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."