A video clip of a California middle school vice principal telling a group of children he didn’t like the black students at the school is sparking outrage, the New York Daily News reports. The clip began circulating the web last Friday, after a group of African-American students from Fresno’s Scandinavian Middle School filmed vice principal Joe DiFilippo’s offensive comment. […]
UPDATE: 2:50 PM EST Earlier we caught wind of the unfortunate night that Kim Kardashian experienced while at the Vienna Annual Opera Ball, and the man behind the tasteless Kanye black face costume has come forward, of course claiming that he is in no way a racist. TMZ reports: The weirdo who came up to Kim Kardashian in […]
This Monday, Miroslava Duma’s new online magazine Buro 247 published an article on Russian socialite Dasha Zhukova. The seemingly innocent article about her life, fashion and career was paired with an image of the Editor-in-Chief of Garage Magazine comfortably perched on an extremely life-like black mannequin, who is naked save for a pair of leather-look black panties, a dominatrix-style belt, elbow-length gloves and […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was a day made to reflect on the dream of equality, but sometimes the message slips through the cracks. The image of a white woman comfortably perched on a “black woman bondage chair” was a prime example of that. Yesterday, Miroslava Duma’s new online magazine Buro 247 published an article on Russian socialite […]
Sometimes people forget we live in 2014. Kordale and Kaleb, a gay black couple posted the photo on their Instagram page Tuesday with the caption, “Being fathers is getting our daughters up at 5:30am, making breakfast, getting them dressed for school and putting them on the bus by 6:30.” The photo was very popular with […]
The cycle of stupidity continues. Wear blackface, think it’s funny, get media backlash, say sorry, repeat. Because of the aforementioned, we’ve admittedly turned a blind eye to the foolishness that played out when ELLE France Beauty Editor Jeanne Deroo dressed in blackface earlier this week. But now, in the order these things typically follow, she has […]
So is 2013 Halloween just going to be the year of extremely offensive costumes? The mom of a seven-year old boy from Virginia dressed him up for Halloween this year in a Ku Klux Klan costume. Yup! Jessica Black, from Craigsville, says her son, Jackson who is seven actually asked if he could dress as […]
It’s bad enough that there’s a lack of representation when it comes to black presence in the fashion world, but when that lack of representation turns into a parody party filled with costumes that include blackface, we know we have a real problem. Alas, as if nobody is aware that painting your face to dress up as […]
