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“In a scene in which Susan was told by her gynecologist that she might be hitting menopause, she replied, “Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.”"
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Here we go with the blackface reenactments of Jena Six: “In the video, three students with mud smeared across their bodies stomp on a fourth student, while two of the participants are heard to say, “Jena 6.”
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“Hispanic somehow romanticizes Spanish Imperialim in the Americas. This is probably the biggest reason for me to reject the use of the term. It’s used to glamorize an colonial past.”
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“A federal jury decided Madison Square Garden and its chairman must pay $11.6 million in damages to former New York Knicks executive Anucha Browne Sanders in her sexual harassment lawsuit.”
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“A noose found by a janitor in the locker room of the Hempstead, Long Island police department on Friday has sparked angry charges that the target was “the highest-ranking African-American officer in the department,”
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“After he was beaten, kicked and robbed, a black man was killed when he was run over by a pickup truck and dragged face down underneath it. Police had two men in custody and were investigating whether race was a factor in the death.”
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“A model strutting the catwalk is hardly revolutionary in most countries, but Afghan television’s answer to “America’s Next Top Model” is breaking boundaries and revealing the beauty under the burqa.”
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“Aliens in America gives a middle-class Pakistani kid a kurta, a fakey accent and a higher Allah-per-sentence ratio than a Wahhabi cleric. Predictably, mainstream reviews of last night’s premiere turned out almost uniformly positive”
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Rob Schmidt wrote:
For those who are wondering about “Aliens in America,” the “Magic Muslim” posting really nailed the problems with the show. It’s about as funny and insightful as an afterschool special. “All in the Family” covered the same ground (white family reacts to a nonwhite visitor) 35 years ago and did it much, much better.
Posted 03 Oct 2007 at 2:29 pm ¶
Free wrote:
This show makes everything acceptable. Harassment at school is the victims fault for being weird. Xenophobia at home and at school? After 9/11, how can you blame them? And the mother, what a wonderful woman to take pity on the foreign kid. If she only known about his parents at the beginning this would have never happened.
Although I have to say that this shows makes White America look perfectly ridiculous and spoiled.
Posted 04 Oct 2007 at 11:22 am ¶
S wrote:
I always thought Isaiah was an effeminate jerk! And leave it up to him to say that it’s not-so-bad for a black man to call a black woman a bitch. Now, he has sparked a new team of misogynist excusers who claim “it’s just our culture”, as if that makes it right. Now there’s a reason for people to think they are superior to us, even if there were NO history of slavery. When you devalue your “own”, others eventually join in on the devaluation. ESPECIALLY when you are equipped ready-made excuses for why it’s O.K. to dehumanize black women.
Posted 04 Oct 2007 at 1:31 pm ¶