Race Issues

NPR is not an oasis of civility. On Friday's All Things Considered, they aired a positive story on black artist Amy Sherald, best known for painting a portrait of Michelle Obama for the National Portrait Gallery. In response to Trump's executive order cracking down on Smithsonian wokeness, Sherald said "I feel like every portrait that I make is a counterterrorist attack to counter…

CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted a town hall with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, and, even by CNN’s standards, it was quite the softball session. Not only did both men take advantage of fact-checker Daniel Dale apparently having better things to do with his time by accusing President Trump of “whitewashing American history,” but Cooper even invited the president of American University’s…

Netflix’s Love is Blind has been a hit for eight seasons, but Season 8 took a sharp turn into politics, a stark contrast to its past. Couples debated George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, abortion, gay marriage, and Christianity’s stance on LGBTQ issues. It’s hard not to wonder if producers pushed these talks, especially since conservatives consistently ended up as the villains.

Not content with five days of The View, ABC now puts up a shorter episode every Saturday on its online streaming service, ABC News Live. It is common for this Saturday content to be less political than the weekday shows, but this Saturday saw the assembled cast smear the country as both racist and sexist.

CNN’s Dana Bash spread some fake news on Tuesday’s edition of Inside Politics and not of the fun April Fool’s variety. Bash, together with Africana Studies Prof. Clarissa Myric-Harris White, burned multiple straw men on President Donald Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper welcomed Professor and former NAACP President Cornell William Brooks to his Friday show to help him set some straw men ablaze on President Donald Trump’s order for the Smithsonian to remove all “improper ideology” at its museums. The published order gave a clear definition of “improper ideology,” but the duo insisted on talking about something else so it could accuse him…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom hosts a podcast. Why not? He has plenty of free time. In the last few years, California experienced a net population loss of nearly 1 million people. The average price of a home in the state is twice that of the national average. Its K-12 test scores in reading and math place California 37th of 50 states. The state’s January 2025 unemployment rate, according to the…

President Donald Trump ended federal DEI programs. Even before, companies were having second thoughts. Victoria’s Secret changed “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” to “inclusion and belonging.” Now, even woke Disney, despite squandering 270 million shareholder dollars on a moronic new version of “Snow White,” joined the mob of companies dropping DEI programs.

Elie Mystal, the man dubbed Mad Scientist Fat Albert in 2019 by the great Varad Mehta, joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday by plug his new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America with one of them a comically predictable antidote to fixing our republic: axing all voter registration laws.

Even by its standards, ABC’s Friday edition of The View was deranged. The cantankerous quintet welcomed actor, comedian, and professional race hustler John Leguizamo to the show to baselessly accuse the Trump Administration of running “pogroms,” among several other racially inflammatory statements.

The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump’s address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, Rep. Al Green, shook his cane and shouted at the president. When he refused to desist, Speaker Mike Johnson ordered him removed from the chamber. Two days later, in a bipartisan vote, the House censured Green.

PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez joined the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics to freak out about President Donald Trump’s plans to close, or at least downsize, the Department of Education. As Barron-Lopez tells it, Trump is trying to privatize public education, and shuttering the department will start a domino effect that will lead states to…

Ham-fisted Nazi analogies and dumb post-Soviet oracles—these are a few of Stephen Colbert’s favorite things. On Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS, Colbert welcomed actor Nathan Lane and New York Times columnist Ezra Klein to his show to lament the Trump Administration where it was warned that the Trump era will feature pro-Nazi versions of The Sound of Music …

The alleged “twinkle in his eye” was missing from John Oliver’s latest Sunday rant on Last Week Tonight. The HBO host was tremendously upset that “centrist Democrats” are supposedly insistent on “bending over backwards for conservatives” to the point where they are praising Ronald Reagan. As Oliver tells it, the best thing Reagan did was die, and that if he were alive today, he would…