DCentric

Good morning, DCentric readers! How are you on this fine, gray Friday?

On Black People and Homophobia “The Black community was blamed for Proposition 8‘s failure in California, anti-gay leaders exist and are well publicized, and there is an ongoing discussion of homophobia in hip-hop. Often, it looks like straight Black folks are more homophobic than any other group, especially white people. But, that has rarely been my experience. Inquisitive? Yes. Inappropriate questions at times? Of course…But I don’t think that constitutes a more homophobic community, which is what I take issue with.” (Racialicious)

Texas Executes White Supremacist Convicted Of Racially Motivated Murder “[The victim's] son, Ross, says he doesn’t want Brewer to die for his crime. He tells Reuters an execution won’t solve anything, and that Texas should show Brewer the mercy that his father never received.” (npr.org)

Obama’s favorability numbers start to drop among African Americans “the decline is tied to the disproportionately high jobless rate faced by African Americans correlates with the drop in their view of Obama’s handling of the economy. In July, only 54 percent of blacks said they thought Obama’s policies were making the economy better compared with 77 percent the previous year.” (The Washington Post)

D.C. fires second employee at DOES “The department did not release the name of the employee or detail the cause for termination, but sources familiar with the matter said an employee failed to notify his superiors of outside concerns that pointed to possible fraud inside the unemployment compensation office.” (Washington Times)

Washington billionaires on Forbes 400 list “Bill Gates and Warren Buffett remain the two richest men in America, but 12 Washington-area billionaires are on Forbes Magazine’s new Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. Ranking highest locally is Jacqueline Mars, worth an estimated $13.8 billion, according to Forbes.” (bizjournals.com)