Racial Issues

Hate-Watching 'Hating Breitbart'

Fudging the truth with the late Tea Partier

Lambda Theta Delta, Asian-American Fraternity At UC Irvine, Suspends Itself Over Blackface Video

Lambda Theta Delta, the Asian-American fraternity under fire for a music video featuring a member in blackface, has announced it will suspend its status as a UC Irvine organization for one year, until fall 2014. The suspension is self-imposed, and the group may face additional consequences from the ... More >>

[UPDATED with Chancellor Response and Investigation:] UC Irvine Asian-American Fraternity Members Produce Blackface Music Video

Read the response from UCI's chancellor at the end of this post. ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 25, 6 A.M.: Another day, another frat bro in blackface. Lambda Theta Delta (LTD), the largest and oldest Asian American fraternity at UC Irvine, is under fire after members produced a music video inspired by the ... More >>

The Laughable Racial Double Standards of Kris Murray, Anaheim Council-Pendeja

Anaheim councilwoman Kris Murray is one of those hilarious Republicans who insist we live in a color-blind society, who rail at people who bring up race as Aztlanistas and political opportunists--and who turn around and do the same thing when politically convenient and decry any criticism as racism. ... More >>

Are There Any Mexican Virgins Who Wait Until Marriage?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do Mexicans use lard to refry their beans?

California Assemblywoman Targets Anti-Israel Campus Activism, Or: Five Criticisms of Israel that Are Inherently Not Anti-Semitic

The California Assembly recently passed a resolution that calls upon college and university leadership to condemn anti-Semitism on campus. Assemblywoman Linda Halderman (R-Fresno) authored the resolution, which demands "no public resources will be allowed to be used for any anti-Semitic or any ... More >>

UC President Says Ban On Affirmative Action Has Had A 'Dramatic Adverse Effect' On Campuses, Argues For Race-Based Admissions

Before the U.S. Supreme Court hears another case on college affirmative action, this time centering on the University of Texas at Austin, leaders from the University of California want to make it known that banning race-based admissions has not been good for diversity on UC campuses.UC President Mar ... More >>

[W/CRAPPY SONG] Wade Michael Page, Sikh Temple Mass Murderer, Got His Racist Start in Orange County's White-Power Music Scene

The world is collectively retching at the mass murder at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple committed by one Wade Michael Page (left, at right), a loser white supremacist. Media is reporting that Page was in the white-power music scene, listing his bands with little thought or research.But we at the Weekl ... More >>

Culture Clash

[Ask Exene] Self love is more than skin deep

State Assembly Candidate Troy Edgar Goes to Wacko Racist CCIR Meeting

Troy Edgar didn't quite know what he was in for when he showed up at the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) meeting in Garden Grove last night. Perhaps the Republican 72nd Assembly District candidate was not aware that CCIR has been labeled an extremist hate group, led by venom-tongu ... More >>

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

[Crossing the Line] New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall

American Bandstand, Rock & Roll and the Struggle for Civil Rights: An Interview with Matt Delmont (Part I)

​Dick Clark's American Bandstand television program is iconic, but was it really an early promoter of racial integration? The question is one extensively delved into by Scripps College American Studies Professor Matt Delmont in his new book The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Rol ... More >>

Jennifer Tamara McClain Is a Prisoner of Love

[Moxley Confidential] Black sheriff's deputy arrested for having enthusiastic sexual affair with a white supremacist inmate in OC Jail

World's Greatest Nazi Love Story Born in Southern California in Time for Valentine's Day

Kinky love is in the air!​On a planet bombarded with daily stories of horrific violence and cruelty, there is one true Valentine Day's tale that proves once bitter, seemingly eternal enemies can reconcile and fall into passionate, puppy love.Think: Hezbollah soldier hooking up with an Orthodox rab ... More >>

Case of the "McStinkyNigger" Orange County Restaurant Receipt Settles

​A federal lawsuit filed by a successful African-American businessman against a Newport Beach steakhouse that repeatedly listed him on credit card receipts as "McStinkyNigger," "McNigShit" and "McCottonwood" has been mutually dismissed, according to records at Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in O ... More >>

Did Itzcoatl Ocampo Allegedly Become a Serial Killer Because He's a Marine, a Mexican, or an Aztec?

​Itzcoatl Ocampo, the 23-year-old Yorba Linda man arrested for allegedly being the serial killer who targeted homeless men in Orange County over the past month, is scheduled to appear Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court to face charges, but he's already the poster boy for three groups of peopl ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Is 'Brown Pride' the Same as 'White Pride'?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Plus, are there Mexican Jews?

Marilyn Davenport: The Evolution of a Scandal

[Moxley Confidential] How that racist Obama-family-chimpanzee email has driven the OC GOP apeshit

Fox News Darling of Trumped-Up New Black Panther Voter Intimidation Case to Speak in Newport Beach

​J. Christian Adams, founder of the McLean, Virginia-based Election Law Center and frequent conservative media talking head, is coming to Newport Beach Wednesday to perpetuate something that has been labeled a right-wing fantasy: that New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense members intimidated P ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Hello, Haters!And......adios.That's right, folks; you're reading the very last OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day. When I started this column, it was intended to poke fun at the fact that any story in the Register that mentioned Mexico or featured a Latino or was written by Yvette Cabrera ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

Headline: Woman Arrested in Hate-Graffiti Case​ Comment by SOUNDOFF5: This is just the tip of the iceberg. Kim Henry is the leader of an angry, white, middle aged tagging crew in Orange County.Comment by GWESTLIE: How shocking, I thought Pep Boys only sold spray paint to illegals

7 Racist Video Games You Had No Idea Were Racist

​Racism isn't always obvious. From time to time, a number of blatantly racist video games are released, and everyone goes apeshit. There are rare situations, however, when the racism isn't as obvious. These are the situations in which thoughtless stereotypes are used, or when games touch upon infl ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

Headline: Man Shot in Santa Ana Drive-By Shooting​Comment by VORTEXALLEY: This is news? More like a daily occurence. No need to tell us the race.Comment by FREDCONTO: What a surprise. What a wonderful place Santa Ana is with outstanding people with high morals and values. I hope my children grow u ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Minority Says He Was Passed Over by OC GOP Comment by DISCO: Racism is alive and well, young white students can be denied scholarships by McDonald's Latino program or the United Negro College Fund (UNCF); but of course that's just PC and not in any way discriminatory. Perhaps we should ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

Headline: Surf Shop Apologizes for MLK Day Ad​ Comment by SUPERROOSTER: WHAT? Ha, another weak white person appologizing for being white.Comment by OCNEWSGUY: Racist...Racist...Racist....Racist....Racist......LMAOComment by SSHOEE: TO those who are complaining or find this ad offensive: it says RE ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

Headline: Celebrants Kick Off Kwanzaa Week​ Comment by SAVEUS2: WOW!!! What a beautiful Community celebration, the food, entertainment, decorations and the very educational and informational program was very well done....It was a pleasure to see the community come together and support such a cultu ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: D.A. Arrests Cripple White Supremacist GangComment by OCFAN92648: Congratulations to all those involved in operation stormfront to identify and prosecute these racist gang members. We all should feel safer knowing that those that promote violence are off our streets. I would like to see ... More >>

Nativo Lopez Cries 'Racist,' Appeals Court Cries 'Defamation'

[Moxley Confidential] Split decision in Overhill Farms case has chilling free-speech implications, dissenting justice asserts

Nativo Lopez Slammed by Court For Calling Frozen Food Company "Racist"

Nativo Lopez​Nativo Lopez, Orange County's most controversial political activist, helped organize a 2009 protest against a Southern California frozen food company and distributed leaflets branding the business a "racist employer" because it fired almost 300 warehouse workers who'd provided fake So ... More >>

'My Best Friend Is a Mexican' and Other Pendejadas

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Mexican radio, used-tire stores and more!

American Third Position Party Laughably Tries to Enter San Diego

​If there is one area of Southern California more prone to white supremacism than OC, it's San Diego, better know as Klan Diego. It's from our dumber neighbors to the south that legendary white supremacist Pete Wilson--err, Tom Metzger--created White Aryan Resistance, where the San Diego Minutemen ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: St. John's Knit Lays off 129 in IrvineComment by Paul: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBAMA!!We want change!!!(Oh wait ........ we're getting it. Is it too late to get the white dude back?)Comment by American: yeah, cuz dubya did so much better.Comment by MJ: It's good to know we can always count on ... More >>

Mark Yudof, UC President Deemed Weak on Anti-Semitism on Campuses, Including UCI

​The University of California has been too weak in its reaction to acts of anti-Semitism on its campuses, claims a letter from Jewish groups to UC President Mark G. Yudof (right).Swastika graffiti, anti-Israel speakers who use anti-Semitic language, and harassment and intimidation of Jewish stude ... More >>

Ronald Allen Bramlett Gets Prison for White Supremacist-on-Black Male Hate Assault in Costa Mesa. No, Not That One, The Other One

​The Weekly's intrepid investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley and I were confused when word came down today that a white supremacist had been sentenced to eight years in prison for an unprovoked assault on a black male outside a Costa Mesa store last December.Last December? Didn't that incident ha ... More >>

Spinning into Butter

Long Beach Playhouse

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

​ Headline: Woman Says She Was Kidnapped from Golden West College, RapedComment by triggerhappy: We don't know why she waited a month but its [sic] trivial for anyone to question why she waited if you've never been violated like that yourself. And one other thing, I bet if this guy was latino or b ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

​ Headline: Birthright Citizenship Initiative on HoldComment by puffy69: We still don't know if Obama is a citizen. The [sic] burned all this records to hide his trail, he could be from anywhere.Comment by oceans22: puffy69, do you still believe in Big Foot & UFO landings in Rosell? Or maybe t ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Says He's Not a Republican

Dana: No longer afraid to be called a racist. ​"I'm not a Republican! I'm not a conservative! I'm a patriot, and it's time for us to take back America! Now is our time! . . . What is the United States? Us! Us! Us! . . . We have to secure our southern border. That has to be the number one issue peo ... More >>

Long Beach State Professor Kevin MacDonald Helps Mainstream a New White Supremacist Political Party

American Third Position Party Just Laughable Ripoff of Previous Failed Skinhead Effort

​Last in a series about the latest effort by Orange County white supremacists to mask their laces and braces. More to come in the future whenever I see fit...The latest Internet dispatch from the neo-Nazi American Third Position Party offers a bit of an apology, stating "our web team is hurriedly ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

Earlier this year, I wrote a weekly column called Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Week. Remember the snappy logo?​I killed the column after about a month for two reasons. First, not long after the column debuted, the Register apparently started censoring more comments for racial insen ... More >>

Afrika Bambaataa Raises Consciousness—and Roofs

!Ask a Mexican!

Special Reader Feedback Edition

!Ask a Mexican!

Special reader feedback edition

Spiritual Justice

Constant Stars passion play

Play It Loud, Say It Proud

Afro-punk unflinchingly looks at the black punk experience

Getting Their Say

But do we want to really hear it?