Deliberate racism? Unfortunate timing? Public overreaction? Simple FAIL? People are debating those questions this morning after a promo for the new NBC show Animal Practice ran immediately following Bob Costas’ lead out to Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas’ historic gold medal …

Voula Papachristou is a complete stranger to me, so perhaps I shouldn’t be so quick to pass judgment on the disgraced athlete. After all, every single person on this planet has done something astronomically stupid at some point in their …

Some people baffle me sometimes even though they have the best of intentions. This past weekend that exact thing took place off the coast of southern New Jersey. A group known as the International Raelian Movement flew a plane towing …

Elmo arrested: If your kids are reading this, there’s a very strong possibility they’re in tears right now. Since childhood trauma isn’t the sort of thing we want to encourage here at WPN, let me clarify a few things. First, …

In April, I wrote about a website which completely blew me away with its stupidity. What really makes SaveWhitePeople.com’s particular brand of stupidity so interesting is that it is so well articulated. When thinking of someone who is racist or …

Shackle Shoes, which are also known on an official level as JS Roundhouse Mid, were designed by a guy named Jeremy Scott. Although he had intended this footwear to be fun, extravagant, and, perhaps, a little outrageous, the last thing …

Naomi Schaefer Riley, an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, was fired late last night from the Chronicle of Higher Education after posting an article entitled The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations. …

Hockey has a lot of great traditions like the handshake after a hard fought playoff series. Unfortunately another of hockey’s traditions is also racism. Several times in the past have racist remarks by players and fans, marred an otherwise awesome …

Sometimes things just fall into your lap, and when they get there you can’t help but just shake your head and wish you could un-think their existence. Which is exactly the feeling sweeping over me now, with SaveWhitePeople.com. When visiting …

Joshua Cryer, the law student who’d sent UK soccer commentator Stan Collymore a series of a racist tweets, was sentenced to a fine and community service, instead of jail. Cryer, 21, a Newcastle University law student, had attempting to get …

Stumpy’s Stickers is a classy joint. If you can’t get to them via that link, you’re not alone. Maybe they’ve run to ground after the news about them that has been burning up Facebook and Tumblr the past couple of …

Once again, someone is getting in trouble for using the word “niggardly”. On Thursday, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) used the word in response to a question about spending for veterans. He said, in part: “Of course we’re falling short,” he …

Earlier in the game when Kansas St.’s freshman point guard Angel Rodriguez went to the line, the crowd began to chant “Where’s your green card?” Check out the video for yourself below, it can be heard at the 2 and …

Researchers have submitted a study suggesting that a heart disease drug may work to combat implicit racial bias. The study was conducted at Oxford University and findings were published in the international medical journal of Psychopharmacology. Propranolol, the drug in …

In the history of Super Bowl ads, there were those that got forgotten as soon as the game resumed.  There were those that got mentioned around the water cooler.  And then there were those that got a company called racist.  For examples of this last group, you can look to Salesgenie.com.