Not since Darth Vader was voiced by James Earl Jones instead of Edward James Olmos have we felt so robbed. This morning’s Gawker points out how an illustrator from The New York Observer gave A-Rod the ol’ blackface treatment, once again illustrating gringo mastery of the subtleties found across our brown rainbow of Latino pigments.

Casual Racism: ‘Observer’ Blacks Up A-Rod [Gawker]
Image [Robert Grossman / NYObserver]
Earlier, General Population, Not Just Media, Struggles to Define Us