-
“what is most interesting is that by doing a search in Google, a lot of other people – and not just people of colour, by the way – have also commented on the racial stereotyping in the movie. So it’s not just black paranoia….yipee!”
-
“Burns has dealt with criticism that there was not enough attention in the documentary paid to Latinos. Last week, he said he added nearly a half hour to his film, with separate new stories about two Latino veterans and an American Indian veteran that wil
-
“Reporters from a variety of newspapers…made lame comparisons between the mayor’s affair and telenovelas, Spanish-language soap operas. Do you think they didn’t write “soap opera” because the English-language versions lack sufficient sex and intrigue?”
-
“A group of Pygmy musicians were temporarily lodged in a Republlic of Congo zoo while visiting Brazzaville for a music festival. Visitors to the zoo snapped photos as the 22 pygmies collected wood from the zoo forest and cooked their meals.”
-
“he was the man from Ebony and Jet magazines, which meant, in a symbolic manner, beginning in the 1950s, he was the man from Negro and black America with a press pass. He was all over the South — before it became a beat and a newspaper cause — writing u
-
“Michael Richards…has gone “Siddhartha”: He is on a spiritual journey in Cambodia. “That night, when I was insulted and disrupted, I lost my heart; I lost my sense of humor,” Richards said of his night of shame.”
-
Another white woman shares her feelings about race with us. ” In going around a single block, I got stares. Mine was the only white face around, and for five minutes, five blocks from my home, I was a stranger in a strange land.”
-
“Not only did Georgia DA McDade release a video of underage teens having sex in order to bolster his non-existent case against Genarlow Wilson, but he did not even make an effort to obscure the faces of the other individuals on the tape.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Wendi Muse wrote:
re: pygmies at the zoo
um, i thought we killed these people exhibits in the early 1900s…i.e. world’s fair…why are we still doing this? why didn’t they put them in apartments/hotels like any other visiting musicians/entertainers??!?!?
Posted 18 Jul 2007 at 8:29 am ¶
Wendi Muse wrote:
re: feeling way too white
i wish people would stop trying to use these lame excuses for the readership/audience to pardon their racism: “Of course, I’m that kind of white American for whom this shouldn’t be true. I grew up in the 1970s, singing “We Shall Overcome” at school assemblies. I’ve had black bosses, written about Kwanzaa, and know what Juneteenth is. I even have a black cousin!”
i think that the power of the media and sometimes actual experiences lend themselves to completely destroying any initial unity/connection, on varying levels of superficiality or depth of course, so i don’t know why their internalized racism comes as such a shock. it’s like…ok good for you, u know some colored people and now you have problems with them. either get over it or work on your issue, but i don’t need to know your entire life story in the process…
Posted 18 Jul 2007 at 9:58 am ¶
eric daniels wrote:
Way too white : Another white female full of angst because she finally sees the racial distance between her black neighbors. I am racially fatigued to be honest, 25 years of Reagan,Limbaugh, Bob Grant ,Ann Coulter , white shock jocks ,white male conservative racial backlash along with centrist liberal BS has hardened me personally and I am not interested in either ‘colorblindness’ or the serious talk Hauser and other whites/others desire. White America’s mind games have done great mental, emotional and physical damage to Black America, like Europe it’s time we saved ourselves.
Maybe I am sounding racist ,but I don’t care anymore reading about liberal white female fear of Blacks , This story is getting as old as old 80 year white Presidents of colleges using the N-Word, then blaming a 34 y.o. music, dance, art culture. If older Blacks want to have this discussion then that’s them but there are more issues I am more interested in being a mentor for young Black Children than what passes for racial dialouge in 2007.
Posted 18 Jul 2007 at 1:10 pm ¶
Rob wrote:
Regarding the Transformers movie, Jazz was black and happened to die in the most horrific way possible.
Posted 18 Jul 2007 at 2:16 pm ¶
Blanky wrote:
Regarding the Transformers movie, Jazz was silver and talked like the stereotype of a wigger. And Megatron, silverly-white, happened to die in the most horrific way possible.
Posted 18 Jul 2007 at 4:02 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Re: the Richards’ article - “That night, when I was insulted and disrupted, I lost my heart; I lost my sense of humor,”
He was insulted? He MUST have gotten back his sense of humor.
Posted 18 Jul 2007 at 6:25 pm ¶
WomunOfColour wrote:
“Richards does seem to have learned one glorious lesson: Poverty-stricken peoples are actually happier than people who can afford to eat.”
What?
Posted 19 Jul 2007 at 7:05 pm ¶