Friday, December 4, 2009

Bsi 2,061.97 +3.79 +.18%

Small market gains as the first week of December comes to an end.

WINNERS

Black Princesses (BLKPR) 4.22 +.89 +21.09%

Sometimes you when when someone else loses. That's the case for Disney and the fortunes of their upcoming Black Princess after the recent controversy over Mattel's African-American dolls.

Those dolls got the good hair.

LOSERS

Tiger Woods (TWDS) 37.38 -9.71 -20.62%

Gee, I wonder why...

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Bsi 2,058.18 -12.79 -.62%

Good news for black men on the hunt for a job -- according to the New York Times, your college degree doesn't matter.

College-educated black men, especially, have struggled relative to their white counterparts in this downturn, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate for black male college graduates 25 and older in 2009 has been nearly twice that of white male college graduates — 8.4 percent compared with 4.4 percent.

Great. So now Kanye looks like he was right about something.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Bsi 2,070.97 -11.67 -.56%

Racist political cartoons are old hat, so we appreciate the new twist the Cleveland Call & Post brings to the table by being a black-owned paper responsible for the bullshit this time around.

WTF?!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Bsi 2,082.64 +7.6 +.36%

Allen Iverson back to the 76ers? Just the idea of it sounds too storybook to be real.

BUY

Andre Braugher

Sure, you don't meet a lot of black 40-something men named Owen, but if there's an actor who can pull it off, it's Braugher, who we look forward to seeing in the new TNT drama "Men of a Certain Age".

SELL

Tiger Woods

Hmmm. Between knee surgery and the latest domestic incident Woods breaking Jack Nicklaus' record doesn't seem as inevitable.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Bsi 2,075.04 -14.59 -.7%

Well, looks like the Atlanta mayoral run-off is no longer about politics or ideas, but race.

"What it comes down to is if she gets more black votes than he gets white votes," said political strategist Tom Houck. "When people say race doesn't matter, obviously it does. There is no dominant issue that distinguishes these two other than she's a white woman and he's a black guy."

Yeah, this'll end well.