Who do you believe? And do you care?: Winfrey was in Switzerland in July when she walked into the Trois Pommes boutique in Zurich looking for a handbag… She claims the sales assistant refused to show her the black crocodile … Continue reading →
There’s been a new ruling curtailing New York’s controversial police practice of stop-and-frisk: In a blistering decision issued on Monday, the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, found that on hundreds of thousands of occasions since 2004, the police have systematically stopped … Continue reading →
…but they grind exceedingly fine. Just recently, post-Zimmerman, I wrote a post about former NY Duchess County DA Pagones and Tawana Brawley’s accusations against him. And although I’m glad to see that Brawley is finally paying, money really doesn’t quite … Continue reading →
…are racists calling me uppity. No, Obama didn’t say those words, not exactly. But that’s what he said anyway. For years I’ve marveled at Obama’s subtly clever use of the racism charge, performed while he simultaneously pretends to take the … Continue reading →
So now we have word that the Smithsonian is “eyeing” Trayvon Martin’s hoodie for its new branch, the National Museum of African American History and Culture. According to the branch’s director Lonnie Bunch: It became the symbolic way to talk … Continue reading →
Look, I want to give Bill Cosby his props. He’s been speaking up courageously for years on the problems within the black community, and he’s gotten a lot of flak for it. It can’t have been easy for him. Here … Continue reading →
The Southern states, that is. Or any other state that has the temerity to tighten up its own voting regulations in ways that would appear to make perfect sense. A mere month ago, in Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme … Continue reading →
In an excellent article (please read the whole thing), Shelby Steele writes: In the Zimmerman/Martin case the civil-rights establishment is fighting for the poetic truth that white animus toward blacks is still such that a black teenager””Skittles and ice tea … Continue reading →
In the aftermath of the Zimmerman trial we see outrage and protest among those who think Zimmerman is guilty of something or other, even if the criminal justice system couldn’t quite put its finger on it. “He racially profiled Trayvon”—although … Continue reading →
When in doubt, Obama makes a speech about race and is hailed as magnificent. We’ve noticed this phenomenon before, most noticeably in his reaction to the Reverend Wright problem he faced during the 2008 election. That speech was vapid, but … Continue reading →
Either President Obama identifies pretty strongly with Trayvon Martin, or he’s pretending to do so for political purposes. First we had Obama’s statement that, if he’d had a son, he’d have looked like Martin. That was fairly early in the … Continue reading →
…big time. I keep trying to stop writing about the case and focus on other things, because there are surely plenty of important ones. But my frustration and anger is actually building rather than letting up, which is a surprise … Continue reading →