Ben Affleck is not having a great week. As rumors fly that his marriage to Jennifer Garner is on the rocks, it appears he may’ve also gotten the PBS genealogy show Finding Your Roots cancelled by requesting that his slave-owning ancestors be omitted from the show.
Ben Affleck really didn’t want people to know that one of his distant ancestors owned slaves—going so far as to lobby celebrity genealogy TV show Finding Your Roots to suppress the segment in which that ancestor is discussed. But we got our hands on a copy of the script—and now you can read the mild interview that…
On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen took on the stench of racism in American society, comparing it, of course, to the bodily function that dare not speak its name: the fart. Not that girls know anything about farts!
We've got domestic terrorists, scuttled health care reform initiatives, racists in the Cambridge P.D. and lawyers everywhere, but all anyone cares about is what beer Obama drinks! Suffice it to say, Racialicious' Latoya Peterson and I are sick of it.
Last night, Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet used Obama's health care presser to ask him about the arrest of Harvard professor "Skip" Gates. This morning Racialicious' Latoya Peterson helps me parse it - and the press corps' rabid reactions.
