by guest contributor Jack Turner, originally published at Jack and Jill Politics
Trust. That’s the word of the moment.
If you want proof that the impact of past racism is still felt today, take a look at this intersection of science, religion, culture, race, politics and conspiracy theories covered in this week’s Sunday Times article, “DNA Gatherers [...]

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Buffoonery alert!
TV Squad got their hands on a preview of the Flavor of Love spin-off series, and it sounds rather horrendous:
VH1’s I Love New York (the spin-off of Flavor of Love, which was the spin-off of Strange Love, which was the spin-off of The Surreal Life) is set to debut on Monday, [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
There’s an interesting study just done by a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher who found that African-American women are practically non-existent within the pages of bridal magazines:
Frisby and Erika Engstrom, professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, studied mainstream bridal magazines published from 2000 to 2004…
The covers and advertisements of 57 [...]

90 years and life for hate crime against Latino youth – VivirLatino
Thank god justice is being served for this horrific hate crime, which we told you about back in April. Two white boys sodomized a Latino boy with a sharpened plastic pipe and poured bleach all over him to try an destroy DNA evidence.
(tags: hatecrime [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

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Hey everyone, ‘Pacific Time‘ on KQED (the Bay Area’s public radio station) asked me to do a commentary on the James Kim story.
It’ll air tomorrow, Thursday Dec 14th at 6:30 PM and 11:00 PM Pacific time. The show also airs in other parts of the country, see here for where and when [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
The Best Week Ever blog just coined the phrase “the ‘Not a Baby-Daddy’ dance” and sigh… I have to say it’s quite apt to describe the crap we see on daytime talk shows. Buffoonery alert!
In the world of Daytime TV Paternity Testing, there is a beloved tradition known as the “Not A [...]

by guest contributor Christopher Chambers, originally published at Nat Turner’s Revenge 
Overheard among the stacks of booze at Liquor King liquor store in Franklin Park, NJ, Route 27 outside of Princeton, December 9, 2006:
Man #1(30-ish white guy, casually dressed but appearing to be a professional, shopping for some sort of Christmas or football party): “You guys [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
There’s an excellent article in Archaeology Magazine about Mel Gibson’s new film, Apocalypto. Traci Ardren, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Miami, argues that the film resurrects racist notions about Mayan culture that have long been disproved by scholars.
Ardren also points out that the same racist notions were used [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
There’s a new game show coming to NBC, hosted by Penn from Penn & Teller, that sounds like it has the potential to be pretty awful, race-wise. (Thanks to Dorothy for the tip!)
Basically, contestants have to guess who someone is, going just by their appearance. Here’s the official description from NBC’s web [...]

Fiery debate over China’s dragon – BBC NEWS
“The problem, some academics allege, is that Chinese people and Westerners have very different concepts of dragons. Chinese dragons are supernatural symbols without the Western traits of aggression or maiden-eating…”
(tags: asian culture)

Stanley Crouch: To move up, kids must stop being slaves to fashion – New York Daily News
“As [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Just spotted this on TVNewser:
CNN is devoting tonight’s hour of Paula Zahn Now to “Skin-Deep: Racism in America.” Guests include Whoopi Goldberg and the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
The show “will examine the Michael Richards incident and its repercussions,” the press release says. Correspondent Keith Oppenheim “will profile the town of [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Hmph. From today’s Page Six:
KEANU Reeves is single again, and prowling. The “Matrix” star went to South Beach steakhouse Prime 112 the other night, and while he was outside waiting to be seated, a “hot blonde pulled up in a red Porsche turbo Cabriolet, and he started chatting her up,” said our [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Check out the sequel to the MadTV spoof of Korean TV dramas we posted here in late November. Very funny stuff. (Hat tip to Angry Asian Man.)

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by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Remember that racism as a face cream print ad we discussed a few weeks back? Well, it turns out there’s a TV campaign to go along with it.
According to gay persons of color, the spot was “directed by Tim Gibbs and produced by 8 Commercials, Sydney, for Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney, the [...]