Race
Vogue En-”Lightens” the World: The Consequences of Flogging Cultural Spin
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Vogue has caused a bit of a stir with the August issue of Vogue India.
The issue contains a fashion spread with pictures of destitute Indians posed with exorbitantly priced luxury goods, like this child in a $100 bib from Fendi… probably about three months salary for the woman holding him. (Yep… three months salary just [...]
Fox Business Proves Street Cred and Hypocrisy: White Cody Willard a Gang Member?
Sunday, April 27th, 2008At a recent media party hosted by the UK’s heavyweight newspaper The Financial Times, Fox Business host (and Financial Times columnist and successful capital markets investor) Cody Willard flashed a gang sign for the cameras.
Willard is described by Huffington Post columnist Rachel Sklar as friendly, chatty, affable, jocular, and a good sport… all in the [...]
The Case of the “Intifada” T-shirt: Don’t Be Niggardly with That Gay Swastika!
Monday, August 13th, 2007When I was a kid, in Boston in the early 1970s, bumper stickers of the “England Get Out of Ireland” variety were not uncommon. And my mother, an Irish ex-pat, while never overtly militant, very much enjoyed playing the spirited and nationalistic records of groups like the Wolftones. We sang with pride about the IRA [...]
Rudy & The Race Card: NY Times Punts the Story, Lands in the Lap of “Sources”
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007I know that “piling on” is generally a cheap shot, and piling on the NY Times is seldom necessary as there are so many other more worthy targets out there. But there can be no better example of what’s wrong with journalism today than two recent articles on Rudy Giuliani – a NY Times piece [...]
A White Guy’s View of the “Hot Ghetto Mess” Mess
Sunday, July 29th, 2007(I refuse to give credentials in order to speak, though I got plenty. And to those of you who discount anything any white person says, no credential will ever be enough. So you really just ought to click the “back” button and read something else.)
I’ll start off by paraphrasing a sermon I heard at Watch [...]