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As if the discussion of Barack Obama’s authenticity as a black man wasn’t enough, a March 19 LA Times op-ed written by columnist David Ehrenstein attacks his supporters, claiming whites support him in order to assauge white guilt by supporting the “Magic Negro.”
He describes the “Magic Negro” as being “a figure of postmodern folk culture, [...]

“Crime and out-of-wedlock birth, black folks having babies without being married and stuff like that, is out of control…most of them lack moral character. Look what they did to the Dome. In three days, they turned the Dome into a ghetto…”
Yesterday my colleague Aaron Morrison received an email from the president of the Bay Area [...]

David K. Far-El, former producer for BET’s “Rap City: Tha Basement,” released a series of videos titled “Confessions of a BET producer” on March 9, 2007, the 10-year anniversary of Notorious B.I.G’s death, to “set hip hop free” with “the truth.”
In his series of videos/home-made documentary (who needs a big documentary production when you can [...]

Kenneth Eng, a self-proclaimed Asian supremecist, wrote a racist tirade about why he hates black people. The article was published on Feb. 23 in Asian Week — “The Voice of Asian America” — a San Francisco-based news weekly.
When I first heard about it, I thought maybe dude was just writing satirical commentary and everyone [...]

Minorities are greatly underserved in the field of journalism. Myself being a minority journalist, I was a little upset to find out last week that more than 20 urban journalism programs that attract minority high school students to journalism and give them training would no longer carry racial preferences as a result of a class-action [...]

On Nov. 30, O.J. Simpson will release a fictional account of how he would have killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. How’s he gonna explain that one to his kids? “Now boys, I didn’t kill your mom but if I woulda done it, here’s how I woulda sliced her up…”
I guess he had to [...]

Multiple Choice Question: When did VH1 start giving a shit about hip-hop?
a) VH1 was down from the start when it played Public Enemy videos in the late 80s/early 90s to give the burgeoning counterculture movement exposure.
b) VH1 still never started and still doesn’t give a shit about hip-hop, but it does love the money and [...]

The FBI has a new target — the Filipino Community. There are Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist cells in the Philippines, which isn’t news, but the feds are now targeting Filipino activists in northwestern US as supspected terrorists.
On October 4, Freedom Allah Siyam, a Seattle Filipino activist changed his name from Gotcho Cupp in 1998, had feds come [...]

While more than 80 million people have watched some guy who spent too many hours dancing in front of a mirror to Vanilla Ice, there are some neglected gems on YouTube.
I first stumbled on this video on Playahata, and then found the guy who made the video’s blogsite. Here’s what he had to say about [...]

Rapper Kamikaze, one half of Crooked Lettaz with rap star David Banner, sparked a student boycott at Milsaps College in his home state of Mississippi. What did he do to outrage the campus kiddies? As an invited performer for “Sexual Awareness Week 2006,” he bashed bush.
During an interlude in his set, the rapper made comments [...]

Yup, that’s now-resigned Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) chatting it up in an “over friendly,” not explicit manner, with an underage boy. By now you’ve heard about it, and the fact this his Christian conservative GOP buddies knew about it yet refused to take action, though House Speaker Dennis Hastert claims it was taken care of [...]

Disneyland visitors were greeted by a blow up doll dressed up as a Guantanamo Bay inmate wearing a bright orange jumper and black hood at the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride. The piece stayed up for an hour and half before staff shut down the ride to remove it. The culprit? None other than the enigmatic [...]

As America remembers 9/11 five years later (as if we’d forget only five years later) with memorial services and explotation movies and TV specials(World Trade Center, United 93, ABC’s “The Path to 9/11,” etc.), let’s not forget the conspiracy theories we love to google so much.
I’m no conspiracy theorist, and no, I haven’t sat down [...]

…well, not yet, but a case which threatens free speech on the net has been brought to the California Supreme Court:
The California Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in San Francisco Tuesday on whether someone who posts a defamatory comment by another person on the Internet can be sued for libel.
Two civil liberties groups [...]