Ever since Isiah Carey broke the story on his Insite blog, most of the other media outlets in town have followed up with items on the allegedly offensive advertisement that Mayor Bill White took out in the Houston Defender, a black paper, for Martin Luther King Day.This is, supposedly, a terrible thing because it equates White with two icons of the black community.What the critics fail to realize, however, is that the ad is simply derived from the mayor's standard template for such things.
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The Houston Police Department began a full-scale hate-crime investigation this morning after a pair of women firefighters discovered racist and sexist graffiti scribbled all over the locker doors in the women's dressing quarters at Station 54 at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Houston Fire Department Executive Assistant Chief Rick Flanagan described the comments on the lockers as "so distasteful, so painful, so despicable." Chief Phil Boriskie said that this behavior is "not indicative of t
For a couple of weeks now, commuters on the Loop near Meyerland have been seeing a billboard featuring a lovely looking black woman leaning seductively into the camera, a come-hither look on her face, with the caption "Watch me at 9." Her autographed first name just increases the intimate intensity.The fact that she's a news anchor doesn't seem to bother the people who approved the ad campaign.Channel 39's Mia Gradney is the model on the billboard, a fact that hasn't escaped notice amongst ot
Harris County Republican chair Jared Woodfill is steamed, according to a letter we first found on Isiah Carey's Insite.He is totally pissed and outraged because Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia has "opened the doors" of his office to Al-Jazeera. A, umm, media outlet.Maybe not a media outlet with a viewpoint everyone agrees with, but a media outlet just the same. "As you probably know," Woodfill wrote to "fellow Republicans," "Al-Jazeera has been linked to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas a
