More on Toby Keith’s Supposed Racism

There’s been a lot of hubbub over Toby Keith’s country dumbness, but I thought I’d do my part to help set the record straight on Beer for my Horses:
Blumenthal never mentions that Keith sings “Beer For My Horses” with Willie Nelson, and it’s actually Nelson who sings the supposedly incriminating lyrics (as you can see [...]

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“So a dyke, a wetback and a gook walk into a bar…”

As long as we’re on the subject of how awful John McCain is, here’s an article by one Doug Thompson on the Senator’s history of racist, bigoted humor. Not only are the jokes incredibly offensive, but they’re also not at all funny. Here’s an example:
Two dykes are talking at a bar and one leaves. As [...]

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Toby Keith Will Lynch You

Outspoken country star Toby Keith is apparently no longer satisfied with putting boots in asses for America. In a song written to go along with his new movie, Beer For My Horses, Keith waxes nostalgic about the days when uppity folks were strung up by oak trees.
Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, son
A [...]

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“I Think It’s Okay If…Those Folks Use It”

Okay, so a Fox News staffer caught Jesse Jackson on tape saying he wanted to rip Barack Obama’s nuts off for telling black fathers to be more responsible. Not a big deal; hell, it probably helped Obama among white moderates who feel uncomfortable with Jackson’s racial identity politics. When the story broke, Fox News said [...]

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Journalism

I wanted to share this with you guys. For a brief period yesterday, this was the front page of cnn.com:

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Dearest Alma Mater

Building on the theme of race relations at our university, I just found Google Trends, a site that tracks the appearance of certain terms in the news. I searched our school and found this embarrassing story from 2005:
Stetson University Women Under Fire For Blackface Costumes
The worst part is the typical apologism from the administration: Dr. [...]

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