by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Racialicious has been tracking “A Mighty Heart” since last July, when we first heard that Angelina Jolie would be cast to play the biracial Mariane Pearl. Well, the film debuted at Cannes and the trailer for is out now. Hat tip to Stereohyped. Check it:

by guest contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man
Check out this commercial for Glaceau Vitamin Water, featuring David Ortiz and Brian Urlacher playing badminton against two Asian players named Yang and Lau. And guess what? The commercial makes the Asian guys—supposedly the best in the sport—look weak, inept, timid, cowering and “psychologically [...]

Michelle Obama’s sacrifice – Salon.com
Thx Lauren. “Damn it all, Michelle Obama has quit her $215,000 dream job…Any day now, Michelle Obama’s handlers will have her glued into one of those Sunday-go-to-meeting Baptist grandma crown hats while smiling vapidly for hours at a time.”
(tags: feminism gender politics barackobama)

Michelle Obama’s sacrifice – Salon.com
Thx Lauren. “I hope Michelle [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Can you believe that my last gratuitous Keanu Reeves post was back in December? I figure it’s long overdue for a new one, and this item caught my eye / horrified me on Angry Asian Man. (I’m slooooowly catching up on my blogs – am still in the home stretch of finals.)
One [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I ranted about the lame Uncle Ben’s rebranding campaign back in April. Good to see I wasn’t the only one who thought MasterFoods’ (hehe) approach was totally tone-deaf. Check out this segment The Colbert Report did a while ago:

Asian directions, few Asian directors – WFAA.com
Thx Hiccups. ” “Look at GM,” Mr. Chu says. “What’s the only bright spot in their report? Growth in business with China. How many Asian-Americans do they have at the top? Zip.””
(tags: via:Hiccups asianamerican business diversity workplace)

Racism goes on trial again in America’s Deep South – The Observer
Thx Kimberly. [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Wow. This is priceless. Thanks Wayne for the tip! From Gawker:
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This weekend, on the bucolic Quad at Harvard University—typically, the site of a casual game of Ultimate, or perhaps an afternoon reading of some Shakespearean sonnets before English class—an unusual and, to some, frightening scene was played out. There were people throwing [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Here’s an appearance Masi Oka made on The View a few weeks back. He of course, plays Hiro on the hit show “Heroes.” So is Masi Oka smart? I couldn’t tell because they just glossed right over it.

R. Kelly: `I’m the Martin Luther King’ – 05/18/2007 – MiamiHerald.com
Hat tip to HighJive. Someone please make Kelly shut up. “Embattled R&B singer R. Kelly compared himself to Muhammad Ali, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley and even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a magazine interview”
(tags: music africanamerican black civilrights)

White MVPs – BuzzFeed
“In each of the last three years, the most valuable player in the NBA has been white. Maybe if this whole basketball thing doesn’t work out, they can start an indie rock band.”
to white nba athlete sports 

Blacks Are Fed Up With Working For The Man – Stereohyped
Thx Latoya. “Many black, would-be entrepreneurs [...]

by Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
I’ve been reading and reading and reading about Barack Obama and his views on affirmative action.
First came this Washington Post Op-Ed analyzing Obama’s comments on ABC’s “This Week.”
Eugene Robinson, the author of the piece, compares Obama’s statements:
Obama has repeatedly gone on record as a supporter of affirmative action. But “if we [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Racialicious reader Katie points us to this little gem in The New York Times that totally promotes the Asians as perpetual foreigners stereotype. Here’s what Katie says:
There’s this little piece on the fashion of Asians – apparently NOT Asian-Americans – hanging out on the Lower East Side. The verbiage is… problematic. The [...]

Oprah’s ugly secret – Salon Life
Thx nsekuye . “Skipping the getting-to-know-you part has given us what we deserve: the Oprah culture. It’s a culture where superstition is “spirituality,” illiteracy is “authenticity,” and schoolmarm moralism is “character.””
to via:nsekuye oprah tv

Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women – CNN.com
Thx Lin. “First and foremost, they say [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
I’ve always liked reading personal ads. Even when I was a little girl, I would check out the back of the paper in hopes of finding a boyfriend for my widowed mom, and in the meantime, made an attempt to figure out what was going on in the minds of [...]

If Obama Won’t Support Affirmative Action, Then I Won’t Support Him – Too Sense
Thx Latoya. “Obama’s appearance on ABC’s “This Week” appeared to not only accept several Right Wing myths about affirmative action, but the Senator from Illinois suggested that the program were no longer needed to correct black underreprestentation.”
to barackobama affirmativeaction politics

War among blacks [...]