by guest contributor Jennifer Fang, originally published at Reappropriate
While in Las Vegas, this weekend, I had the opportunity to interview actress Kelly Hu. This is that interview. Many thanks to Cate Park, of Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, for setting up this interview, and of course to Hu herself for agreeing to do it.
Whether portraying [...]

Laughing jailhouse phone call gets woman tough sentence – CNN.com
Wow. After killing a bicyclist, she said this in a phone conversation: “an acquaintance believed she should get a medal and a parade because she had “taken out” a “tree hugger, a bicyclist, a Frenchman and a gay guy all in one shot.””
(tags: prejudice discrimination crime)

Warnings [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I watched Cloverfield this weekend and really enjoyed it. (Especially scary/realistic if you live in NYC.)
But was anyone else bothered by the looting scene?

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
Ad Age – Obama’s Hispanic Supporters Attack Hillary
“Barack Obama’s Hispanic supporters in Nevada have attacked Hillary Clinton, claiming her supporters are trying to deny them their rights. ”
Clutch – Films We Love: “Street Fight”
Fought in Newark’s neighborhoods and housing projects, the battle pits Booker against an old style political machine [...]

With friends like these … Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
“the real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter Thiel…in 1998 he co-wrote a book called The Diversity Myth, which is a detailed attack on liberalism and the multiculturalist [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Cashmere Mafia (ABC)
Some quick thoughts:
*Caitlin’s African-American assistant is sporting a clean new shape up in episode three. What happened to the dreds?
*Alicia has been described as the “hot cocoa love interest,” oy! Still waiting to see if Alicia makes it through the season.
*Still no Jack Yang. [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
I am by no means an expert on porn, nor do I pretend to be. Yet considering the volume of hits on xtube.com or youporn.com that could be traced back to my IP address, one would assume so. If not that, one would at least be able to mentally file [...]

We spend a lot of time talking about have far we have to go.
Today, please take a moment to remember and reflect on how far we have come.

Still Life – Movie – Review – New York Times
“documentaries that weigh the human cost of China’s often brutal, dehumanizing shift from state-controlled communism to state-sanctioned capitalism, a price paid in the blood and sweat of people”
(tags: movies china)

Australian Open Announcer More Interested in Venus Williams’ Backside Than Her Backhand – FanHouse – AOL Sports [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
Reading the comments to Jennifer Fang’s take on Gloria Steinem’s Op-Ed, I was stuck by the amount of people who asked for someone who “doesn’t trivialize sexism.”
What?
Sexism is being trivialized when we are specifically discussing how pitting race against gender creates conflicts and division within multiple communities?
Sexism is still a [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
George F. Will is a staunch conservative who believes fighting for more inclusive speech (and anti-racist activism in general) is generally bullshit. According to Will, liberals (and minorities) need to toughen up.
Exhibit A is the second paragraph in yesterday’s column
Misstep in a Liberal Minefield:
For decades, liberals, believing that “self-esteem” [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
We’ve been pretty critical of American Apparel on this site for its exoticization of multiracial people, its pseudo-pornographic ads, and founder Dov Charney’s overall ickiness.
But what do you think about their latest ad campaign (click pic for full-size image), which deals with the immigration issue? From The New York Times:
…The black-and-white quarter-page [...]

yul kwon for congress – angry asian man
“After…serving as a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York, he served as a legislative aide to Senator Joseph Lieberman, drafting sections of the Homeland Security Bill and working on technology-related legislation. Boo-ya.”
(tags: asianamerican politics)

“Let’s Get Back to the Real Issues” : Rachel’s Tavern
Amen! [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
Bouncing around the blogosphere, I have noticed some interesting thoughts on politics and race from various sources.
The Musings of a Diva blog is written by an African-American expat living in Japan. She normally blogs about differences between Japanese and American culture (as well as other bits from her life) [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

What do you see when you look at this picture?
What things come to mind?
How would you describe it to someone else?
Hold that for a few minutes. Formulate your thoughts.
What is this picture saying to you?