of racial undercurrent to this particular season. Not only is Probst deliberately using racialized terminology (for example, “integration” instead of “merge”)…”
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“Their purpose is not to stigmatize the disease or to stigmatize gay people. Instead, they hope the ad campaign (photographed by Duane Cramer) will prompt more gays and lesbians to “own” the epidemic and take responsibility for stopping it…”
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William Jelani Cobb responds to the many letters and emails he received in response to his expose for Essence magazine on black men who travel to Brazil for sex tourism.
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Lyonside wrote:
Re: the HIV = gay disease ad campaign -
Dear Lord. I agree w/ one commentator on the site that says there should be a series of ads: AIDS is a [gay, straight, bi, black, white, hispanic, asian, male, female, child, adult, preventable] disease. More heterosexuals than homosexuals are contracting HIV. IV drug use is still a fantastic way to spread the virus. HIV-AIDS in some developing nations is killing half of the population - “gay” disease? I don’t think so.
HOW do the creators of the ad, even w/ the best of intentions, expect the small gay population of the US to “SOLVE” the AIDS crisis, here and globally, all by ourselves? RIGHT, cause gay people have been doing nothing for 20 years.
There was another analogy made: what if there were ad campaigns: “Diabetes is a black disease” - wouldn’t people, black and non-black, object? Sure there are communities at higher or lesser risk, but in regards to diabetes, it has more to do with weight control, available nutrition and health education, socioeconomics, and yes, possibly some genetic tendencies, but I know too many white and hispanic people w/ diabetes to ever feel comfortable calling it a black disease.
Posted 08 Oct 2006 at 4:30 pm ¶
brad wrote:
Ice-T is just so lame. A while ago Ice-T questioned if Bryant Gumbel was really black because of the way Gumbel speaks. I remember thinking of the irony of that. Both Gumbel and Ice-T are mixed race African-American. Unlike Ice-T, Gumbel never sold drugs. Like most people, Gumbel’s speech patterns resulted from his environment and education. So, why should Gumbel be any less “black” because of his speech?
Posted 10 Oct 2006 at 2:45 am ¶
S wrote:
Brad, you “pre-answered” your own question: because Ice-T is LAME!!! His name is lame, his style is lame, his acting is lame. Lame Lame Lame.
Rio Response: Good points in there, though he should have made those men he interviewed explain themselves in more detail. Blaming black women for a trip across seas for sex and appreciation is a bit of a stretch, especially when the US has home-grown groupies who are willing to serve black men hand-and-foot just because they are black, and it’s “in” now to have a black boyfriend (at least where I live). Whoever these men are, they don’t know how good they have it here, in terms of finding love/sex/appreciation from the opp sex. Blaming us as if they REALLY CARE about our existence, as if they REALLY gave any black women a real chance. These men probably don’t even date black chicks-just using us as easily-accepted excuses for whoring around in other countries. You mean to tell me you couldn’t find a non-black woman to love you in the US? Nonsense!
Lyonside: Good point! So tired of hearing blame thrown to the gays for AIDS and HIV. Just another excuse for not confronting the drug and heterosexual ho problems we have in the US, including the lazy sexual habits that usually allow the opportunity for the virus to spead in the first place. There should be a Hoes=AIDS campaign!
Posted 10 Oct 2006 at 10:19 am ¶