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Your blogstress seems to have kicked up a bit of dust with her assertion, on TAPPED (the Weblog of The American Prospect Online ), that nearly all white Americans are racially prejudiced. (No, your cybertrix does not count herself out of this equation.) It all began with a post by the very funny but somewhat sexist Charlie Pierce , who, commenting on the racist meltdown of "Seinfeld" alumn Michael Richards , asserted that the Seinfeld show always spouted prejudices but went on to compare the spouting of prejudice by the misogynist (and often funny) late comic Sam Kinison as preferable to that of the Seinfeld types, who suffered from some form of "maidenly vapors," according to Pierce. Oy vey, to quote a favorite editor of your net-tête 's. This did not amuse Garance Francke-Ruta , one of your Webwench's rare female colleagues at TAPPED, who took Pierce to task for his celebration of the misogynist Kinison, as well as the crappy "vapors" comment...

Maretta J. Short (second from left), the newly elected president of NOW-NJ, is the first African-American to hold the post. She is pictured here at the organization’s March Women Making History event, together with NOW activists Terry Fasano to her left and, to her right, Susan Waldman (holding grandson Joshua), Shirley Henderson and Barbara Foley. photo courtesy NOW-NJ Your blogstress just couldn’t be more tickled to learn that Maretta J. Short , your Webwench’s college friend and nearly lifelong compatriot in la causa , has been elected president of New Jersey’s state-level National Organization for Women (NOW) , which in the most densely populated state in the nation really means something. And she’s the first African-American to hold the post. Maretta, who was nominated from the floor of NOW’s state convention, comes to the organization’s top statewide leadership post from her role as chapter president of the Women of Color & Allies, NOW-NJ’s Essex County chapter. She tell...