Now I love Eve, the pitbull in a skirt-turned-“it” girl on the Hollywood scene, and her relationship with British entrepreneur and race car driver Maximillion Cooper is beautiful. But her thoughts about biracial babies and especially her childrearing philosophy has me cocking an eyebrow: Eve says she plans to raise her kids to be “colorblind.” [...]
Race In Brazil: A Mix of Openness and Exclusion
March 18, 2013 | Posted by
Many Brazilians cast their country as a racial democracy where people of different groups long have intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open the newspaper or stroll down the street to see clear evidence of segregation. In Brazil, whites are at the top of the social [...]
Racist, Sexist Signs Found on UCLA’s Campus in Post-Racial America
November 30, 2012 | Posted by
UCLA police are investigating racist, sexist signs found on campus this week that defamed Asian women. On Tuesday, a student found a sign that read “asian women R Honkie white-boy worshiping Whores” attached to a Vietnamese Student Union sign. On Wednesday, another student found the handwritten phrase “Asian Women are White-Boy Worshiping Sluts” in the [...]
Colorism Still Plaguing Black Communities Around the World
October 13, 2012 | Posted by
Is the black community still plagued by colorism—discriminating and hurting each other based on skin complexion? That’s the intriguing question explored by author Marita Golden in an essay published on the Washington Post website. Golden says she still encounters black people making harmful comments or treating one other differently because one person may be darker [...]
Egyptian Immigrant Fights To Be Classified as Black
September 5, 2012 | Posted by
What first seemed like a simple mistake has turned into a three-decade battle for immigrant Mostafa Hefny to claim his heritage. When 61-year-old Hefny immigrated from Egypt to the United States in 1978, he was classified on government documents as “white,” due to the government’s interpretation of the geographical location of his homeland. Hefny has [...]
Race Influences White Opposition to Obama Healthcare Law
June 29, 2012 | Posted by
An intriguing analysis by Judy Lubin on the Huffington Post dissects how much race plays a role in subconsciously forming white peoples’ opposition to President Obama initiatives such as healthcare reform. As the nation analyzes the fallout from the Supreme Court’s 5-4 vote to uphold the healthcare law, it is crucial we try to figure [...]
White Americans Have 22 Times More Wealth Than Blacks
June 21, 2012 | Posted by
White Americans have 22 times more wealth than blacks — a gap that nearly doubled during the Great Recession. The median household net worth for whites was $110,729 in 2010, versus $4,995 for blacks, according to recently released Census Bureau figures. The difference is similarly notable when it comes to Hispanics, who had a median [...]
Autopsy Shows Kendrec McDade Was Shot Seven Times By Police
May 15, 2012 | Posted by
Last March, police received a report that a taco truck in Pasadena, California had just been robbed. According to a recently released autopsy report, the two officers who arrived to investigate this report ran down and eventually shot a young black suspect seven times: Nineteen-year-old Kendrec McDade was shot at point-blank range by one Pasadena [...]
Study: Race Plays A Role in White Opposition to Obama
May 13, 2012 | Posted by
Race still plays a major role in the attitude of white voters and their willingness to vote for a black candidate, according to a study conducted by psychologists from the University of Washington. Though many commentators have tried to imply that the election of Barack Obama meant that American society had moved beyond racial bias, [...]
Is Usain Bolt Suffering From ‘White Woman Complex’?
May 6, 2012 | Posted by
His arm around her waist, sprinter Usain Bolt and his latest girlfriend are the picture of togetherness. The world’s fastest man has been dating fashion designer Lubica Slovak for six months and the relationship is described as ‘very serious’. A friend of 28-year-old Miss Slovak declared: ‘Love has no race – it’s a heart to [...]
