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Again. I’m not doing the writing that I should be but folks are out here collecting my words for me. It’s appreciated.
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Teach a class about racism… and this is what happens.
I think if anyone wonders why this blog exists, it’s for many of the reasons outlined in this video. This is the story of how a class on race and racism was banned by administration and the professor fired after one white student complained that she felt uncomfortable.
This is fucking bonkers.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates worked on this for two years. It’s finally been published.
I got about 1/4 of the way through on the subway this morning. It's riveting and intense. And you must read it.
"Indeed, in America there is a strange and powerful belief that if you stab a black person 10 times, the bleeding stops and the healing begins the moment the assailant drops the knife."
This is happening tonight!
You should come if you a) love to laugh about the tough stuff; b) enjoy an after-work drink; and c) are interested in your money going, in part, to a foundation that expands educational opportunities for young women, namely Soledad O'Brien's.
Also, you should come if you want to hang out with me, cos I'll be there, too.
The worst of white folks was a pathetic, powerful 'it.' It conveniently forgot that it came to this country on a boat, then reacted violently when anything or anyone suggested it share. The worst of white folks wanted our mamas and grandmas to work themselves sick for a tiny sliver of an American pie it needed to believe it had made from scratch. It was all at once crazy-making and quick to violently discipline us for acting crazy. It had an insatiable appetite for virtuoso black performance and routine black suffering. The worst of white folks really believed that the height of black and brown aspiration should be emulation of its mediocre self. The worst of white folks inherited disproportionate access to quality health care, food, wealth, fair trials, fair sentencing, college admittance, college graduations, promotions and second chances, yet still terrorized and shamed other Americans who lacked adequate access to healthy choices. White Americans were wholly responsible for the worst of white folks, though they would do all they could to make sure it never wholly defined them.
The Worst of White Folks by Kiese Laymon
Source: Gawker
You see, if you ever want to get a Republican to stop listening to you, just say the 'R' word: racism.
Source: salon.com
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“When I started doing my solo show one of my good friends, Martha, said to me, she’s like, ‘Kamau, you can’t end racism and make sexism worse.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean by that?’ And she went through my solo show and pointed out all the different parts of it that she felt were sexist. And that’s a good friend, a friend who will tell you that in a way that you can hear. And that was a real revelation for me is that you can’t sort of pick your issue over other people’s issues — that if you want to end the ignorance of something, you have to end all the ignorances or at least not make some of the ignorances worse.”
WKB is good people.
Source: NPR
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Today, we fetishize that young Brando, reading him into the likes of Renner. But his body and mind went to seed, and his gradual decline paralleled the decline of the American working-class as the nation transitioned into a post-industrial, service-based economy. Brando’s final roles present him as a wreck of his former self: a broken, bloated, incoherent man desperate for work.These new working-class stars help wipe that terrifying memory clean.
AHP bringing it. (via shanio)
This is good.
Would be really useful to have another piece that takes this and adds a race analysis. I don’t think THIS piece needs it, it’s accomplishing what it sets out to do and to class, race and masculinity its due would take a whole other discussion. Everyone can’t do everything in every essay.
Also interesting would be an international context considering class and UK actors. This is a pretty big topic of discussion in UK publications and since so many are cast in the US, there’s a background effect. Race intersects with this too in interesting ways.
Source: The Awl
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Romney brags: “No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate.”
Congratulations on being jaw-droppingly white, Mitt!
Source: BuzzFeed
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The debates about feminism, about race – I was caught off-guard because I always thought it was so clear that what I was doing was feminist and done by a liberal-minded person, trying to understand the way the world worked. It ended up being a real gift to me, even if there were moments when it was challenging. I felt so lucky to be part of something that was opening that dialogue. Even though there were moments where I felt slightly under fire and had to avoid reading certain media, I felt really grateful that the debate was happening, a debate that has needed to happen surrounding television for a long time.
The Emmy-nominated Lena Dunham, in a Q&A with the New York Times. (via newsweek)
Source: The New York Times
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There is no history of racism in this country that chalked ‘up only to race.’ You can’t really talk about stereotypes of, say, black laziness unless you understand stereotypes of the poor stretching back to 17th century Great Britain. You can’t really talk about the Southern slave society without grappling with the relationship between the demand for arable land and the demand for labor. You can’t understand the racial pogroms at the turn of the century without understanding the increasing mobility of American women.
And this works the other way too. If you’re trying to understand the nature of American patriotism without thinking about anti-black racism, you will miss a lot. If you’re trying to understand the New Deal, without thinking about Southern segregationist senators you will miss a lot. If you’re trying to understand the very nature of American democracy itself, and not grappling with black you, you will miss almost all of it.
Source: The Atlantic
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What happens when Neal Brennan (comedian and co-creator of Chappelle’s Show) gets caught with a copy of How To Be Black in the NYC subway? BLACK PEOPLE INVESTIGATE!
Ever since Baratunde first mentioned he was writing a book called HOW TO BE BLACK, I've been imagining the various ways I, white girl, may be called out for reading this book on the subway. I'm expecting weird looks/withering glances/stink eye at the very least.