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Minority Report

We're Paying Higher Interest For Our Gaudy Luxury Car With 22-Inch Rims. No Fair!

Blacks are charged higher auto loan rates. This sucks even more when you consider the fact that we're usually buying cars — and accessories — that we can't afford in the first place. [KCS]

Black ballet dancers aren't rising in the ranks of any dance company except Alvin Ailey's. One of the ingenious and ridiculous reasons offered for this problem (which is easily a result of equal parts class/access issues and discrimination) is that black women are more "earthy." [IHT]

According to the Village Voice, Jim Jones is to Cam'ron as Chingy is to Ludacris. Ouch. [VV]

American Girl dolls are great because they come in most colors (Asian is conspicuously absent), but why does the one black one have to have the back story of a runaway slave? [RGJ]

Blacks and whites are split over wanting Barry Bonds to break Hank Aaron's homerun record. Ah, the racial turmoil I avoid by ignoring sports. [BET]

May 8, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 2 Responses

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Tagged: American Girl Dolls, Ballet, Barry Bonds, Baseball, Cam'ron, Dipset, Discrimination, Hank Aaron, Jim Jones, Minority Report, Slavery

Comments (2)

No. 1 · blkmaleperspective

In something that will shock you, Chingy signed back with DTP last week. Go figure.

Posted: May 8, 2007 at 9:57 am

No. 2 · ronnie

I think the article is right on in explaining the disparity between black and white ballet dancers: Artistic vision (which I think can be tacked onto that throwaway "culture" mentioned in the article) and economics.

Posted: May 8, 2007 at 1:23 pm

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