‘Like me.’

I am not my Hair, but hair remains a remarkably important source of identity for me.
As for others.

‘President Barack Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The youngster wanted to see if the President’s haircut [...]

Cartoon.

The New York Post finds this funny. Do you?
(References recent chimpanzee attack — but one wonders what else.)

Like the other Mike.

Phelps. Phelps, Phelps, Phelps.
What can I say? Dude fucked up. His willingness to confront it by not denying it entirely speaks highly to his sense of accountability. But then again, it was a widely circulated photo, and denying it would’ve made him look beyond stupid.
Of course, I sympathize with Phelps, in all the ways you [...]

Rodney King 2009.

Even as of Nov. 4, it seems we still can’t all “get along.”
On New Year’s Eve, Oscar Grant was mercilessly and needlessly slain by a police officer who, some have started to argue, apparently mistook a taser gun for a genuine firearm — in a situation where even a taser gun would have been excessive, [...]

"Little Nigger."

This is what the older members of my family call little black boys when they’re being socially or morally deviant — “little nigger” if they’re acting bad, “little faggot” if they’re not bad/’boyish’ enough.
It’s interesting, how stuff like this take us aback when we’ve been socially and geographically displaced from our families-at-large since leaving for [...]