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Thanks HighJive! “Suicide Rabbit, introduced in August by Liu Gang, a 35-year-old cartoonist, has attracted a swiftly increasing audience by portraying with gentle humor the million little abuses suffered by Chinese people as their society endures a bumpy
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Thanks HighJive! “State lawmakers on Thursday proposed requiring schools to teach about the Hmong people, saying suspicion of the new immigrants could be eased by an understanding of their past as U.S. allies in the Vietnam War.”
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Hat tip to Rachel! “This is my gut response to the recent NYTimes article, Little Asia on a hill…”
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“Republicans in the Georgia Legislature submitted legislation that would split Atlanta’s white, affluent suburbs from the city’s poor, black neighborhoods…If this proposal goes through, there would be a huge loss of tax revenue that helps to fuel govern
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Thanks Rob! “In the week following the report on the new guidelines, more than one bewildered person said to me, “But I thought there were lots of babies in orphanages in China!” My response was to helplessly reply, “So did I.”…
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Thanks Jason! “The American cultural landscape is hopelessly infested with racism and xenophobia. And as an American of Indian descent, it disgusts me to the core. Sadly, this racism digs deeper than an ignorant fool looking for a laugh on Wikipedia”
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Thanks Phil! “philosopher Julian Baggini spent six months living in Rotherham, Yorkshire. Here, he explains why he doesn’t believe most white Britons are racists - even though he heard racist language almost everywhere he went”
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Just Wondering wrote:
These lines in Baggini’s op-ed are right on the money:
“… most people in this country are not racist, if by that politically abused word we mean race hatred. If, however, we see racism in terms of insensitivity and ignorance, then racism is indeed rife. But then so is insensitivity and ignorance to difference in class, sex, age, region, political persuasion, religious belief and so on, all of which are pretty much universal …”
Posted 29 Jan 2007 at 11:05 am ¶
Anonymous wrote:
Oh, please.
Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another and while it’s not as rife in the UK and America, racism is a word that now encompasses racial stereotyping, discrimination, and prejudice and there is plenty to go around.
The conclusion that racism is dead because it’s mainly a “misunderstand” and “lack of sensitivity” is bunk. Whites in both countries have simply been better at hiding their overt racism.
Posted 29 Jan 2007 at 3:10 pm ¶
Gretchen wrote:
I want to comment on the separation of White/Black Atlanta separation. The reason that Whites want to separate is because they became sick of having their tax dollars go to supporting poor Blacks and not for their benefit. The Blacks are protesting because they will lose all the tax dollars from “Whitey”. Doesn’t this idea go against what you preach on this website, that being that visible minorities don’t need the help of Whites to succeed? That they can make it on their own and that the White Man keeps the Blacks down?
This is a perfect chance to prove otherwise, and to show once and for all that Blacks CAN make it on their own, without anybody’s help.
However, this protest further instills the notion that Blacks need the help of Whites to succeed (survive).
Wouldn’t you agree?
Posted 29 Jan 2007 at 10:52 pm ¶
Anonymous wrote:
I completely disagree. This is not about whether Blacks can “make it on their own” without Whitey. This is about rich vs. poor and is an example of racialized class discrimination.
If the poor community was mainly white, they would be seen as “down on their luck,” “just needing a helping hand,” and “oh its too bad they couldn’t go to college.” The rich whites might complain a little, but it would never get to the point of secession. Instead, the blacks are viewed as lazy and ignorant eyesores who are just leeching off “our” tax money, and “why don’t they just get jobs,” and even “I used to work at McDonald before I got a legacy scholarship to Emory…”
Posted 30 Jan 2007 at 1:24 am ¶
Rob wrote:
This is more of a class issue but it does contain racial overtones.
Rich whites aren’t inclined to assist poor whites; the fact that the poor, in this case, are black makes rich whites even less inclined to help. It would even drive them to isolate themselves from them.
Posted 30 Jan 2007 at 10:20 am ¶
Just Wondering wrote:
If the poor community was mainly white, they would be seen as “down on their luck,” “just needing a helping hand,” and “oh its too bad they couldn’t go to college.” The rich whites might complain a little, but it would never get to the point of secession. Instead, the blacks are viewed as lazy and ignorant eyesores who are just leeching off “our” tax money, and “why don’t they just get jobs,” and even “I used to work at McDonald before I got a legacy scholarship to Emory…”
Talk about stereotyping … amazing that you know exactly what everyone would think and say!
Posted 30 Jan 2007 at 11:06 am ¶
Rob wrote:
If you look into the conversations, subtle racism can be detected but I won’t expect you to acknowledge that fact considering you don’t want to believe it.
Why is during the whole photo controversy, white people with items were called “finders” while the black people with items were called “looters.”
Why is it in yesterday’s New York Post, the article mentioned the criminal’s racial background as “Puerto Rican” when it clearly wasn’t critical to the story?
See, it’s not the fact that people stereotype whites for being racist just because they’re white; it’s because whites have a history of racial bullshit which is still pretty easy to detect. Whites have gotten better at covering up on their overt racism but their subtle racism needs a little more work.
Posted 30 Jan 2007 at 12:57 pm ¶
Rob wrote:
Might I also add that whites still don’t believe that a “glass ceiling” exists today in major corporations despite the fact that it can be proven that minorities make considerably less money for doing the same job.
Posted 30 Jan 2007 at 12:59 pm ¶
Just Wondering wrote:
See, it’s not the fact that people stereotype whites for being racist just because they’re white; it’s because whites have a history of racial bullshit which is still pretty easy to detect
Rob:
Oh, I understand now. “All” whites have a history of racial BS, just like “all” whites still don’t believe in the glass ceiling.
How can you — or Anonymous above — claim to speak for all whites? How do you know what they think or believe?
Posted 30 Jan 2007 at 1:57 pm ¶