Colorism within the black community: Why? (VIDEO)

January 19, 2010 6 Comments

Tweet From a documentary on colorism at a university in California, these black women share their experiences behind the phenomenom known as “colorism”. Another flick, called Exposing the Modern Racist Paradigm, is interesting as well, as it dwells on common perceptions on race. Why is this still an issue today?

“I’m biracial, but I only claim my white side”

January 12, 2010 4 Comments

Tweet See more hot videos & entertainment at Popwife.com From the depths of the self-esteem cesspool, Tyra Banks has done it again, this time managing to find the equivalent of a self-hating black girl trapped in the superiority complex-feeding ethos of a white girl, trapped in a black girl. In a lot of ways, it ...

Offensive image of Michelle Obama is back

December 10, 2009 No Comments

Tweet (update: Google has removed the image again, hopefully, at last.) An offensive image of First Lady Michelle Obama is back atop Google images as Dec 10. The image, which morphs Mrs. Obama’s picture with that of a monkey, was removed by Google on Nov. 23 after criticism reached the company’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. ...

Ethnic Wars: Does 'Black' Even Matter Anymore?

September 6, 2009 No Comments

Tweet With the presidency of Barack Obama, you’d think this “post-racialism” thing would cool off by now and normalcy would reign. But racism, racemongering and racialism are all alive and kicking this year — one would argue that from recent headlines this has been the most racial summer since the civil rights unrest of the ...

'I Want to Be Like You'

July 16, 2009 No Comments

Tweet Spurred on by nothing more than the slow wheels of progress, there has been a paradigm shift in the thinking of racial archtypes (note I didn’t say stereo) in recent years. While as little as 10 years ago, many African-American women who looked a certain way, wore their hair a particular way were fashioned ...

“A Girl Like Me” examines females of color with race and skin tone issues

July 11, 2009 No Comments

Tweet Is it still called racism if it’s self-inflicted? The ground-breaking short film by a teenaged Kiri Davis a few years ago shows us how far we’ve come … and how little has changed. The 3:38 mark will absolutely break your heart.

When is the right time to explain racism to a child?

May 26, 2009 No Comments

Tweet This story is old hat, but the issue remains current. When your 7-year-old points out the label on your new couch, you know something is wrong.“She’s very curious and she started reading the labels,” Moore explained. “She said, `Mommy, what is nig … ger brown?’ I went over and just couldn’t believe my eyes.”The ...

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