femiracism

Racism Is Worse Than Sexism, Geraldine Ferrarro

Holy shit! Is Geraldine Ferrarro singlehandedly destroying the Hillary Clinton campaign AS WE SPEAK and we're too distracted by the Spitzer saga to notice? Nah, we're probably too distracted by the Spitzer saga. But...my sources in the leftist blogger community say that Ferrarro's statement to The Daily Breeze that Barack Obama wouldn't be in the race if he weren't a black man — remeniscient of her 1988 comment that Jesse Jackson wouldn't be in the race if he weren't a black man — has a lot of people REALLY REALLY ANGRY. A Latina political blogger has emailed an angry message to the vaunted Hillary Latino outreach committee. Keith Olbermann is going to do a special skewer-session about it tonight. Me, I'm still in the "dumbfounded" stage.) But I'll say this: her statement didn't actually surprise me. A story: one of my best friends is an ardent Hillary supporter mostly, she confessed to me the other night, because her best friend in high school was a light-skinned black man. "He got voted to lead everything. He'll always be more successful than me. Everyone loves a light-skinned black guy!" she said. I laughed. More »

race relations

'Glamour''s Suze Yalof Schwartz Hates Black Butts, Cannot Lie

Remember when that Glamour editor told luncheon full of lady lawyers that like, having black hair is one thing if you're, like, Allen Iverson or Sir Mixalot or whatever, but in the corporate world you needed to keep your politics out of your hair i.e. not be black? Okay, so then, remember how our sister site Gawker outed Glamour "Suze on Style" blogger and executive fashion editor Suze Yalof Schwartz as the probable culprit? So guys! Today on "Suze On Style"

I think I've truly seen it all now - check this out: The Brazilian Butt Enhancer. Seriously, I've never met someone who wanted a larger rear, have you?

Ha ha ha ha so you're blogging to us from the year 1957, Suze? Anyway, we consulted the writer of the original American Lawyer piece, Vivia Chen, on the incident for a reaction as to, you know, WTF. More »

race relations

Curing The World Of Black People, One Pore At A Time

You know black people are just white people with problem skin, right? (And hair!) I mean, just look at this ad from Sephora: Rx For Brown Skin. Finally, a cure for the pigment that plagues us! And over on Feministing, there's mention of a post on Racialicious called "Sorry! We don't have that in your color..." See, some makeup lines don't have tinted moisturizer darker than "beige." Because black people should probably go use a black people brand. Or something. Speaking of black people, did you know that they're uneducated? Especially the ones in Africa. The best way to spotlight this problem? Blackface! After the jump, check out an ad campaign for UNICEF created in the traditionally tolerant country of Germany.
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