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“The most incendiary notion in “Baby Love” may be that, for Ms. Walker, being a stepparent or adoptive parent involves a lesser kind of love than the love for a biological child.”
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Thx ananser! “It looks as though Black Entertainment Television is about to dial back the booty-and-rerun quotient. Dauman promised “at least 10 new shows this year” and said that BET seeks to expand across multiple media platforms to satisfy its predomin
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Thx Tereza! “The Walt Disney Co. has started production on an animated musical fairy tale called “The Frog Princess,” which will be set in New Orleans and feature the Walt Disney Studio’s first black princess.”
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Thx Geraly! “What I know she’s getting at is that some people say that many gay men who are perhaps still in the closet date Asian women to cover up for the fact that they’re gay. “
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Thx Tereza! “the Jersey Guys, are calling on their listeners to turn over people suspected of lacking immigration documents to immigration authorities. They call their campaign: “Operation Rat-a-Rat/La Cucha-Gotcha”
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Thx Geraly! “”Disney’s message of inter-racial harmony is clear…It doesn’t matter what color your skin is. What matters is that you are beautiful, good, submissive, materialistic, and willing to play the game.”
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Thx Sylvia! “A panel of Georgia lawmakers signed off Thursday on a plan to create a Confederate heritage month, even as legislative leaders reacted coolly to a push to apologize for the state’s role in slavery.”
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Thx Sylvia! “Hurst walked into the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science this past week and saw an exhibit by Sims, including a Confederate flag hung from a noose on a 13-foot gallows in a display titled “The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag.”
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Thx Kyla! “New evidence shows that blacks and Latinos in Boston were more likely to get a high-cost, subprime mortgage when purchasing a home than were white borrowers at the same financial institutions.”
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Rob wrote:
Those idiotic Jersey Guys’ rhetoric is nothing new. A few years ago, they reported that they don’t care how many Asians are in the town of Edison, only Americans should be able to decide who gets into office.
Posted 19 Mar 2007 at 8:25 am ¶
FEB wrote:
Re: New Jersey shock-jocks
Idiotic, ignorant, and hateful: these are three words that come to mind after reading about these racist radio jockeys. I’m guessing that the surnames “Carton” and “Rossi” are Irish and Italian respectively.
Among all whites, those who came from the second wave European immigration (Irish, Italian, Eastern European Jew), should have greater tolerance of Latin American immigrants (legal or not), given the type of nativist bigotry their ancestors faced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. How quickly people forget. The level of bigotry was such that nativists WASPs basically called the Irish and Italians the “niggers of Europe.”
So to the new immigrants I say, “Welcome to the United States of Amnesia!!! If you manage not to get deported, your descendents will have the opportunity to spew out the same xenophobic drivel as these stupid radio jockeys.”
Posted 19 Mar 2007 at 11:13 am ¶
FEB wrote:
Re: Confederate Month & Flag
How come Germany is able understand how the symbols of their Nazi past evoke horror and revulsion to Jews and non-Jews alike, while white Southerners are able to get away with a flag that’s come to represent the dehumanization and enslavement of black people, as well as Klan terrorism?
Posted 19 Mar 2007 at 11:56 am ¶
kim wrote:
“…while white Southerners are able to get away with a flag that’s come to represent the dehumanization and enslavement of black people…”
The understanding that the label ‘human’ be applied to Black, then followed up with ‘people,’ is probably the most alien concept of all for those who wish to exalt and extoll the glories and generational pride of the Confederate Southerner and his/her descendants.
Posted 19 Mar 2007 at 1:50 pm ¶
FEB wrote:
“The understanding that the label ‘human’ be applied to Black, then followed up with ‘people,’ is probably the most alien concept of all for those who wish to exalt and extoll the glories and generational pride of the Confederate Southerner and his/her descendants.”
No matter what rationalizations Confederate advocates use, the bottom line is that the South fought a bloody war for the right to keep other human beings as slaves.
I have yet to hear a Confederate apologist give a straight answer to this question:
“What does paying tribute to the cause of ‘Southern Indepence’ mean to African-Americans?”
The answer is simple: continued slavery.
Posted 19 Mar 2007 at 8:45 pm ¶
Anu wrote:
yay for the first Black princess! I’ve always wondered if Nala from Lion King was the closest we were gonna get. Is that what they think of us? I’ve loved every Disney princess movie except Snow White since I was little. Mulan is my favorite because she kicked ass and took names. I have low expectations for the Black princess movie, so I’m hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
Posted 19 Mar 2007 at 10:48 pm ¶
Brad wrote:
Two Things I would like to comment the confedrate flag story and the gay guys with asian women stories.
First off while I think the artist was definetely tying to start a argument. I always think that when I hear ” Im just trying to start a dialogue”. I just have to roll my eyes whenever I hear that. Anyway back to what I was saying I don’t understand why southerners insist on flying the stars and bars and not the national flag. If anyone is confused there are actually TWO confedrate flags: the infamous stars and bars design, the one we are familiar with and a national flag that was designed with a red&white stripe and 13 stars representing the 13 original colonies. I understand they wish to honor the southern combat troops, many were not racists and in fact some of are deserving of being honored such as a confederate soldier Sgt Richard Kirkland who during the battle of Fredericksburg helped and comforted nearly 100 wounded and dying union soldiers (some of whom he shot himself) despite the threat of court martial and being killed by union troops (I’m a history buff for those who haven’t noticed yet) I’m not a southern apologist in fact Im telling this story as an argument AGAINST the stars&bars. Aren’t their other symbols that can be used to honor southern soldiers like Sgt. Kirkland? Like the national Flag of the confederacy?
As for the story on whether closeted gay men are dating asian women to avoid being suspected of being gay, as a white guy dating an asian female thats a sterotype I have yet to encounter. For me the sterotypes have always been ” He likes the exotic types” , “He must like submissive women”, ” He can’t handle a strong white woman” . I wonder exactly how many think that when they see me and my gf?
Posted 20 Mar 2007 at 12:13 am ¶
FEB wrote:
Re: Confederate flag & month
Brad,
I don’t dispute your assertion that there were Confederate soldiers who were gallant and chivalrous, or that a significant numbers of them were poor and never owned slaves, unlike the plantation aristocracy.
What I do contend is the demeanor in which Southern soldiers are memorialized. Instead of remembering the Civil War as the tragedy, Confederate apologists and revisionists prefer glorifying the Southern cause.
Posted 20 Mar 2007 at 8:23 am ¶