Recent Posts Tagged With 'appearance'

• HP Whites Only Face-Tracking Webcam

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 15:08 in technology, appearance, pet peeves, featured, headline, check these out, point of interest, hewlett packard doesnt recognize black folks, hewlett packard racist, hp face tracking, hp web cam face tracking, only whites web cam face tracking

  So it turns out that HP’s face tracking webcams only work with white folks. Bwahahahaha. “Technology is colorblind” in your face. Check it out via Current.com: Make sure you watch until near the end. Turns out “Black Desi...

• Paulo Serodio’s Plexus Article: Africa-102: A More Colorful View than Black and White

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 22:05 in education, appearance, check these out, point of interest, political correctness?, they said what??, paul serodio mozambique, paul serodio white african american, paulo serodio lawsuit white, paulo serodio new jersey medical school, paulo serodio africa 102 a more colorful view, paulo serodio plexus article

  Double Click the link to read Paulo Serodio “Africa 102: A more colorful view than black and white” Since my first post on Paulo Serodio’s lawsuit against the New Jersey Medical School, related to allegations that Serodio was haras...

• Update: Paulo Serodio - Open Call for his NJMS Plexus Article

  Posted on Friday May 15th, 2009 at 07:52 in education, appearance, fixing the problems, paulo serodio lawsuit white, paulo serodio mozambique, paulo serodio white african american, paulo serodio new jersey medical school

  As a former ABC news investigative journalist, I know that researching one story can lead you to a bigger, more important one. From the comments following the Paulo Serodio post, it appears that the ABC article I referenced in my original post only g...

• Paulo Serodio: White and African American

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 08:57 in education, appearance, check these out, fixing the problems, paul serodio mozambique, paul serodio white african american, paulo serodio lawsuit white, paulo serodio mozambique, paulo serodio white african american, white african american lawsuit, white african american mozambique

  I cannot give you a short answer about why I call myself black. I guess it has to do with my predominant racial heritage, being born in the 60’s and being a testament to experiencing the world from a particular kind of frame. Overall, I think t...

• A babyface is better for black CEO’s because they appear more “docile”

  Posted on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 at 10:06 in appearance, pet peeves, corporate, fighting racism, african american ceos, babyface african americans, babyface black ceos, kellogg african american, kellogg study african american ceos, kellogg study black ceos, northwestern study black ceos, scary black ceos

  If you’re a black male and want to be a successful CEO, it’s better to have a non-threatening ‘babyface’ than one that conveys maturity and power. According to a new study conducted by Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Ma...

• Note to international community: Stop using President Obama’s image to sell food

  Posted on Tuesday March 31st, 2009 at 08:19 in Barack Obama, international, global, appearance, pet peeves, obama chicken fingers, obama russian ice cream

  Note to the international community: cut it out! Stop using President Obama to sell snacks and services. First there were "Obama Chicken Fingers" from Germany, now there’s "Duet" ice cream out of Russia to add to the subtly rac...

• Shopping while black - Hidden camera exposes true feelings

  Posted on Friday March 27th, 2009 at 01:54 in appearance, pet peeves, what would you do, point of interest, fighting racism, fixing the problems, aol black voices blackspin, abc news what would you do

  In the latest installment of its ‘What would you do?’ series, ABC News turns on its hidden cameras to show the world what racism, indifference, compassion and solidarity look like up close in the real world. The setting for ‘Would y...

• Light skin and green eyes: DNA designed babies on the way

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 10:21 in appearance, designer babies, point of interest, choose baby complexion, dna complexion babies, fertility dna, wall street journal dna

  I believe there will come a time when skin color will be a non-issue in terms of how human beings classify themselves in America. Ancestry may still be a factor in how people treat each other at first encounter, but almost nothing will be known about...

• PETA dons Klan robes to protest Westminster dog show

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 06:15 in history, appearance, pet peeves, faith & religion, peta protest, fixing the problems, political correctness?, peta klan robes, peta protest westminster, peta protests dog show

  Here’s my beef. If you equate every perceived transgression in the world with the worst of the Nazis or the Klan then we can easily become desensitized to the horror of the acts actually committed by these organizations. As a dog lover, and pro...

• Telling us apart

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 09:28 in appearance, waking up, point of interest, fixing the problems, science cure racism wired, science curing racism, telling black faces apart

  The most ravaging aspect of racism and bigotry is that they allow the racist or the bigot to strip away all nuance of humanity from entire groups of people. And when we don’t see the “other” as human, we can choose to do horrible things to them...