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“Almost as soon as the cameras started to roll, Whoopi spoke out in semi-defense of Michael Vick, blaming his actions on his cultural upbringing and not, well, sheer stupidity and cruelty.”
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“According to the suit against Monterey Collision Frame and Auto Body, a technician of Chinese and Italian ancestry was subjected to repeated racial and sexual harassment while he worked at the shop, “including mimicking martial arts movements and mocking
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“the copying issue seems small compared to other problems in the fashion world… designers for both low end and high end merchandise are accused on a daily basis for exploiting the lower class of countries within the global south. “
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“And just in case you are wondering what’s Hispanic about all this, Bibi shares her secret for a perfect family gathering: setting up an indoors pic-nic while enjoying Oreo cookies with, what else?, café con leche. Ay, ay, ay!”
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“On Tuesday, charges against Carwin Jones and Theo Shaw were reduced to aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy. That same reduction was made earlier for Mychal Bell, who was tried and found guilty and could be sentenced to 22½ years at a hearing
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LOVE this. Here’s a nice game to play in the liberal whitosphere: initiate a discussion by identifying a racist construction, pattern, or dynamic and objecting to its propagation; then bust out your White Liberal Bingo card (via Blackamazon) and start che
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Check out the latest edition of the Carnival of Radical Action, in which bloggers from across the blogosphere will offer answers, experiences, and encouragement for instituting radical change.
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“Judge J.P. Mauffray threw out a conspiracy conviction against Mychal Bell, granting a defense motion that Bell’s June trial was improperly held in adult court and should instead have been conducted as a juvenile proceeding.”
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Wendi Muse is guest-blogging at Too Sense! Georgian GOP party official Dave Barbee gets bitten by the racist fairy: “We will be making the downtown Whiter with moving 200 whites in and moving 500 blacks out!” he wrote.
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“It’s like the Chinese. They’re a different relationship to cats. And you and I would be really pissed if someone ate kitty.” Again, with the cat-eating jokes! On national television, no less. That’s racist! There’s a video clip of remarks over at TMZ.com
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“This wasn’t a Yellow Face character but a spoof on a kooky Triad character gone mad where it was supposed to be funny because it was a pale looking white guy – it was the paleness and the whiteness that was funny – and again no mock Asian accent either
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“If I were an economist, I’d study Barbie as a barometer of macroeconomic ups and downs. To see a developing nation disappear from Barbie’s rump is a reliable indicator that it is no longer “behind.” Take Japan, for example.”
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“plow through the September issues of fashion “ladymag” magazines…and tally up what the price tag was for the “expensive shit” that was contained therein…Teen Vogue Apparel: $40,479
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dnA wrote:
Someone please tell Whoopi to STFU. I want to know how even though we’re at war, we still have money to fund that secret CIA program that sticks a microphone in front of every black celebrity with something stupid to say.
Or maybe she just has a soft spot for making excuses for people who do really stupid things, like her ex husband performing at her roast in blackface.
Posted 06 Sep 2007 at 6:42 am ¶
merq wrote:
I hate to resurrect a dead discussion, but Brad should really take a look at that White Liberal Bingo post.
For someone who denounces white libs as actively as he does, he sure would do pretty well with one of those cards.
Posted 06 Sep 2007 at 7:01 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
dna – that was my first response too!!! I wonder if anyone ever told Baba Wawa, “NO, I don’t want to be the token.”
merq – I2I
Posted 06 Sep 2007 at 10:57 am ¶
Ailurophile wrote:
Re the biracial man harassed at the auto body shop where he worked: This just goes to show that workplace harassment is about power, not sex. In this case it was about keeping a man of color “in his place” – he probably threatened the white male power balance. I’ve heard of many cases where men get harassed for not being “Masculine” enough or being thought of as gay.
Re Whoopi – oh, the stupid, it burns! Not only did she have to pop out with that remark about Southern culture but she had to come up with that old racist chestnut about Chinese people eating cats. Oh puh-leeze! Hasn’t snopes.com sent that one to die yet? (Snopes.com has debunked this, as well as many others – I love Snopes.)
Posted 06 Sep 2007 at 11:03 am ¶
Anonymous wrote:
“the biracial man harassed at the auto body shop where he worked: This just goes to show that workplace harassment is about power, not sex. In this case it was about keeping a man of color “in his place” – he probably threatened the white male power balance. I’ve heard of many cases where men get harassed for not being “Masculine” enough or being thought of as gay.”
I’d just like to say that discrimination against a certain minority and/or a certain sexual orientation is not exclusive to white males. I’ve seen males– just “being guys”– of all colors harass and insult each other on basis of sexual orientation or on basis of being ANTOHER minority (white vs. Asian, black vs. white, Hispanic vs. Asian etc).
Seeing as the auto shop was in San Jose, and looking at the demographics of the very multi-ethnic city, there’s a chance that it wasn’t just a “white” male power balance but a unfair power balance all the same.
What I’m trying to say is that discrimination based on sexuality or color is not always relegated to white vs. everyone else. If we don’t know for sure the people who harassed him were part of a “white male” power structure in the first place, maybe we shouldn’t immediately assume so.
Posted 06 Sep 2007 at 2:44 pm ¶