JC
What happens when you are mixed? You are sexy, talented, and successful, of course…at least that’s what Indiatimes Women thinks. They feature 10 mixed women — their “cocktail babes.” What the heck is a cocktail babe, anyway?? Well, don’t get too excited, because there is a mess-up in the site and it cuts off midway […]

JC
The link to a short film named “Chinese Baby” has been circulating via email (thanks to Dave and Kathy for the heads-up!). I am sure that the maker(s) intended it to be funny. Unfortunately, it’s not. iFilm’s synopsis of the short reads: “Discover the new way young couples are getting their hands on a cuddly […]

CVK
That Washington Post story about the oh-so-ironic hipster parties has been causing a huge amount of outrage on many different hip hop blogs and message boards. And now, “The Pumpsta” has come forward to respond to the criticism. True to form, he hides behind the white man’s favorite rebuttal–”but some of my best friends are […]

JC
The San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Hello, Goodbye Window, a new children’s picture book (3-7) . I’ll have to check it out, but it sounds like it could be a nice story…with the exception of the fact that “the word ‘celebrate’ is grossly overused.”
A girl catalogs all the wonderful things that happen at the […]

JC
We first told you about Keith Cordell last week. He was the mixed 5-year-old who was denied a school transfer due to his race. Yesterday, Fox reported a win for the family.
A federal judge has ordered a suburban Cincinnati school district to allow a five year old biracial boy to transfer to a new school, […]

CVK
Asian sisters look out! Another perve is out there targeting Asian women. (Who could forget the infamous Princeton perve who urinated in Asian womens drinks and cut locks of their hair.) The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
A veteran Oakland police officer has been charged with making illegal traffic stops of immigrant Asian women and then trying […]

CVK
I take it back. This is now officially the most asinine thing I’ve ever read. Actually, it’s more disgustingly racist than asinine. The Washington Post describes the latest craze amongst the (white) hipster set:
Tha Pumpsta, who happens be white, has built a following in the past few years by staging monthly “Kill Whitie” parties in […]

CVK

This has to be one of the most asinine articles I’ve read in a long time. I love how academics get funded to research and state the obvious. The Harvard Gazette describes a study undertaken by Harvard and NYU researchers to see if white people are more scared of blacks or whites, and if black […]

JC
New Yorkers, check it out — it’s now playing at the Film Forum.
The murder of Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old African-American in Money, Mississippi — and the sham trial that followed — helped spark America’s civil rights movement. For allegedly whistling at a white woman in public, Till was tortured, beaten beyond recognition […]

CVK
(Thanks to Phil C for this!) The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the speaker of Italy’s senate is under fire for remarking that unrestricted immigration might cause Italians to become a “mixed race.”
These remarks are especially laughable if you consider that most southern Europeans or Mediterraneans come from a mixed background anyway, and not […]

JC
Fox reports on an incident in Jacksonville.
An interracial couple is the target.
Three teens suspected to be the culprits.
Can anyone tell that I’m sick of these stories? But…I still think it’s important to report them since so many out there would like to believe that we live in a racially harmonious world. Here’s yet another […]

CVK
DiversityInc reports that Jesse Jackson is calling for the Federal Communications Commission to investigate televangelist Pat Robertson. On Monday, Robertson told viewers of his show, “The 700 Club,” that the country should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop Venezuela from becoming “a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.” “We have the ability […]

CVK
Fascinating (but long) article in The New York Times magazine about how Native American/American Indian communities are being forced to confront the question of what exactly makes a person Indian: genetics? or culture? both? or neither? The article talks about how many white people are tracing back their lineage to find their Indian ancestry and […]

CVK
Detroit Free Press profiles Hush, a rapper signed to Geffen Records. Hush is mixed, and his racially ambiguous looks have provided his marketing team with a challenge:
Hush, the Detroit rapper set to release his major-label debut, “Bulletproof,” on Tuesday, is finding that his melding of hip-hop and rock music isn’t an easy sell to the […]

CVK
Continuing with today’s theme of regurgitating mindless celebrity gossip from unreliable sources… I just came across this story in SouthFlorida.com’s gossip column. Again, no clue whether any of it is true:
I read that Mariah Carey’s sister, Alison, has been arrested for prostitution for the second time in a few weeks. Does Mariah try to […]

CVK
This is a story that’s been making the rounds on various listservs. An Ohio mother is suing her school district for denying her son a transfer to a different school. The school claimed it couldn’t accept her biracial son because doing so would throw off the “racial balance” of their school.
Her request was rejected because […]

RK
There is nothing on TV at 5:00 on a Sunday afternoon, I realized this weekend. Which is how I came to find myself watching “Boat Trip” (2002). Starring Cuba Gooding Jr., the basic plotline is two straight guy-friends who go on a cruise to meet lots of women. However, having offended their travel agent, they […]

CVK
Zadie Smith is coming out with another book! Here’s a description of the book from her publisher’s Web site:
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn’t like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman […]

CVK
What on earth is going on? This is the latest from the Hollywood rumor mill… and it’s not the first time I’ve heard it. Can this possibly be true? I guess when Keanu was all cute and lovey-dovey in “Something’s Gotta Give,” he wasn’t just acting. Geez… what am I? Chopped liver?
Hollywood star KEANU […]

CVK & JC
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free. Here’s a rundown of our latest episode:
RANT:
People who turn to DNA tests to “find themselves” is the subject of Carmen’s rant today. […]