Category Archives: Race & Ethnicity
Cultural Anthropologist Jason Whitlock Finally Explains Street Culture To KC
Regular readers of this site know that we are no fans of Jason Whitlock, the Star‘s painfully unfunny sports race columnist. His commendable reporting skills have slipped in recent years, replaced by tired rants, pitiable reliance on allegedly hip slang, … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Education, In the News, Jason Whitlock, Media, Race & Ethnicity
Time To End The War Of Attrition Plaguing The Star‘s Letters Section
Dear Kansas City, Look, we get it. A lot of you are upset. A third of you think that President Hope is running this country into the ground. A third of you think racism is driving any and all criticism … Continue reading
Filed under Economics, Education, In the News, Media, Politics, Race & Ethnicity
See, This Is Why We Can’t Just Leave Well Enough Alone
Alonzo takes a moment to comment on a commenter who wrote a note on TKC’s post about faux racism: The TKC Blog is on fire with people talking about me. Some good comments & many bad ones. Blogs are made … Continue reading
Filed under Alonzo, Race & Ethnicity
Hustle & Flow Charts
So it’s been an interesting day here at TBC. This evening, we were sitting back and going over how we got to this point in the absurdly ridiculous Battle O’ Bloggers — which, incidentally, is a wholly fabricated feud being … Continue reading
Filed under Alonzo, Race & Ethnicity
KC Star No Longer Pussyfooting Around With Headlines; Vows To Call ‘Em As They See ‘Em
Yikes, the Star is not mincing words when it comes to describing bike thieves: Thugs beat cyclist, steal his bike in River Market area Two thugs beat a 49-year-old man with a 2-by-4-inch piece of wood and stole his bicycle … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, In the News, Race & Ethnicity, Strange news
KC Man Uses Judge Cartoon To Deploy Thinly Veiled Insinuations, Incorrect Quotation Marks
Don’t you just hate it when those self-righteous editorial cartoonists use their position in the durn liberal media to excoriate real ‘mericans? Yeah, us too. Apparently Star pseudo-employee Lee Judge recently kinda sorta (but probably not really) implied that all … Continue reading
Filed under Media, Politics, Race & Ethnicity
Supafly Investigation Of Jacked Up Jazzy Jeff Incident Concludes Nothing, In Typical Poseur Fashion
Hey, remember when self-proclaimed hip-hop icon DJ Jazzy Jeff was kinda sorta kicked offstage in the Power & Light District? It had all the makings of a semi-important racial incident in the already racially troubled P&L — even attracting the … Continue reading
Filed under City Government, Power & Light District, Race & Ethnicity
Dial “M” For Mexican-Speakin’: Star Reader Confounded By Bilingualism
One “Allen Broadbent” of Blue Springs takes umbrage with the accomodations being made for those dastardly FauxMericans who dona speaka de Eng-ga-lish so good. “Broadbent,” eh? Sounds suspiciously like one of those limey bastards who throw a superfluous “u” into … Continue reading
Filed under Economics, Oddities, Race & Ethnicity
