We all know violent sexpot New York has no respect for herself – really, how could she? – but had you any idea how little she cares for the feelings of others?

In the newest episode of televised pockmark New York Goes to Hollywood, Pollard attempts to research Japanese culture for an upcoming commercial role. Of course, she goes about this not by heading to the library for The Book of Five Rings or scouring Wikipedia, but by asking every Asian person she sees if they can explain Japan. (To a Korean dry cleaner: "Is that the same as being Japanese, or, like, not at all?")

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Oh, Jamaican media, do you really want to shake that "Everyone in Jamaica is a dull pothead" myth? If so, what the hell possessed you to publish black writer Michael Dingwall's recent essay, "Slavery was good for the black man," in a real newspaper? Not only is it horribly written and its punctuation a mess, it's factually inaccurate and deeply, vastly offensive.

Were it not so goddamn sad and wrong, it might be laughable to read sentences like this: "While it is true that black Africa has, for the most part, squandered the opportunities that slavery offered in the past, the positive influence of European civilisation cannot be denied."

Tighten up, Jamaica Observer. And pass this doofus Dingwall 'pon de unemployment line.

This is Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, the man currently making a very public mockery out of so many struggles for racial justice, and all in a state whose relationship with blacks is tenuous at best. You see, this fool recently interrupted a meeting with colleagues to chastise a white commissioner for using the term "black hole," which Price says is racist.

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The Utah-based purveyors of this Obama monkey doll (brilliantly named "The Sock Obama") say, in response to a barrage of criticism, that they, "perhaps naively," felt that there was nothing wrong with portraying a black man, particularly one who has a pretty great shot of becoming the next president of the United States, as a monkey. They suggest that "this might be a great opportunity to take this moment to really try and transcend still existing racial biases." The idea for the toy, they insist, came about innocently, after they "simply made a casual and affectionate observation one night, and a charming association between a candidate and a toy we had when we were little." As in, "awww, doesn't Barack Obama look just like a monkey? How adorable." Except it's not adorable at all. [NYM]

Not because I'm surprised, but just because we should all stay abreast of these things:

While discussing ninth-grade students at a school in New Jersey who were suspended for distributing topless photographs of their classmates, Bill O'Reilly stated, "But it's an amazing amount of kids involved with this — 20 — in an affluent school district. This isn't, you know, the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system."

While neither affluent kids nor inner city kids seem to have much in the way of a values system these days, at least those people eating out in Harlem still avoid calling their servers "motherfucker."

Surprise, minorities: Hollywood doesn't like casting us as leads in films, even if that means completely shifting around facts to accommodate white actors.

Although director Spike Lee just dressed down the wizened Clint Eastwood for not including black extras in his WWII dramas, a new ABC News article takes issue with the way Hollywood consistently uses whites to fill major roles written for blacks, Hispanics and Asians. To wit:

In the new movie "Stuck," which opened last week, actress Mena Suvari plays a young woman named Brandi, who, after a night of partying, strikes a homeless man with her car, sending him through her windshield, and leaves him to die.

The plot is based on the real-life story of Texas woman Chante Mallard…

Mallard is African-American. Suvari, the blonde, blue-eyed beauty from "American Beauty" and the "American Pie" movies, is not. But she does wear cornrows to play the role of Brandi.

Also recently manipulated to remove minorities was 21, the story of an MIT "whiz kid" who went to Vegas and made a killing counting cards. In reality, the student is Asian American, but a white Englishman was cast to play him.

To get an explanation about why minority actors and actresses are being neglected in favor of whites, do what you do every time you have a question about this really demented world: follow the money:

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Just hours ago (yay Internets!) Bible-thumping quitter Mike Huckabee addressed the National Rifle Association convention in Louisville, Kentucky, where he offered up this bon mot when a crash offstage interrupted his speech:

That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak. Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.

Ha! Get it? People want to kill Barack Obama because of his liberal gun policies. And some people want to kill him because he's a powerful black man. Isn't that hilarious?

Robert Mugabe, gruesome overlord of Zimbabwe, has come forward to officially proclaim that he accepts the victory of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in last month's presidential election. Good news, right? Wrong, as Mugabe and his party, ZANU-PF, will not concede that Tsvangirai won by a margin wide enough to avoid a runoff election.

Political theorists believe that Mugabe's uncharacteristic concession, coupled with his insistence for a second election, can only mean one thing: He has ensured that he will win a runoff by threatening his constituents with unimaginable violence.

Soon after results began to indicate he was losing to Tsvangirai, Mugabe initiated campaigns to terrorize and starve members of the opposition party. Human rights workers say ZANU-PF also imprisoned 150 teachers who volunteered to oversee the elections, charging them with favoritism.

Tsvangirai is threatening to boycott a runoff. If he does, Mugabe will be declared the winner by default.

The roving band of lepers and ponces at TMZ have published a feature entitled "Fat After Fame," in which they identify and then mock celebrities who have dared gain weight over the course of their careers.

While almost all of the shit site's derisiveness is absurd and laughable, our favorite of its new fat-skinny comparisons is this one of actress Raven Symone. Can you believe that disgusting pig is finding it difficult to maintain the svelte physique she had when she was seven? What a fattie.

After allegedly calling her arresting officers "fucking white honkeys" during a dust-up at Heathrow airport last week, Naomi Campbell is now playing the race card.

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Oh, Young Hollywood and their kooky fads!

Marijuana induces paranoia. If you feel that you need any more evidence to support that claim, read The Guardian's new interview with Snoop, in which he not only makes himself look like an ignorant wacko, but Barack Obama — whom he refers to as "that muthafucker" — also. (emphasis ours)

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Do you do drugs? If so, you probably also like rap music. How did I know? Because, according to a new study, all rap musicians do is glamorize drugs! And you won't believe their slang.

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