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Thx Kimberly! “Democratic presidential candidates crave the Latino and black vote, but ignore the Drug War’s unfair toll on people of color.”
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Thx Luke! “I’ve got big-time lawyers,” said former NBA All-Star Micheal Ray Richardson. “I’ve got big-time Jew lawyers.” And that’s just the beginning of his remarks.
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Hat tip to Oh Word. “There is a certain irony inherent to an episode in which an elite black athlete praised successful Jewish professionals for being “crafty.”…White athletes are called “cerebral”; black athletes are called “athletic.”
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“The very fact of Jeff Chang’s stewardship of this book suggests that hip-hop is not a blacks-only art. But the book is a confused mess, reluctant or unable to offer any clear view of hip-hop aesthetics…”
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Thx Geraly. “the two men got out of their car at the residence and reportedly threatened Brown, shouting racial slurs and allegedly pulling out a handgun and hitting brown in the face. He said they also pushed his wife to the ground.”
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Thx Deb! “A white woman who claims she was racially harassed by “jokes” insulting black people has won the right to take her case to an employment tribunal.”
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“Where are Obama’s non-white relatives? We see the black wife and kids everywhere, snippets of his Indonesian half sister, but where is little ol’ white granny?”
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“Most Americans just rolled over and surrendered when Arab terrorists took over the government and the media, but not Michelle Malkin. She’s fighting back. By starting a club. All you have to do to join is report everyone you see who seems to be a foreign
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Look at the response Sarah got when she pointed out to her classmates why a theme party where you dress as your favorite stereotype might be a bad idea.
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“Leaders of the civil rights organizations that initiated the protest against AsianWeek’s publication of a hate speech column against African Americans today noted the newspaper’s decision to remove Samson Wong as editor-in-chief.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Angel H. wrote:
Even though I really do admire the woman for speaking out against the racist material she was receiving, I can’t help but feel that had she’d been black, it wouldn’t have even made the news.
Posted 31 Mar 2007 at 12:50 pm ¶
merq wrote:
True, Angel H.
But that may just be more to do with the criteria by which media outlets determine newsworthiness. Filing harrassment over insults to one’s “own race” has far less novelty than one being offended by insults to groups of others.
’cause as we’ve all learned from racists everywhere is that they don’t expect a black man to be offended by anti-semitic or anti-asian rhetoric.
Posted 01 Apr 2007 at 1:24 am ¶
Ananse wrote:
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Re: Abrams review of Jeff Chang’s book:
This should have been the summary used for link, since it provides a better encapsulation of Abrams’s review and his overall theme regarding the inherent tension of trying to capture the essence of hip-hop qua pure art with either dilutiing or overblowing it:
“This throws into relief the process by which American mainstream culture has engulfed this one subculture. Hip-hop is no longer limited to black practitioners, just as jazz is neither an African nor a Western musical style — it is the sum of its parts, and is a fully American art form. Perhaps it’s easiest to say that at this point, you don’t have to be black to try your hand at hip-hop. But it wouldn’t hurt.”
Since it precedes the lext actually used, and echoes a deeper level of complexity raised throughout the review, including key sentiments made by Ralph Ellison, I have to wonder if there’s just a beef against Chang?
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Re: Harassment article
This is huge and less an issue of media bias, more an issue of a stacked legal system. It’s the equivalent of man obtaining legal standing to sue for sexual harassment in the workplace against a hypothetical employer versus simply his boss on that grounds that the creation of a hostile workplace can harm anyone regardless of gender, within a system that would traditionally only recognizes claims made by women against men.
White female hearing sordid anti-black jokes true scores media buzz. Lost in translation: UK newspaper known for interest on such issues more than US media which barely tracks workplace discrimination stories; incidents took place while she worked for her local government; she suffered possible retaliation as a whistleblower and also possible sexual harassment as well; and jokes involved well-known British figures and American disaster. Media interest would be high for salaciousness, no?
Absolutely true, harassment among member’s of one’s own race doesn’t generate media attention. Media attention, in turn however, doesn’t provide a basis for legal standing to sue. VIctims have had to suffer enough shame up to that point and are fearing shame, reprisals, and threats, so need for anonymity should they choose to pursue legal action is warranted.
Good theoretical point, though: Folks fed up with insulting or offensive behavior by others within their own racial categories, such that now, for example, blacks want to finally sue blacks for not only saying the “N” word, but for making demeaning jokes and stereotypes, etc..? The right to obtain standing to sue for “intraracial harassment”, by third parties who overhear offensive words in meetings and on the street as well, barring appropriate workplace rules in place and First Amendment safeguards in effect. I’m waiting to see this, and can’t wait to get in line with my lawyer.
Posted 01 Apr 2007 at 4:01 pm ¶
kim wrote:
What’s going on with the article on Obama and non-white granny? It’s a jumbled, hairy mess.
Posted 01 Apr 2007 at 5:43 pm ¶
FEB wrote:
Re: Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin = Ann Coulter (in yellowface)
Posted 01 Apr 2007 at 5:48 pm ¶
yousername wrote:
The white woman with the harrassment lawsuit is an upstanding human being. She could have just sat back and ignored everything that was going on, as so many people do…
Posted 02 Apr 2007 at 1:57 am ¶
Meg wrote:
re: michelle malkin – i realise this story was posted for a serious purpose, but that pledge was one of the funniest things i’ve ever read. Unless ppl are taking it seriously, in which case i guess i should be scared and more to the point anyone who is “of middle eastern appearance” is just in for a continued rough time. Here in australia our fearless leader merely issued all households with anti-terror fridge magnets, no pledge for us
Posted 02 Apr 2007 at 3:11 am ¶
m wrote:
People need to get over Obama and the race issue. These articles are getting real tired. Maybe his grandmother his ill, maybe she doesn’t want any publicity. She doesn’t owe the public anything. People are reaching now in their criticism of Barak Obama.
Posted 02 Apr 2007 at 9:55 am ¶
Vandia wrote:
In the article dealing with the white woman who was ” harrassed by anti-black racism” there is a line which mentions about the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster together with the flooding of New Orleans.
On the 5th of February,2004 21 chinese cockle pickers drowned in Lancashire, England after being caught in fast-rising tides. I just described that incident with some detail because, as is usually the case, a racist does not target one particular minority. It is very hard to compartmentalize hate and once you start thinking that way about a particular group of people, it is very easy to reduce other people who look different or are different to certain stereotypes.
The people who harassed her and who wrote those e-mails about New Orleans or the Lancashire incident have failed fundamentally to relate to the people who died in those great tragedies-black people and Chinese immigrants.
Posted 02 Apr 2007 at 1:33 pm ¶