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Nearly-Naked Gisele Poses With a Bunch of Naked Black Men, Raises Questions of Race

Emily Farris — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:01:00 GMT

Norwegian fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø recently shot a series with supermodel Gisele Bündchen surrounded by very buff, very naked black men. The contrast in skin tones is striking, but are we supposed to read more into it?

As one commenter over at Project Rungay said: "wow, those photos are fierce. can't tell if the guys are her slaves or if they're raping her. interesting race dialogue. the first photo is super sexy."

What do you think? Have a look and let us know in the comments section.

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[Racialicous via Jezebel]

What Do You Do When a Black Man is Elected President?

Emily Farris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:48:00 GMT

Why, you smoke weed and make babies.

While we hope this L.A. Fox affiliate newscaster wasn't trying to make any racial assumptions (because, let's be honest, if we weren't sitting in a bar in Kanas City with just our family and a few stragglers, we might have smoked it up and had some fun, too), this short clip almost makes it seem that way.

Contex, people!

Oh, and we'd like to clarify that if we'd had any weed we would have smoked it, even though we were in a bar, in Kansas City, with our family.

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We Will Totally Crap Our Pants if Bristol Palin Pops Out a Mixed Race Baby

Emily Farris — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:25:00 GMT

Meet Kevin. He's a registered Democrat who plans to vote for Barack Obama. He also claims to be the biological father of Bristol Palin's not-yet-born child.

Should we not believe Kevin because he lives in Los Angeles? Nah, he claims he was visiting his uncle who was working on the pipeline. Should we not believe him because he pronounces "Palin" incorrectly? Nah, we've slept with people whose names we don't even remember, so we can't fault the guy for that. So, uh, is there any reason not to believe this guy, except maybe the fact that Sarah Palin probably wouldn't have let Bristol keep a mixed-race baby?

Check out what Kevin has to say:

So now we're thinking maybe we shouldn't believe Kevin because that was the greatest bit of guerilla marketing we've ever seen. Check out his MySpace page.

We think tomorrow we'll make a video about our lesbian love affair with Sarah...oh, and Bristol!

Previously:

Top 5 Rumors We'd Like to Start About Sarah Palin... But Won't

What'll Happen To Sarah Palin?

**Palin's Grandbaby Daddy: Self-Proclaimed F*cking Redneck**

Debate Coaches Show Kids How To Do It By Completely Losing Their Sh*t

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:34:00 GMT

In a March, a debate tournament in Wichita, Kansas was overrun by immature, obscene, loud, petty, and obnoxious people-- the coaches.

William Shanahan of Fort Hays University and Shanara Reid-Brinkley from University of Pittsburgh got into an extremely heated screaming fight over-- surprise, surprise-- race. But what's most ironic about all this is that Reid-Brinkley seemed to have set Shanahan off on his long and insane rampage by criticizing, of all things, the Fort Hays coach's body language.

This video had been online recently but had disappeared. We just found it in another YouTube posting, uncut and still ugly...

The Associated Press tried to get in touch with these fools for comment, but what's left to be said besides "why didn't someone tell these assholes to get the hell out?" We can't think of a better way to have resolved this than to get two people to carry them out, one taking the arms, the other the legs, and give the students the peace and quiet they needed to finish their competition in civilized peace.

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EXCLUSIVE: Toby Keith Worships Satan, Ted Nugent, And Lynch Mobs

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:57:00 GMT

Toby Keith, America's highest-rated terrorist, is sending the liberal blogs into a tither after his appearance on the Colbert Report last night.

And it isn't even for anything he said-- actually, it's for a song he's been singing for years and which was a smash hit single after 9/11, containing lyrics that most thinking people would find insane and dangerous had they not been avoiding country music radio since 1976...

Why Stephen Colbert, who out of character is a practicing liberal and would never be caught dead allowing a person like Toby Keith to get away with ruining what little is left of this country's well-being, should allow this guy to sing this song, "Beer For My Horses" (God, what a cheesy ass song, not even including its cultural ignorance) and not goof on him mercilessly is beyond us:

Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he'd done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street
For all the people to see

Yo, that's about lynching, okay? Not cool, Colbert! Why didn't you attack him on that? As Max Blumenthal pointed out at the HuffPo:

During the days when Toby Keith's "Grandpappy" stalked the Jim Crow South, lynching was an institutional method of terror employed against blacks to maintain white supremacy. According to the Tuskegee Institute, between the years 1882 and 1951, 3,437 African-Americans were lynched in the United States, mostly in the heart of Dixie. Felonious assault and rape (read: corrupting "the flower of white womanhood") were the two most frequent justifications for lynch mob actions.
Georgia was ground zero for lynch mob activity. Though most of the Peach State's victims were black, one of its most high-profile hangings claimed the life of a Jew, Leo Frank. Frank, a college-educated Northerner, was wrongly convicted in 1913 of murdering a 13-year-old girl after a show trial in which his prosecutor portrayed him to a grand jury as a bisexual pervert. Before the trial, one juror remarked, "If I get on that jury, I'll hang that Jew for sure."

You can imagine what happened to Frank and others like him, in Keith's glorious, Hitler-esque vision of the South. By the way, if Toby Keith loves lynching, then we can also correctly assume he worships Satan, who is a big fan of eye-for-an-eye anarchic lawlessness, and Ted Nugent, who is a racist pigporker and will kill us all with his 2,227 guns.

PS. Besides being a world-class shitbag, Toby Keith is also a talentless wanker we'd easily take in a fight, with a Guantanamo hood over our heads... bring it on, indeed.

Via the Huffington Post.

Racist Fake Obama T-Shirt Has Internet In Uproar

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:40:00 GMT

Musta been a whole heap of liars in the 90+% of the country that claimed they would consider voting for a black person.

Mulligan’s Bar & Tavern in Cobb county has printed up racist t-shirts featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with “Obama in ‘08″ printed underneath and are selling them in the bar. This is one of the many reasons why I rarely set foot in Marietta and I feel sorry for those of you who have to live there.

Guess you won't be seeing Mulligan's on our list of the Greatest Dive Bars... or Obama in the White House?

Via Straight From The "A"

Seriously Now: Obama, Richard Price, And Race in America

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:41:00 GMT

Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia yesterday was designed to quell the "firestorm," as he put it, over Reverend Wright's "divisive comments ... in a racially-charged time." Did this bold move doom or revive his candidacy? And what does it say about race relations in America that this speech is, in fact, historic, if only because of the concept of the speech and not necessarily because of its ideals?

Obama's speech was met with an uncomfortable media reaction this morning. Most headlines and stories avoided direct comment on what the speech means for the campaign and, more importantly, for race in this country. “The racial wounds that remain,” boldly trumpeted Metro (New York), a headline accompanied by a picture of a crying black Obama supporter. Other than that, the general feeling among the press is that “It's 1964 all over again,” with Obama as a Martin Luther King figure, clashing against a stubborn past, marching toward a greater understanding that might be merely one landmark speech away.

“This was one of the tasks we set forth,” Obama said, echoing the civil rights era, “To continue the long march of those who came before us.”

Speaking solely for myself, I tend to believe this country has already begun the healing process. Surveys show 98% of the electorate would consider voting for a black Presidential candidate, although many still believe in that whole “but when they get in the voting booth and no one's looking, people are gonna get all racist” theory, which is based on no available evidence. (With that argument in mind, would racist Southern Republicans vote for Hillary Clinton if they entered the booth and saw Condolezza Rice as the VP on the conservative line? Just curious.)

This is not to say there isn't a large degree of racism and bigotry still prevalent today. The point is that perhaps our strongest tactic for quelling racism, for moving on, is to continue to lead by example. If Obama proves to be a great President, that would of course significantly help bring our nation together. However, having thirty minute speeches in Philadelphia about race is not only a bold yet risky political move (since it could be seen as Obama on the defensive, weakening in the eyes of the electorate), it may also be counterproductive: to bring back old dramas.

In other words, maybe the best thing for Obama to do to quash the concerns of undecideds and Hillary supporters who fear racism will doom an Obama For President Democratic ticket is to temporarily act like racism is not an issue in this electoral cycle-- sure, a tough thing to call when that is partly what inspires so many people: the possibility of the First Black President. In any case, he should laugh when the press raises their ignorant questions about an "uncertain electorate." He could take a page from one Governor Eliot Spitzer: "Screw the racists. I'm steamroller and I'm gonna roll all over you!"

That being said, should the speech give Obama momentum again, most of this post's uncertainty about its contents is null and void. After all, it's all about the momentum. That is the true motive, however it appears on the surface, for his remarks yesterday: political maneuvering. No Presidential candidate has any other real motivation, when it gets down to it.

A coda: soon after Obama spoke yesterday, I listened to a Richard Price story from a recent Moth StorySlam. Richard Price, author of “Clockers” and several classic episodes of “The Wire,” is arguably one of the most formidable white writers on race relations in this country. His story, while comic in nature, also sheds some light on how far we've come and how ignorant we still are.

Thanks to Brian Lehrer at WNYC for the Obama speech link.
Thanks to Meg McIntyre at The Moth for the Richard Price link.