Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Bsi 2,003.85 -10.23 -.51%

Post-Racial America: where you can still get away with calling a black man "boy".

We hear cats acting like people is big on the Internets, so...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Bsi 2,071.35 +3.75 +.18%

Last Market day of January. You know what that means?... Black History Mumf is just around the corner!

Get ready to see this woman...

...and/or this man a lot on your TV over the coming 28 days.

WINNERS

Mo'Nique (M'NQ) 7.49 +1.83 +24.43%

Vanity Fair is just one of the many to question/ponder the actress/comedian's Oscar pitch (or lack thereof). But we applaud Mo'Nique's, whose honesty exposes the fact that Hollywood award season is as much about kissing the right rings as it is talent.

LOSERS

Post-Racialism (PRACE) 1.52 -.75 -33.04%

We won't get on Chris Matthews for what he said the other night. We get what he was going for. But, as Ta-Nehisi Coates so eliquently put it:

Ditto for Chris Matthews. The "I forgot Obama was black" sentiment allows the speaker the comfort of accepting, even lauding, a black person without interrogating their invented truth. It allows the speaker a luxurious ignorance--you get to name people (this is what black is) even when you don't know people. In fact, Chris Matthews didn't forget Barack Obama was black. Chris Matthews forgot that Chris Matthews was white.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Bsi 2,072.69 -3.11 -.15%

Love basketball, but hate all the black people that come with it? Have we got a league for you!

More exquisit racism in the South.