by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Those of you who are subscribers to Addicted to Race may have noticed that I’ve fallen off my game a bit in the last couple weeks.
Last Monday’s episode didn’t happen because my computer basically chewed it up, and neither Jenn nor I were able to reschedule later in the week. And this […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
By now you’ve probably heard about Rush Limbaugh’s “Barack, The Magic Negro” song. If not, you can view the video here and read the background on Media Matters.

My take on it? Limbaugh probably wanted an excuse to say “Negro.” As Media Matters points out, “Limbaugh continued to refer to Obama as the […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
This Wednesday’s episode of the Tyra Banks Show is going to explore children’s concepts of race. I hope they’ll include Kiri Davis’s film “A Girl Like Me,” since it would tie in beautifully to this topic. Here’s the description:
Does skin color make a difference to a child? Tyra continues her series on […]

An Open Letter To Tyra Banks - Stereohyped
AMEN! “Why, as explanation, did you say to her (and all of America), “I sit up here and snap my fingers and say, ‘Girl, you lookin’ hoochie! Because that’s my culture?’” No, Tyra, you don’t. And no, viewing public, it isn’t culture. That
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The Life and Times of Coltrane Jenkins: Black Week – Black Animated Characters
Hat tip to Oh Word. “Panthro – He was voiced by Earl Hyman (Bill Cosby’s dad from the Cosby Show). He was bald headed. He used nunchucks. He was the pilot and the mechanic. He was Cheetara’s secret lover. How could he not […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
If Flavor Flav is the modern day “Steppin Fetchit,” Mo’Nique seems determined to end the minstrelsy.
In her new show, Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School Mo’Nique desires to reverse the damage done to the girls while they were contestants on Flavor of Love by forcing them to reform. She […]

protest racist radio this friday in nyc - angry asian man
“The good guys over at Fallout Central have also uncovered and posted two other previous racist segments by the unfunny pair: “You rike a fortune cookie?” and “Rice pickles.” It seems that making fun of Asians is a regular feature on their show. That’s ra
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by Carmen Van Kerckhove
In case you haven’t been checking out New Demographic’s latest blog, Race in the Workplace, here’s what you may have missed:
Promoting diversity in American classical music
Adina Ba interviews Aaron Dworkin, founder and president of the Sphinx Organization, a national non-profit founded in 1996 to overcome the dramatic racial inequalities in the field […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
You know a trend is out of control when even Urban Outfitters, the retailer that brings hipster fashion to the masses (hey I’m not hating, I buy their stuff too!), needs to comment on the transracial/international adoption obsession. Thanks to Jessica for the tip!

A Bad Week for Asian Americans Gets Worse - April 24, 2007 - The New York Sun
Thx Phil! “”The Sopranos” featured a quiet Asian-American resident of Uncle Junior’s mental hospital who turned out to be a violent psychopath…you can watch “The Condemned,” a new action movie featuring a sadistic Japanese martial artist who burns a […]

by guest contributor Jenn Fang, originally published on Reappropriate
(Hat-tip to reader A.) Last night on HBO’s Sopranos, an episode entitled “Remember When” aired in which the character of Junior Soprano, who has been institutionalized, befriends a young, mentally-ill Asian American man named Carter Chong, and played by Ken Leung (Quill in X-Men: The Last Stand).
According […]

Russell on Obscene Lyrics: Bleep That Shit Out - Nah Right
“Russell is telling radio stations and record labels to bleep out the words, “bitch,” “ho” and “nigger.” Now, correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t radio stations already supposed to be doing that, and don’t record labels release edited versions of exp
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by Carmen Van Kerckhove
That’s a real turn-of-the-century ad, believe it or not. Hat tip to MultiCultClassics for finding this fascinating slideshow on Slate.com, that traces the history of racist imagery in advertising. I would definitely encourage you to click over to view all the examples they found. From Slate:
Nasty stereotypes have helped move the merchandise […]

Cory Booker’s Battle for Newark - City Journal
“Since taking office last July, the former Rhodes scholar, who grew up in a largely white, affluent suburb, has made reducing crime his Number One priority and installed a zero-tolerance policing strategy engineered by a veteran of New York’s drug wars.
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Oprah’s Hip-Hop Town Hall […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I just had to throw a quote from him up here on Racialicious. This is his take on the blame hip hop direction that the Don Imus media circus has taken, from Salon’s Audiofile blog:
So the big point really isn’t to score rap for its vicious sexism — if that were […]