Posts by Andrew Ti

  • Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent in Cloud Atlas

    Yo, Is This Racist? Race-Bending Our Way Around Cloud Atlas

    From time to time, Grantland racial issues correspondent Andrew Ti stops by to discuss whatever’s been blowing up the inbox at Yo, Is This Racist? Today, the Cloud Atlas epic gets its reckoning. One nice thing about the film industry is the fact that, no matter how offensive any idea was the first time around, […]

  • Paltrow

    The ‘Yo, Is This Racist?’ Month in Racism for May: The Color of Wackness

    In an effort to keep up with some of the larger issues in the media, every month Grantland Racial Issues Correspondent Andrew Ti will be rounding up some of the biggest questions to hit the Yo, Is This Racist? inbox. Ashton Kutcher and Jason Biggs: Indian Edition May kicked off on a surprising note: A […]

  • 30 Rock

    The ‘Yo, Is This Racist?’ Month in Racism for April: Our Token Black(face) Friend

    In an effort to keep up with some of the larger issues in the media, every month Grantland Racial Issues Correspondent Andrew Ti will be rounding up some of the biggest questions to hit the Yo, Is This Racist? inbox. Blackface on 30 Rock! (30 Rock, “Live From Studio 6H”) Ok, first up this month […]

  • Billy Crystal

    Yo, Is This Racist? Oscar Analysis: How Many People Had to Approve Billy Crystal in Blackface?

    Oh boy. In a year where Hollywood was already on extra-thin (and OK, fine, mildly complex) ice with its adulation of the “Why won’t anyone think of the white people?” rewrite of history in The Help, the 84th Academy Awards were already going to be a bit of a potential racism minefield. But for that […]

  • Souper Bowl I: Anatomy of an Extremely Overanalyzed Upset

    (4) French Onion over (1) Pho — 3,862 votes to 2,726 A rivalry going back more than a century. (Let’s just peg it to the French colonization for, you know, fun.) A history steeped (simmered?) in deep working-class roots. Star anise. A shitload of onions. As the dust settled on Day 3 of Souper Bowl […]

  • 2 Broke Girls

    Yo, Is This Racist? 2 Broke Girls and the New Long Duk Dong We Never Asked For

    Andrew Ti, the beaten-down mind behind Yo, Is This Racist? brings his talents to the world of media to periodically search for the most racist character in TV and movies. First, let’s get the obvious out of the way. After executive producer Michael Patrick King’s surly-ass and hilariously defensive performance at the TCA press tour, […]