Jews, Blacks, Florida and Sarah Silverman

Sarah Silverman is hyping the Big Schlep--a last-minute appeal to Jewish Americans to hop on a plane to Florida to get their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama! Her bit is filled with sage wisdom and vivid stereotypes and promises to be both effective and useful (and, to be sure, offensive, for some).

Watch it and comment--I will try to get back here in a couple of days to add some commentary myself.


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Just When You Thought You Had Seen it All, the History of Stereotyping Takes a Bold Step Forward!

More on the "monkey" here; click the image for more than you may be ready for.

Thanks to regular Ace Internet detective Michael Wyatt Harper, Vancouver ex-pat, and resident of Thousand Oaks, for the headsup. No, really, thank you...... What a post!

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Efforts on the part of the medical community ought to chill me out, but they don't!

Of War and "War": 'Low Rider' and Black/Mexican Tensions

The Memín Pinguin blow-up shows that African American and Latino community tensions are on the rise nationally--all the more reason to remember this Raza anthem and the band, ironically called "War," that made it possible:

The Colbert Report on Racism.

The Colbert Report put together an American pop culture racism montage that merits close study--do note that this video will cease to function on March 3, 2007.