links for 2007-03-26
Mel Gibson Goes Ballistic — “Lady, F**k Off!”
Thx Tereza! “Mel Gibson exploded in anger last night on a college campus after an expert on Mayan culture accussed him of racially stereotyping the Mayans in the movie “Apocalypto.”"
(tags: racism celebrities indigenous movies)
Meet the Mandingos – Details Blog
Thx Latoya! “Within an hour or so, the guests—23 white couples and 3 black couples—have arrived, all of them here specifically to have sex with single black men often a decade or two their junior…They call themselves Mandingos. And this is a Mandingo party.”
(tags: racialfetishes black africanamerican interracialrelationships)
Forming a Hate Group – PrideSource
Thx Tereza! “The leaders are not wild men driven wild by their sick racism,” Ezekial said. “What they really are, are people looking for power.”
(tags: whitesupremacy racism)
Despite controversy, Disney could unlock ‘Song of the South’ – staugustine.com
Thx Sylvia! “the movie remains hidden in the Disney archives — never released on video in the United States and criticized as racist for its depiction of Southern plantation blacks. The film’s 60th anniversary passed last year without a whisper”
Multiracial mirrors – Orlando Sentinel
Thx Geraly! Tiger Woods and Barack Obama. “Their intersecting stories give us a compass for charting America’s changing geography of race, culture and identity. Both men position themselves across old black-white lines in a new hybrid model of multiracial
Viewpoint: What’s wrong with ‘Irish I was sober’ – Viewpoints
Thx Geraly! “This student, who most likely is not Irish, was wearing a shirt that perpetuates an incredibly negative stereotype about my heritage. Because I’m considered the white majority, am I somehow not worth political correctness?”
(tags: white whiteprivilege stereotypes)
Shirley Q: comedy in error? – Kentucky.com
Thx Krys! “He is also the man behind Shirley Q. Liquor, a black welfare mother with 19 children, whom he plays in a pink wig, vibrant eye shadow and a liberal slathering of dark-skin foundation.”
Racial incidents in Eugene drive lesson home to Portland students – OregonLive.com
Thx Mark! “Roosevelt High School students…learned a painful, real-world lesson about intolerance last week when a rainbow coalition of their classmates encountered hostile supporters from three other schools during the state boys basketball tournament i
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