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Archived for Posterity: Kenneth Eng’s ‘Why I Hate Blacks’ Article By michael | March 1st, 2007

Just thought I’d archive some (more) ignorance:
This is a copy of the controversial opinion piece by Kenneth Eng in Asian Week magazine:
Here is a list of reasons why we should discriminate against blacks, starting from the most obvious down to the least obvious:
• Blacks hate us. Every Asian who has ever come across them knows […]

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Video of Kanye West’s Rant on NBC By michael | September 3rd, 2005

Negritu.de has the video of Kanye West going off on President Bush and his response to hurricane Katrina. It’s worth watching for the look on Mike Myers’ face alone.

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Audio of New Orleans Mayor’s WWL Radio Interview By michael | September 2nd, 2005

CNN has been playing snippets of an interview that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin did last night on the radio. I’ve been trying to find the full audio online and oddly enough the BBC seems to be the only organization with the full audio posted (imagine that!). Nagin was dropping bombs in this […]

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White People Find, Black People Loot??? By michael | September 1st, 2005

Speaking of media coverage of the hurricane and race, check out the captions on these photos that were just emailed to me.
Here are the actual links to the pictures:
White People Find
Black People Loot
Update: Yahoo! has posted this note about these pictures:

To Yahoo! News readers:

News photos are an especially popular section of Yahoo! News. In […]

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Lost in the Flood: Why no mention of race or class in TV’s Katrina coverage? By michael | September 1st, 2005

An important article on Slate about race & class with regard to the victims of hurricane Katrina. Once again I’m liberating the text in case they try to start charging for it or something. And somebody please tell me WTF they can’t at the very least drop some food & bottled water down […]

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Move to China, Become a Rapper & Make Millions! By michael | August 20th, 2005

I was reading an article in Business 2.0 about Americans who are making it big in China when I noticed a picture of a brotha with two Chinese girls next to him. (reminds me of that line from Digital Undergrounds ‘Sex Packets’, but I digress…) So of course I skipped right to that […]

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Mexican Stamps fuel ‘Racial Stereotypes’ By michael | July 1st, 2005

A series of five stamps was released Wednesday for general use by the Mexican government. The stamps depict an exaggerated black cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin, a child character from a comic book started in the 1940s and still published in Mexico.
Oh hell no! Mexico is officially trippin’ now. Fresh off of […]

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She Must have One Hell of a Grip! By michael | May 18th, 2005

A friend passed this article along to me earlier today. When I read it all I could say was “Hot damn, she broke his ish!!!”

Court Rules Woman Not Liable in Sex Suit
BOSTON May 16, 2005 — A woman isn’t legally responsible for injuries her boyfriend suffered while they were having consensual […]

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911 is a Joke in Austin, TX By michael | March 8th, 2005

All of these police and 911 dispatchers need to be fired for joking about a fire in a nightclub the other day. I wonder how many times a day these kind of sentiments are expressed by cops across the nation. We only know about these clowns because they were bold enough to send […]

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It Had to be Done… By michael | February 7th, 2005

The Boondocks on the (latest) Bill Cosby scandal

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