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Nanny: Sharon Stone Racist, Wouldn't Let Me Read Bible

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:50:26 CDT

According to a new lawsuit, Sharon Stone hired a nanny … then wouldn't let her speak to Stone's children, lest they pick up her Filipino accent. This according to Erlinda T. Elemen, who worked as Stone's live-in housekeeper and nanny for five years, and who claims Stone made other racially...

Co-Worker: Zimmerman Bullied Me With Racist Remarks

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:45:05 CDT

More revelations from the newly released George Zimmerman evidence: A former co-worker said in an interview that Zimmerman taunted him mercilessly with racist jokes, Huffington Post reports. At the office, Zimmerman called the Middle Eastern man "a f**cking moron" and "Achmed the terrorist," and joked about "bombing" and other "Middle...

White Supremacists Busted Near Disney World

John Johnson — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:09:42 CDT

Ten hard-core white supremacists have been arrested in Florida, where they were training for a race war in America, reports Reuters . Those arrested were members of the American Front neo-Nazi group, and the suspects include local leader Marcus Faella, 39. They trained on his property in St. Cloud—about 10...

Cher Rips Romney's 'Racist Tea Bagger Masters'

Rob Quinn — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:30:00 CDT

Don't expect Cher to sing a duet with Ted Nugent any time soon. If Mitt Romney "gets elected I don't know if I can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women-Hating Tea Bagger Masters," she wrote in one of several tweets yesterday that were later...

NY Post Writer: Jay-Z's Nets Should Be 'New York N-----s'

Kevin Spak — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:56:05 CDT

New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick is taking some heat for some, er, colorful comments in today's column about the Brooklyn Nets' new uniforms. "As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots—what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team...

Ashton Kutcher Brownface Ad Yanked

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:02:57 CDT

A Popchips ad featuring Ashton Kutcher playing an Indian man in brownface has been yanked after complaints of racism, the AP reports. ( Gawker notes that a "composite" version of the ad, which still features clips of the character, remains available on YouTube.) The ad, designed to look like...

Dear Hipster Racists, You're Still Being Racist

John Johnson — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:30:06 CDT

If you haven't heard the phrases "hipster racism" or "ironic racism" being thrown around of late, allow Lindy West to educate you with an epic explainer and takedown at Jezebel . "It's, you know, introducing your black friend as 'my black friend'—as a joke!!!—to show everybody how totally not...

Black Player's Big Goal Brings Racist Tweets

John Johnson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:57:27 CDT

Joel Ward of the Washington Capital scored every hockey player's dream goal last night: a Game 7 overtime winner that knocked the defending champ Boston Bruins out of the playoffs. The only hitch is that Ward is a black player in what has long been a white man's league, and...

Menacing Pit Bull Led Zimmerman to Get Gun

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:47:29 CDT

In a bizarre twist in a killing that has come to stand for deadly racial violence, it turns out that the great grandfather of Trayvon Martin's killer was African-Peruvian. George Zimmerman was generally regarded as trustworthy by his racially mixed Florida neighbors, who asked him to launch a community watch...