July 2009
135 posts
NAACP Comments on Glenn Beck's "Prez Is A Racist"... →
Again, with the Beckster, I wonder if all those white folks who loved and raised Obama from the time he was a wee bebe knew he hated their immortal souls? I mean, does he hate the white half…
Lou Dobbs + Birthers = Bad Ratings →
According to Gawker, CNN’s chief asshat Lou Dobbs has seen his ratings skid by more than 15 percent since he started all this “I believe the president is a citzen but why won’t…
Beer and Crumpets At The White House (Gates-Gate) →
So Scholar Henry Louis Gates and police Sergeant James Crowley finally met, face to face, over beer and other snack items at the White House with President Obama and, of course, Vice…
BlackSnob Taking a Half-Day In Honor of Her Big... →
It’s my big sister’s birthday, ya’ll so I’m cutting out early. Feel free to drop me some links and let me know what should be top o’ da blog tomorrow!
AKA Prez Gets "Klassy" Wax Statue of Self, Err ...... →
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority President Barbara McKinzie and her wax likeness.You know what’s “unsisterly?” Suining your fellow sorority sister for misappropriation of funds.
Well, at…
All Obama All The Time →
Think you see too much of the president? Too bad! He’s breaking all kinds of records of how much Obama you can cram in one media hole. Apparently, you can cram a lot.
From Forbes:
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FOX News Distances Itself From Beck's "Prez Is A... →
From TVNewser:
This morning on Fox and Friends, Glenn Beck said he thinks Pres. Barack Obama has “a deep-seeded hatred for white people.” Brian Kilmeade questioned him on…
What Does It Mean When Even FOX Viewers Don't Want... →
From Mediaite:
During Studio B with Shepard Smith, he revealed the results of a Fox News poll released yesterday. If these results had come from an MSNBC poll, or a CNN poll, the…
Chris Rock's "Good Hair" →
In a move that is bound to raise some eyebrows, Chris Rock is preparing to release his comedic documentary “Good Hair,” set to tell the tale of black women and their…
Google Stalking TJ Holmes' ... And Don Lemon's... →
Picture from Zack Isaacs’ blogPR specialist Zack Isaacs commented on his blog recently that his Facebook friends are not liking my no-longer future husband TJ Holmes and Don “Always…
The "Obama Is A Racist" Meme Rolls On (Video) →
He’s not an American, he’s dangerous, he’s a racist and it just goes on and on and on. All part of some shameless projection of one’s own bigotry onto someone’s else. All about…
I Heart Larry Wilmore: The Comic Takes On... →
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Henry Louis-Gate - Race Card
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Daily Show Full…
Letters from Luvvie: Dear Solange (Guest Blogger) →
By Luvvie
Solange’s new haircut has been all the hype to the point where it was #3 Trending Topic on Twitter. Folks talked about her hair more than they discussed the Iran Elections & Obama’s new…
"Counter-Birther" Resolution Passes House →
Seems HuffPo chased around those recalcitrant “maybe he isn’t, I need to see the paperwork” Congress-folk for naught because they all voted unanimously on a resolution…
Bill Maher: Gates Arrested For Not Kissing Cop's... →
From Huffpo:
I’m not even sure this is a racial situation because I don’t know if this cop is racist. But I have to say it seems to me more like a police situation. I…
There's No Sexual Revolution In Black America Just... →
Once upon a time, not very long ago, my mother had a conversation with a friend about teaching children about sex. My mother had just signed a permission slip for me to watch a video about…
The Retort: Can Beer Cure Racism? →
AverageBro rates the media and the principles involved in “Gates-gate.”
Here’s a sample:
Does anyone else realize just how absurd this Gates/Obama/Crowley nonsense has become? The clock…
Looking For Folks With "Unconventional Wisdom" →
Belton Family PhotoAs the Unconventional Wisdom Series rolls on I wanted to highlight what’s been written about and what topics we’ve yet to cover.
So far myself and other contributors…
It's The Same Song, But Not Really →
It seems American Idol, pop singer Kelly Clarkson has a wee problem. Her record company, against her protests, has released her new single “Already Gone,” which uses the exact same…
TV Anchors Aren't Rap Stars: Rick Sanchez Edition →
Would Walter Cronkite get in a diss war with NBC? Methinks not. Well, at least not in public. But then, Ol Uncle Walt didn’t have Twitter and he wasn’t Rick “Rob Riggle” Sanchez….
Sarah Palin Sez Good-Bye Alaska, Hello World →
And kicks the press in the butt on the way out because … well, without her governorship she’s now just the lady who gets into fights with people.
She also took aim at the media,…
Hot Topics: The Girls Are Cute, but Sasha and... →
It’s a $1 million, diamond-encrusted handbag!Hot Topics feels like a million bucks!
Obama. Sotomayor. Jarrett. What do they have in common? They’re all minority Ivy Leaguers of the…
The Black Snob to Reach 1 Million Visitors In... →
And I’m celebrating by going back to New York and Washington, D.C.! Keep your eyes peeled for details about the trip on the blog!
The Black Snob on Mediaite! →
Your favorite snob will be writing columns for Dan Abrams new site Mediaite! My goal to be read everywhere will someday be complete. Mwahahaha! My first column up is one that has already…
The Black Snob's Black In America →
My grandmother embraces my cousin DeShawn as he becomes the first man in my mother’s family to graduate from college.A few people have asked me if I had the power, money and time, what…
The President "Recalibrates" and Gates to have... →
Shall we all hold hands? Should we sing “Kumbya?”
If my experience leads to the lessening of the occurrence of racial profiling, then I would find that enormously gratifying. Because, in…
Vibe Mag Subscribers Get Lawyers, Demand Editorial... →
Or cash, whatever works.
From Folio:
Less than a month after Vibe announced that it was going out of business, an angry subscriber this week filed a federal lawsuit claiming breach of…
Novelist E. Lynn Harris Is Dead →
From Galleycat:
Essence reports that Michigan-born novelist E. Lynn Harris has died, leaving behind eleven novels about the African American gay community.
Before his writing…
Wendy Williams Quits Radio, to Torture Us On BET... →
From the New York Times’ Arts Beat:
For months, fans of Wendy Williams have wondered how the boisterous broadcaster would handle the demands of hosting a radio program and a…
Black In America 2, Part 2: Fail, Jail and Tyler... →
It could be argued that no matter what CNN produced for Black In America 2 there would be gripes. There would be complaints about quality and whether or not the documentary was “for us, by us”…
Oak Bluffs Residents Bite Back At Toure's New York... →
And they said that wasn’t THEIR lives at Martha’s Vineyard writer Toure was penning for New York Magazine last month. In the article he talked about black self-segregation and how some…
Lou Dobbs Frustrates Roland Martin and Chris... →
Roland Martin of CNN and Chris Matthews of MSNBC took to the airwaves with the same mission: to kill the “birther” argument over whether or not President Obama is a citizen of the United…
The Retort: Black In America 2 LiveBlog, Part II →
Join in the chat for CNN’s Black In America 2 with the crew at The Retort. We’ll be chatting up a storm here at theRetort.chatango.com during the second half of the show tonight at 7 p.m….
Tales From A Multi-Culti Life: The Not-Black Black... →
Belton Family Photo: The Sisters and Mr. Smart
A five-year-old Snob’s rules for blackness:
Everyone in my neighborhood is “black”
If you are married to a black person you are “black”
…
One Person's Blaxploitation Is Another's Black... →
Watching Tyra Banks In France
By Lyndsey Saunders
Like a good bottle of French wine shipped to the US, all of our crappy TV is imported straight to France. The French brown people learn…
Black In America 2, Part 1: The Good, The Bad and... →
I can’t say that I loved it. I can’t say that I hated it. I believe I am solidly apathetic towards Soledad O’Brien’s latest installment for her “Black In America” series.
More after the…
Michelle Obama Got A Haircut ... No, It's Just A... →
Do you? Like? Love? Hate? Want to like or love? Need to see the back? What’s the verdict?
The Retort: Black In America 2 LiveBlog! →
Join in the chat for CNN’s Black In America 2 with the crew at The Retort. We’ll be chatting up a storm here at theRetort.chatango.com.
Valerie Jarrett on Cover of NYT Magazine →
Nice look. Read more here.
Can't Fight Stupid: No Amount of Logic Will Sway... →
Some representative who’s name really isn’t worth mentioning is proposing a bill that would require that all future US presidential candidates supply a birth certificate proving they…
Old News: Did "Hot Ghetto Mess" Fail Because Black... →
A reader emailed me this Black Voices story, “The Coonery Paradox,” by Jam Donaldson, the creator of the failed BET show “We Got to Do Better,” nee “Hot Ghetto Mess.” In the article…
Necessity Is The Mother of Re-Invention: Lil Kim →
At some point you have to put the crotch-shots away and woman-up. This is where we find Ms. Kimberley Jones, aka, rapper Lil Kim in our year of the Lord, two-thousand-and-nine.
She’s been…
Too Fat to Fight Fat? Critics "Weigh In" on... →
She’s been called a “genius” who’s fought for the poor and sick and is known for her work to bring awareness about health issues to minority and poor communities. She’s also has a physique…
Feministe Proclaims: CNN -- We'll Show You Our... →
From the blog Feministe about a CNN story on Michelle Obama’s “slave roots”:
(W)e would have loved to see CNN do is to acknowledge that all Americans have slave roots, not just…
Charges Dropped Against Gates in Home Arrest →
From Reuters:
BOSTON (Reuters) - Disorderly conduct charges filed against one of the nation’s pre-eminent African-American scholars have been dropped, local media reported on Tuesday.
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Ask Nia: Just Friends? →
Ask Nia is The Black Snob’s weekly advice column. Here Nia Orms (and her multiple personalities) take on the problems that plague your lives. This week Nia(s) helps out a reader…
What's On The Retort Today? →
Chris Chambers gives his preview of Black In America 2: weak, bleak or meek. In the end, the word for it he finds is “safe.” Here’s a smidge of what he had to say.
“Safe” has many…
When Is Black "Black" Redux (Unconventional... →
“One of the ways that I think that the civil rights movement … weakened itself was by enforcing a single way of being black — being authentically black,” Obama said.
“And, as a…
Scholar Henry Louis Gates Arrested, For Nothing,... →
Obviously the Cambridge, Mass. police department didn’t get that memo about us living in “Post-Racial America” and felt it’s still cool to arrest a man of a certain age (58) for trying to…
Google Stalking TJ Holmes: New Pictures, No New... →
Old habits die hard. I will totally start “Google Stalking” people other than my precious Prince of West Memphis, Sir TJ Holmes of CNN Weekend soon. But for now … From the Black In America…
