President Romney Salutes the Immigrant Workers Who Make the Kentucky Derby Possible. In an interview with the magazine “Latino Horse Owners,” President Romney discussed the ways Immigration reform and his revised Obamacare could improve the Kentucky Derby. While showing LHO’s T[...]
Posts Tagged ‘American Diversity’
May 4th, 2013 - 9:05 am § in Uncategorized
President Romney: Fixing the effects of Obamacare on the Kentucky Derby
March 31st, 2013 - 10:07 am § in Misc.
People of Color: Who was Vicente Guerrero?
I want to take advantage of tomorrow being April Fools Day to comment on the hypocrisy surrounding the neologism “people of color.” The term is terribly misused by political partisans and ethnic activists in the US. Republicans use it to express their angst that America is turning ag[...]
Sunday Revelations: Paschal Lampoon
Forget Purim. Passover has a rich comedic tradition all its own, with parodies of the haggadah mocking everything from rabbis and the rich to Mussolini and Hitler. By Eddy Portnoy | Apr 14, 2011 7:00 AM The Hitler Haggadah from Moment, 1934.Courtesy Eddy Portnoy. ….. Some of these spoofs funct[...]
March 21st, 2013 - 10:25 pm § in Uncategorized
Voters Rights Day
It was on this day in 1965 that thousands of marchers, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., left Selma, Alabama, headed to Montgomery, to protest the disenfranchisement of African-American voters. They had attempted the march twice before, earlier in the month, but the first time they had been badly b[...]
HUMOR: St Patty’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated each year on March 17th. This day marks the accepted date in 493 CE of St. Patrick’s death. As St. Patrick is the figure most prominently associated with bringing Christianity to Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church i[...]
March 11th, 2013 - 4:53 am § in Religion, Schools & Colleges
Antisemitism hits Harvard
Jewish Harvard Students Receive Mock Eviction Notices Jewish students at Harvard University receive mock eviction notices in light of “Israel Apartheid Week.” Is this antisemitism? Imagine all Asian students getting this notice next time a Tibetan is immolated. Or imagine all Catholic Studen[...]
March 6th, 2013 - 12:42 pm § in America
News you would rather not hear
‘I Held Michael Jackson’s Penis Every Night To Put Condom Catheter On Him,” Conrad Murray Claims The Singer Was Incontinent[...]
March 5th, 2013 - 9:36 am § in America
My wife, the real Barbie Dolls
odd ideas here … are there barbie dolls that look like this in doll size???? Sighhh … My wife is Barbie, she is the real Barbie, the beautiful Barbie, my Barbies[...]
February 11th, 2013 - 8:29 am § in Uncategorized
IMMIGRATION: Those other brown folk
Washington, Jan 29 – Even as President Barack Obama is set to announce an immigration reform plan, a bipartisan group of US senators have unveiled their own scheme offering millions of undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. The compromise plan proposed Monday by a bipartisan group of e[...]
Racism in College Athletics
The ways of white folks, I mean, some white folks . . . (Langston Hughes) Images are important. Picture this .. an arrogant White man yelling orders to Black workers. At a university where anyone could be fired for using the word “nigger” this image still exists … he image of t[...]