Parents of ‘Booty Pop’ rapper, 6, set to shoot another video
Screen shot from ‘Booty Pop’ courtesy theGrio Y’all may have heard of the video in which a 6-year-old child, Albert Roundtree Jr., mused about his sexual capabilities while being flanked by half-naked...
View ArticleMan alleges he was removed from ride due to disability
This is the type of story that makes my blood boil. An Atlanta area man said he was removed from a roller coaster ride at Six Flags Over Georgia because he had a prosthetic leg. Torrence Bellamy was...
View ArticleA southerner dishes on Chick-Fil-A
There are more than 10 Chick-Fil-A restaurants within a 20 mile radius from my house in north metro Atlanta, Ga. Any Georgian, as well as any southerner, is familiar with Chick-Fil-A and its...
View ArticleToday in racism: black wedding shunned by mostly white church
This latest incident in post-racial racism may be shocking to those who are in denial about how far the good ol’ U.S. of A. is from this alleged colorblind euphoric state: It was to be their big day,...
View ArticlePolice: man shot himself while handcuffed in patrol car
There are just some stories that are absolutely bizarre, many of which are officer-involved shootings. From the this-is-total-bullshit files: A 21-year-old man was found shot in the head while...
View ArticleExcuse me, but I need to rant about Chick-Fil-A
I already made one post about Chick-Fil-A, and I really didn’t intend on making another one. But, as you all know, the more exposure this hate-filled restaurant is getting, the more its defenders are...
View Article“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” mocks rural South
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njtjKYgS49s I have no words for this promo and this show. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo will premiere at 10 p.m. Wednesday on TLC. According to its website: The network has...
View ArticleSchool changes pregnancy policy after national pressure
You can’t deny the clout the ACLU has when it comes to highlighting civil liberties violations. The organization put national pressure on Delhi Charter School once it was revealed the school had been...
View ArticleDOJ: District operates ‘school to prison’ pipeline
Interesting Associated Press story that appeared on The Huffington Post: Officials in east Mississippi operate a “school-to-prison pipeline” that incarcerates students for disciplinary infractions as...
View ArticleToday in racism: Lawsuit claims black grocery bagger violates rights
I wish I was making this up, but I’m not. A Hawkins man is claiming his civil rights and religious freedom were violated earlier this year when a black man sacked his groceries and a Big Sandy grocery...
View ArticleMissouri GOP senate candidate: “legitimate rape” victims rarely get pregnant
The GOP is inching closer towards the extreme in each election cycle. Missouri’s own Todd Akin, who recently got the party’s nod to take on Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in the general election,...
View ArticleAutopsy: man handcuffed inside police car killed himself
I guess we were all wrong about this, peeps. A medical examiner ruled Chavis Carter, the 21-year-old man who died from a gunshot would while handcuffed in the back seat of a police car, actually did...
View ArticleSpanish magazine features Michelle Obama as partially nude slave
I know I’m a little late to the game on this, but I wanted to get your reaction to an image that was unveiled late last month. Courtesy Fuera de Serie This photo appeared on the August 2012 cover of...
View ArticleFrom the WTF Files: Virginia school district rejects Michelle Obama’s request...
Virginia’s Chesterfield County School District on Friday denied a request by First Lady Michelle Obama to visit one of their elementary schools. The first lady wanted to speak during a campaign stop on...
View ArticleChick-Fil-A strikes deal in Chicago? Don’t hold your breath.
This sounds too good to be true, so I’m not holding on my breath with the hope this anti-marriage equality company has finally joined the 21st century in its thinking. After weeks of negotiations with...
View ArticleIllinois court: religious pharmacist can now deny women emergency contraception
Illinois court said it’s okay for religious pharmacists to deny women access to emergency contraception. Pharmacists in Illinois can now use their religion as a legitimate reason to deny women access...
View ArticleOakland schools to allow feds monitor treatment of black students
Interesting story I found on the LA Times: The Oakland Unified School District and the U.S. Department of Education reached an agreement last week that would allow federal officials to monitor the...
View ArticleTrans woman forced to leave women’s locker room
Transphobia is alive and thriving people. From Olympia, Washington: A transgender woman said she was discriminated against after using the women’s locker room at Evergreen State College. Colleen...
View Article‘Reconsider the story of Columbus’
I posted this same video last year, and I have no reservations to post the same video again. It’s time for Westerners to re-think what we’ve been taught about Columbus Day....
View ArticleNumbersUSA tries to divide blacks, Latinos with anti-immigrant ad
NumbersUSA, which claims it’s for “lower” immigration rates, has released a new ad that pretty much is a classic example of race baiting by the reactionary right wing conservative movement....
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