In a speech given after the grand jury ruling regarding Eric Garner’s death, the mayor of New York has touched on a very sensitive topic – are parents now having to have THIS talk with their kids?
A group called Anonymous has rallied online to take down the hooded monster KKK group. Check out how they did it!
You’ve got to be very careful when attending dress-up parties. Firstly, you want to be original and clever, and secondly, you want to come out alive at the end of it…
Performers in the controversial Exhibit B art installation say that they are unhappy with the decision to cancel the piece.
Art always has different opinions – some people love what they see, some people don’t really get its vibe, some people hate it. A lot of people did not like this art. What do you think?
South Africa clearly still has a lot to deal with in terms of our apparent race issues. These two ladies share their very opposing opinions.
South Africa, as a young democracy still recovering from scars of deep oppression and segregation, has done some incredible things and made some amazing transformations. Unfortunately, there are patches where progress is a bit slower than in others…
Have a look at the video clip uploaded to Vine by user – Rashid Polo. Notice something weird? He did, and many other shoppers do too. Does this happen to you?
Hold the phone!! Kim Kardashian was taking a commercial flight? With non-celebs? Wow Kim, slumming it like the rest of us. This is real life, honey…
On Saturday some cheeky Germany supporters posted pics of themselves in their match-costumes to social media sites. Now they are getting a slap on the wrist for discrimination….
Beliebers everywhere, your king has been reborn and found his path of redemption! Justin Bieber has been baptised following the wake of his racist videos that emerged.
Second time around, the surfacing of a racist Bieber clip looks like it was deliberate. The response is a defence of teenage naivety and a plea for forgiveness – complete with biblical quotes and down-on-his-knees appeals. Is it enough to forgive this video?
Justin Bieber still manages to find ways to make himself look like an idiot, as a video has emerged of himself saying a racist joke on camera at the tender of age of 15. Will someone please take this misguided young-man out of the limelight before it’s too late?
The ANC are taking this VERY seriously… Do you think this is as offensive as they do?
It isn’t uncommon for people to think Zoos a bit barbaric, but what about a human zoo?
Donald Sterling landed up in the dwang, after his racist conversation hit the internet. But that’s nothing compared to this police chief who STANDS BY his comments, saying that Barack Obama is a “fucking nigger.”
The NBA‘s Clippers Team owner, Donald Sterling, no longer owns his own team. Shame. NBA commissioner Adam Silver made this call and banned poor old Donald from his own team because apparently Donald is racist and Adam is not. Let us explain: Sterling made some pretty outlandishly racist comments, which were then recorded and published […]
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling told his girlfriend, V Stiviano he does not want her bringing black people to his games, including Magic Johnson. It was too bad for Don that she got it all on tape, because since the release of the tape over a dozen sponsors have abandoned the team.
In a bid to remind us that she still exists, Avril Lavigne tried her hand at J-Pop, and failed. Her video faced such an onslaught of criticism for sliding continuously between vapidity and offensiveness that her team pulled it from YouTube. Then put it back up. Then pulled it again. Now it’s back up.
The crazy white supremacist okes from the KKK are struggling to adapt to the social media age, resorting to spamming the world with flyers in their new recruitment drive. Residents in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania woke up with this KKK flyer attached to their cars and houses yesterday.
Belgian newspaper, De Morgen is being slammed for a picture that appeared in their satirical section portraying President Obama and his wife with ape features. Many of its readers are saying that the newspaper went too far, and it’s more of a racist slur than an attempt at satire.
What you have here is a BBC documentary crew interviewing a homeless Angolan musician on the streets of Glasgow, only for racist Laurel and Hardy to rock up, and pick a fight with the guy. He humiliates them.
The rector of the University of the Free State, Jonathan Jansen, has made a complaint to the South African Human Rights Commission after a bizarre advert for student accommodation appeared in the local papers.
We posted a story about Wiekus Kotze not too long ago, when we first caught wind that he could be the first white member of Julius Malema’s EFF. Well, it seems that poor Wiekus has been put to the social media sword by the furious trolls within the Afrikaner community, who see his allegiance with Malema as “a betrayal of his white skin.”
Ferial Haffajee took to Twitter to voice her concerns over racism, after she and her City Press colleagues took part in a meeting, “to have a discussion about a genuine future, to find ways of altering our work patterns, to do wonderful journalism”. It sounds like it didn’t go all that well, judging by her tweets following the meeting…
Gadabout and local Internet/YouTube/Movember/UCT social committee celebrity, Anton Taylor has produced a video reply to Steve Hofmeyr’s Red October movement, which co-opted communist iconography for the sake of (incorrectly) asserting that white South Africans were suffering a genocide. Anton’s video is getting more heat than a lost Smuts resident at Danie Craven stadium. What do […]
What is it with politicians that they feel the need to say/text/email really inappropriate things, when they know it will be recorded and archived forever? The latest of these is from ex-American president Richard Nixon. Tricky Dicky, as he was known after the Watergate scandal, was no stranger to controversy – like, you know, Watergate scandal.
Oprah Winfrey’s recent visit to Switzerland for Tina Turner’s wedding resulted in an Zurich shop assistant refusing to show the queen of talk a bag because it was “too expensive”, according to the shop assistant.
Local technology industry and consumer news website, MyBroadband is home to a thriving user forum which is incredibly popular with hundreds of thousands of readers, even if the user registration form asks users to pick out the “white name” as a security measure during registration.
Yesterday, local security barrier company, Xpanda, came under fire for the flighting of a controversial radio ad. They claimed the ad was part of a larger campaign, and that the public shouldn’t be offended. Here are all of the ads – you decide