So Major League Baseball has shut down a Philadelphia t-shirt vendor who parodied logos of baseball teams with the word ‘Obama.’ For real, though? That’s all they had to do? No worries about this steroids scandal that has embroiled two if its biggest stars. Naw. Get that t-shirt guy!

I think Jeremy’s spot-on in his assessment of which missing persons the media focuses on. Young white girl? It makes the news. Not a young white girl? Not so much.

The really smart part is that Jeremy points out the racist nature of this focus while noting that most people wouldn’t recognize this as being racist.

Here’s a great set of color pictures from pre-WW II America from a very old post at The Daily Kos.

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