18 Jun
Well it’s Wednesday, which means another sports journalist has been suspended for lacking the most basic understanding of historic atrocities and their present day reverberations.
Posted in History, Language, Political Correctness?, Sports by: Carmen D.
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21 Mar
UPDATE 3/31 - Read More - The Brute Caricature, The Jim Crow Museum
Basketball star Lebron James will grace Vogue’s April cover. He’s only the third man to ever do so.
Here it is:
What the hell??!??
Can you just imagine the impact on unsuspecting passersby of dozens of these magazines on display side by side? A [...]
Posted in Day to Day, Sports by: Carmen D.
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13 Feb
CLICK Here to hear the audio of today’s Blogger’s Roundtable segment.
I hope you enjoy it. It was a lot of fun.
Please let me know what YOU think!!
For the third time I mixed it up with two other bloggers on NPR’s “News and Notes” program. Earlier today, host Farai Chideya put us through our paces [...]
Posted in Check these out, Sports by: Carmen D.
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01 Feb
Contributor Andrew Padula has been in situations throughout his life where he has felt compelled to address racial issues from his unusual perspective. Andrew is a white, politically conservative, blues musician who has been teaching and touring the U.S. and Europe since 1993. He can be seen with blues legend Bobby Parker on B.E.T. Jazz [...]
Posted in History, Point of Interest, Sports, The Topsoil by: Andrew Padula
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17 Jan
I imagine this place, All About Race.com, to be a spot where we can open our hearts and speak our minds to each other in ways that would be downright impossible in the whir of day-to-day life.
So I am asking for you input, in all sincerity:
What were they thinking?
I don’t understand it.
Seriously. If [...]
Posted in Media, Pictures, Sports, Television by: Carmen D.
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10 Jan
The Golf Channel has taken the appropriate step of suspending Kelly Tilghman for two weeks following her on air remarks.
Nick Faldo’s co-host on the Golf Channel’s coverage of the US Tour has been suspended for two weeks following a remark she made about Tiger Woods.
Kelly Tilghman and European Ryder Cup captain Faldo were talking on [...]
Posted in Language, Sports, Television by: Carmen D.
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09 Jan
That’s the headline that flashed across AOL yesterday afternoon as I was checking my personal email account. Turns out that Golf Channel PGA Tour announcer, Kelly Tilghman made this repugnant comment during Friday’s telecast of the PGA Tour’s opening event. She said, on air, that in order to win:
…today’s young players should lynch Tiger [...]
Posted in Day to Day, Sports, Television by: Carmen D.
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07 Aug
I awoke ready to fuss at the venerable Southern Christian Leadership Conference for planning to honor alleged dog fighter, Falcons quarterback, Michael Vick. But, they saw the light and reversed course.
Posted in Justice System, Media, Sports, Uncategorized by: Carmen D.
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