- "While his music experimentation blasted him into unrivaled greatness, Jackson's fame was his tar baby and personal life his briar patch. The strictness and severity of father Joe Jackson while prepping the Jackson 5 in Gary, Indiana to allegations of child abuse in his adult life seeped through Jackson's music and his identity. He navigated these spaces through his music and interviews fawning the desire for privacy as well as utilizing the media's relentlessness to bring awareness to his politics and humanitarian efforts. "
- "Here is the translated full text of Butler's speech (h/t The European Graduate School):
When I consider what it means today, to accept such an award, then I believe, that I would actually lose my courage, if i would simply accept the price under the present political conditions. … For instance: Some of the organizers explicitly made racist statements or did not dissociate themselves from them. The host organizations refuse to understand antiracist politics as an essential part of their work. Having said this, I must distance myself from this complicity with racism, including anti-Muslim racism."
- "Once upon a time there was a man name Jonah Hex. He fought for the Confederacy because he was a libertarian, not because he supported slavery. He even has a black friend, so we know he's all right. After he married a woman from the Crow Nation and had a child with her, the Crow put him under their protection forever and ever. You never have to see them, but they use their powerful magic to save his life sometimes. That comes in handy when the man is called upon to assist the U.S. Government, which is obviously known for its good relationship with the indigenous people of the North American continent."
- "[T]he original stories had quite a number of racially insensitive representations of minorities – the portrayals were of questionable taste at the time the stories were originally published, but when viewed with today’s mindset, they may be seen as outright inflammatory.
Including characters such as one Nippo from Nagasaki.
And with Tintin In The Congo hitting the courts over similar issues, there are all sorts of connotations that DC may want to avoid at the moment."
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