If CNN thought Angie Tucker mattered…

…then you might expect to see a story like this:

But CNN doesn’t.
So you don’t.
(”CNN” text from actual Tulsa World article by Nicole Marshall. Thanks to Shark-fu for her post “Black and Missing…” at Shakesville.)

Held hostage by a single word

One day, I’m going to write up my policy on the feebleness of allowing ourselves to held hostage by the dead legacy of any single word - the kind of haplessness that makes for vacuous non-stories just like this.
In the meantime, here’s a tip: when someone calls you a nigger, the absolute, hands-down, best response [...]

Not-yet-driving while black

St. Louis-based blogger supreme Dana Loesch of Mamalogues shares a delightful story of police attention where it was most decidedly not needed.
What other purpose could black people have in Soulard except to steal cars from affluent white yuppies, right? What the hell are black people doing out of North County? They’re stealing our cars!
Just a [...]

Cue tirade from Stanley Crouch in three…two…one…

Stories like this will always be with us. More specifically, the wide-eyed incredulity of such stories will periodically appear in the discourse, informed with the usual astonishment over people using other commonalities than race to decide who they’ll be involved with. See you in two or three years, when this story resurfaces in some form [...]

Aye, yii, yii, yiiii

Mexico’s goodwill ambassador?

Looks like Mexican President Vicente Fox has yet another reason to apologize to African Americans:
The Mexican government has issued a postage stamp depicting an exaggerated black cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin, just weeks after remarks by President Vicente Fox angered U.S. blacks.
The series of five stamps released for general use Wednesday depicts [...]