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Threats against President Obama strain the Secret Service

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:32:50 +0000

Written by Michael Vass A recent report leaked to the Boston Globe just caught my attention and seriously disturbed me. The report is about the Secret Service, and questions whether the Agency can continue to protect the President and other high-ranking officials, while at the same time investigating financial criminals. The key point that stood out [...]

How far have we really come?

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:16:34 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA The year is 2009. Yet there are still people who act as if the year were 1959. For all the hype of a post-racial America, for all those that continue to deny that any racism exists, they need only look to Louisianna. Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell of Tangipahoa Parish, recently [...]

France and Australia have more in common than you think

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:32:43 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA Wait, France and Australia? They are on opposite sides of the world. Literally. They don’t have a share history. The people in Australia like beer, France has wine. Australia is mostly a big desert known for Mad Max and Mel Gibson. France has the Eiffel Tower, cheese, and hasn’t won a [...]

Nicholas Cage is better than Method Man - so the IRS apparently thinks

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:53:26 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA I think that someone in the IRS must really be a fan of Ghost Rider. Or perhaps this head honcho just loved Con Air. It has to be something like that, since I just found out about Nicholas Cage. Nicholas Cage owes the IRS $6 million since 2007. Which does not include [...]

Oscar Grant trial - now its about ‘emotional’ African Americans

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:29:19 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA It’s just one of those days. The racial bias in the news just seems to be rolling of the presses. This time its in reference to a trial I have long been discussing. Johannes Mehserle. Johannes Mehserle is the former officer that allegedly shot the unarmed and defenseless Oscar Grant in the [...]

Australia - A great country if you are White

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:31:57 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA If you haven’t heard about this yet, I am sure that you will soon. Harry Connick Jr. was in Australia recently, on a program that some of my older readers will recognize as a copy of The Gong Show. Basically it was the poor man’s version of American Idol back in [...]

Texas Governor Perry’s cousin shot dead by police - how many bullets?

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:48:19 +0000

Written by Michael Vass I have often made the point, when discussing the extreme violence and overreaction of police across the nation, that I have never heard of an unarmed White male being killed by police - with a hail of bullets that number in the dozens. I have said I also have not heard of [...]

Who Are The Real Americans?

tws7436 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:33:35 +0000

This will be a short post derived from my own curiosity. Who in America is an American? Very likely “Native Indian” would be the response of most. And, I’m tempted to agree. We all came from somewhere else to get here. If the native Indian is the only true American, then aren’t we all, who aren’t [...]

media tuning of race relations

Logan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:04:24 +0000

Michael, I would like to get your opinion on what I noticed recently in television. In almost every add that has a mixed race couple, it is always a Black male and a White female. Almost never is there any other type of mixed race shown. This seems disproportionate to me, as I see [...]

Hair highlights police bias in Philadelphia

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:36:35 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA Can you imagine your boss coming to you and reprimanding you for your hair? To have your boss instruct you to change your hairstyle because it is not ‘clean or professional’. And imagine in this instance that there are several other people in your workplace that have the same exact hairstyle, [...]

Racism or political advantage at African Americans expense

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:30:37 +0000

Written by Michael Vass I really must hand it to Maureen Dowd and former-President Jimmy Carter. They really know how to take advantage of a political situation. Not that it is anything like what the facts reflect. When Rep. Joe Wilson interrupted the President in a speech before the Congress, he violated written and unwritten rules of [...]

Johannes Mehserle may still face justice in Oscar Grant murder

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:55:33 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA Following up on the news of a story that the national news media has avoided like the plague since it happened, I will discuss the latest events in the Oscar Grant murder case. As long-time readers are aware, I started covering this case back in January shortly after former BART police Officer [...]

Wake Up White Boy

tws7436 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:34:11 +0000

This is the title of an email I recevied recently. It asks a question(s) that really need to be answered in todays political arena. It reads: The animals pictured below; car-jacked, then raped Christopher Newsom, cut off his penis, then set him on fire and fatally shot him several times while they forced his girlfriend, [...]

From Right and Left, the media gets Hillsboro town hall wrong

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:58:56 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA On August 18th, Bill O’Reilly discussed the charges of racism at a Missouri town hall. This is a news item that first surfaced on CNN, and has since risen in controversy. O’Reilly, and Dr. Marc Hill went over several of the facts of this case. The problems though are many. Foremost is [...]

Would you call Michael Vass a racist?

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:07:56 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA Recently I received a comment from my discussion of the upcoming Disney film The Princess and the Frog, that made several claims and challenges that I though would be best to deal with in total as a post. You can see the comment from Logan Calder at http://www.blackandwhiteblog.net/2009/04/22/movie-preview-the-princess-and-the-frog/ and in quotes [...]