I'll defer to you then. Can his ass.

Oh, no no no. I speak Spanish and heard the segment and he most definitely was NOT talking about the make-up job, he was talking about Mrs. Obama. Here is the translation and follow up:

F. Married to a Mexican/Chinese/African/(insert group you were racist against here)

In Texas they would have said "We're not votin for the nigger."

I had a friend canvasing down in Virginia in 2008. He knocked on the door of a house and asked this couple if they were voting and who they were voting for. Their response with a completely straight face as if it were the most normal thing in the world? "We're votin' for the nigger."

To clarify point 'B', does the black friend actually have to be aware of your existence? I ask, because I've known a couple of people claiming to have black friends, when what they meant was that they work in a building that has a black person in it, or they got their car fixed by a black mechanic ("he's really quite…

Um, can you correct this. Racist Reporter gets himself fired for comparing Michelle Obama to an ape.

You kid but a shit ton of people would agree with that. If I had a penny for every time someone told me racism ended when Obama was elected I'd have...probably a dollar and some change.

Inevitable "free speech" whining may be countered as follows: Too many people should ask their 8th grade social studies teacher to explain "freedom of speech "again. It does not mean "freedom from consequences resulting from your speech." It applies to government persecuting citizens for what they say or write. It…

He voted for Obama was his defense? Make no mistake, some of the most racist people I have ever known in my 26 years of life voted for Obama.

She didn't just ask for support, she singled out and called out people of color and gays (who happen to ALSO be women and Black/Latina women make less than their White counterparts) as if they have been largely inactive in the movement towards equality. Those movements towards civil rights and equality have always…

Oh, honey, no. It's just really fucking tacky to make a big speech about wage equality and then ask queer women and women of color to pitch in and help, as if they haven't already been fighting in the fucking trenches of feminism for decades now. And I think you know that... or if you don't, you're dim as hell.

There are no "two sides," there is no street. Even ignoring her inability to grasp that there are women who are queer and women who are of color, the idea that "women" have been helping "the rest of us" and that we "owe" her is, first of all, hilariously narcissistic, but more importantly it's a common theme held…

For your reference, a comparison:

Pro-tip folks: If you think that people criticizing Arquette's tone deaf (and frankly insulting) malarkey is somehow threatening to your willingness to be an "ally" to equal rights causes, you're doing it wrong.

The women's suffrage movement often discriminated against black women and other women of color, leaving then behind entirely once suffrage was won. There is a segment of RadFems who are viciously anti-trans. Also Anne Coulter exists.

John Travolta was really ramping the creepy all the way to 100 last night — from manhandling Scarlett Johannson to all the face touching he was visiting on Idina Menzel.

If they don't let John Travolta host next year, they're really missing an opportunity.

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Yeah. The biggest thing that sticks in my craw about that last statement is that it seems to imply that, you know, Gay and PoC have won their fight. Which they haven't. Not by a long shot.

Though, now that I think about it she didn't mention anything about transgenders, so, being a transgender woman, I guess that…