Check out the tourist kitsch available at the airport in Charleston, S. C.

It feels wrong to say this, but I'd feel better if they also sold little KKK knickknacks. A souvenir hood, maybe, or a noose: "Charleston - a great place to hang out!"

Florida State Rep. Bob Allen explains why he offered $20 to an undercover cop to give him a blow job:

"This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park," Allen, who is white, told police in a taped statement after his arrest. Allen said he feared he "was about to be a statistic" and would have said ( Read more... )

At the height of apartheid in South Africa, 851 of every 100,000 black men in that country were behind bars. As of 2005 in the U.S., 4,419 of every 100,000 black men were.

From Balko in Hit & Run.  So 4.4% of the entire black male population in the U. S. is incarcerated, compared to 0.7% of the overall population ( Read more... )