This racism is killing me inside! Yessir, the Republicans have done it again. They've gone and called Barack Obama, the well-educated, distinguished Senator running for President of the United States, "uppity."

Speaking with Politico, an anonymous (of course!) Bush insider used the tainted term while going over his keys for a McCain victory in November:

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White Democrats are racist! Their hate has cost Obama at least 6 percent of his votes! He's going to lose! That was the gist of an Associated Press story about a new poll that suggests 1/3 of Democrats don't like blacks too much. The AP's reporter behind the story, Ron Fournier, has, in the past, been accused all over the Internet and on MSNBC of being more or less in the can for John McCain, and the story on this study, which some have described as a racism push poll, has added flames to that fire. Now, surely there are plenty of Democrats who won't vote for Obama because they don't like blacks (or Muslims, even if he's not one) — we've been over this not-very-complicated idea more than once — but with Barack Obama ahead in the polls and the Bradley Effect basically disproven in primaries, it's not so much a lost cause as a major obstacle to overcome. And he's clearly overcoming it, at least for now. As many racists as there are out there, Barack Obama wouldn't have gotten anywhere near where he is without an extremely large number of white people voting for him.

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Wherein you, the readers, talk amongst yourselves.

Tell us about a racist incident you've experienced personally (or witnessed)? What did you do in response? Do you wish you had reacted differently?

Several attendees at the Value Voters (read: religious right) Summit over the weekend, including CNN's Lou Dobbs, were delighted by the hillllarious Obama Waffles for sale. That is, until the mainstream media picked up on the story. Suddenly, the summit's organizers realized that the Obama Waffles were a little racist and uninvited the vendors, two enterprising fellows from Tennessee.

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• Kanye West calls his new song "Love Lockdown," which he wrote a week and a half before his performance at the VMAs, his "favorite song 2 date." [MTV]

• Universal and Prince really need to let some things on YouTube go. [EUR]

• If young guys are going to get arrested for sagging, then this is fair game. [Jossip]

• Jordin Sparks knows that people who don't wear purity rings aren't "necessarily sluts," but she meant what she said at the VMAs and she isn't sorry. [EW]

• All right, Georgia politicians. I'll say it slowly. Stop. Calling. Black. People. Uppity. [TPM]

Wherein you, the readers, talk amongst yourselves.

Many old movies that are considered classics were made when racism was the accepted norm and non-white characters usually embodied negative racial and ethnic stereotypes (uh… even more so than in contemporary movies, I mean). Many of these movies — think Gone with the Wind, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Birth of a Nation, which is an important part of cinema history but one of the most racist films ever made — reflect those attitudes and stereotypes. Recently, a planned public screening of Breakfast at Tiffany's in Sacramento sparked protests from the Asian-American community. How do we deal with these films? Should we not watch them, screen them, or show them to our kids? Should they be sold with disclaimers? Or are people smart enough not to get sucked into attitudes of the past in the two hours it takes to watch a film?

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]