Nonsense Upon Stilts

Posts Tagged ‘Racism

Meh

Posted by: Nic on: 11.25.2009

I suppose I should post something happy in honor of Thanksgiving, but whatever. This story is awful, which makes sense, because teenagers suck. Later today or tomorrow I’ll post some pictures that are so cute that you brain will explode.

At last, some good news

Posted by: Nic on: 11.04.2009

Okay, so the less said about the results of last night’s NJ gubernatorial (I do love that word, though) election, the better. But in a followup to something I mentioned last month, Keith Bardwell, that loser justice of the peace who refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, has resigned his post. [...]

Are you serious? You can't be serious!

Posted by: Nic on: 10.16.2009

There once was an awful point in American history, when people who loved each other could be prevented from marrying one another because they were of different races. This went on until the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Loving v. Virginia that all race-based marriage laws were unconstitutional. But everything old is new again, right? [...]

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: Nic on: 11.18.2008

Remember Stephen Lewis, the Murfreesboro Free Press columnist who thought it would be hilarious to rewrite the theme song to The Jeffersons with the Obamas in mind? Well, as the person who commented on my post mentioned, in addition to reworking songs and ridiculing the accents of naturalized Americans in his free time, Mr. Lewis [...]

Stupid Internet, ruining everything

Posted by: Nic on: 11.10.2008

Stephen Lewis, a humor columnist at the Murfreesboro Post of Tennessee, wrote an opinion column yesterday that included a song about the Obamas move to Washington. As you may have guessed by its inclusion in this post, this song was not in the best of taste. Mr. Lewis chose to set his “Ode to President [...]

Time Capsule

Posted by: Nic on: 10.31.2008

This is what Richard Pryor thought a press conference with the first black US president would be like:


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