| Is white the new black?
Are you a virgin and when did you break it? Write down their names.
Can you fall pregnant and let me take the baby to meet my parents in West Africa?
Are you really from the US? It sounds more like Hillbrow.
Are you sure it�s my baby you are carrying?
But back to my friend asking me if white men are the new black. The answer: hell no.
Black men take charge and most treat you like you�re the centre of their lives.
White men are exactly the same. Both of their missions are to piss you off. It�s inevitable.
Wow, that felt so good.
Look, gals, why not realise that they are all the same, whether, pink, blue or yellow.
Some Italian begged to lick my feet in the foyer of a hotel in Lisboa and I wondered not what race he was but where that mouth had been and why the hell I was so indecisive.
Parents suspect mortuary cover-up
On the whiteboard for writing the names of the bodies, the baby's name was written in blue pen, while most of the others were written in black. Mortuary staff told the visitors they just used random pen colours on the whiteboard. All the names of the bodies - including the baby's - were written in pencil in the record book, with only the body of the man in the same compartment as the baby having a label printed and stuck in the book. Mr Chu said they suspected the baby might have accidentally fallen into the rubbish bin next to the compartment, or become mixed up with construction waste in the mortuary. "The parents had the impression that the name of the baby written on the whiteboard was added after the incident," Mr Chu said. The investigation panel should meet all staff involved to uncover the truth, he said.
Ben Fishel: Talk radio — overlooked and over the top
Barack Obama's candidacy alone precipitated an explosion of noxious rhetoric about him and his supporters across the radio dial, and not just from big names like Rush Limbaugh. Across America, local radio hosts are broadcasting incendiary commentary and fear-driven propaganda to millions of listeners daily. For example, last October, Bill Cunningham, a radio host in Cincinnati, said that Obama's father was "a typical black father who, right after the birth, left the baby. That's what black fathers do. They simply leave." What's worse is that much of this vitriol is not reserved for public figures and politicians. It's indiscriminate hatred, and no group is off-limits, be they African-Americans, women, the poor, the sick, immigrants, or even autistic children. Michael Savage, a particularly venomous radio host, with a national audience of more than 8 million listeners a week, asserted that autism was a "fraud" and that "[i]n 99 percent of cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out." And if that wasn't bad enough, just before Election Day, Savage asserted that while Obama "benefited from affirmative action, stepping over more qualified white men, I actually lost as a result of affirmative action, many times in my life." He later added: "[W]e have America's first affirmative-action candidate about to become president." The examples are endless.
Parents need to stop giving children dumb names
Perhaps those years of drug abuse some baby boomers enjoyed had effects beyond the occasional acid flashback. Parents are getting dumber and here’s the proof. The loudest evidence of numbskullery from 2000-2008 is the stupid names children received. Economist and author of Freakonomics, Steven Levitt, explored the damage or benefit a parent can do to a child. How bad can it get? Levitt’s book explores the implication of having a distinctively black name in the United States. For example, Lafawnda, Shonte, Jasmyn or Jamal, versus a Molly, Jennifer, Katie or Claire. While Levitt debunks the association that a very-black-sounding name will cripple a child financially as a whole (it turns out black children with black sounding names are usually disadvantaged to start with and not harmed later in life with their distinct name), he does not excuse parents who are, in his opinion, negligent.
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