Despite 12 Years a Slave's very serious subject matter—steeped in the most inglorious era of our country's history—and all the important conversations about race that have taken place leading up to the film's big win at this year's Academy Awards, white people still feel super comfortable making stupid jokes and puns…
Last night, distasteful orange ghoul Perez Hilton took a break from grinding up other human beings and turning them into money to declare on his Twitter feed that "Inside every gay man is a fierce black woman!"
Yesterday on Tumblr, Carefree Black Girl posted the image seen above: A 12 Years A Slave poster with Brad Pitt as the dominant feature. Sigh.
Last night's episode of The Mindy Project addressed race, and specifically mentioned a topic we discussed right here on this site in May.
A young white Australian woman turned 21 and decided to have an "African" themed birthday party. After the festivities, she posted photos to Facebook. Ignorance, insensitivity and racism ahoy!
After declaring that they wouldn't reshoot any scenes
The show is months from even airing, and already, FOX's Dads is looking to be the most offensive show of the fall television season. At a Television Critics Association panel Thursday, the creators and stars of the show attempted to support its most racist jokes – which include Brenda Song's character being told to…
With the news that William Fichtner will play Shredder, that rounds out an almost entirely white cast in the Michael Bay-produced, Jonathan Liebesman-directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Perhaps the most offensive casting is the awesomely impossible-to-kill Shredder, whose alter ego is Oroku Saki, and has always been …
Some Americans are going out of their way to patronize Paula Deen's restaurant The Lady and Sons in Savannah, Georgia to support Deen in this difficult, deep-fried-racist time
Joined by parents Janet and Christopher, six-year old Grace Colbert hammed her way through an interview with MSNBC Tuesday morning, proving that the whole Internet can be freaking out about the fact that you're biracial
Brad Paisley made a song called "Accidental Racist," and it has instantly become The Worst Song Ever™. Why? Well, for starters? It is a mournful ballad about how hard it is to be a white man.
Much like the modeling industry, the porn industry deals with surface, exteriors, looks, bodies. And, as it turns out, like modeling, porn is full of racial inequities.
Bad news for enthusiasts of offensive retro trinkets: Anthropologie has pulled that $400 racist candlestick
Just. What? How did? I don't.
Bruce Reyes Chow, a father of three daughters, sat down to watch the United States Women's National Soccer Team play North Korea yesterday. In a piece on Huffington Post, he writes: "Watching the USWNT play over the past few years has been one of the most powerful and important things my daughters have experienced… The…
The good news? The Hunger Games made $155 million at the box office its opening weekend, making it the third-best debut in North American box office history. The bad news, however, reflects a level of idiocy that we weren't really expecting.
An embarrassing Republican has issued a textbook non-apology weeks after forwarding an email that called First Lady Michelle Obama "Mrs. YoMamma" and implied that she and the Grinch were twins separated at birth. He's sorry people got mad. He didn't mean to offend anyone. But can we all agree that the President and First …
A Dutch magazine has drawn fire for calling Rihanna "the ultimate niggabitch." And yes, it's just as offensive in context.
A group of hackers who broke into the website of the Texas Police Chiefs have unearthed a series of emails that sound more like the writings of a "dumb/racist" caricature of a Texas police officer than a real, live person, but sadly, sometimes even caricatures have a grain of truth to them.
We've already dubbed Satoshi Kanazawa a "crap evolutionary psychologist." But somehow, he's found a way to be even crappier. His thoughts on why "black women are significantly less physically attractive than women of other races" have forced us to create a graphical representation of his awfulness.
