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Is The Beauty Business Changing To Accommodate Black Women?

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Though the slate of Black, Latino, Asian and Indian spokesmodels is long now—Rihanna for Cover Girl, Halle Berry for Revlon, Eva Longoria Parker and Aishwarya Rai for L’Oreal and Jessica White for Maybelline, to name a few—it’s important to note that the first African-American model wasn’t signed to a major brand until 1992 when Cover Girl tapped Lana Ogilvie.

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Out Of Pocket Tea Party Chumps & Protesters Spew Hate At Capitol Hill, The N-Word Used 15 Times

Those ignorant behind Obama haters got all the way out of pocket at Capitol Hill yesterday:

House Democrats heard it all Saturday — words of inspiration from President Barack Obama and raucous chants of protests from demonstrators. And at times it was flat-out ugly, including some racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress. Continue »

Recent Criticism of the Box-Office Hit Avatar States The Film Exploits Racist Themes

Some critics think the film Avatar is glorifying ‘the white man’ and has racist undertones:

Near the end of the hit film “Avatar,” the villain snarls at the hero, “How does it feel to betray your own race?” Both men are white — although the hero is inhabiting a blue-skinned, 9-foot-tall, long-tailed alien. Continue »

SMH: Reverse Racism Makes Cop Cut ‘Rows’

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Officer Thomas Strain was looking for nothing more than a change in appearance when he decided to get his hair braided into rows, but instead, he found controversy. Police administrators in Philadelphia Continue…

White Cop Walks In Killing Of Black Officer

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Racial tensions in the nation are at heights that have not been seen in decades. Be it North or South, hatred knows no barriers, with the point being brought home recently by none other than those tasked with protecting the masses. Officers of the law have long been at odds with members of minority communities, usually due to them using less than altruistic means to brandish their own form of cowboy-esque law enforcement procedures reminiscent of their predecessors from a bygone era. Continue…

Jesus Take The Wheel: Black Children Rejected From Philly Pool

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This right here is pretty wack:

More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason. “I heard this lady, she was like, ‘Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?’ She’s like, ‘I’m scared they might do something to my child,’” Continue »

California Mayor Steps Down After Sending Obama Watermelon Email

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Racist jokes about Obama are still in style with some white folks:

Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose has stepped down as Mayor of Los Alamitos, CA after sending out this fake photo of watermelons on President Barack Obama’s White House front lawn. Grose’s email included the heading, “No Easter Egg hunt this year.” Continue »

C-List Throwdown Revisited

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Remember that story back in August on the girl from ANTM getting into an airport ‘scuffle’ with husky actress Nikki Blonsky and her father? Well here are more details:

America’s Next Top Model contestant Bianca Golden is speaking out for the first time about the Caribbean airport brawl, saying both Hairspray star Nickki Blonsky and her father attacked Golden’s mother. An argument erupted between Blonsky’s and Golden’s families, then Blonsky’s father Carl “punched my mom. He knocked her out,” says Golden. “He hit my mom with such force she stumbled back and when she stumbled back the whole family got up and attacked my mom.” Then, when her mother was on the ground, Nikki “takes her foot and kicks my mom in her vagina, and that’s when my mom fell out completely,” says Golden.”When Nikki kicked my mom I went and grabbed her arm and she grabbed my earring,” says she. “Her mom sat on her to get her off of me cause her mom saw what was happening and that was that.” Golden says her mother was airlifted to the hospital with internal bleeding, a broken nose and a fractured skull. “Her face is still black and blue,” she says. Carl and Nikki Blonsky and Golden were all arrested on assault charges – the most serious charges against Carl.

SMH. This just sounds ri-goddamn-diculous. WTF was dude trying to do, and why did that b*tch kick her mom in the vagina? Ain’t that much airport arguing going on for all that foolishness to go down. SMH.

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Question of The Day

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The government is going to drop $700 billion in stacks to save corporations and Wallstreet. With the dumb Iraq war, that’s over 1 trillion.

Why can’t the government push $200 billion towards better schools, parental education support, and technology in the hood? Why are these greedy corporate mofo’s getting 700 billion when all the hood gets is some food stamps and an ebt card?

Discuss…