Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Black Men Can’t Float,” on the recent drowning death of the Obamas’ personal cook, Tafari Campbell, outside their residence in Martha’s Vineyard. (more…)
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Around 20 years ago, when the Somali pirates started popping up in the news, I was intrigued because you don’t expect to hear that black people are into boating.
Not that I’m much of a seafarer myself — when I recently heard that Barack Obama’s former White House chef “tragically drowned during a paddleboarding excursion in Martha’s Vineyard” on Monday evening, July 24, I didn’t even know what “paddleboarding” was. (more…)
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Sacheen Littlefeather: The Latest “Pretendian” to Get Scalped
As we gather together to celebrate Halloween, let us not forget those who’ve dressed up in Injun costumes their entire lives to milk the eternally credulous American public of its sympathy and wampum.
In 1973, around the time that all the fat had started to slowly strangle the talent and sanity out of Marlon Brando, the adipose thespian and pioneer of unbridled celebrity social-justice sanctimony received a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in The Godfather. (more…)