YAY!
Malawi got its first female president. Vice President Joyce Banda, assumed power after the country’s President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday. Banda is the second woman president in Africa, NPR reports. Africa is A Country has a great sketch of Banda’s biography and political inclinations. Among her first official acts: firing the country’s top cop.
Boo!
Crazy man/men went on a shooting spree in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shooting 5 blacks, killing 3. Police arrested two suspects, both white males, and are trying to determine whether racism was a motive in the killing spree. NPR reports that one suspect had written a racial slur in a Facebook post and blamed his father’s death on a black man.
The granddaddy of all 2012 racist screeds — “The Talk: Nonblack Version” was penned Friday, on Taki’s Magazine, by John Derbyshire. The National Review, for which he also wrote, announced Sunday that he was being fired. The New Yorker critiqued the announcement, implying that it was hypocritical, given the National Review’s politics and noting that nowhere did it lambaste Derbyshire as a racist.
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