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Last week an online group called Concerned Chicagoans went online to publicly criticize a neighorhood-wide “Derby de Mayo” celebration being held in several Lincoln Park establishments. You can read more about what they wrote here, but essentially the CC post  asked readers the following: “What we ask is that folks think critically about the Chicago community. We are not post-racial. […]

Nike+ FuelBand  is supposed to be the cool and hip interactive and social device you use each to keep track of your active lifestyle. Today being May 5, many users of the FuelBand got the following trophy when they finish their walking or running: Of course. We did a little more digging about this and […]

Here we go again. Just a few months after sororities at both Baylor and Penn State made national headlines for their racist “Mexican-themed” photos, a sorority at Cal State San Marcos is the latest example “When Sororities Go Racist.” As reported by NBC Latino, Alpha Chi Omega felt the brunt of the San Marcos community […]

Really, dude? As Deadspin so aptly put it about ESPN’s OTL coverage of NBA Jason Collins telling Sports Illustrated that he is gay, “OTL booked Chris Broussard to have a discussion with openly gay correspondent LZ Granderson, and it rapidly devolved into a talk about whether or not gay sex is sinful. Huh?” Now we know […]

Some initials work and some don’t. This is one case where shortening the name “Souther Pecan Iced Coffee” (apparently a New Orleans delicacy) into its initials does not work. Out of context, this is just not right. (Source: Instagram) Yeah, we know it wasn’t intentional, but seriously weird to see.

Where do we start? Ok, let’s start here. Yes, there is a PETA Latino, and we don’t know why. Someone in PETA has actually spent money on creating a new “Latino” page for animal rights? Why, because the actually mainstream PETA page is not good enough or gets the job done? PETA really thinks that […]

Yup, even Groupon’s computer filters think Cuban food is the same as Mexican food. The cultural gaffe find was discovered and tweeted out by @lpolinsky earlier today Huge @groupon screwup (unless Mexico’s invaded Cuba). But maybe I shouldn’t talk: all deal sites look the same to me. twitter.com/lpolinsky/stat… — lpolinsky (@lpolinsky) April 26, 2013 Dear […]

Can this get any more awful? The following video posted by World Star Hiphop NYC earlier today has gone viral on Facebook (now deleted), and it is shameful. Completely unacceptable, and abusive. We can’t even begin to explain it, but apparently some witty pendejo thinks he is a comedian. Watch. (By the way, the video […]

Jan Brewer sure knows how to dig in her heels. But if you follower her logic, she too is an “illegal.” Give it up to the Phoenix New Times for making the connection. Here is the exchange they posted between Brewer and ABC News’ Jim Avila: When asked about why she still uses “illegal immigrant,” […]

If you have been online this week, you must have heard about the story of A.J. Clemente, who was fired by a local North Dakota NBC affiliate for uttering a curse word on live TV. It was a mistake, and it was clear from the video that Clemente wasn’t purposely trying to curse on television. […]

The Boston Herald is Boston’s second newspaper, and for those who live in the city, it is seen as just a tabloid with car ads that rarely covers actual news with a journalistic eye, choosing instead for the sensational. Such is the case of a story the Herald published today by Chris Cassidy. The title? […]

Hey, it must be that time of year when BBC Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has to offend someone, and today Clarkson’s target is Puerto Rico. According to the Daily Star, Clarkson decided to offend boricuas by basically calling the island “a crime-ridden hellhole.” Clarkson decided to crap on Puerto Rico, in response to a […]

You have got to be kidding us. The following bilingual ad by TIDE, which launched last fall and which recently aired CNN, has now become a online nativist symbol of all that is “wrong” about the United States. Yes, a bilingual ad about laundry detergent. This is sad, people. Here is the commercial. Run away, […]

The Onion just needs to stop sometimes. Hiding behing “smart humor.” They failed again. This is satire? Seriously? Really? Here is the “joke:” BOSTON—In the midst of a widespread manhunt that has put the city of Boston on lockdown, CNN released a series of photographs today depicting the three obese Mexican women it claims are […]

You know it would happen, but we really didn’t think it would be so quick, especially since the drama in the Boston area is still ongoing and chaotic. But as reported by the HuffPost’s Elise Foley, “Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), speaking at the first Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform Friday, tied the issue to […]

Yesterday it was Iowa Rep. Steve King who got all nutty by using the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings as his “proof” that immigration security needs to be tighter. Today King was joined by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert (R). This is what Salon reported today: Louie Gohmert joined Steve King in warning against passing immigration reform […]

So the Mexican Barbie controversy (which started from a blog post by the very cool Laura Martínez) got Mattel to respond: The Barbie Collector Dolls of the World line was launched in 1980 and is the largest and longest-running series in the history of the Barbie brand. Each doll wears an ensemble inspired by the […]

UPDATE, April 18, 2013, 8:32 AM EST: We spoke with Phil Berne, Marketing Manager for Technical Media at Samsung Mobile. Berne shared the following official response from the company: “Samsung is not offering any such ringtones on our mobile devices.” We suspected that, since the ringtone comes from third parties, and in an open environment […]

This story came via Deadspin, which found it at the Alburquerque Journal. The New Mexico paper reported that the coaches of a local high school baseball team from Las Cruces planned “to file a formal complaint against an umpire who allegedly told a Hispanic player to stop speaking Spanish during a game in Alamogordo on […]

Yesterday we got a direct message from @flyawaymari. She included a link that we thought was an April Fools’ joke. We checked it out. It wasn’t. The link took us to a site called Mexican-Workers.com and it provided “insight”into Mexican workers and Mexican culture. The questions were intended for those American companies who need help […]

The craziness continues. UPDATE: Some people thought that this entire fuss was about the late Hugo Chávez. Seriously. UPDATE: Google has responded. We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google but, as you may imagine, it’s difficult for us to choose which events to highlight on our site. Sometimes for a given date we feature an historical […]