Michael Caesar > Uncle Ruckus: The Boondoggle About The Boondocks

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Once upon a time, a snarky little comic strip rose from relative obscurity to become fodder for Sunday morning political pundits and shaking heads along Washington DC’s beltway.

@JayZ, @KanyeWest, @GwynethPaltrow & Who’s Responsible For The N-Word

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Before, say, 1988, the idea of using what could be the most offensive racial slur ever created in public, would have seemed ridiculous to most people.

Culture: @GwynethPaltrow, @KanyeWest, @JayZ & Who’s Responsible For The N-Word

… sure, things would change if we really wanted them to …

I Am a Dark-Skinned African. In Terms of Racist Hierarchy, at the Bottom of the Food Chain. Or Should Be.

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Moses Okoth is quite comfortable in his deep mahogany skin. But he still has questions about how society views race.

“I’m old enough to remember pollution so bad that you couldn’t hang your laundry outside.”

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This comment was from JP McMahon on the post by Jake DiMare “Boomers Beware: How Do You Want to Be Remembered?”

Obama, The Anti-War, Government Niggling Divider?

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What do you think Rick Santorum was trying to say, when he stumbled over a word that sounded an awful lot like the N-Word?