links for 2007-04-27
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protest racist radio this friday in nyc – angry asian man
“The good guys over at Fallout Central have also uncovered and posted two other previous racist segments by the unfunny pair: “You rike a fortune cookie?” and “Rice pickles.” It seems that making fun of Asians is a regular feature on their show. That’s ra
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NAACP CALLS ON COMMUNITY, INDUSTRIES TO STOP! – NAACP
Thx Adina. “The STOP Campaign — an initiative of the NAACP Youth & College Division — seeks to “stop” demeaning African American images in the media, particularly with respect to the portrayal of African American women.”
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Don’t Blame Hip-Hop – New York Times
Thx Zhu! “Asked what he would do if he were living next door to a serial killer, Cam’ron merely shrugged and said he would move. The segment said remarkably little about the fear and anger that might help create such an anti-police culture.”
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TV producer accused of racism, sexism – Reuters
Thx Adina. ” A Hollywood union has accused an executive producer of “Law & Order: SVU” of making racist and sexist remarks, claiming he often refers to Asian-Americans as “Chinamen.”"
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Brad wrote:
What’s up with the NAACP link. It says it is suing The North Hudson Fire Dept. When I clicked on it all I got was the new campaign about Msyogny against african-american women. I was interested in that article cause I’m in the Fire Academy now. Anyone know what happened to it?
Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 8:41 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Oh my bad – they must have titled that page wrong and I didn’t notice/change it. I’ll update now.
Found the fire dept link for you though, Brad:
http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2007-04-13/
Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 8:49 am ¶
Rob wrote:
Heh. It gets better and better.
The producer that kept using the phrase “Chinamen” is married to an Asian woman.
Just like that idiot, JV, that aired that racist Chinese skit.
Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 5:18 pm ¶
Vandia wrote:
I just came from NY. I should have read your post earlier Carmen. I sure would have joined the rally outside CBS. Please keep us posted…..
Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 7:16 pm ¶
fgs_sfdg wrote:
“Heh. It gets better and better.
The producer that kept using the phrase “Chinamen” is married to an Asian woman.
Just like that idiot, JV, that aired that racist Chinese skit.”
Ahhhh!!! lol. It shouldn’t even be considered irony anymore, unless you’ve been living under a rock.
Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 7:21 pm ¶
Brad wrote:
Thanx Carmen
That’s a shame. I’m going through the academy right now. I’m not all that shocked that certain Departments do like to keep their Fire-houses as white-males club.
Down here there really isn’t a problem with racism but sexism is much more prevalent. When I was doing my volunteer hours at several local fire-houses for EMT school once all females leave the room the dirty jokes start flying (not that the women wouldn’t jump in a heartbeat). Last year Two female Fire/Medics with Clearwater Fire-Rescue sued the Fire-Chief for discrimination after they lost promotions to two clearly underqualified men.
Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 9:27 pm ¶
eric daniels wrote:
Who cares, I don’t have high expectations of white americans nor do I care what they say about minorites. It’s time for African- Americans to ‘let whites go’ they have moral confusion on issues of race and will never accept us as equals so is it surprising a producer of a hit show would use ethnic slurs and is married to another minority Nope. It made that ‘liberal’ white guy more bold, in his behavior to say ’see I am not racist I have sex with these women and married to an Asian woman.
I have only a few expectations, that you don’t use the law to racially harass me in any way (fat chance) enforce the laws of this society without regard to race ( lololol)
and leave me the hell alone and don’t violate my space ( which never happens) if white americans did those things I would be pleasantly surprised so let white americans be themselves in all their anti P.C. glory.
whether it be racial, sexual or homophobic, they can suffer the consequences of their words or actions.
Posted 30 Apr 2007 at 6:00 pm ¶