Racial Issues

The Real Conversation Started by "Accidental Racist" Is in the Comment Section of CNN

Yeah, Brad Paisley's "Accidental Racist" may not be a perfect song. It might not be a totally inoffensive or non-hilarious song. But, dangit, Brad Paisley and LL Cool J were just trying to start a conversation. "I felt like when we were writing this song," Paisley told Ellen DeGeneres, "it wasn't n ... More >>

Goodbye, Affirmative Action?

A Supreme Court case has colleges considering how to stay diverse if race-based admissions is axed

Joe Biden Talks About Chains; Rightbloggers Hardest Hit

Vice President Joe Biden said in a speech last week that the GOP's calls to "unchain Wall Street" really mean "they gonna put y'all back in chains." Having just launched their own Vice-Presidential candidate to less than earth-shaking effect, rightbloggers flipped out over Biden's remarks, expressi ... More >>

Neo-Nazis Next Door? Here's a List of New York's Hate Groups

When details began emerging about the Oak Creek, Wis. massacre, reports indicated that the suspected shooter, Wade Michael Page, was a white supremacist and had played in a neo-Nazi band called "End Apathy." The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, had been keeping tabs on Page s ... More >>

The Ku Klux Klan's New Ally: The ACLU

Despite being a group of racist, knuckle-dragging hillbillies, members of the Ku Klux Klan are entitled to the same rights as anyone else -- so says the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Klan members in a lawsuit over an Adopt-a-Highway program in Georgia.Just to get the laughter ... More >>

The Obama Effect: From the NAACP to 50 Cent, Black Leaders Back Gay Marriage

It's fair to call it the Obama Effect: leaders in the black community, old and young, political and cultural, are coming out of the closet to back same-sex marriage. And they are a motley crew, from the legacy NAACP, to the rapper 50 Cent, who just a couple years ago suggested that if you're a man " ... More >>

5 Reasons Why Touré Is Wrong On Blacks, Gay Marriage and Obama

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy We like the idea of Touré, but as a person and concept, he's got two sides. There's the Good Touré, who writes beautifully, gave us a nice shout out once, and frolics around the Brooklyn neighborhood we both live in with ... More >>

NY Post's Abby Schachter: 'The Left' Is Unpatriotic for Complaining About Racism

Did you know that complaining about racism makes you unpatriotic and means that you have a (bad) attitude toward America? Well, it doesn't, but that's what the New York Post's Abby Schachter suggests. "Bill Maher pretty much summed up the left's attitude toward the United States when he declared ... More >>

Jezebel's Guide to 'Hipster Racism' Examined: Is 'Thug' Off-Limits?

Jezebel's Lindy West has just weighed in on hipster racism, joining the ranks of many who have recently felt compelled by Girls to comment on cool kids' ostensible obsession with all things white. Now, most of the author's "complete guide" is pretty solid. Basically, West makes the argument that i ... More >>

Racist with an Explanation: Rightbloggers Defend John Derbyshire

Last week John Derbyshire, a now-former writer for National Review, published elsewhere an article that was plainly racist -- by which we mean, its racism was not veiled or masked in the manner that has become common among rightbloggers, but overt; it asserted that black people were less intelligent ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Trayvon Martin Case Proof of Racism -- Against White People

One of the enduring myths of American conservatism is that there's still racism in this country -- and it's suffered by white people at the hands of blacks and white liberal race-traitors. Normal people who've been out of their homes a time or two will find that puzzling. But for rightbloggers it' ... More >>

Rightbloggers Close Ranks Against Ron Paul, The Wrong Kind of Small-Government Conservative

Everyone else has been the GOP Presidential front-runner -- why not Ron Paul? He's one point behind the current Next President of the United States, Newt Gingrich, on the cusp of the Iowa caucuses, and has been on the Jay Leno Show. Naturally this has led to attacks on Paul -- but not so much by th ... More >>

Ralph Richard Banks Asks if Marriage is For White People Only

​Ralph Richard Banks is the author of the new book Is Marriage for White People? While Banks, a Stanford Law professor, was in town for an event at Cardozo Law School, we met him for lunch in the West Village to talk about why black folks marry so much less often than whites, why black women a ... More >>

All the Single (Black) Ladies

Ralph Richard Banks dares to wonder Is Marriage for White People?

Sherry Wolf: The Ruckus Over Israeli Apartheid Week, the Gay Center, and a Porn Star

Sherry Wolf​Sherry Wolf is a member of the Siege Busters Working Group, which was planning a "Party to End Apartheid!" for Israeli Apartheid Week at the LGBT Center, where they'd met regularly since last summer. Then, pornographer and ardent pro-Israel Jew Michael Lucas complained on Tuesday abou ... More >>

Rightbloggers, Delighted to Find Black Guy Scared of Muslims, Defend Juan Williams

Celebrity journalist Juan Williams had a good week, on balance. First, he was fired by National Public Radio for remarks he made on Fox -- his other major employer -- about his fear of Muslims on airplanes. That might seem at first a minus, but Williams was immediately rewarded by Fox with a new $ ... More >>

Stuff Crazy White People Like: 3 Ways Rightbloggers Deal (or Don't) With Race

You may have noticed the controversy over last week's Voice cover story, "White America Has Lost Its Mind" by Steven Thrasher. The story has drawn at this writing more than a thousand comments, many of them devoted to proving Thrasher's proposition by example. Among the more choice reader contribu ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Shirley Sherrod: "You Fucked up -- You Trusted Us!"

You may have heard something about former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod last week. She's the civil-rights veteran who got forced out of her job after rightwing provocateur Andrew Breitbart released a video of her remarks before the NAACP, edited to make her look anti-white. You may also have heard ... More >>

NAACP Denounces Tea Party Racism; Sarah Palin Says Charge Is "Appalling"

​Yesterday, at the 101st annual convention of the NAACP, the group passed a resolution condemning what they call "rampant racism" in the Tea Party movement and reprimanding the use of racist epithets in Tea Party opposition to Barack Obama.

Rightbloggers Denounce Robert Byrd's Racism Until It's Time to Beat Up Some Black Guy

Democratic Senator Robert Byrd passed away last week at age 92. Among the items in his lengthy CV was a year-long membership in the Ku Klux Klan. He also had some kind words for that organization and its principles thereafter. Eventually Byrd denounced his Klan involvement as "my biggest mistake.. ... More >>

Nat Hentoff Defends WBAI's Right to Air 'Racist Poetry'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 6, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 17 The siege at WBAI by Nat Hentoff "There is no doubt, certainly, that life in the United States remains freer than in the Soviet Union," Edgar Friedenberg writes in the February Atlantic Monthly. "What ... More >>

Harry Reid's "Negro" Remarks Spur Another Rightblogger Seminar on Who The Real Racists Are

Mark Halperin's and John Heilemann's new book Game Change about the 2008 Presidential campaign is full of hilarious revelations. Among these is the news that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid listed among Barack Obama's electoral advantages that he was "light skinned" and had "no Neg ... More >>

Director Mark Brokaw's Flat Spinning Into Butter

Highlights of Barack Obama’s Speech on Race and Politics

Digging Up the Past

A wrenching investigation of racism, resentment, and reparations

Letters

Strange Fruit, Family Tree

Former 'Voice' writer Carr confronts a haunting family secret

Nationalism of Fools

Farrakhan Brings It All Back Home

The Rise of the Black Nerd

Separated from racial mainstreams, the outsiders make their mark

Freddy Held Steady With Blacks

August Wilson (1945-2005)

Freddy's Surprising Black Base

The Long Road to Washington

As AIDS kills black America, activists try to raise awareness a step at a time

Morning Report 9/2/05
Bush's Ark

A Darker Shade of Pink

From Kanye West to Louis Farrakhan, new signs of gay friendliness among African Americans

Ferrer's Color-Coded Victory Plan

A Freddy win in September could pose a demographic dilemma for big-bucks Mike

In Search of a Right

The 13-year struggle of targets in a racial dragnet reveals the elusive nature of justice

Hiphop Turns 30

Whatcha celebratin' for?

Bloc Like Me

Gay marriage and abortion tug African Americans toward the Republican Party

Political Prisoners

Minorities struggle to break free of felon voting bans

Sex, Lies, Death

The irresistible pull of the down-low myth—uh, story—hooks reporters and their readers

Mushmouth Reconsidered

You can't say that on TV—but Bill Cosby can

Whose Dream?

Why the black church opposes gay marriage

An Ocean Apart

Haitian leader returns black love to sender

Jew vs. Jew vs. Mel

Have Jewish Critics of The Passion of the Christ Actually Fueled New Anti-Semitism?

The Height of Disrespect

New study on 'hip-hop' sexuality finds anti-woman strain—even among young women

Blackness as Folly

Debra Dickerson gambles on telling blacks to give up

We Need You

It's Time to Call for New Black Leadership

Running From Race

Democrats Are Ignoring Black Issues in Their Push for the White House. The Surprise Is Who Couldn't Care Less.