March has seen an uptick in discussions on race, helped along by the release of the University of Oklahoma SAE racist chant video, the usage of the n-word, Starbucks and other happenings. Black stars Common and Trinidad James have attempted to take a higher road towards racism, but Black Twitter isn’t appreciating it.
Bill Helton, a city commissioner for Elk City in Oklahoma and a mayoral candidate, is apologizing for a series of racially insensitive videos. Helton, who also works as a hair stylist, donned blackface and dressed as a Black woman named Pollyester Kotton.
Charlie Sheen was reduced to running joke status ever since his infamous meltdown in 2011 after being booted from CBS’s Two and a Half Men. Sheen, who had a few glimpses of success since, is back in the public eye but for all the wrong reasons – attacking President Barack Obama with a racist tweet.
Azealia Banks knew she was in for a cycle of controversy after becoming the first rapper to cover Playboy magazine.
A vendor in South Dakota sold a series of offensive targets at a gun show this past weekend, vehemently defending the use of a racial epithet. The gun show’s organizer expressed his anger at the vendor, who has since been banned from selling his wares at the event.
Raven-Symoné has shared some questionable stances about race in the past, but her most recent comments as a guest on ABC’s The View were even more troubling. The actress and entertainer essentially defended Univision television host Rodner Figueroa after he compared First Lady Michelle Obama to an ape from the film, Planet Of The Apes.
Naturally when one enters the often busy confines of a Starbucks cafe location, that person is looking for a hot or cold cup of caffeine goodness. This week, however, you might get far more than you bargained for as Starbucks wants to broach the touchy topic of race before you sip your java.
Trinidad James has seen his name surface in the headlines of late, but not because the southern rap artist is in the midst of a new campaign for an album. In the wake of the OU SAE video release, usage of the “n-word” in Hip-Hop is the topic du jour with the media of late […]
The blowback following SAE’s racist implosion has spiraled in every direction possible and Trinidad James, of all people, found himself in the center of it.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity’s good name has been effectively dragged through the mud after the revelation of the OU SAE racist chant video. Now it appears that the national SAE is attempting to remove connections to its pro-Confederate past in light of the spectacle that appeared in the viral clip.
Rush Limbaugh makes his bread and butter by attacking anything he deems beneath his brash, Right-leaning agenda and making outlandish comments to boot. The popular talk show host and pundit continued his losing winning streak by saying that the OU SAE racist chant song would be a hit song if Kanye West produced a track […]
Somehow, someway MSNBC’s Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough found a way to blame University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) chanting racist cheer songs to something other than bigotry. The news anchors, instead, blamed rap music for the fraternity members’ behavior.
