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“Black Entertainment Television’s new animation division seems to have stepped right into a pitfall of self-parody: a short cartoon video it introduced on July 20, “Read a Book,” seems to flaunt every negative stereotype in the African-American comm
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““I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today’s baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me,” Mr. Rooney wrote in the second paragraph of the column, which appeared in The Stamford Times of Stamford, Conn.”
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“Hey…Shorty takes a look at the men who initiate street harassment and the young women who are preyed upon. With help from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the girls, who range in age from 15 to 18, shot and directed the 18-minute clip. “
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“Still, as much fun as it is to laugh at ghetto behavior, it’s hard not to wince at the thought that estimates of BET’s white audience run higher than 30 percent. A constant refrain among critics is the cry of “dirty laundry.” Shouldn’t BET clean up its a
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“The selection of a Chinese sculptor to carve a three-story monument to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall is raising questions about what part of his legacy should be celebrated.”
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“The district ’s internal policy,,,forbids white students from transferring out of school attendance areas…in which the minority student enrollment levels already exceed the district ’s average of 43 percent.
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Sigh…”I have nothing against black women, but they’re raised differently. White women are raised to respect and serve their men. Black women are taught to question [their men]. Black women look at submission as being weak.”
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“African-Americans are abandoning this famously progressive city at a rate that has alarmed San Francisco officials, who vow to stop the exodus and develop a strategy to win blacks back to the city.”
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The quote they used: “If the police caught Brett Favre running a dolphin-fighting ring out of his pool, where dolphins with spears attached to their foreheads fought each other to the death, would they bust him? Of course not”
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“her supervisor for several months in 2004 “constantly” subjected the African-American file clerk to racial code words including “reggin,” (the N-word spelled backwards) and “N.P.” (N-word please).”
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Giuliani hires the agency who did the racist Harold Ford Playboy party ad. Why am I not surprised?
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Wendi Muse wrote:
wow…the people objecting to the chinese sculptor for the king statue seem incredibly close-minded and are inappropriately directing their disgust with the chinese govt (or their twisted version of wwkd (what would kind do?)) onto the poor artist. just because he is chinese clearly does not mean he represents all the chinese and especially the chinese govt. imagine if, hmm i don’t know, all black americans were thought to represent one thing…ahem, last time i checked, black people (myself included) don’t like that. it’s totally hypocritical and i think misdirected. if they don’t like the chinese govt or think that kind wouldn’t, they should work on that directly, not target one person as the scapegoat.
i think it adds an interesting twist, however, esp considering that towards the end of his career, king was considered a potential communist by the us govt due to his affiliation with class equality initiatives and his opposition to the vietnam war. funny how the text books tend to edit it out all that other stuff he did to focus only on his black civil rights work, ignoring the other connections for the sake of covering up some of the motivations of the US govt-based harassment he received.
but i digress.
i am really tired of people thinking that if the subject is one race, the artists should be of the same background. it limits a loooot of really important contributions that could be made by people from the outside. it’s not like they are asking the man to PLAY mlk in a film or something. he’s not pulling an angelina jolie, though maybe some in the artist world consider it that way. (but i mean pearl AND the people on the artist committee asked for the person who got the position, respectively…soo it might be more similar than i am willing to admit).
imagine all the great works of art we would be without if we only allowed people of the exact same background to use us as art subjects. i mean, given, we have black/brown/yellow face and lots of race-based cartoons that are NOT good/flattering representations of us, but i don’t think this artist is trying to do anything of that sort. he is paying tribute to king, and i think the people in opposition to it clearly don’t have a complete comprehension of his message.
Posted 28 Aug 2007 at 7:36 am ¶
Wendi Muse wrote:
think that king wouldn’t*
Posted 28 Aug 2007 at 7:43 am ¶
S wrote:
I see your point, and agree Wendi. But the skeptical side of me can’t help but to think that the artist isn’t like any other artist: don’t really give a care about the cause, just want to get paid and recognized for my work.
But you’re right, you can’t assume that of the artist, or connect the artist with all other asians or asian governments. Ooh, it is hard sometimes to be open-minded. But, I still try:)
Posted 30 Aug 2007 at 5:11 pm ¶
Mike wrote:
The beef is not with him being Chinese but the fact that he is an official represenative of China known for there humane rights violations somthing King would not accept. check your facts.
Posted 30 Aug 2007 at 6:02 pm ¶