I don't remember if there was a phone booth at Best Buy. BUT...
(Bmore people help me here) Was there a phone booth on the main road leading to Best Buy, near the bus stop, near McDonald's? In my memory there was.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 20 November 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
feel free to ignore this bit of small-time twitter racist ugliness, but i wanted to express some admiration for the iron calm of florida tv reporter Tammie Fields:
https://twitter.com/tammiefields/status/535522913013997568
― goole, Thursday, 20 November 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
lol @ "open season on whites in America"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 November 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
jesus...
― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Thursday, 20 November 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
also, the brass balls of saying 'open season on whites in america' in literally the same breath as mentioning ferguson, where an unarmed black man was shot dead by police.
― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Thursday, 20 November 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
he meant "open season on [accountability for] white in america", which isn't even happening
― The question is why, the answer is internet (rob), Thursday, 20 November 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
whoa, what a dick.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 20 November 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDK4Wzy9oIg#
Some good talk about the overuse of 'white privilege' at the ~10:00
Reminded me of why I wasn't really feeling JCK's original piece, or at least the part about 'white reporter privilege'
― 龜, Saturday, 22 November 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
if you mean it was a rhetorical failing, maybe you're right, but i think his piece overall is describing a complex system and isn't using 'white privilege' in a lazy way
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 23 November 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
that was an all around enjoyable podcast, though
Chaudry clarifies her comments in the JCK case
http://www.refinery29.com/2014/11/78161/rabia-chaudry-serial-adnan-syed
"Honestly, that piece in The Awl...If I had known that was the angle I would not have interviewed with him. That’s not what I meant when I spoke with him. We all come with certain privilege, that doesn't make you a manipulative or malicious person. To me, that’s not a condemnation of Sarah. It just means she’s a white woman. She put more time and energy and nights away from her family into this case than other Muslim Pakistanis who just walked away."As far as the descriptions of Jay, she used his friends' language and quotes in describing him. That’s not Sarah’s language. People can say 'I read a piece that was a very stereotypical of an urban black boy,' but these are the facts. No one is making that up. If that’s how his friends remembered him, then that’s how it is. Sarah didn’t come away with that impression when she met him. She said he was gentle and polite. I don’t agree with these criticisms. The fact that the Serial team is all white means that maybe they won’t quite get some things about Korean culture or our [Muslim] culture, but so what? Then we explain it."
"As far as the descriptions of Jay, she used his friends' language and quotes in describing him. That’s not Sarah’s language. People can say 'I read a piece that was a very stereotypical of an urban black boy,' but these are the facts. No one is making that up. If that’s how his friends remembered him, then that’s how it is. Sarah didn’t come away with that impression when she met him. She said he was gentle and polite. I don’t agree with these criticisms. The fact that the Serial team is all white means that maybe they won’t quite get some things about Korean culture or our [Muslim] culture, but so what? Then we explain it."
― 龜, Monday, 24 November 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
I mean, made to JCK for that Awl piece
I think I agree with this Jeff Yang take:
http://qz.com/300476/serial-can-actually-teach-white-people-how-to-talk-about-race/
Which is why Koenig’s approach actually offers up a valuable lesson for other journalists covering communities to which they do not belong. You may take issue with her sensitivity, or with the effort she makes to immerse herself. What you can’t challenge, however, is the level of transparency she provides regarding her blinkered perspective.Contrast her befuddled candor with the spectacle we regularly see of television reporters parachuted into erupting hotspots in the Middle East or Africa or Asia—or Ferguson, Missouri—and gravely giving “authoritative” standups, expecting us to accept their instant analysis about the intensely complicated events unfurling around them.In that light, Koenig’s openness about her cultural ignorance makes her a model by comparison… and not just for white journalists. In listening to the series, I’m finding myself forced to confront a lot of preconceptions and biases I personally have about teenagers of color and about immigrant families and communities—ones that I probably wouldn’t think through as closely if the podcast weren’t being hosted by an oblivious white reporter.
Contrast her befuddled candor with the spectacle we regularly see of television reporters parachuted into erupting hotspots in the Middle East or Africa or Asia—or Ferguson, Missouri—and gravely giving “authoritative” standups, expecting us to accept their instant analysis about the intensely complicated events unfurling around them.
In that light, Koenig’s openness about her cultural ignorance makes her a model by comparison… and not just for white journalists. In listening to the series, I’m finding myself forced to confront a lot of preconceptions and biases I personally have about teenagers of color and about immigrant families and communities—ones that I probably wouldn’t think through as closely if the podcast weren’t being hosted by an oblivious white reporter.
― 龜, Monday, 24 November 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/11/17/363841262/is-beauty-in-the-eye-lid-of-the-beholder?sc=17&f=3http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/11/18/364670361/the-many-stories-behind-the-double-eyelid-surgery
Two part series on double-eyelid surgery
― 龜, Monday, 24 November 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/11/14/as-chinas-adoptees-return-home-a-new-genre-tells-their-tales/
Had no idea that the number of Chinese adoptees since 1990 was 120,000
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
just found this in an unrelated search and have spent too long browsing through 70s and 80s edition
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SWzJ_3S6MmkC
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Thursday, 4 December 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
read this book review & thought it might interest ilx:http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/12/empire_of_cotton_a_global_history_by_sven_beckert_is_a_great_history_of.html
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 December 2014 02:12 (nine years ago) link
Well, Serial today is certainly...thought-provoking.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 4 December 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
Seriously, this is probably the right week for this episode to come out and get discussed in public.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 4 December 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to getting around to that tonight -- there was just a news story about him getting a new appeal (ineffective assistance of counsel based on failure to seek out the alibi witness)
― 18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 December 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
SK basically shoots down the basis for that appeal in this episode--also about 20 minutes on anti-Muslim bias
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
aw man, spoiler!!!
For real though it sounds like quite a longshot from what I know about ineffective assistance appeals. And I never thought the alibi story itself was that strong in light of other evidence.
― 18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 December 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
More opinion than spoiler
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/durgachewbose/finding-myself-in-the-first-person
Good stuff here
― 龜, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2014/12/strange_fruit_pr_firm_vanishes_after_getting_a_history_lesson_from_twitter.html
― gr8080, Monday, 8 December 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Wow. That is mind-boggling.
― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
I mean... what
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:17 (5 hours ago) Permalink
There a certain reverent tone in articles like this that make them incredibly difficult to get through
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Strange Fruit was also the name of John Peel's record label for 18 years, of course. Presumably chosen on a similar rationale that the records were outside of the mainstream.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
omg @ strange fruit pr
great pr there ladies
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
My name...is a cloud...over which the rainbow...of white mouths...mispronounce...the leprechaun...of my innocence
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Xxp
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Serious question (before I'm blamed for being the foreign guy judging the US again): are the civil rights movement, Jim Crow laws, Emmett Till et al on the standard curriculum in primary or secondary education all across the US? I mean, is it even possible to not know what 'strange fruit' refers to once you get out secondary school?
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
I can't remember if the song "Strange Fruit" was ever discussed in my history classes.
― example (crüt), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
On a certain level, public education in America is certainly to blame for instances of ignorance such as this (and for many, many more problems besides).
― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
I can see that, but the rest? The lynchings etc? Is that on the curriculum nation wide, or does it still depend on the state you're in? Xp
Not sure if I want to blame education, just wondering if it's an accepted, integral part of education. As it should be imho.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
I'm being charitable enough towards the owners of this firm to assume that the question in this situation is: why would you use an established phrase as the name for your company when you clearly didn't know what it meant and you clearly spent no time researching its meaning/origin?
― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
I did not learn the reference until I got a Billie Holiday record in my mid-20s. Had only heard of the record label.
― how's life, Monday, 8 December 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
I went to enough different public schools (13) to say definitively that the quality and content of public education varies wildly from school to school.
― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
I think it's safe to say that that particular song is not part of any standardized curriculum in US schools
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 December 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
But are the lynchings and JC laws etc?
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Idk how you can name your company something without having Google image searched it first.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
yes. xpost
― example (crüt), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
xp High school was a long time ago, and I remember my history classes teaching the Reconstruction period in a general way, but my classes rarely made it past WWII. Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement may have been mentioned in a class I took called "20th century America," but lynching certainly was not; and the class was an elective in any case.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
it reminds me of that mitchell and webb sketch about the laundry place that names themselves "touching cloth" without knowing what it means, just cause its a popular phrase
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
I knew about the song from an early age, but likely only because my dad was an enthusiast of this music. I don't believe it was ever brought up in any class I took prior to college. For that matter, I only learned about Emmett Till from watching Eyes on the Prize when it first aired; he wasn't mentioned in any classes, either.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
"Strange Fruit" is that song about alimony right?
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
I'd never heard the song or or the phrase until some time in the last year maybe? I'm kind of clueless though--but nonetheless it's probably not that surprising for someone not to know. It IS surprising that they didn't do any background on their own company name though?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Phil an Crut
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
they should have gone with Queer Fish obv
― example (crüt), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link