Thursday, October 9, 2008

MBP of the Week: Newsweek.com

My sincerest intercontinental thanks go out to Geneva Girl for catching this Misidentified Black Person at Newsweek.com.

That picture, of course, is not U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay. It’s Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 9, 2008 at 1:15 PM

    You're very welcome!

    Jamaican sprinters don't get enough love from the American press. Just after Asafa Powell first broke the 100 meter record, the bible of the sport, Track and Field News, misidentified him as his brother, Donovan Powell. ON THE COVER!! My Jamaican husband, a die-hard athletics fan, canceled his subscription on the spot.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 10, 2008 at 6:57 PM

    Awesome.
    But still not as cool as when the Christian news site ID'd Tyson Gay as "Tyson Homosexual."
    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/07/christian_sites_ban_on_g_word.html

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  3. AnonymousOctober 14, 2008 at 11:31 AM

    Here is another

    MBP

    http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/9281/governorslc5.th.jpg

    http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/84/governorsna3.th.jpg

    Willie Brown mistaken for (former)governor Jerry Brown. I think that was the San Jose Mercury News in an article about governors who have had their vetoes overwritten.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 14, 2008 at 11:40 AM

    It was the San Jose Merc news and it shows the veto rates of California governors since 1976.

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