This weekend, Nina Davuluri of New York was crowned the winner the 2014 Miss America Pageant. As the first Miss America of Indian descent and a practicing Hindu, she was hailed on Twitter as a step forward for equality in America. Well, for the most part: Yep, you read right. Some people were REALLY upset […]
Here’s a little lunchtime nausea-fest for you! According to BuzzFeed, 7-year-old Tiana Parker from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sent home from her elementary school because she wore dreads in her hair – which broke the school’s dress code banning “faddish hairstyles,” including afros, dreadlocks, and mohawks. Check out the story from KOKI News: So, as always […]
Usually our ‘Is It Racist’ posts have to do with stupid things that white people say or do about other races. Specifically, black people and Asians. Today’s featured ‘Is It Racist,’ though, is a little different. Specifically, black on black racism. People are up in arms this week over a video that was recently featured […]
Yeeeeah, there’s probably no escaping this. While the totally crappy music video yesterday was questionable, this one is, um… not so questionable. Cooper has since apologized.
Day Above Ground, the “rock” band that released the song and video, felt the need to release this disclaimer when the video hit the YouTubez: Without watching that much of the video, because OMG, UGH, I’m still gonna say, “uh, yeah. Pretty friggin’ racist.” What do you think of the song “Asian Girlz”? Silly, fun, […]
On Friday, a Bay area news station KTVU reportedly shared this list of the pilot’s names on Asiana flight 214. Except wait, those names are OBVIOUSLY, OH MY GOD, SO OBVIOUSLY fake Asian-sounding names that also conveniently riff on the fact that potential pilot error caused the crash of a commercial airliner into the ground, […]
IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF EVERYONE’S FAVORITE GAME: IS IT RACIST? In case you hadn’t heard, Brad Paisley (along with his pal LL Cool J) released a song called “Accidental Racist,” in which each of them basically said they were sorry to each other for, y’know, um… “accidental racism.” So, like, if the song […]
It seems like, for the most part, peoples’ resounding answer to our “Is It Racist?” posts is “NO.” They think (and fair enough, everyone is entitled to their own opinions) that we’re being overly sensitive, and that not everything has to be a race issue. For example, most of you said “NOPE” when we asked […]
Sometimes Friday just needs a nice healthy dose of anger to get your weekend started, and this week’s is from our good friends Mittens McMoneybags (aka Mitt Romney), the Republican nominee for President, who decided that his most recent rally in Michigan was the perfect place to remind people of the totally absurd and vaguely-racist […]
I probably could have shortened that title to “Is It Racist? Utah” and you’d be like, “uh, yeah, probably,” but let’s just go with this. In a recent issue of Utah Valley Magazine the editors thought it would be super witty and a great pun if they decided to feature a photo of their staff’s […]
