Jim Estrin’s Fourth of July Photo
If we can step back for a moment from all the fingernail-on-the-chalkboard political and culture battling and backbiting, I'd like to admire Jim Estrin's photo on the front page of Tuesday's print NYT.
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Huntsman, Asha and Gracie Mei
Please tell me Huntsman, the presidential product, wasn't simultaneously using these two children as a brand endorsement.
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The Birther-tificate
Anyway, given the 12% of the population of The U-nit-ed States of A-merica that the release of this document is totally wasted on, I can imagine them doing their carnival thing with any one of these points.
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Arizona: More Whaaaaaaa!
Given how the Tea Party likes to dress up, I'm wondering if Jorge's mockery is "going there" too.
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Barbour’s Colorful New Year
After getting dinged a few weeks back for his racist posture, I'm sure presidential aspirant Haley Barbour was feeling no pain this New Years after pardoning a pair of African-American sisters.
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The Secessionist Dance
In the years before the Civil War, unionist James Louis Petigru commenting on his state's reputation for political extremism, sardonically noted that South Carolina was too large to be an insane asylum and too small to be an independent republic.
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Paranoid DREAM
Ever offering the visual rejoinder to political posturing, Getty's John Moore has been picturing the increased U.S. employment of force on the Arizona border.
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Nina Berman: Prosperity Gospel
Nina Berman photographs Bishop Eddie Long in his mega-church and the "Prosperity Gospel."
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¡Viva, Meg!
This wire photo, which was shot last week at a Hispanic awards gala, is both surprising and funny to the extent it plays on a sense of elitism, gorging and laying it down for the white man.
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Condi: I'm Innocent
Piggybacking on Obama's racial breakthrough, we see Rice reformulating herself as a valiant narrator of the African-American experience and a witness to the civil rights movement while growing up in the South.
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If Allred Around the Edges, the Photo's Still Lethal
Meg's team can complain all they want about celebrity site TMZ vacuuming up the imagery from yesterday's press conference into the great annals of scandal iconography, it's not going to help.
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D’Souza’s Rage as a Cover
If many writers have already provided Mr. D'Souza's bizarre pseudo-intellectual racist attack a thoughtful slapdown, my concern is the visual language.
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Killing the DREAM Amendment
When we talk about putting it on the line these days in the name of social justice, people who come to mind include those undocumented college students or immigrant youth who have lived in the country for five years or more and who have also self-identified. ... Oh,...
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Post Racial? Yeah, Sure.
This post was going to be about how despite being a fairly educated working stiff all my life, I have still only achieved one of six benchmarks that guarantee middle class status- a small modicum of health insurance (although in all honesty, I have afforded vacations- in the past)....
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Alan Chin: Black Tea
What do we think when we see a Black Tea Party Member? We've got some questions:
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Racial/Ethnic Paranoia: The Latest Cat-and-Mouse
For catching the flavor of America's heightened paranoia over the undocumented and the would-be terrorist, this is one of the better photos I've seen in a while.
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1st Reason Glenn Luther King Hit it Out of the Park in DC — Visual Media Swallowed the King Sham
If Glenn Beck had even tried with the best PR minds to create an image for his event that appropriated King's dream, he couldn't have come up with anything better.
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Katrina + 5 and Racial Violence: Like the Picture Wasn’t There the Whole Time?
What's most notable throughout The Times article, especially in contrast to the photo, is the emphasis on what happened as uncommon knowledge -- uncommon, that is, to the white corporate media and the military establishment that created a narrative of siege, then waged war on the: "poor blacks and...
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