by guest contributor Luke Lee, Racialicious’s senior YouTube correspondent
Check out Luke’s own blog at real men are not
Recently Michelle Malkin has been trying to finagle a piece of the YouTube pie by posting a bunch of crappy videos from her “Hot Air” series. Latest on the list is a staunchly conservative version of “The View” [...]

Sepia Destiny Part II: Dating while Desi – Sepia Mutiny
“I realize now after watching the video, that there are a whole different set of dating rules set aside for Dating while Desi. Who would have known? I certainly didn’t know the rules changed between dating desi, and dating non-desi…”
(tags: desi)

Chris Rock’s Mother To Sue Cracker [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Thanks to Geraly for this! This video is hilarious – I guess it’s an old episode of Wonder Showzen, which I had heard of but never seen before. This cute little girl goes around asking men on Wall Street who they exploited today.

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
From the man who brought you that masterpiece of African-American cinema, Soul Plane, comes a brand-new venture: a social networking web site called Crackspace. From EURWeb.com:
“MySpace is great but it doesn’t even come close to fully satisfying the hip-hop generation. CrackSpace was created by and for that generation. This is a place [...]

The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama – New York Times
“…enough of the narrative voice in this volume is recognizably similar to the one in “Dreams From My Father,” an elastic, personable voice that is capable of accommodating everything from dense discussions of foreign policy to streetwise reminiscenc
(tags: books politics mixedrace africanamerican black)

What is this [...]

by guest contributor Philip Arthur Moore, originally published at TheThink
Before taking my first ever study abroad trip, I was told that there would be certain social and cultural norms that I would have to adapt to without pressing the issue too much. I knew that as a visitor into the Vietnamese community, no matter how [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Are Eddie Murphy and Mike Tyson being blackmailed or something? I just don’t understand why both are willing to do anything for a paycheck.
Last week we told you about Eddie Murphy’s latest travesty, in which he’ll double up on the buffoonery by playing both a mammy and an Asian man.
And now Mike [...]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Be sure to tune in TONIGHT for the latest Addicted to Race live call-in show. It’s tonight, October 17 at 10 pm Eastern U.S. time.
We’ll be discussing the dangers of positive stereotypes. Why are we so quick to agree with positive stereotypes about our ethnic or racial group? How [...]

Foreign Ministry slams envoy’s comments about ‘yellow race’ – Haaretz – Israel News
“Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia,” Tamir said… “We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians. We don’t have yellow skin and slanted eyes. Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not – we are basically the [...]

by Jen Chau
That is the thought of New York Times Week in Review writer, Calvin Sims. He remembers that just several years ago, it was much tougher to hail a cab, being a young black male. He wonders if it has to do with law enforcement, the fact that drivers are less discriminatory, or because [...]

Note from CVK:
I highly encourage you to read Brownstein’s recent op-ed for AdAge.com, in which he quotes his one Black Friend and declares that agencies don’t get enough black and Latino applicants because “inner-city kids love to watch TV commercials — but they have no idea how the commercials are made.” The piece really encapsulates [...]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free.
RANT
The tendency for people to dress up as folks of other racial and ethnic groups for Halloween is [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Here’s another installment of our Time Machine series… when we take a look back at what we were blogging about a year ago this month.
Terrence Howard’s real-life “Crash” moment
When Oprah interviewed the cast of Crash, she asked each person to tell their own “real-life Crash moment.” No, not a moment in which [...]

Black Panthers weigh militant legacy at 40 – MSNBC.com
“Aging members of the Black Panthers gathered for an unprecedented reunion this weekend in Oakland, California, the city that marked its painful birth as an urban radical movement exactly 40 years ago…”
(tags: africanamerican black politics)

Caucasian American Men’s Group at Arizona State University | BlogHer
“The writer is assuming [...]

Dean chides students over ‘ghetto’ party – MSNBC.com
Ugh. Here we go again. “the photos — in which partygoers carried 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor and wore Afro wigs, necklaces with large medallions and name tags bearing traditionally black and Hispanic names — upset some black law students…”
(tags: blackface education culturalappropriation hiphop)

Finding roots tough for African-Americans [...]