[Zakeet]

Other great race-based gift ideas Suggested by the NY Times for people of color:

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'Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope'
by Nikki Grimes

Why give your kids yet another video game when you can open their minds? Nikki Grimes’s children’s book about President Obama comes with an educational guide and colorful illustrations. (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, $16.99)

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'Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx/La Juez Que Crecio en el Bronx'
by Jonah Winter

This children’s book, available Nov. 10, tells the coming-of-age story of Justice Sotomayor. It’s a fitting bedtime story for future justices. (Atheneum; Bilingual edition, $16.99)

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Hair Rules

We live in a multitextural world, especially when it comes to hair. Anthony Dickey is to women with “problem hair” what Batman is to Gotham City. With his out-of-the box approach, innovative products (including his new travel kits for kinky, wavy and curly hair), Mr. Dickey has been a hair hero to Michelle Obama, Kelis, Alicia Keys and others.

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Baby Jamz

Solange Knowles and her father, Matthew Knowles (yes, Beyoncé’s sister and father) have teamed with Planet Toys to create an interactive hip-hop and rhythm-based toy line. The line includes a Mix Master Music Chair that allows children to be their own D.J.’s, a Move ’n Groove dance mat, a Jammin’ Microphone and other items. There is also a singalong DVD series, featuring the voices of the Knowles sisters singing remixed versions of your favorite nursery rhymes.

[Jagman]

Why are People of Non-Color always discriminated against? I dream of the time when a man will be judged by the content of his character, not the color of his skin (women too!)

[relictele]

I saw that Obama book right after the election. I have been nauseous since.

[rudy45]

Someone help, please lol. Many years ago, the late (?) Art Buchwald wrote a classic column. In it, a hooded KKK person gets on a bus, sits next to a Black Power adherent, and the two start talking. It turns out they have SO MUCH in common lol, they want separate schools, separate clubs and everything else. The Black Power person says, “yes, we should go back to Africa and have our own country,” and the KKK person says, “you know, we’ve been asking for that for years” lol.

If anyone can point me to this column, I would appreciate it.

[AlexW]

Ohhh. It is just in the spirit of Kwanza, don’tcha know...

[freedumb2003]

And of course, no black person's DVD collection would be complete without "Step N Fetchit"

[bgill]

The hip-hop Baby Jamz has two white boyz but no black kids. Where’s the Christmas list for their white-trash customers?

I thought on most forms, hispanics were supposed to mark the caucasion box but now they’re “of color” (whatever that means). I’ve got color too, sort of a pinky color, but color none the less. If I didn’t you’d be able to see connective tissue, blood veins, and bones. Hussein has brought race and discrimination back into vogue.

[ikka]

I am waiting to find an NYT review of the “Al Jolson Halloween Make-up Kit” where you can put on blackface and pay homage to the jazz greats of old....

[wildbill]

Coming soon in liberal bastions of diversity! A separate water cooler for the office for people of color.

plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.