Jason Richwine might have written that "No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites," but he is not some kind of bigot, he says in his first interview since cutting ties with the Heritage Foundation.
The head of the East Haven, Conn., police department will step down instead of face firing after four of his officers got arrested by the F.B.I. for harassing Latinos.
Straight from the head-smack file comes the story of a woman who really sees nothing wrong with hanging a sign near the public pool she owns declaring it "white only."
Ron Paul hasn't been able to move past the story of the racist stuff written under his name in the 1990s so a pro-Paul PAC is taking the logical next step: having a black person testify that Paul isn't racist.
Ron Paul's fans finally got what they wanted -- the media has stopped ignoring Ron Paul -- but it hasn't been as fun as they hoped.
Ron Paul's latest flap over a series of racist newsletters has won him the support of a group no politician wants on their side: White supremacists. And it's not the first time, either.
Some New York police officers really didn't like being assigned to Brooklyn's West Indian American Day Parade, so much so that they vehemently vented their frustrations on Facebook.
As a recent study claiming to measure how many votes Obama lost in 2008 because of racism demonstrates why it's problematic to rely on Google search results as a metric for racist voting patterns.
A lot of people have no idea that the word "uppity," when applied to black people, has racist connotations, but it's getting harder and harder to understand how public figures, in particular, are able to maintain their ignorance of the term's history.
Testimony is underway that will air the department's 'dirty linen'
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy gets itself into a fight over racism
Critic argues that the genre can't shake its use of offensive stereotypes
On anti-White bias, giving up on unemployment, and Memorial Day sales
Linguists say it's a natural effect of the syllables; but it might be racism
And Donald Trump is happy to capitalize on it, say critics
The New York Times Magazine covers Ann Dunham's move to Indonesia with her son
Chinese don't care, Russians find the Tea Party interesting, Germans love! Obama
Apparently they didn't like Hillary Clinton's speech last week
...Black reporter wishes he'd stop asking
The competition for nastiest comment of the week is steep and it's only Tuesday!
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