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“Surrounded by massive, widespread, vitriolic criticism of BET’s new show, Hot Ghetto Mess, network execs made a decision to change the program completely. Actually, no. They made a decision to change the name to We Got To Do Better”
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“concern among blacks that whites view them as a monolith of poverty and poor taste…depictions of African-Americans must be precisely calibrated to present an image that counteracts the deleterious effects of “Good Times” and “Soul Plane.”"
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“many black professionals pit their class and racial interests against each other. Wanting to take part in the renaissance of a historic black community, many sacrifice the greater home value and appreciation that would more reliably come from buying in w
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” I wasn’t prepared to see Rob Schneider doing a Japanese caricature that turns back Hollywood’s clock 50 years. We’re talking overbite and goofy glasses. We’re talking Earl Scheib skin tinting. And, of course, “ring” is pronounced ling.”
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“In a speech to college Republicans DeLay said: If we had those 40 million children that were killed [by abortion] over the last 40 years, we wouldn’t need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today. Think about it.”
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Tragic, tragic story for everyone involved. “A Chinese couple regained legal custody of their 8-year-old daughter Monday after a seven-year fight to get her back from what was supposed to be temporary foster care.”
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“After immigration officials seized nine employees at the Ennalls Avenue restaurant…shop employees and patrons said local immigrants were keeping a low profile. Many, they said, are reluctant to shop or show up for work at nearby businesses”
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“if you’re just a spectator on the surface, you might not realize how many of the fashion industry’s biggest movers and shakers behind the scenes are black… I’m talking about Pat McGrath, the genius make up artist with a British and Jamaican herit
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“Michael Savage said Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson “lynched [radio host Don] Imus”…went on to say, “This is what was done in Nazi Germany to Jews.”
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Brilliant! Jenn created a little icon for the racism fairy!
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Anonymous wrote:
Re: Undercover Black Man’s post on yellowface caricature in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry”:
Rob Schneider has never been funny. He’s D-list to the core, if that. The fact that he’s half Filipino means nothing and its a moronic argument that “Well I have Filipino heritage and that’s Asian, so me mocking Japanese for money, of course, is perfectly justified.”
Rather amazingly (note sarcasm) Filipino in fact does not = Japanese, and some Filipinos don’t even particularly consider themselves “Asian” in the first place, but of course in a movie like this any ounce of cultural know-how would weigh too heavy on the average viewers’ small and sensitive “brains.”
Also, I find it sad that in a movie with such a blatantly racist caricature of an Asian person, costar Kevin James is married to and has children with an Asian American woman, and writer Alexander Payne was formerly married to Korean American actress Sandra Oh. And Tila Tequila, also an Asian American female “celebrity,” was in this movie for, what else, T & A.
This is in keeping with the typical white American male ideology that Asian women can be sexy little playthings but Asian men will always be fair comedic game and will be reviled, caricatured and unfailingly perceived as foreign and not normal. Word to some Asian American females: this sort of gender-based disparity in treatment shown by mainstream America doesn’t mean you’re “special” and that you should be flattered. It’s really just more racism topped by misogyny.
Unsurprisingly, white American males were this movie’s target audience, and it looks like they came out on in droves to see it.
Why haven’t any Asian American bloggers jumped on this movie yet? Props to Undercover Black Man in any case.
Posted 25 Jul 2007 at 7:44 am ¶
al wrote:
i can’t even look at the article, but that bit about imus = jew in nazi germany really illustrates the attitude that dipshits have about jews. the implication is that jewish people were doing -something- and the nazis were just overreacting. as opposed to they were just people living their lives.
Posted 25 Jul 2007 at 9:36 am ¶
Gouw wrote:
Savage is a moron, nobody takes seriously. By the way, Jung was Swiss, not a “good German” or whatever the idiot was saying.
Posted 25 Jul 2007 at 4:03 pm ¶
eric daniels wrote:
This is why I have always advocated that Black People (particularly Black Men) must be taught at a young age to own their own buisness and be independent of the power structure like John H. Johnson ( Johnson Communications) and Arthur Gaston (Insurance magnet) because Black Men in either Canada or the U.S. will never get fair shake in these societies unless they make themselves meek and mild or have anti- black opinions.
Dude is highly educated but is still protrayed as a ‘ghetto thug” you can’t win in these societies so I say as a Black Man I would rather own myself than deal with the majority society, at least I can free even if for less money I will have my soul. You will never be free in a society that judges you ‘by the color of your skin’ instead of your character.
Imus was ‘lynched’ lolol White conservative talk show hosts really make laugh.
Posted 25 Jul 2007 at 10:26 pm ¶