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“The manufactured contorversy over an Arabic culture school in New York, dubbed a “madrassa” by Fox News, is getting even more interesting. The head of the school recently resigned…only to be replaced by a Jewish educator.”
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“Inspired by this post over at Racialicious, I decided to put my hour and a half browsing but not buying anything at CVS to good use and review foundation and concealer shade variations brand by brand.”
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“VH1’s new reality show The Pickup Artist, in which a group of “loveable losers” get schooled in the secret to wooing women, and compete for the title of “Master Pick-Up Artist.” So of course they had to throw a couple of Asians guys in to the mix”
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“From their relationships to their jobs to their money — even from they time they first roll out of bed — young white Americans are happier with life than their minority counterparts.”
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“Maybe I’m missing something here but a) I stopped playing with dolls when I was about 12, and b) I still haven’t figure out what a distinctly Hispanic facial feature and hair style is. Can anybody help?”
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“With just a few clicks of a mouse, I found dolls in wheelchairs, dolls with walkers and dolls with Down syndrome features. Why shouldn’t those types of dolls be incorporated into this new diversity splash?”
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“The 37-year-old supermodel singled out Vogue, saying that she found it harder and harder to make it on to its coveted front cover. Campbell said that she planned to set up a modelling agency in Kenya to scout for new African faces in an attempt to redres
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“Some “Trapped” fans may think they’re flattering Mr. Kelly by praising his alleged insanity or naïveté, but that’s the kind of praise that can easily sound like condescension, especially when directed (as it often is) at African-American perfor
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“As a small country filled with hired hands, the United Arab Emirates offers students of migration a uniquely rich habitat. About 85 percent of the work force comes from abroad.”
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“The most prominent theor…blames much of Vick’s troubles on his continued association with childhood friends who have questionable pasts…the ones who agreed to testify against Vick in exchange for more lenient sentences for their roles in the crimes.”
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“Check out the casting call…the only blacks allowed in the commercial are music producers,” but it also scripts other race-d roles like “cool looking Japanese kids.” The casting call shows the critical role that media makers play in shaping the di
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“I know having grown up biracial and having the experience of choosing to be in the punk rock scene and identifying with that, as opposed to my given identity. I had a lot of questions for myself. I needed those answered.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Angel H. wrote:
Re: “White Youths Happier…”
Say it with me: ‘DUH!!
Posted 22 Aug 2007 at 9:26 am ¶
eric daniels wrote:
Watching the VH-1 “The Pickup Artist” and it’s sterotype of the “uncool” asian dude has gone on far enough, I have seen the non sexual George Takei and Brian Toshi (I think) who did the voice in “Hong Kong Phooey” and the 80’s Movies Police Academy (when he finally gets some from Leslie Easterbrook) and “Revenge of the Nerds”. You would have thought this sterotype would have faded like ‘The Cabbage Patch Dance” of the early 80’s but like Jheri Curls, Bad Teenage movies and 300 pound brothas dressing like Prince during the “Purple Rain” era this sterotype won’t die.
like like the ‘ghetto homegirl’ of Tiffany Pollard the nerdy Asian guy is just as bad as the thug brotha because it creates the same one- dimensional image that Asians are either inept in the game of romance when that stuff doesn’t always ring true. I Knew Korean and Vietnenese dudes in my junior and high school who had more game with the ladies than I did and had to ask them for pointers because I was scared s&&*less of girls at that point ,so when I saw that stupid show of the “white player” and the nerdy Asian and Jewish dudes I said “Sixteen Candles” don’t you think they could have sprinkled in some Black and Latin guys because we don’t come out the womb with a cool rap with the ladies.
Most guys in general don’t know how to talk to girls or women or any age it does not matter what race you are.
Posted 22 Aug 2007 at 2:19 pm ¶
mireille wrote:
sweet, thanks!
Posted 22 Aug 2007 at 3:30 pm ¶
Kate wrote:
The comments on the article about Naomi Campbell are appalling. I only read the ones on the first page, but the phrase “playing the race card” is used several times. I also notice that it seems to be mostly men (presumably white men) who are criticizing her, whereas the women commenting mostly seem to agree.
Not to mention the tone of the article itself, with Campbell’s criticisms depicted as “railing” and use of the terms “models with white skins” and “fair skinned models” rather than just “white models.”
Posted 22 Aug 2007 at 8:02 pm ¶
friedfishribs wrote:
Love the casting call for the Beyonce/AMEX commercial.
“Real Japanese type parents.”
Which type? Oh yeah! Japanese type! The real ones! Maybe they should have real samurai/ninja/kamikaze pilot type regalia to improve their credibility.
Posted 23 Aug 2007 at 11:39 am ¶
veebot wrote:
i couldnt agree more with Kate. Why were all these white guys commenting and being blatantly racist. not that im surprised. i live in england and though they pretend not to be racist they are. i was pretty disgusted.
Posted 25 Aug 2007 at 5:32 am ¶
Acanthus wrote:
A “type” I always see in commercials is the light to very light skinned black/multiracial woman with the “poodle curls” hairdo. They make up not-insignifigant percentage of the black women I see in commercials. As far as I can tell, this hairstyle is now out of fashion…except on these women in TV commercials.
Posted 27 Aug 2007 at 4:12 pm ¶