Addicted to Race 115: healthcare protests, racial covering, spanking kids
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s podcast about America’s obsession with race. Here’s a rundown of what you’ll find in this episode:
Is there a racial component to the angry protests over healthcare reform? Is racial “covering” the new racial passing? Why do people of color often find themselves the subject of mistaken identity? Are comedians right in saying that black parents spank their kids and white parents don’t? Carmen Van Kerckhove, Tami Winfrey Harris, and Deesha Philyaw discuss.
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Keith wrote:
This bipartisan nonsense is just as bad as Glenn Beck and his ilk stoking the fires of internalize racism. They are just as bad as the racist because they just want to see the democrats lose. This is about America taking a step forward.
Posted 23 Aug 2009 at 11:48 pm ¶
Pickly wrote:
It is too bad for health care that the ‘conservative” point of view is being represented by the race and death panel nonsense, because there are a few suggestions I’ve heard from more free market oriented people that do seem useful, and probably should be discussed large scale. (Like having the same tax laws apply to individually bought insurance as employer based insurance.)
Posted 24 Aug 2009 at 8:55 pm ¶
Safiyyah wrote:
I was disappointed in Deesha Philyaw’s comments about Asian “non-blackness” in the racial “covering” section. You guys at Racialicious always seemed beyond the polar black/white model of racism. That the definition of Asian identity presented was from a non-Asian, adoptive mother should have been a red flag. The reason why the Irish and Europeans were able to eventually become “non-black” is because: they’re white. The book details one Asian man’s process of assimilating into the white mainstream. The list is geared towards diminishing the stereotypes of foreign-ness that Asians face as well as embracing white culture. Every group is going to have their own “list” of things to do so that they’re not perceived as scary or “other” to the white mainstream. For instance; for black men, it might be speaking in a softer voice, for asian men, louder–whatever. It’s about perceived stereotypes. Most Asians I know, regardless of how “assimilated” they are, face stereotypes and racism that have nothing to do with people thinking they’re acting “black.”
Posted 29 Aug 2009 at 4:35 pm ¶