This video of Richard Trumpka - white, manly, and mustachioed - shouting down racism reminded me of Shelby Steele as quoted by Janny Scott back in March:
[T]he lack of discourse about race [in the U.S. today] is a product of political correctness, “the language of white guilt.”
Asked what is needed to break the stalemate, he […]
Had Ta-Nehisi Coates’ post about the word “ghetto” in mind when I saw this (fantastic) video about making a homemade talkbox:
“By ‘ghetto’, I mean we’re going to make this thing as easy as possible. […] You can’t get no more ‘ghetto’ than to tape it up with Dilated People stickers.” — MooT BooXLe.
Coates describes the […]
Months ago, I remember several unfunny boobs all stressed out that the Obama campaign would be the end of comedy because satirizing Obama could be offensive to some audiences. All I heard was, “wahhh wahh wahhhh but it will be HARD! wahh wahh wahh”
I shouldn’t talk though because I don’t know the first thing […]
Starting today, recurring feature Translation Nation will be joined by White Life, an exclusive peek at the wild weird world of Straight White Men from your boy on the inside.
As anyone who has spent time with me in a populous urban environment can tell you, I have a tendency to attract the conversational attention of […]
