Cheat To Win

I am trying to imagine a white president forced to show his papers at a national news conference, and coming up blank. I am trying to a imagine a prominent white Harvard professor arrested for breaking into his own home, and coming up with nothing. I am trying to see Sean Penn or Nicolas Cage being frisked at an upscale deli, and I find myself laughing in the dark. It is worth considering the messaging here. It says to black kids: “Don’t leave home. They don’t want you around.” It is messaging propagated by moral people.

All the applause for Ta-Nehisi Coates with this editorial.

Thank god for EW - they can always figure out a way to reduce the LGBT community to white gay men with Jane Lynch and Wanda Sykes thrown in for fun.  Glad to see we’ve come so far, Jess Cagle.

‎”Yeah, but we have a black president! Isn’t racism over?”

Okay. That’s probably the most racist thing you’ve said all day, imaginary amalgam of all the careless hipsters in the world. You know how you can tell that black people are still oppressed? Because black people are still oppressed. If you claim that you are not a racist person (or, at least, that you’re committed to working your ass off not to be one—which is really the best that any of us can promise), then you must believe that people are fundamentally born equal. So if that’s true, then in a vacuum, factors like skin color should have no effect on anyone’s success. Right? And therefore, if you really believe that all people are created equal, then when you see that drastic racial inequalities exist in the real world, the only thing that you could possibly conclude is that some external force is holding certain people back. Like…racism. Right? So congratulations! You believe in racism! Unless you don’t actually think that people are born equal. And if you don’t believe that people are born equal, then you’re a fucking racist.

Holy shit, Jezebel just slam dunked this post on “hipster racism” and how white people are oblivious to the subtleties of racism in our culture.  Well done, Lindy West.

I’m not one to beat a dead horse, but let’s go back to that ignorant ass clown known as Tyler Oakley.  You made a video about how homophobes are on the way out.  You claimed that they were on the wrong side of history, and that this country will no longer tolerate their intolerance.

How bizarre, considering you referred to these opponents as “bitch” continually throughout the piece that lasted all of two minutes.  You also cast a man professing to be straight in the video, and he portrayed gays in the reductive, tired stereotypes in which you seem to find offense.

Not to mention the fact that a few studies on the rising tide of support for gay marriage in no way indicates that homophobia, sexism, transphobia, or racism have been eradicated in this country.  If you need me to discuss the intersectionality of oppression and the firmly entrenched institutionalization of these concepts, please ask.

Bravo to those belonging to gay straight alliances in their high schools; their work is important and a great first step.  We need gay straight alliances in Congress - and state legislatures, school boards, everywhere - if we want legitimate change in our culture. We need to truly seek out and destroy bigotry in all of its forms, because hatred is not a hierarchy; homophobia is not magically more important than any number of other prejudices in our country.

I’m sure you think that wearing a t-shirt, cursing at a faceless audience, and swinging your metaphorical dick around with palpable male white privilege is a lesson in satire and progressive thinking.  In the long run, though, it just makes you look childish.  Please work towards making real change and not just cheap shots.

Look at her. Gaze upon the one person who is even more aware of the irony and hypocrisy of the world than Daria Morgendorffer. This is the one person who has even more right and insight to call everyone out on their sh-t. Meet Jodie Landon–popular girl, homecoming queen, model student, and young woman of color.

I love this article post but I can’t help but think it should have been three times the length and considerably deeper.  What about Jodie’s decision to attend Turner over Crestmore - to the chagrin of her father?  How come we didn’t delve into Jodie’s behavior during the small business project at Lawndale?  Let’s not be anti-feminist, but her relationship with Mack is incredibly important, as well.  He regularly plays off of her token status as a man in similar circumstances, freely commenting on his disdain for the Lawndale community.

I read this piece and I love what’s been put out there, but I feel like it’s less of a definitive reading of Jodie Landon and more like a start to a conversation about the intersectionality of identity and privilege within the realm of Daria at large.

Source: Racialicious

I just can’t take arguing about race on Facebook any more.  Just because you took a class once doesn’t mean you have any clue about the reality of the history of racism in our country or our culture.