Chiropractors Admit Manipulations Carry Serious Risks

"If [chiropractors] ever did take informed consent seriously and informed their patients fully about the evidence and risks of their treatments as well as those of other therapeutic options, they would probably be out of business for ever,…"

Kim Kardashian Is Learning What It Means To Be Black

Why'd an old guy pay $500,000 to be with somebody's baby mama?

The Art Of Modern Food Production

Lift Every Voice And Sing (The Black National Anthem)

Ladies And Gentlemen, I Think We've Found A New MLK

The best ending to Black History Month I could find:

If you want a true taste of America's higher aspirations, watch this clip and smile,...

Whites Never Should've Laughed At This Kid's Death

The Only Black Juror On The Zimmerman Jury Speaks

It's a crying shame this treatment by whites sounds so familiar:

  Maddy had had it. The trial wasn’t over, but she was out of there. Rules or no rules, she was leaving. “If they had to put me in jail for going home, then put me in jail.” Three weeks of sequestration with five white women who didn’t understand the first thing about her, who demeaned and mocked and trivialized her, was more than enough. As the only minority juror in the nation’s most watched and most racially charged case in decades, she was done.

Jeff Gordon Has A Little Bit Of Fun With Gawker Staffer

What's Wrong With People? I Honestly 100% Don't Know

A Swiss business school teacher accidentally taught his students more than they bargained for when he forgot to turn off the overhead projector before browsing sexy videos of amputees.

The KV Zürich Business School instructor immediately told school officials about the incident, apologizing and explaining that he didn't know why he didn't just wait until after class to watch porn,...

Touré On Obama: "Structural Racism" Is The Problem

Plus, there's nothing "personal responsibility" can do about this,...

Blacks: Surrounded By Love (But Not Really Doing Well)

‘I’m Not A Racist’ – The Lie Everybody Tells

Denying you're that kind of racist is easy -- you might as well be saying you love puppies.

If “The Sleepwalker” Was Black (He'd Be "The Jailbird")

"What would the reaction to this statue be if it was a Black man?"

Black People Must Pay For Justice (With Our Lives)

In 1986, a Texas court convicted Timothy Brian Cole, a black man, of raping Michele Mallin, then a 24-year-old white coed at Texas Tech University in Lubbock,...He and Mallin did not know each other.

According to records obtained in 2008 by the local paper, Mallin had identified Cole as her attacker during a line-up,...Cole maintained his innocence throughout, and while imprisoned, refused parole in exchange for admitting guilt.

In 1999, Cole, a lifelong asthmatic, died in prison. A decade later, and more than 15 years after the true assailant initially confessed to Mallin’s rape,...Cole became the first man in Texas history to receive a posthumous exoneration,...the state also passed the Timothy Cole Act to provide wrongfully convicted people with $80,000 for each year of their incarceration plus reentry services. It also set up an investigative panel, the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions. For its part, Texas Tech established a scholarship in his name,...And ,...the city will unveil a life-sized bronze statue of Tim Cole and rededicate a park in his memory, establishing perhaps the first public memorial in the United States to a wrongfully convicted man.

Perez Hilton Declared ”Inside Every Gay Man Is A Fierce Black Woman!” (Then Black Women Strongly Disagreed)

When confronted with the fact that Black women are neither cute accessories whose identities white people are free to take on and off at will, nor homogeneous sassy ghosts whose sole function in life is to inhabit the shells of gay men and make them outrageous, Hilton has been predictable — offering up such defensive classics as, “I AM genuinely hurt/saddened. Go back to your superiority complex and overreacting,” “I didn’t attack. They did,” “The whole overreaction has really bummed me out.  ,” “I only apologize in life if it’s with sincerity. I’m not sorry,” “I’m not racist,” “They should probably just ignore me and/or stop reading my tweets then.”

And:  ”Some present logical arguments, but then Hitler attempted to justify the holocaust too.”

Free Speech For Blacks (Isn't Really "Free" In America)

Two days after Spike Lee's anti-gentrification rant, someone spray painted "Do the Right Thing" several times on a house next door to Lee's old home in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn.

The homeowner told NY1 he thinks the vandals were targeting the home next door, where Lee's father still resides. The homeowner said his door's windows were also smashed during incident.

Google Doodles Are Racist (And Whites Never Noticed)

Of the 445 individuals Google has celebrated worldwide with its famed doodles, “an overwhelming 357 of those people were men–and 275 of those men were white.”

…Since their inception, there have only been 19 doodles honoring women of color – and the first woman of color to be honored with a global Doodle (one seen by users worldwide) was Ella Fitzgerald, just last year,...“White people made up 91% of global doodles and 74% of total doodles honoring people from 2010 to 2013.”

…Continually singling out the same kinds of humans again and again,..is plain lazy. It reinforces the prevailing notion that we live in a world that is white and male and straight. And yo, look around, we don’t.

Republicans Carry On As If Their Image Hasn't Changed

"Every single Romney donor we spoke with this week listed the former Florida governor as their top choice."

Esquire Magazine Comes Out (In Favor Of Black History)

"The American Civil War is one of the few demonstrable cases in which the losers gained control of the narrative of history,…"

Republican Stephen Colbert Is Celebrating Black History Month Only One Day Before Black History Month is Over

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“I believe we can use America’s inescapable racism to finally defeat America’s inescapable racism.”

Black Children Are Smarter Than The Republican Party

"If you don’t talk to me, why should I listen to you?"

Is Vedic City Into Human Trafficking? (Missing Pandits)

"As many as 163 Vedic pandits, who were brought to the US from north Indian villages, have disappeared from the Maharishi Vedic City in Iowa during the past year, according to a media report on Sunday.

Chicago-based ethnic weekly newspaper Hi India alleged that the Vedic pandits brought to the US lived in pathetic conditions and were paid less than 75 cents an hour."

Prince Is Channeling Hendrix In England W/ 3rdEyeGirl

Few performers are as determined to give you your money's worth in every song,...

A Tribe Called Red: When The Powwow Meets Hip-Hop

"Sopranos Azteca"

 

Louis Armstrong's Culture (Some Things Never Change)

“That he was not interested in cultural assimilation is an indication of psychological security and confidence. It may also be taken as a political stance. To insist on the value of vernacular culture and to reject assimilation was not an idle position to take. There were considerable ideological pressures working in the other direction.”

Rand Paul To The Racist Tea Party: Watch What You Say

Paul's GOT to be an awful man to suggest this - like me,...

So It's Not Just TMR (Post-Trayvon Message Received)

Let's see Rand Paul & Co. squeeze this into the #EndItMovement,...

Jesus Is Further Away Than He Appears In The Mirror

From "Subhuman Mongrel" To "Jim Crow" Laws: Conservatives Can't Stop Fighting Lost Cultural Battles

Homeopath Robert O. Young Is Arrested For Quackery

Orac's got the skinny.

And I love when my dreams start coming true,…

 

The Ghost In The Machine Says "Crank It Up To Eleven!"

"I think a lot of people right now, certainly Republicans and conservatives, feel like a guy in a batting cage taking ball after ball from an automatic pitching machine. He's hitting the ball and keeping up and suddenly the machine starts going berserk. It's firing five balls a second, then 10. At first he tries to hit a few. Then he's just trying to duck, trying not to get hurt.

That's how people feel about the demands and dictates. The balls keep coming at them politically, locally, culturally,…"

Unrewarding Expectations (Including I Don't Understand)

"This is the tough thing for African-Americans to try to reconcile ourselves to our only home, and that is the tradition to treat us as subhuman; to treat our labor, our families and our lives as basically usable by people who are not black."

SURPRISE!

"[The] slave manifest for the brig Orleans, which includes Solomon Northup listed as Plat Hamilton on line 33, is now on display at the National Archives."