Cindy Bass - Stu Bykofsky

Racism

Mayor’s team plays the race card, of course

Let’s agree there’s more than one way to skin a cat, but no one should want to skin a cat. Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping used to say he didn’t care what color a cat was, as long at it caught mice. Curiously — because cats are curious — this

Culture

When blackface is (a) fine

Using blackface is a sin, in a secular sense, but should it be a crime? City Councilwoman Cindy Bass thinks so, and has introduced a bill to make wearing blackface a crime, with a $75 fine. She thus reduces something really hateful to something like a parking ticket. This issue