The factually challenged (and largely plagiarized) 1977 TV miniseries Roots had an undeniable influence on how millions of Americans, black and white, view the era of slavery. A standout moment in this well-made piece of historical hooey occurs shortly after Kunta Kinte, the proud African (is there ...
In early 2013, former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, the ditzy blonde who took up space on the show in the late 1980s before fading into obscurity, posted an essay on her website titled "Why Isn"t There a White History Month?" I"m quite certain that as she was ...
Apparently, Mormons have a pathological hatred of Polynesians. Who knew? I certainly didn"t, until last week's perfunctory "look how racist those white devils are" national news story brought it to my attention. It seems a bartender at a Salt Lake City joint called Big Willie's pulled a ...
The "Grim Sleeper" went on trial in L.A. last week. Fifty-seven-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is accused of murdering at least eleven women (and one man) in a string of serial killings in South Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 2000s (the name "Grim Sleeper" was derived ...
You know you"re getting old when you can remember a time when Canadians were funny on purpose. John Candy, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy, the entire SCTV crew. Back then, Canadians invited the world to laugh with their nation, not at it. How things have changed. These days, Canadians are still ...
One of the biggest viral stories on social media last week was a laughably idiotic Finnish "how to" video that ostensibly demonstrates the proper way for women to defend themselves against rapists. The video, produced by state-run broadcaster Yle, reveals the top three police-certified ...
If there is any justice in the world, Ricky Javon Gray has only six weeks left to live. On New Year's Day 2006, Gray and an accomplice tortured and murdered an entire family in Richmond, Va. Bryan Harvey, 49 years old, a fairly accomplished musician (formerly with the band House of Freaks), was ...
So apparently the Academy Awards are now the most racist, evil thing in the world, having surpassed the left's last most racist, evil thing in the world (what was that again? Halloween costumes? Interracial wrestling? It's so hard to keep track). The tragic fact that for the second year in a row no ...
In the summer of 2002, a young white woman named Valinda Elliott set out from Phoenix on a business trip with her boss. The two were trying to locate a tiny speck of a town called Young, Ariz., population 666 (talk about a bad omen). They took a wrong turn and became lost in the desert, in a remote ...
Last week I decided to "binge-watch" the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer. I mean, I needed something to do with my time as I nursed the shattered femur I incurred from jumping off a bridge because everyone else did. Almost immediately upon launching my binge, I found myself fighting a ...
