- “In my observation from personal experience, almost 100 percent of white people have almost no concept of the “struggle” that African Americans face today. They may think they do, but it’s not so.”
- “No wonder Dave left Chappelle’s Show. I’m sure when if he had tried to have a conversation with Charlie Murphy about whether or not the show was questioning stereotypes or reinforcing them, Murphy wouldn’t have had the slightest idea what he was talking
- “Satender Singh was having a picnic with some friends celebrating a promotion in his job. Days later he was pronounced dead because of a vicious attack on him because of his racial and sexual identity.”
- “More troubling still, yellow-peril imagery has been oozing from the extreme margins into the mainstream. Recently…Food for Health International even became the first to take this “China equals menace” meme to market”
- “there are plenty of American babies who need homes — African-American babies. And more and more of those children are finding homes abroad, especially in Canada, according to people who work in the U.S. adoption field.”
- “A recent study exploring white peoples’ understanding of the black experience in America reveals that whites still drastically underestimate the cost of being black because they don’t want to know or can’t face the consequences.”
- “San Francisco began considering factors like family income, instead of race, in school assignments when it modified a court-ordered desegregation plan in response to a lawsuit.”
- “BET President Reginald Hudlin insists that “Hot Ghetto Mess” is being prejudged — and wrongly so. When the public finally does get a look at the show, they’ll wonder what the controversy was all about, he said. “There’s this presumption that BET has il
- “Film studio Universal Pictures did not sack a black assistant director from the 2003 movie 2 Fast 2 Furious because of his race, a judge has ruled.”
- On banning TinTin. “Even those less interested in the boy reporter’s adventures and more interested in modern race relations must realise this is an important part of our history. Civilised humans do not see black people like this now, so why hide these i
- “here is a clip from the 1990 documentary film, Paris is Burning, which explored race, class, and gender in the United States through a chronicle of ball culture in New York City.”
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
The Same Woman – Thea
I Speak For Myself – Fatemeh
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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