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Posts tagged Race
[TW: racism and discussion of rape, just in case.]
I-Fuckin-HATE this system dude…
I have an older brother that got picked up by the Oklahoma Sooners to play football. So while he’s there these white girls are ALLEY-OOPIN ass to ninjaz on the football n basketball teams. SO apparently my brother (a man who has NEVER been violent or controlling towards women) hooked up with this chick who said she was 18 (he’s 19 at the time), but turned out to be 17. So the young girls mother reads her diary and finds out she had sex with a black guy from Univ of OK. BOOM! my big bro is convicted of statutory rape and luckily the sentence isn’t too heavy, but thats the end of his promising football career…this story happens OVER AND OVER again…especially for brothers in this EXACT SAME POSITION. Just like my brother.
Can you imagine going to prison for 10 years for a crime you didn’t commit?This high school football star and NFL hopeful, who was wrongly jailed for rape, was finally exonerated after the woman who accused him admitted she lied.[Brian Banks, 26,] spent more than five years in prison and another five on parole. He had to register as a sex offender and was still wearing an ankle monitor during yesterday’s hearing.
“If I can do this, I can get through anything,” he told The Daily just after leaving a Long Beach, Calif., courtroom. “This was my hardest part, and, as they say, good things go to people who hustle while they wait.”
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[Image: A hand drawn illustration of two Native people sitting in chairs, listening to a radio, one younger and in a gray shirt, the other older with long white hair in two braids, wearing a brown shirt and a hat. The radio says (in a speech bubble): “Non-white babies now outnumber white babies in America for the first time.” The older Native person points to the radio and says, “Second.”]
OH YES. EPIC TRUTH BOMB JUST GOT DROP. BOOM.
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I was in a class today of undergraduate students. They did an exercise where they listened to a recording of two voices (from this project) reading the same statement. The professor then asked the students to answer a series of questions about the speakers, based completely on their accents.
The chart above contains their answers.
Take a look at the guessed occupation and social class for either speaker. They assume the young Chinese woman is a student, but the guess about the slightly older Latino man’s occupation? A factory worker from Mexico.
Look, when descriptivists talk about language variation, this is the place they’re coming from. To this group of middle-class, white, educated students in a classroom, just the sound of someone’s voice suggests all these harmful social stigmas.
When we try to stop people from making judgments about others’ language use, this is why. This man could very well have been a factory worker, and he might have been from Mexico (although a student well-versed in Latino dialects said she was almost positive he wasn’t from Central America).
The point is—the assumption was made based on his voice alone that he was a lower-class factory worker. Assumptions like this are made every day about someone’s language use. And that’s why we fight for language equality. It’s not about saying nonstandard forms are better, it’s about saying they’re just as valid.
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This came across my FB feed. Had to share it.
Oooh. BOOM.
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Protip: horizontal oppression existing does not mean what you think it means
Women oppressing other women =/= women being ‘sexist’ to men.
Black people being racist towards Asan people, and other equivalent things wrt racism =/= ‘you can be racist to white people!’
Heterophobia: STILL NOT… A THING.
Nor do the above (or similar equivalents) undermine the concept that racism/sexism/heterosexism/etc etc. have to be institutional/come from a position of power.
A woman may not be a part of the institution that oppresses women, but she can STILL PROP IT UP. Okay? If a woman is misogynistic, that doesn’t ‘prove’ something doesn’t have to be institutionalised to constitute sexism, it proves that:
- The aforementioned institution caused women to internalize the misogyny
- You don’t need to be a part of something to support it
Okay? Seriously? Can we stop this now? You have not ‘caught anyone out’ with this argument. If a woman is oppressing other women, she was taught to do so by a society where institutionalised sexism exists. IT IS A MANIFESTATION OF INSTITUTIONALISED SEXISM REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SHE IS PERMITTED ACCESS TO SAID INSTITUTION.
By contrast, any prejudice towards men a woman might hold does NOT prop up any pre-existing institution with power inhabited by, well, anyone, nor is it something she was taught by a pre-existing institution with power.
OKAY? OKAY. YOU CANNOT BE SEXIST TOWARDS MEN, RACIST TOWARDS WHITE PEOPLE IN WHITE-DOMINATED SOCIETIES, ETC ETC, BECAUSE RACISM/SEXISM/ETC IS PREJUDICE PLUS POWER. ALL CAPS NECESSARY. This is true EVEN IF the people perpetuating some racism, sexism etc. are themselves disenfranchised because the racism, sexism etc. they are perpetuating did not spring up outta thin air.
so can we just
not
Lauren Socha sentenced to 4 months in jails (suspended)
[TW: violent racism]
Oh Lauren why? (she was was sentenced to four months in jail suspended and 80 hrs community service)
Lauren Socha, a star of E4’s Misfits, has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault of a taxi driver.
The BAFTA-winning actress, who plays Kelly in the teen drama, was sentenced to four months in jail for attacking Sakander Iqbal in Derby city centre in the early hours of the morning on October 1 last year.….
Socha was accused of punching and racially abusing the cab driver following a nine-hour drinking session. Iqbal, 52, is quoted by The Independent as saying that the incident represents the worst abuse he has received since moving to the UK in 1970.
“She called me a P**i, a dirty b**stard and said, ‘You’re Asian, f**k off back to where you came from’,” he told reporters. “She said, ‘Do you know who I am? I’ll have your family lifted’.”
Holy shit.
African Stereotype of the Day: Gabriel, Benard, Brian, and Derrik, who live in Kenya, were inspired to poke fun at the way African men are portrayed by Hollywood: “If people believed only what they saw in movies,” they said, “they would think we are all warlords who love violence.” Mama Hope — an organization that partners with African organizations to help transform their communities — was more than happy to hand them a mic as part of a video campaign to “Stop the Pity, Unlock the Potential.”
Good stuff.
we hate smiling
smiling is stupid
WE’RE TALKING TO YOU, SHIRTLESS MATHEW MCCANAUGHEY!
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Historian Trent Kelly has collected 146 rare vintage photographs of black male couples from the past 150 years.
Although the large majority of the pictures depict gay couples, the collection also includes images of families and friends but they all have one thing in common: they capture images of love.
Below is a snippet of why Kelly started the collection along with a few photos from his archive.
Historically, the Afro American gay male and couple has largely been defined by everyone but themselves. Afro American gay men are ignored into nonexistence in parts of black culture and are basically second class citizens in gay culture. The black church which has historically played a fundamental role in protesting against civil injustices toward its parishioners has been want to deny its gay members their right to live a life free and open without prejudice. Despite public projections of a “rainbow” community living together in harmonious co-habitation, openly active and passive prejudices exist in the larger gay community against gay Afro Americans.
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[TW: slurs, heterosexism, racism, cissexism- this person is generally horrible, is what I’m saying]
Lesley Arfin, one of the writers of HBO series Girls, on Twitter.
I suppose this is a joke? Is this how she deals with commentary about the lack of diversity in the show? I am baffled, someone throw me a rope!
Anticipating Dunham’s response.
“It was a complete accident that I hired an insufferable jackass as a staff writer for my show.”
oh cool, an opportunity to talk shit on lesley arfin
i used to work at buzznet. right around when i quit because of horrible people there who should grow beard trimmers for hands if there was any justice in the world, my last editor hired this gal
in the span of a month, she:
- Compared Obama to poop. Literally. Like the joke was OBAMA IS BROWN, JUST LIKE POOP.
- used everyone’s favorite transphobic slur. twice.
- called me both “gay” and a “fag” because I told her to shut up
- called many others gay and a fag
- did this:
Note the barely hidden reference to me, the “politically correct sXe vegan bike messenger type,” which she AND her editor later defended as a total coincidence.
this is who lesley arfin is. a privileged little asshole loves getting a rise out of people because no one ever holds her accountable for what she says.
fuck her.
[TW: indirect discussion of racism and violence, since it’s about Trayvon Martin.]
Melissa Harris-Perry: “How White People Can Talk About Trayvon Martin
I was prepared to hate this. I figured she was going to be one of mine that had to be collected in the name of “Satire.” I am glad I was wrong and…can each and every person who sees this, commit this list to memory and use it not only in the Trayvon Martin case but ya know, always?
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