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Hat tip to Highjive. “After convincing so many that it was invincible to criticism and no more than a fresh voice of the street that was holding up a mirror and expressing unpleasant truths through its music and its poetry, the hip-hop dragon has begun to
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“The woman has already demonstrated cultural cluelessness with more popular minority groups. Prospective clients ought to wonder why Salzman should be trusted with any non-White audience. Or for that matter, any White audience.”
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Even with the best intentions, Asian actors get screwed. Read this account of how this actor’s Reno 911 appearance was edited so that it changed from him faking an Asian accent to him actually being a walking stereotype.
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Hat tip to AAM. Here’s “an honest, candid glimpse at his pre-show jitters and concerns, gripes about a stolen messenger bag…and his hopes for what West 32nd might contribute to the greater scope of Asian American popular culture.”
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“If you’re going to be in the Miami area for the opening, though you may want to get used to saying El Hombre Araña 3. That’s because film goers there can watch Peter Parker speaking Spanish since there will be a dubbed version available on the big scree
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“In Chicago in 1886 labor activists held a general strike demanding an 8 hour day. Lucy Parsons Gonzalez, an African-, Native- and Mexican-, mother to two children and possibly born a slave in Texas, was leader in the strike along with her husband.”
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“Prosecutors in a revived civil rights-era case are trying to persuade a federal judge to allow a television interview that Gilbert, who died in 2004, gave in 2000 to be used as evidence in the trial of reputed Klansman James Ford Seale.”
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“Five members of a self-styled militia were denied bail Tuesday after a federal agent testified they planned a machine gun attack on Mexicans, but a judge approved bail for a sixth man.”
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“Angry over recent raids and frustrated with Congress, thousands of people protested across the country Tuesday to demand a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. From Phoenix to Detroit to Miami…”
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“Among students at 28 top U.S. universities, the representation of black students of first- and second-generation immigrant origin (27 percent) was about twice their representation in the national population of blacks their age (13 percent).”
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“They started with free meth samples. The men pursued Indian women, providing them with meth even as they romanced them and fathered their children. Eventually, the women needed to support their habit, so they became dealers, too…”
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“Thx Zhu. “A coming paper by a University of Pennsylvania professor and a Cornell University graduate student says that, during the 13 seasons from 1991 through 2004, white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white..
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Thx Latoya. “At the end of the night we were finally introduced, but he was so full on, straight away – talking about how I was a delicious chocolate thing. Then he started to churn out more chat-up lines, like, ‘Don’t you want to be my leading lady?”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
deb wrote:
Bobby DeNiro has a notorious thing for, uh, “chocolate things” but I’m shocked that after a lifetime of hollering at black girls he doesn’t have better game.
Word. To jack a (Michael Eric) Dysonism…DeNiro’s got a serious racial “epidermal fetish.”
Posted 03 May 2007 at 9:12 am ¶
Angel H. wrote:
Re: Robert DeNiro
Has he actually ever dated a Black woman out in the open before?
Posted 03 May 2007 at 9:28 am ¶
bertie wrote:
Angel–DeNiro has been married to a couple of black women. In fact, his current wife–yes he is currently married despite his attempt to mack–is black. So the answer to your question is yes.
At first I was also suprised that he had no game. But then I thought of his status–multi millionaire movie star–and realized he doesn’t need game.
Well if he gets any flack, he can always say rap cds made him do it.
Posted 03 May 2007 at 11:04 am ¶
deb wrote:
I’m thinking: “Has he ever dated a black woman in the closet?!” I know he’s had a couple of black wives and dated Toukie Smith. At some point, he fell of the wagon and dated Uma Thurman! (I’ve always thought she looked like she might be “passing” .)
Posted 03 May 2007 at 2:10 pm ¶
eric daniels wrote:
LOLOLOL I love De Niro but his mack was off on Jamelia. Oh to be white, male and rich. I am more concerned about these miltia’s proposed attack on Mexicans at the borders, these idiots are making Americans unsafe and subject to attack from inside North America. I frankly don’t care about De Niro’s failed attempt to some ‘Brown Suga’ and the right’s B.S. attempt to equate poverty and black unemployment to Latin
Immirgrants.
Sorry folks, but illegal Immirgration is not the reason for black unemployment, it’s a combination of racism, personal preference and cronyism whether that be Unions, Police departments or blue and white collar jobs. Until a democratic nominee for President advocates a living wage, I will continue to vote for Green Party candiates because the main reason that poor Black Men abandon families because mainly they can’t support their children fiancially.
Stats have shown when poor Black Men have the job and money they will support their families and marry the mother of their children ergo that is why I am for a living wage. and to focus on some aging white actor who loves the “sistas” is wasteful.
Posted 03 May 2007 at 6:34 pm ¶
Kesha wrote:
this militia business is seriously frightening.
Posted 03 May 2007 at 8:05 pm ¶
hoo_boy wrote:
Oh my, hot young female celebrity new kid on the block at party meets aging lothario legend who has proclivities and oversized ego and shrinking ‘nads that aren’t proportionate to the libido? Egads! Not that he has a right to hit on anything female that moves, but it’s to be expected, and she handled herself well, all things considered.
Giving Bobby D. a pass on this one, lame pick-up lines and all.
He’s 1/4 Italian (the rest is French, Dutch, German on his momma’s side, and 1/2 Irish 1/2 Italian from his dad). Don’t care what the “Europeans don’t count” crowd say– mixed is mixed: he’s multiculti , so deal.
He’s also a healthy bounder and noted rogue with a *very* well-konwn healthy appetite for vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate who to takes his extra heaping scoops of the latter, especially given his trips to Africa via Italy in the past. At least he knows the culture well, given his donations and interest in the geography and history.
And he knows what he likes and appreciates it. So why the hell is this a big deal from given all the other news floating around.
He also did right by his first wife, African-American actor Diahnne Abbott, from back in the 70s and 80s. as he adopted her daughter Dreena and they had a good looking son Raphael. He’s also got smart, successful, handsome twin sons Julian and Aaron by his long-time African-American companion actor Toukie Smith (y’all remember her from “227″?) who he did right by.
Then there was African-American flight attendant Grace Hightower, whom he married in 1999, after they had a beautiful son Elliot in 1998, but split, and then hooked up again to renew their vows in 2004 and but decided to call it quits again soon after Too bad they divorce was never made official. Again, none of this is news.
And as far back as 1981, he was the first of the Hollywood celebrities to “sport a ribbon” at the Oscars in honor of the black children slain and terrorized by the serial killer in Atlanta
So he’s human, a man, and makes some f’d up personal decisions. If he has the stones at his age to play the game as he feels like it, I say let him try, as long as he remembers to cover his wagers responsibly. He likes what he likes. Doesn’t mean he’ll get it all the time, but let him try.
Posted 03 May 2007 at 8:13 pm ¶
Ananse wrote:
Um, as welcome as the H-P news is, it actually isn’t all that groundbreaking.
Back in 2000, in the midst of “digital divide” mania, Gateway and the online portal Quepasa.com entered into a huge marketing alliance, whereby the former launched a massive campaign to target Hispanics through Spanish-language customer services and products. Gateway bought like an 8% stake in the online portal and became the exclusive equipment seller for the site.
Too bad Gateway had quality control, supply chain, and customer service issues during the dot.com bust; and Quepasa had management and identity crisis issues amid the Web 2.0 explosion: Then this might’ve been remembered for what it was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway,_Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quepasa
For folks who take this seriously, the bigger news is not Lou Dobb’s and H-P, it’s that marketing– traditional and more creative affinity branding efforts alike– continue to suffer for one simple reason: the bulk of the main content and materials are geared towards either (a) an *Spanish-speaking* crowd on *English-speaking* media, or (b) *English-thinking* technologies through *Spanish-speaking* media.
It doesn’t help that Hispanic-focused agencies are rarely engaged in hardcore marketing without “guidance” from larger (i.e. traditional) agency “partners”, and when they are, they’re forced to play it conservative and cheap in the marketing budgets and strategies. So that means tried and true media, messages, and approaches that won’t properly/effectively connect the products with the potential audiences.
Also, there’s evidence that shows that more Hispanics are consuming that same English-language media outlets as the general population as much as Spanish-language media. That’s why if you’re going to bother marketing at all, and hobbling relevant marketing efforts by agencies that know the markets by cutting off their ability to move product based on value and creativity, there’s better luck hit general-market media with simply the same products and translated messages if you’re going to bother marketing at all.
This will all change the more viable options exist online that do more than mimic English-language sites and marketers look to do more than simply sell products to people of color who can currently get them anywhere they choose.
Posted 03 May 2007 at 8:54 pm ¶
Brad wrote:
The militia thing is downright scary. I mean the level of firepower these maniacs were ready to unleash on the level of a small platoon of GI’s.
Grenade launcher from a rifle
12500 rounds of ammunition
200 homemade grenades
1 sawed off shotgun
3 automatics weapons
I’m for the 2nd ammendment too
but this is ridiculous.
Posted 03 May 2007 at 9:04 pm ¶
Luke Pharma wrote:
Re: Marian Salzman
The exposing of another example of culturally exploitive “spin” was most appreciated, and this Marian Salzman seems like the epitome in the industry.
She apparently majored in sociology– specializing in Middle Eastern studies (!)– at Brown University then went to Harvard. Given the advertising and PR industries’ well-known lily-white reputation for discriminiation and recruiting the same types of folks, is it any wonder public tastes and opinion continue to get influenced by the likes of these folks and their ideas?
But I give the girl credit (since she’s good at claiming it for herself and yet making it look as if she merely seizes opportunities to label happenings others miss): trends rarely leave the station without a conductor or an engineer…
Posted 05 May 2007 at 6:08 pm ¶