Racial Issues

Where's the Diversity At in the Orange County Register's Recent Hiring Spree?

Yes, yes: The Orange County Register has embarked on a hiring spree not seen since the days Otis Chandler was sweating money back in the 1980s. Yes, yes: hiring up, not down, is a wonderful strategy, not just because it ensures news reporting doesn't disappear but also employs people and keeps write ... More >>

MSNBC: Reporters Are Racist For Informing Public About Boston Terrorist Suspect

Liberal talk show hosts are going nuts today because members of the mainstream media reported that law enforcement sources said a "dark skinned" person was a subject of interest in the terrorist attack at this week's Boston Marathon.For example, MSNBC's Al Sharpton and Chris Hayes angrily whined tha ... More >>

'Free Angela and All Political Prisoners' Reveals Angela Davis, Then and Now

Original interview footage and archival clips focus on the infamous Black Panther trial of 1971

Erwin Chemerinsky and Rick Hasen of UCI Law Weigh in Far and Wide on Voting Rights Act

Something more supremely has overshadowed the news that UC Irvine School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has been named a new endowed chair in First Amendment Law through a $1.5 million gift from Raymond Pryke, owner and publisher of the Valleywide Newspapers chain based in Hesperia. Chemerinsky and ... More >>

OC Sheriff Not Scared About Budding White-Power Gang in San Clemente, Even While Freaking Out About Mexican Ones

If you ever want to talk about the racial double standards that continue to plague Orange County to this day, just check out how county law enforcement deals with gangs in South County.For years, the Sheriff's Department, district attorney's office and the few police forces down there have applied f ... More >>

Racial Controversy Surrounds Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwiches

PB&J. We always thought it was a neutral--albeit boring--lunch option. Seemed like the type of food that would stay out of trouble.We were so wrong. 

The Ballad of Wade Michael Page

An ex-bandmate of the Sikh temple shooter recalls their shared OC hate-rock past

The Mainstreaming of Madea

Tyler Perry's mammy gets less melodramatic but not less grotesque in 'Madea's Witness Protection'

Why Is Placentia Councilmember Chad Wanke Facebook Friends with Neo-Nazis?

Digging through Facebook late at night always brings out hilarious surprises, especially when it's the individual pages of our local politicos, where we can see their personal stupidity in all its glory. Who can forget Congresswomen Loretta and Linda Sanchez dressed as a sexy angel and banana, respe ... More >>

'Jitney' Shows We're Black Like Them

South Coast Rep's staging of the August Wilson standard reminds us why we need more African-Americans in OC

Bordering On Revolution

[Crossing the Line] A hostile Supreme Court. A feckless Obama administration. America's war on Mexicans has gone too far

Sister Cities? Study Shows Santa Ana and Malibu Share Similar Level of Racial Diversity

​A new report released by the University of Southern California ranks Orange County fourth among a five-county region when it comes to the number of racially balanced cities."Racially Balanced Cities in Southern California, 1990 to 2010" measured local representation of four major population group ... More >>

Kreayshawn, V-Nasty and the N-Word Controversy

​ It was way back in 1995 when none other than KRS-One himself rapped in the DJ Premiere-produced "MCs Act Like They Don't Know" that "Now we got white kids callin' themselves niggas!" Fast forward 16 years later, a Colombia Records deal for white rapper Kreayshawn has put the issue on the fo ... More >>

[UPDATED With Conviction:] First-Ever Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck Case Goes to Trial Today

Jaime Zamora Ramirez booking photo​ [UPDATE, JULY 21, 3:50 P.M.] Yesterday, a jury of his peers found Jaime Zamora Ramirez guilty of raping two men, including a teenage female employee of his dry cleaning business. According to this morning's press release issued by the Orange County District A ... More >>

Rep. Jim Clyburn Throws Down Marilyn Davenport's Obama Chimp Email to Play Race Card

​Rep. James Clyburn (D-South Carolina), the highest-ranking African American in Congress, used Orange County Republican Party official Marilyn Davenport's controversial email depicting Barack Obama as the child of chimps to argue most of the president's problems relate to "the color of his skin."I ... More >>

[UPDATED: KTLA Gets Davenport Scoop] Racist Orange County Republican Email: President Obama and His Parents Are Apes

(c) Photo by R. Scott MoxleyCA Republican Party is not happy with Davenport​UPDATE, APRIL 20, 10:18 P.M.: During the KTLA interview, a "timid, confused" Marilyn Davenport, a retired Christian book publisher, said she is "really sorry" for sending the racist email. In her view--expressed throu ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Unwanted Pit Bulls and Chihuahuas Flood OC Shelter Comment by OCOBSERVER: "Of the 13,000 dogs impounded in 2010, nearly 5,000 of them--40 percent--were pit bulls and Chihuahuas"No surprise to me. Those are the breeds of choice in Santa Ana. Have you ever seen any responsible behavior co ... More >>

Cops: OC White Power Gang "Disrupted" in Undercover Sting

PEN1 boss Wayne Marshall​After calling members of Public Enemy Number One Death Squad (PEN1) "haters and cowards," federal agent John A. Torres bragged today that government authorities had successfully infiltrated and disrupted Orange County's most notorious white supremacist gang."Their reign of ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Finally, Openly Appeals to His Skinhead Constituents in Attacking DREAM Act

​Huntington Beach Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Supported Taliban) has never been a fan of illegal immigration and has particularly hated the DREAM Act, which would create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented college students and those illegals that, unlike Dana, served their country in the ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Teen Fatally Stabbed at Anaheim PartyComment by SOUNDOFF2: Cant' we all just stab along?Comment by LIVINREALITY: Hey SOUNDOFF2,! I love it it !!!! That's actually really funny. To answer the question. No they can't. not enough intelligence between them to get the timing right . another ... More >>

ACLU Seeks FBI Records on "Muslim Mapping"

​As part of a massive request for data under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California today asked the FBI to turn over records related to the agency's collection and use of race and ethnicity data in Southern California communities.Th ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: O.C. Consultant Urges Latino Worker Safety TrainingComment by SURFCITYRED: I think all applicants should go back to Mexico for safety training...Ooopss, I forgot. THere is no safety training there. There is also no workman's comp, welfare, free medical and yummy free gobment cheese. Eno ... More >>

Will "Rule of Law" City Costa Mesa Soon Border "Sanctuary City" Santa Ana?

Facebook.com/Make-city-of-Santa-Ana-a-sanctuary-city​Pretty soon, you may be able to stand on the Santa Ana-Costa Mesa border and place one foot in a so-called "sanctuary city" and the other in a so-called "rule of law city."A new Facebook group has formed in support of making Santa Ana a sanctuar ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

​ Headline: $100,000 Reward for Violent Bank RobbersComment by iloveoc: I want to know what percentage of violent bank robbers are African American? That is a pretty dark hand sticking out there.Comment by pushthebutton: Hey where da be bling at?

American Third Position Party Goons Exaggerated their Anti-Defamation League Protest!

The American TP's brave "confrontation." Vaxmonsky is at far right, as are his politics...​Last Halloween, back when they still called themselves Freedom 14, members of the American Third Position Party excitedly posted a dispatch on Stormfront.org with the headline "Freedom 14 Confronts the ADL, ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

​ Headline: Police: Drivers Spot Naked, Tattoed Man on RoofComment by antarez: Without the Sanctuary City of Santa Ana the OC Register would lose half it's [sic] news stories. What a JOKE Santa Ana is, they should start filming a reality/crime show there it would probably be a ratings hit!!!Commen ... More >>

Letters from OC Weekly Readers

[Year In Review] OC Weekly's News Blog, Navel Gazing, Gazes Back at 2009

Orange County Skinhead Murdered in Monrovia--Why?

Anyone care to tell us what the N and S tattoos on Gentile stand for?​Last week was a tough one for Orange County's tight-knit, methed-up skinhead community. On Friday, of course, three members of the Candy-Ass Gang pleaded guilty to attempted murder with hate crime enhancements. Last Tuesday, 22- ... More >>

Not Much Truth, But Plenty of Reconciliation In Clint Eastwood's 'Invictus'

Expanded Review!

Most Racist City in Orange County--Is it Fullerton??? Our Top Five

Henry W. Head, founding father of OC, longtime Santa Ana doctor...​I was speaking with a local GOP operative recently when he said something that shocked me. The topic was my recent cover story on the Candy-Ass Gang, the trio of pendejos and one pendeja who prosecutors say drove into Huntington Be ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Four Skinheads' Attempt at Racial Holy War Turned Into a Slater Slums Smackdown

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Uncle Tom's Wabbin'

In Defense of Klanaheim

The Los Angeles Times story published this Monday telling the world Anaheim is now majority-Latino has drawn nothing but derision from the Latino Anaheimers I know (read this musical takedown by Weekly contributor and KPFK-FM 90.7 Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman). "Oh no, they didn't put in a ... More >>

Cry, The Beloved Country

Bowers Museum

Surf City Obama Monkey Girl Speaks!

The t-shirt in question?It's rare that we ever get a response from the offending party in our Hey, You! column, and even rarer to get a retort from the writer to said response. Yet that's what has seemed to happen with the Hey, You! of a couple of weeks ago, in which someone took a teenage girl to t ... More >>

Some Tips for Servite High Fans Today As Their School's Boys Basketball Teams Faces Mater Dei

Dear Servite High students:You boys disappoint me. For years, I've sung your praises as a school that doesn't truly tolerate teen rapists like your eternal rivals, Mater Dei High School. But a couple of weeks ago, you earned worldwide notoriety for making racist chants again an African-American Mate ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Sonny Bravo Gets Laid, Learns to Drive a Stick, Confronts Racism In Dagoberto Gilb's 'The Flowers'

Viva La Mujer

Portrait of Ten Women

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Activists protest hate at Cal State Fullerton

At noon, the ho-hum shuffle of another Tuesday afternoon was interrupted with a jarring burst of voices. They echoed from the Cal State Fullerton quad in front of the Humanities and Social Sciences building. A noose was throw over a tree branch and dropped in the dirt. Today students from across L.A ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!(r)

"The same women who complain about ‘sleazy’ Mexican men go to France and giggle about ‘how flirtatious’ French men are"

!Ask a Mexican!

'Are we Mexicans racist toward black people?'

!Ask a Mexican!

'No more gorgeous Mexican guys for me?'

Space Race

The territorial imperative in Crash

Affirmative Action for Whites

The Court affirms racial preferences in universities, so long as they work for white people

What a Riot!

University Players Twilight

Hip! Hop! Shop!

Black Guys Imitating White Guys Imitating Black Guys: The strange end of the hip-hop revolution