British Photographer Nick Knight was mad as hell about the racism he saw in the fashion industry, and he wasn't going to take it anymore. So he enlisted enlisted Naomi Campbell and some prop (I hope!) guns to illustrate the frustration that he and black models feel every day in a silent short film. Campbell's wearing two dresses by Rodarte in the clip. Incidentally, Rodarte scored a big fat zero in Stereohyped's "Black Model Watch" from NYC's fall fashion week.

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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At least one person on Spain's basketball team has learned that it's not exactly appropriate to mock the facial features of an entire race of people for laughs, even if he isn't exactly apologizing for it. Team Spain player (and LA Laker) Pau Gasol said, "Some of us didn't feel comfortable doing it. To me it was little clownish for our part to be doing that. The sponsor insisted and insisted. They pushed because they're the people that pay the money. It was just a bad idea to do that. It was never intended to be offensive or racist against anybody." The team's coach refuses to apologize, saying that it was just a joke. Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee thinks that the matter has been resolved — just like the issue of those allegedly underage Chinese gymnasts. [People]

Welp, with Prince of Persia, you've done it again, Hollywood! You've toyed with history in order to cast a very white person in a heroic role probably more suited for a person of color, just so that other white people will be comfortable spending their money to see it.

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I'm was so proud that the athletes of the world were somehow able to avoid the temptation to take pictures of themselves pulling the corners of their eyes to mock their Olympic hosts. Then the Spanish men's basketball team had to go and ruin everything. [AAM]

Goddamn, The South! Y'know, we really do try to cut you some slack – seriously, we do – but you just make detesting you so easy sometimes.

During a July 30 interview on talking face Glenn Beck's radio broadcast, Toby Keith, Oklahoman and the musical genius behind the hit pro-lynching anthem "Beer for My Horses," told Beck that he thinks Barack Obama is highly successful with black Americans because "he don't talk, act or carry himself like a black person."

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Stephen Price, a senior reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat, was kicked out of the press area of a John McCain campaign event in Panama City, Fla., yesterday. The campaign said that he was asked to leave because no local press was allowed, although Price said that out of the many local reporters there, he was the only one McCain's security detail asked to leave. He was also the only black person around. He thinks that might have something to do with it.

In the annals of campaign staff screwing candidates over: Aides ask Muslim women in hijabs to get out of camera range at an Obama rally.

During an ABC News interview in Liberia yesterday, Bill Clinton got "a little testy" with a reporter, as he is wont to do these days. She asked him if he had any regrets about anything he did while he was campaigning for Hillary Clinton. He said he does, but not the ones we think, which tells me he's probably still in denial about how he might have damaged his wife's campaign.

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• Missy Elliott wants to adopt a bunch of kids one day. Everyone wants to a adopt a bunch of kids these days. [People]

• "I am not different…" [RR]

• If you've been feeling Beyonce deprived, here she is about town with her husband. [CL]

• MTV and Diddy figured out what was good for them. Crazy-ass Laurie Ann Gibson has been reinstated on Making the Band. [C&D]

Wherein you, the readers, talk amongst yourselves.

Ah, the race card. It had a starring role during the primaries, but it has just been brought up for the first time in the general election, now that John McCain has accused Barack Obama of "playing it." What does "playing the race card" mean to you? Do you think its an overused or misused accusation or is it not used enough? Is accusing someone of playing the race card sort of like playing the race card? Finally, can we think of a better way to describe this phenomenon than "playing the race card?" It's really annoying. Discuss.