The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Approximately five out of four times I hear someone attempt to make a comparison publicly known via the media, they fail miserably, yes, at both comparisons and fractions. Just the latest example comes courtesy of Spartanburg County, South Carolina Sheriff Chuck Wright, who said the following at a Greenville-Spartanburg Republican Women's meeting on April 7th: "I think the most racist people in America right now sometimes are minorities, small group minorities. I've got a chaplain who works for me. He's an African-American, he is my brother and I love him more than anything. He doesn't buy into that mess. A bunch of his friends don't either. They don't do the NAACP because I feel like that is a racist group as well as the KKK. I don't care about them either." Yes, the Spartanburg County sheriff compared the NAACP to the KKK. Let's get something straight here, the NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopl...

Dallas Mavericks owner had some interesting words with regard to the Donald Sterling controversy, which many right-wing sites have picked up on as "rationale thoughts." Cuban called the potential matter "a very very very slippery slope," elaborating on the matter with this: "If it's about racism and we're ready to kick people out of the league, OK? Then what about homophobia?... What about somebody who's anti-semitic? What about a xenophobe?... In this country, people are allowed to be morons." While I can see where Mr. Cuban is coming from, I think his comparison is a matter of apples and oranges. In any one of those other scenarios (homophobia, anti-semitic, xenophobia), there would be some anger, most likely a fine, possibly a short suspension, but it would not bring about the same level of emotion as it would (and did) with regard to racism against blacks. The reason is quite simple. According to a 2013 report, blacks make up 76.3% of...

It's been quite a week in this country as far as racism towards African-Americans goes. First we had Cliven Bundy providing all of his wisdom on the "negroes," and then Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling let his views be known about blacks via a secret recording, where he basically told his mistress (of mixed races, ironically enough) that he doesn't want her promoting blacks via photos on Instagram or bringing them to games. Of course, one of the right-wing conspiracy kinds - Matt Drudge - decided to make this a partisan issue, and tweeted this message: "GOT GAME: NYT informed the unwashed how Bundy is a Republican. Leaves out NBA Sterling is a Democrat..." This information was then spread about right-wing websites like those lovely chain emails seem to do all too frequently. The problem with the claim? It's not true. It even earned a "Pants on Fire" grade from fact-checker Politifact , where the site concluded with this: "...