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Thx Karen! “The charisma king of the 2008 presidential field. The world’s best golfer. The captain of the New York Yankees. Besides superstardom, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter have another common bond: Each is the child of an interracial marri
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Thx Phil! “It’s called the pan-Asian face, and it usually means olive skin, black hair—and probably a Caucasian parent…Malaysia’s information minister…demanded that the number of pan-Asians be reduced on local television”
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Thx Liam! “I think that as long as the DON IMUS’ and RUSH LIMBAUGH’s exist Black people will always be distracted to the cancer that grows unchecked within their collective body.”
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Thx Angel! rappers “are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We’re talking about ho’s that’s in the ‘hood that ain’t doing sh–, that’s trying to get a n—a for his money.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Josh wrote:
This issue with Imus is going to get even more interesting as other black figures are asked to justify the existence of misogyny in hip-hop. I wonder though what a white politician would say in response and if it would be carefully constructed or simply reproduce racism with lazy “they”s and “rap is”s that make us an amorphous black blob again and again.
Posted 15 Apr 2007 at 1:34 am ¶
s wrote:
If Rev Jesse Jackedson and Al Sharptongue are urging the firing of the man that called black women nappy headed hoes… why is SNOOP still making music?
Eminem? JaRule? They still have their jobs. What happened?
Ahh, I can smell it. Somebody dun cooked up a good ole batch of Double Standard Pie…and it smells like B.S.! I wanna know were they’ve been all this time that rappers have been calling us worse things than Imus, on a regular basis, and getting paid repeatedly for it! (and a few female rappers are guilty too)
Posted 15 Apr 2007 at 11:00 am ¶
Chris wrote:
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been speaking out against rappers for years with little success because they have not found an effective means to go after the rappers and if they where successful their power may decrease with the coming of young people with ideas of fighting racism that are different from theirs. Remember, Martin Luther King was consider a radical by some older community leaders of the time and a threat to their power.
Fighting racism has been turned into a cash cow for some and which has created so called black leaders as national leaders while no one from within the diverse population of black folks have elected them. Rappers have some responsibility for their lyrics, but some of the responsibility and action have to be directed at the public that buys the albums and the corporations that market them. Other thing that has to be done is to educate the youth. Some of the younger rappers are just recycling what they heard growing up and no one has taken the time to explain to them why they should not be calling women hos. History textbooks are still whitewash for the most parts and until that changes so that all youths understand that blacks are more than just small range of stereotypes.
Posted 16 Apr 2007 at 8:01 am ¶
FEB wrote:
-Forty years after ruling, interracial marriages flourish-
Regardless of how much this article and other similar pieces celebrate the up tick in interracial marriages, the fact remains that they are still a small percentage of the total number of marriages; especially black-white intermarriages, they are still microscopic in scale compared to countries like Brazil.
American racial attitudes have been shaped by 300 years of anti-miscegenation laws, and they will not be easily displaced by 40 years of LOVING V. VIRGINIA. The Supreme Court can only guarantee legal protection to those who marry interracially; it cannot mandate change of racial attitude, especially with intimate matters such as marriage.
Posted 16 Apr 2007 at 9:03 pm ¶
FEB wrote:
Continue - Forty years after ruling, interracial marriages flourish -
As immigration swells the numbers of “brown and beige” (non-white but also non-black) in America’s population, intermarriage seems to be occurring more frequently between whites and non-black minorities. This trend represents a shift in the racial dichotomy: instead of white/non-white, you have black/non-black.
Remember, interracial marriages are not always and expression of anti-racism, sometimes they are an expression of selective racism.
None of this means that interracial marriage should be opposed; people find love wherever they find it, but it does mean that it should NOT be celebrated unconditionally or without critical review.
Posted 16 Apr 2007 at 9:18 pm ¶