Wherein you, the readers, talk amongst yourselves.

In Canada, the Carleton University Students' Association has dropped a cystic fibrosis charity as the recipient of an annual fundraiser after deciding the disease, which primarily affects Caucasians, is not "inclusive" enough.

Sounds like PC nonsense run amok to us. What do you think?

• The marketing exec at Universal in charge of Ashanti's album might want to rethink his or her career path. [WAOD]

• The Wire gets some love, finally. But I'm still really dreading the Emmy nominations. [BV]

• Nas's "Be A Nigger, Too" video is out. That's all. [CL]

• A new study shows that blacks are the most frequent hate crime victims in Canada. [AFP]

• His Royal Purpleness is now 50. And still rocking the stilettos. [E!]

• Suge Knight got beaten up outside a club in LA. He was apparently unconscious for three minutes. Someone really strong, fearless dude in LA just became a local hero. [TMZ]

• I fear for our youth. [PH]

• Toni Braxton's Vegas show is canceled through June, but her reps won't comment on her health issues. [EUR]

• Black Canadians love them some Obama. [TS]

• Okay, okay. Black people in general love them some Obama. [CL]

• Black Mormons stay faithful to their religion even after it tells them they're inferior. [NCT]

• The ebonics discussion is back, and it's just as ridiculous more than ten years later: "Lanehart believes that understanding and accepting African American language as a variation of language in the United States is important from both a cultural and educational standpoint." [MySA]

• "…some analysts think it's possible Obama's heavy black support is nudging some working-class white Democrats into Clinton's camp." [AP]

• Some African Canadians are getting dumped on, literally. [CHNS]

• A federal lawsuit has ruled in favor of blacks forced from their homes in urban renewal sweeps in the 50s. [Freep]

• Forty-six percent of African American households don't have checking or savings accounts. [WLTX]

• African Americans stand to lose between $71 and $122 billion in the subprime mortgage crisis. Due to the racial bias in the system, that's about 40 percent more than other minorities and whites stand to lose. [NAM]

• Canada pulls out of the UN Anti-Racism Conference because officials there say it has turned into an anti-semitism conference. [CP]

• "Post-racial" politics in a society that's not "post-racial?" [LAT]

• TMZ's uncovered the latest American Idol ex-con. [TMZ]

• Ten questions with Julian Bond, civil rights pioneer. [CBS]

• In a twist, a Canadian judge says a white woman was wrongly fired for making a statement her employers perceived to be racist. [CP]

• Not that we really need it, but here's some scientific evidence refuting James Watson's research. [PF]

• Oh! But now Watson's taking it all back. Sort of. [USAT]

• The Mississippi governor seeks black votes for his second term. A novel idea. [AP]

• Oh. Now the major magazines want to write about The Wire — after the last season's finished filming. [NYer]

• African American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame? Who knew? [AHN]

• White supremacists and anti-racism activists faced had a face-off in Canada recently over a new voting law. [CBC]

• R.I.P. Big Moe.

• The 20 scariest anti-gay activists. Scarier still — most of them are surely anti-other things, too. [QT]

Pledges to tone down the violent homophobia in their lyrics haven't stopped the belated backlash against Elephant Man and Sizzla from going full steam ahead. Apparently Canadians are putting their collective feet down, and a planned Toronto concert featuring the two artists has been canceled.

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• The racist workers at a medical clinic in California thought they were being creative enough with their expression slurs that they would get away with it. [SJMN]

• This guy can sue Canada for racism all he wants, but he might not want to keep his hopes up about Paris Hilton or Oprah to take the stand in his defense. [IND]

• Rudy Giuliani hires the racist cutthroat media firm that was responsible for the questionable-at-best anti-Harold Ford ads last year. [Forbes]

• Does the name of Banana Republic's Alabaster perfume have racial undertones? Is it perfectly fine to celebrate whiteness in the form of a fragrance? You decide. [J&H]

• Northwestern University's women's hospital might be sneakily trying to shuttle black and non-VIP patients to older floors to deliver their babies. [CST]

In a study that tells every person in America who has health care (or is struggling to get it) something they've been knowing, researchers found that we have the poorest and priciest health care compared to five other rich countries. Surprisingly, Canada, a country that everyone holds on a health care pedestal, was the second worst. When we are up against five countries — Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Britain — that offer universal health care, there's no way we could even come close to having the best system.

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