complexity is the mother of pretention

Jan 31

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Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of new stats in the paper last week. One showed how blacks were treated way worse than whites by mortgage lenders. The other was about Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi who just pardoned like 200 prisoners as he was leaving office. Two thirds of the prisoners he pardoned were white, even though the prison population in Mississippi is two thirds black. And another study found that the odds would be ONE TRILLION TO ONE that that would be coincidental.

And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous inequalities? There isn’t one. And that’s the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To not acknowledge those statistics, to think of that as a ‘black problem’ and not an American problem. To believe, as a majority of FOX (News) viewers do, that reverse-racism is a bigger problem than racism, that’s racist.

” Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)

(via cocknbull)

Oct 11

[TW: Child abuse, neglect] A couple adopts an Ethiopian child then locks the child outside in the cold while starving her with the tape recording playing bible scriptures on repeat.

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This is disgusting, and reminded me of this story as well.

Fucking privileged bullshit.

what the motherfucking fuck

What the ever living fuck?

I’m not surprised to see that they are white conservative Christians who were abusing adopted black children. Is this outcome a risk in every transracial adoption? No. But internalized racism doesn’t go away just because people are Christian or call themselves saving a child of color via adoption.

This isn’t an uncommon story whatsoever, this is just one that got more attention. Julia Scheeres wrote about her experiences with her ultra conservative family and her two adopted black brothers, growing up in rural indiana in the 70’s and 80’s.

When i was growing up in an ultra-conservative church, there were NO people of color that weren’t my dad, and he downplayed that as much as possible. They didn’t even bother trying to talk to most adults of color, but went after children of color attempting to capitalize on their perceived vulnerability due to the “inherent instability of their homelife”. Yeah. That’s lovely.

Couples who adopted children of color were held to a ridiculous level of scrutiny because 1) they were perceived as having made some great sacrifice for the lord (BROWN children, can you even imagine?!) but also because they had a responsibility to make sure those children turned out as godly as possible, and if they didn’t obviously that was the adoptive parents fault if they didn’t outwardly look like they were doing everything they could to beat jesus in to them.

seriously. fuck conservative religion.

Sep 3

“You know how rap has always been “my phone and my car and I’m awesome and saying my name over and over again and my jewelry and my money?” And it wasn’t until Eminem came along that vulnerability was brought to it? He raps about the embarrassing things about his own self instead of posturing.”

Sarah Silverman in a GQ article. Made me feel confused. (via microaggressions)

The amount of annoying I find this statement is crazy. Way to not know anything about the history of rap. Many rappers have made themselves vulnerable over the years. It’s not their fault you stop at the one hit song everyone knows. Or that you can’t relate to growing up the way they did since it was incredibly different from you. Uggghhhghh.

It’s like how I listened to people talk smack about Jay-Z for years, then his book comes out and the New York Times, is all, omigosh, he’s deeper than we thought. Yeah, duh.

(via daisyrosario)

Statements like this smack of racism. The idea presented here is that hip-hop and/or rap had no credibility as an artform until a white person joined in.

The truth is that it had no credibility as an art form TO WHITE PEOPLE until a white person jumped in (see also: vanilla ice).

The thing that white people forget frequently is that hiphop isn’t necessarily going to relate to their experience. Many mainstream rap artists and even underground hip hop artists come from places most white americans haven’t experienced. The reason why someone like eminem could gain popularity is that he rapped about things like hating his mom and being white.

Whatever perceived vulnerability Eminem has is lost in the fact that over the cours eof the last 12+ years he has essentially released the same song over and over and over again. He covers the same topics, which always include hating his mom, hating his ex wife, missing his daughter, and killing somebody (usually his mom or ex wife). There’s nothing there.

So if we’re going to talk about rappers who have or are currently changing the game, how about we talk about people who actually are, as opposed to the white posterchild for getting ahead by borrowing from black people (see also: the beatles).

Of course, Sarah Silverman probably just thinks she’s being funny again.

(via daisyrosario)

Aug 13

“That is just the way they were raised or grew up” is not a valid excuse for your friends racist, sexist, or homophobic language…It’s 2011, it’s past time to stop being lazy and let your friends know that it’s not okay. If you don’t want to bother with it, I don’t want to bother with your excuses for them

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