Chocolate Chip: Aren't You Tired of Being the White Man's Bitch?
Perhaps Ieshuh Griffin didn’t know any better when she attempted to use “NOT the whiteman’s bitch” to describe herself on the ballot in Wisconsin. She was called to task by, uh duh, six old white men,...
View ArticleA Handy Guide to Which Black People Gossip Sells White People Ads and Pageviews
“Gossip, like everything else in the media, is a business…. The reason why Page 6 doesn’t care about Mashonda or Swizz Beatz’s past is because Page 6 has no real clue who the hell those people are. Or...
View ArticleThe Dementia Bonus: Football as Black Servitude
My favorite contribution to the fake motivational poster meme is “Reinstated Slavery.” In deference to those who’ve not seen it, it depicts a white man–a coach, perhaps?–with his arm around the...
View ArticleChocolate Chip: It Blows That Black People Aren't Invisible Any More
Dear Black Diary, I’m so glad I have you in my life so I can share my thoughts about black people and black things. Sometimes it’s hard to say how I really feel about the blacks because, well, I’m one...
View ArticleFive Memes That Are Mostly Just People Laughing at Working-Class...
5. Latarian Milton 4. Whistle Tips 3. The Alabama Leprechaun 2. Antoine Dodson 1. Soulja Boy Cord Jefferson also writes at The Root. (And Wonkette!)
View ArticleCars, Emergency Rooms Kill White People A Lot Less
Johns Hopkins announced a study this morning that found that “minority pedestrians are far more likely than white pedestrians to be struck by motor vehicles” and “uninsured minority pedestrians hit by...
View ArticleSecret Blacks-Only Obama Meeting Discovered by the Jews That Run Media
Nobody gets to have any fun: the very secretive meeting on Monday between the President of the United States (who is black) and black bloggers and magazine people has been unveiled by the lamestream...
View ArticleWildly Segregated High School to Try Something Radical
Since at least the 1980s, Evanston Township High School—the only (and extremely large) high school serving the suburb directly north of Chicago—has been both incredibly diverse and incredibly...
View ArticleCalifornia's Black Student High School Dropout Rate: 37%
“More than a third of California’s African American public high school students dropped out before graduation day,” according to the just-released 2009 data. (The actual number: 37%.) The state’s...
View ArticleTwitter Users by the Math: To Be Young, Chatty and "Urban"
.bbpBox{background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/127704333/securedownload.jpeg) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} : )Fri Nov 26 04:59:06 via webKanye Westkanyewest Did you look through the...
View ArticleNew York City Has Healthier Babies, Because They Want Them
In 2009, according to the numbers just released by the City at the end of 2010, New York City had 126,774 live births! And 90,000 pregnancies—that were reported, at least!—ended in chosen termination....
View Article"The Black People, as a Class, Have No Thought For the Future"–1874, the 'Times'
Sometimes, when I am eminently bored, I like to scour the New York Times archives for racial slurs. This weekend, hungover and manageably nauseous in a trendy Silver Lake coffee shop, the search term...
View ArticleWould-Be Presidential Candidate With Terrible Hair Burying Himself Right Now
.bbpBox{background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/107271504/news.jpg) #F3BCF1;padding:20px;} “i have always had a great relationship with the blacks” says #Trump.Thu Apr 14 14:23:23...
View ArticleWalking While Brown in New York City
In 2009, “490,000 blacks and Latinos were stopped by the police on the streets, compared with 53,000 whites.” 6% of those stops resulted in arrests. In Brownsville, “Men between 15 and 34 in the area...
View ArticleSmall Beach Town Freaked Out by Arrival of 250,000 Black People
Every year, “Urban Beach Week,” in which (mostly) black people from all over the south converge on Miami Beach for fun and concerts and stuff, causes huge white anxiety. But no one’s racist! “David...
View Article100 Years Later, A Black Man Finally Loves Joplin
“I love Joplin! I love Joplin.” So began President Obama in his Sunday address to the town of Joplin, Missouri, smudged from the face of the earth by a tornado a week before. “I love you, Obama!”...
View ArticlePanicked Cops Arrest Witnesses of Miami Beach Shoot-Out
Just can’t let this one go! So while Miami Beach police finally found a gun in the car of a driver they shot early morning Monday, here’s how witnesses of the shooting were treated this weekend while...
View ArticleNew Video: Gun-Waving Cops Gone Wild in Miami Beach
In the saga of the Miami Beach cop shoot-out fiesta that took place on Memorial Day, during one of the country’s biggest African-America party weekends, at which cops shot a driver they said had a...
View ArticleBlack People Incoming! Miami Beach on Max Lockdown!
You may remember how last Memorial Day, Miami Beach police officers gunned down black tourists and seized the cellphones of anyone recording the cops in action. (Spoiler: the shot bystanders, ignored...
View ArticleMeet the Eighth-Graders Who Regularly Get Stopped and Frisked
Hey, how bad do you want to feel right now? Do you want to feel bone-crushingly bad? Like all the way through? Well then you’re in luck! Here are the stories of a bunch of adorable New York City kids...
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