‘Racism’ Archives
Newt Gingrich: African-Americans should demand paychecks not food stamps
Newt Gingrich says African-American should demand paychecks not food stamps. From every indication, it appears that the white Republican presidential candidates have issued an all-out "racist rant" attack against the 37 million African-Americans in this country. [Read More]
Rick Santorum inaccurately targeted Black Welfare Recipients with racist rant
Rick Santorum’s inaccurately targeted Black welfare recipients with racist rant. During a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa, and while speaking to a mostly white audience, Rick Santorum, a Republican presidential candidate raised eyebrows by inaccurately stereotyping and [Read More]
NAACP challenges the Republican Party efforts to disenfranchise Black Voters
By: Charles S. Mombo Article Sponsored by Flash Mob Business to Consumer NAACP challenges the Republican Party efforts to disenfranchise Black Voters In an effort to win the 2012 presidential election by “any means necessary,” the Republican Party is overly [Read More]
They’re Just Mean: The Tea Party Tosses their Cookies . . . AT US!
By: Yvonne Kendall Yvonne Kendall earned her doctorate at Stanford University. She currently serves as a professor at a state university in Texas. She is a regular contributor to ChocolateCity.cc. When I was growing up, it was not acceptable to be mean. Making fun of [Read More]
Doug Lamborn, Colorado’s Congressman calls President Obama a Tar Baby
Doug Lamborn, Colorado’s Congressman calls President Obama a Tar BabyCongressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado’s 5th Congressional District referred to President Barrack Obama as a tar baby while on a radio talk show: “Even if some people say, ‘Well the [Read More]
Lift Every Voice and Sing The Star Spangled Banner
Lift Every Voice and Sing, 1939. Augusta Savage Since that 2008 incident with Jazz singer, Rene Marie, in which she shocked some Denver residents by singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” when she was expected to sing the “Star Spangled [Read More]
Liberian Citizenship–Blacks Only Need Apply
By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass, @charlessmombo #burnedbrass, #Liberia Liberia’s Motto states, "The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here". Having a land of their own was a dream come through for the ex-slaves coming from America. A country of their own was a [Read More]
Don Lemon is TRANSPARENT in announcing that he is gay
CNN Don Lemon will be reading and signing his new memoir, “Transparent”, June 22nd at 7:30 p.m., to be at the Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse located at the corner of Piedmont and Tenth Street in Midtown, Atlanta. If you are in the Atlanta’s area, you might [Read More]
Why is the U.S. Boycotting the U.N. World Conference Against Racism?
Why is the U.S. Boycotting the U.N. World Conference Against Racism? The State Department has announced that, "with regret," it will be boycotting the 10-year commemoration of the UN World Conference Against Racism because past meetings have included “ugly [Read More]
Is Sally Kern, Oklahoma Republican state Representative, a racist and a homophobic?
Oklahoma state Republican Representative Sally Kern According to Oklahoma state Republican Representative Sally Kern: blacks are in prison because color didn’t study hard. Sally, 65-year-old, is no stranger to making racist and homophobic remarks; but her latest [Read More]
Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, tells birthers to get over it!
Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, tells birthers to get over it!Even Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng has had enough of those birthers’ dumb claims that President Barack Obama is not a United States citizen. Named after one of American's famous poets, Maya Angelou, [Read More]
Maine Republican governor LePage says NAACP can kiss his butt
Maine Governor Paul LePage tells NAACP to kiss his butt!!!!During a recent live TV program, Maine's Republican Governor Paul LePage said that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) can “kiss my butt.” LePage's ignorant, [Read More]
Alan Gribben’s Nigger-less Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnAlan Gribben, a passionate academic on Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens) and his achievements has put together a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that replaces the word "nigger" with a supposedly less [Read More]
Supreme Court dismissed Kerchner case against Obama’s Citizenship
The Supreme Court again dismissed another dumb challenge, Kerchner v. Obama (10-446), against President Barack Obama's U.S. Citizenship status. Without comment, the Supreme Court justices on Monday rejected challenge from Charles Kerchner Jr. of Pennsylvania who sought [Read More]
Gingrich’s hateful and racist comments about Obama
Gingrich's comments about Obama hateful and racistNewt Gingrich recently spoke with the National Review Online (NRO) after the premiere of his new film, America at Risk. While citing a recent article in Forbes magazine by Dinesh D’Souza concerning the differences [Read More]
Dr. Laura Apologizes for On-Air Nigger Rant
Dr. Laura Apologizes for on air Nigger Rant Before you read this article, please note my position on the word “nigger”. I am absolutely no respecter of the word and have choose not to take ownership it (period!). Every time one hears the word crackers, Jew town, [Read More]
Should African-American Tourists Avoid Racist Spain?
Racism toward Blacks in Spain is not unusual. It is highly noticeable during Spain's soccer events. Fans as well as coaches and officials, have become infamous for heckling black players.Prior to First Lady Michelle Obama's vacation to Spain, the website of the Office [Read More]
Denying Citizenship to Children Legally Born to Illegal Aliens
Arizona DemonstratorsHere We Go Again! If Arizona Republican Senator John Kyl and his fellow Republicans had their way, they would kick-out all Latinos including the legal ones out of Arizona. Yesterday, while appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" the Senator [Read More]
Is President Obama Demeaning the Office of the President?
President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States on the daytime talk show "The View." There is much ado about nothing going on over the blogosphere today regarding President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States pending [Read More]
Arizona SB1070 gets a double-spiked dagger in the heart
Opponents of Arizona's SB 1070Judge Susan Bolton, who heard arguments this week on the first of the Arizona lawsuits, today granted a partial injunction against Arizona's SB 1070. From every indication, Judge Bolton's decision has driven a double-spiked [Read More]
A Project on Shared Histories of Asians and Blacks in America
By: Kevin Simmonds A Project on Shared Histories of Asians and Blacks in America Instead of reporting the unintended death of Tian Sheng Yu by two young Black men in Oakland this April as an isolated crime, the media suggested it might have been part of trend of [Read More]
Oliver Stone: Israel has Fuckup United States Foreign Policy
The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League on Monday slammed filmmaker Oliver Stone for comments he made to The Sunday Times of London, calling the film director's views "anti-Semitic."According to REUTERS, the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League is not too happy [Read More]
President Obama, have you call Shirley Sherrod yet?
Sherrod, a Black or African American, was the former USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development that was wrongly accused of racism and forced to resign on Tuesday by the White House.Unless you live on another planet (and that planet lacks Internet, radio, or a [Read More]
A Resolution of Interposition and Nullification – Don’t think about it!
A Resolution of Interposition and Nullification - Don't think about it!Interposition means that a state of the United States of America may oppose any federal action it believes encroaches on its power and nullification refers to a state in the United States refusing [Read More]
David Salgado and Chicanos Por La Causa Fights Arizona SB1070
Photo Credit: Mi Cultura My Roots by El Moisés Photo Credit: Mi Cultura My Roots by El Moisés – Commissioned by Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC)Figuratively speaking, the heat is on in Arizona. That state legal showdown is expected to pour large amount of [Read More]
The True Colored of Tea Party and Mark Williams
Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams does not only accused the NAACP of racism, but he also wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln on behalf of "Colored People". Below is Williams' letter: Letter to Abraham Lincoln July 14th, 2010 A personal note from [Read More]
Human Capital and Cultural Freedom
By Frank T. Scruggs Human capital is the development one’s self to sell one’s labor, skills and or talent in the marketplace. Labor is more than manual labor or factory work but should also be considered things such as academic skills, athletic prowess, business [Read More]
NAACP calls the Tea Party acts rampant racism
On Tuesday at the NAACP's (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 101st annual convention being held in Kansas City, Missouri, the organization passed a resolution that condemns what it feels is rampant racism in the Tea Party movement. [Read More]
Mel Gibson: Raped by a Pack of Niggers Comments!
On a 30 minutes voice mail recording released by Mel Gibson's ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, he is heard screaming racist and sexist rant against her. On the recording, Gibson said: "You look like a fucking pig in heat," follow by "If you get raped by a [Read More]
Did Republican Judiciary Senators Disrespect Thurgood Marshall
It starting to appear that Elena Kagan, Solicitor General of the United States and the pending nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court was right when she complained, in her now-famous 1995 book review, that the Supreme Court confirmation hearings have been reduced to “a [Read More]
A white Senator Accuses President Obama of Racism
I always assumed that one has to have an ounce of common sense to serve as a U.S. Congressman. But I have been proven wrong lately by the idiotic comments and behaviors of some of our so-called congressman. Iowa Republican congressman Steve King, who is known for his [Read More]
Ethnic Cleansing of Murals in Arizona Prescott City
Image Source: AP If Arizona's Prescott City Councilman and talk-show host Steve Blair had his way, there would be no African-Americans and Latinos faces on murals in public places around the city. According to Blair, “diversity is a word I can't stand." [Read More]
Is Arizona Planning A Full-scale War Against Latinos?
Image Credit: SEIU.org Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and her Republican counterparts are on a roll and running amok by introducing “Hitler-Style” bills one after another with a new one – the “Anchor babies” law in the making. On April 19, [Read More]
Chicago 1919 Race Riot In Retrospect
Rock throwing white youths during the 1919 race riotEarly dawn today, I parked my car at the 63rd Street lakefront parking lot and rode my bike along the lakefront bike path to the Buckingham Fountain. As I approached the 29th street lakefront, a strong sense of [Read More]
Texas Board of Education Mis-Education on Slavery
Texas Board of Education Mis-Education of Slavery From every indication it appears that Texas' State Board of Education (SBOE) is about to play partisan politics by rewriting history and textbooks. Texas' SBOE, is an elected 15 member board. The Commissioner [Read More]
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul Opposes the Civil Rights Act
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul Opposes the Civil Rights ActWhen I first read the editorial board of Louisville's Courier-Journal reference to Rand Paul as "repulsive to people in the mainstream," including "an unacceptable view of civil rights,'” I [Read More]
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Calls Airline Employee Nigger
Jonathan Rhys MeyersDublin, Ireland born actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers used the word nigger against an African American United Airlines employee last month in an apparent drunken tirade that got his behind banned from boarding that flight. RadarOnline.com is also [Read More]
Arizona Bans African American and Chicana/o Studies
The Torch of Quetzalcoatl by Leo Tanguma`On Tuesday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed bill HB2281 that bans all ethnic studies in Arizona's public schools. HB2281 takes effect on Dec. 31, 2010. The bans will prevent the teaching of African American, Native [Read More]
Bellaire Police Acquitted After Killing Black Youth Face Down
Sgt. Jeffrey Cotton, a white police officer of the Bellaire Police Department was found not guilty in Houston, Texas for shooting and killing Robert Tolan, a 23-year-old Black or African American man. Robert Tolan was forced to lie face down before he was shot. [Read More]
Philadelphia Cop Shoots Himself Accused Black Males
Here is another case of a White person subconsciously or maybe consciously subscribing to the stereotype and negative depictions of the African American male as a criminal element in our society. On April 5, Philadelphia Police Department issued an all-points bulletin (APB) [Read More]
White Bank Robber Uses Silicon Disguised as African American
Photo: SPLASH NEWS Black male mask used by Conrad Zdzierak, a White robber to disguised as an African AmericanI find it extremely alarming when a White person subconsciously subscribes to the stereotype and negative depictions of the African American male as a criminal [Read More]
Obama Should Go Back Home to Kenya?
Former Republican Representative Tom Tancredo doing what he does best - railing against the 'scourge' of illegal immigration. A white man and former Republican Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado is one of the few people out there that are still having problems [Read More]
U.S. approves settlement for black farmers: where’s the check?
Black farmers rallied in Washington D.C. last week to receive payment from USDA discrimination settlement. (Source: Washington State House Republicans)President Obama kept his words when he said, he would bring "long-ignored claims of African-American farmers to a [Read More]
Dan Rather Racist Obama Watermelon Slur
Former CBS Anchor Dan Rather While appearing on the Chris Matthews show, and speaking on the issue of President Obama's inability to get health care passed, Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said “ Obama couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him the [Read More]
PW Tight Fisted Afro Picks Sparks Racial Complaints
The 1999 image, pickin', by Lauren Kelley Am I missing something or are we becoming too overly sensitive. The 1999 image, pickin', by Lauren Kelley caused a spark on the blogosphere on Monday after the recent copy of Publisher Weekly (PW) used it on their magazine [Read More]
Heather Ellis and the Bizarre Walmart Incident
By Charles S. Mombo Heather Ellis and Family Photos Credit: Corey NolesCNN News reported last night that Heather Ellis, a 24 year-old African American Xavier University graduate could face fifteen years behind bars for assaulting police officers and resisting arrest after [Read More]
Chicago Disses Its Black Founder – Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable
Sculpture of DuSable on Chicago's Magnificent Mile Unless you have had a Chicago connection, there is a strong possibility that you have not heard the name Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable. Way before the Magnificent Mile, Navy Pier, Shedd Aquarium, Millennium Park, Sears Tower [Read More]
I Will Not Officiate a Black and White Couple Wedding
Beth Humphrey and husband Terence McKay - Photo Source: CNNAccording to Judge Keith Bardwell, who is also an elected Justice of the Peace in Tangipahoa Parish’s 8th Ward in Louisiana, his refusal to issue a marriage license and preside over the wedding of an [Read More]
California Outlaws the Display of Noose
California's Bill Number: AB 412 Outlaws the Display of Noose Approved by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on August 5, 2009 and filed with the California Secretary of State on August 6, 2009, Bill Number: AB 412 has now become a law. SeeMombo.com Bookmark ChocolateCity.cc [Read More]
President Obama invites Gates and Crowley for beer
President Obama invites Gates and Crowley to White House for beerHad I known President Barack Obama personally, I would have call him yesterday and suggested that he invite Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley to the White House to discuss the arrest issue that [Read More]
Obama – I will get shot if I try to break into white house
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Included on Time's "25 Most Influential Americans" list President Barack Obama said “if I were to break into the White House, I will get shot.” The president was responding to a question by Sun-Times Washington Bureau [Read More]
Philadelphia Police and Racism the City of Un-Brotherly Love?
Philadelphia Finest - Serve and ProtectWhenever I heard the word “Philadelphia”, the immediate visual connection that comes to mind is the May 13, 1985 incident in which police dropped bombs as an alternative to waiting to issue arrest warrants on members of the [Read More]
Supreme Court Agrees with New Haven White Firefighter
New Haven Firefighter Photo Source: Horace WilliamsThe U.S. Supreme Court made a decision on June 29, 2009 regarding the case of Ricci et al vs. Destefano et al. Basically in 2003, 118 New Haven, Connecticut firefighters took examinations to qualify for promotion to [Read More]
Tennessee GOP Staffer depicts President Obama as a Golliwog
Sherri Goforth depicts President Obama as a Golliwog Sherri Goforth, a staffer in the office of Tennessee Grand Old Party (GOP) state senator Diane Black emailed a picture of the American presidents. The problem is the slot representing the 44th president, President Obama, [Read More]
Resolution to undo U.S. racist crime against boxer John Johnson
John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, the first African American World Heavyweight Boxing ChampionOn April 1, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Representative Peter King (R-NY) introduced a resolution to pardon John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, the first African [Read More]
Still I Rise : A Graphic History of African Americans
Still I Rise"As a contribution to illustrated history from a black point of view," writes acclaimed foreword author Charles Johnson, "Still I Rise is a unique achievement, one that will be valued — like Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s [Read More]
Life Term for Rape – Cruel and Unusual for Joe Sullivan?
Joe Harris Sullivan, now 35-year-old, is still serving a life term for a non-homicide crime committed, since 13-year-old, for raping a 72-year-old elderly white woman. Image Source:Agence France-Presse/Getty Images On May 4, 1989, someone robbed a 72-year-old White woman in [Read More]
The God of Bishop Gene Robinson
Bishop Gene RobinsonBishop Gene Robinson is the openly gay Episcopal bishop who helped advise President-elect Barack Obama on gay rights issues during his campaign. Robinson was recently asked by the Obama’s team to deliver the invocation at a kickoff inaugural event [Read More]
The Roland Burris’ saga – ain’t that some shit
By: Charles Mombo Roland BurrisLast Wednesday a meeting was scheduled at Roland Burris’ request with Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois. After the hour long meeting on Capitol Hill, Reid and Durbin told [Read More]
Jim Crow, Roland Burris and the 111th Congress
By Charles Mombo Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris With an uncomfortable resemblance of scenes from the Jim Crow era, the Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris, who is an African American was escorted out of the Capitol in the rain after being turned away when he [Read More]
Barack the Magic Negro
John "Chip" Saltsman - Composer "Barack the Magic Negro"As the Republican party meet to discuss their terrible performances in the 2008 election and why African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities are literally running away from their party, they [Read More]
Judge jailed African American for wearing hijab
An African American woman wearing hijab photo credit: Dexter BrowneMs. Lisa Valentine, 40, an African American Muslim woman was arrested on Tuesday for refusing to take off her head scarf prior to entering the courthouse security checkpoint in Douglasville, a suburb west of [Read More]
The meanest, the dirtiest, the sleaziest and “that one”
by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo for: http://www.ThatOneMcCain.com From a McCain/Palin Campaign RallyWhether election 2008 is the meanest, sleaziest, lowest-down, and dirtiest campaign ever, I will leave that to the political analyst to determine. When Arne H. (Helge) [Read More]
Obama Bucks – Republican Women’s Club Blatant Racism
GOP's racist "Obama Bucks"A Republican women’s club in San Bernardino County sent out its October newsletter to about 200 members of the Chaffey Community Republican Women with a photograph of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama surrounded by fried watermelon, a [Read More]
Deeply embedded racism could cost Obama
AP-Yahoo News pollAccording to a recent AP-Yahoo News poll, about one-third of white Democrats harbor racist, bias, negative and ignorant views toward blacks. Many are calling blacks "lazy," "violent," and responsible for their own troubles. Experts [Read More]
Focus on the Family and racist Obama waffles
Obama WafflesThe so-called socially conservative public policy groups American Values and Focus on the Family Action co-sponsored what they termed a conservative political forum summit in Washington today. From ever indication, it appears as if the political forum summit [Read More]
