Rolling 2016 Thread on Race

Avengers Academy, a time-wasting world building freemium mobile game in the vein of Simpsons: Tapped Out only with de-aged Avengers

btw these are great:

http://the-toast.net/2016/01/05/what-goes-through-your-mind-casual-racism/
http://the-toast.net/2016/03/08/on-race-good-intentions-benefit-of-the-doubt/

Does anyone else see anything subtly wrong with this ad?

http://i.imgur.com/VEosU1B.png

I am pretty used to "black people in service to white people" imagery at this point but why is he stooping?

Meanwhile, in more blatant "what the FUCK were you THINKING" news:

https://twitter.com/evanfmoore/status/708311829739675648

xp yeah it was the posture and the way it was shot that made it a little worse for me -- stooping, smiling-yet-faceless, literally below the white woman

OMFG. They seriously need to be boycotted out of business for that.

Reminded of an article I read about Atlantic City that described how in the pre-Casino years, the highlight of the trip for its middle class visitors was to hire a black person to push you down the boardwalk in a grown-up stroller.

xp, and I assume Old Lunch's was an xp about the hanging photo

yeah I mean I have not noticed decor like this in either of the Joe's Crab Shack restaurants I've been in in Boston and I don't get why anyone would think anything about that would be a good idea

that was on facebook trends earlier except they said "the photo appears to depict an execution"

which to me felt like an unwillingness to engage with the substance of the event

judging DJP for having visited multiple Joe's Crab Shack locations right now

all other things being equal, all restaurants deserve a chance

I mean, I'd had a good meal at this place before this incident from last year (which IIRC was on the 2015 thread about race):

http://verification.blogspot.com/2015/02/strange-fruit-in-friendly-toast.html

I learned about this time that the decor in this place included a golliwog that the owners chose to paint white when they received complaints about it rather than remove it.

interesting course of action

sorry, apparently they painted it green

MUCH BETTER

I don't care if you're black, white, green...

sad lol

I've never got the "whitewashing" of racial artifacts.

"See? See everybody? I just wanted a jockey boy of any color at the end of my driveway. Just so happened the first one was black, why did you all flip out?"

Ugh, someone I know on FB a few weeks ago posted some nonsense about how we have black lawn jockeys all wrong, that they were originally used to designate houses that were on the Underground Railroad, so really they're ANTI-racist. Am I correct in assuming that this is complete bullshit?

yes

http://www.snopes.com/jocko-lawn-jockey-racist/

haha that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

that was on facebook trends earlier except they said "the photo appears to depict an execution"

which to me felt like an unwillingness to engage with the substance of the event

― 龜, Friday, March 11, 2016 12:37 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

http://i.imgur.com/JNbeS0f.png

call it for what it was

"Nooo, a burning cross in your yard is a just a friendly way of saying 'Welcome to the Neighborhood!' Like Christian fireworks!"

Joe's Crab Shack: Restaurant sorry to hear that you think photo depicts execution scene, but restaurant thinks maybe you need to ask yourself why you would think photo depicts execution scene, maybe you have some things you need to deal with before eating at Joe's Crab Shack

"execution" instead of "lynching" would be like calling a cross burning a "residency dispute"

The bigger point, regardless of whether this is an "execution" or a "lynching", is why you would think a picture of someone being killed would be appropriate decor for your chain restaurant; that alone shows massive disregard for life and is fucking racist

https://www.aclunc.org/blog/two-lawyers-walk-bar-and-get-kicked-out-being-black

I posted this on my Facebook wall and one of my friends from college, who currently lives in DC, works for NOAA, and has morphed into a conservative libertarian, responded with "Unreal. Especially as it's in California."

I feel like posting a bunch of stuff about Orange County on his wall now.

DO IT

or the new residents in San Francisco who keep calling the police on people who have lived on their block for 30 years but they view as suspicious

He clarified with "I figured this sort of thing was limited to the deep South."

He further clarified with "Rephrase: I would have hoped this was limited to the deep South."

I responded with "As long as we're hoping for things, I would have hoped that things like this didn't happen anymore."

OH btw re: the Joe's Crab Shack talk up thread, I realized very belatedly that I was thinking of Jasper White's Summer Shack. I've never been to Joe's Crab Shack.

With a name like that, I think you'd be forgiven for the mix-up.

so this thing.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/do-you-live-in-a-bubble-a-quiz-2/

I clicked through that thing the other day and again today and I realized that at no point does it ask anything that could be a definite indicator of race, only economic/social class

A lot of assumptions in those questions - like, I don't drink, therefore there is neither domestic nor imported beer in my refrigerator.

i kind of think that's more of a qualification question than a disqualification

i would ignore that it's by the same guy who wrote the racist book The Bell Curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

hmm, not sure i would ignore that

lol at them qualifying him as "libertarian"

Is there a decent aggregator that aims at race domestically AND globally

It told me I was definitely not living in a bubble, which is kind of hilarious as I've spent the entirety of my post-high school life constructing the strongest, most impervious bubble I could reasonably make

Yeah despite the copy saying "if you grew up working class, it will still be reflected in your score even if you become upper-middle later in life" all my knowledge of Nascar and domestic beer didn't save me from being scored in a deep bubble, which I don't think I am THAT much. Weird questions, weird scoring.

Quiz was written by a bubble dweller who likes to think otherwise.

Quiz is aimed at white people and designed under the assumption that education makes you stupid.

I grew up upper middle-class in a middle-class/working-class environment and the test results seemed to inordinately reflect that.

I also laughed at the domestic beer question because I have a refrigerator filled with domestic expensive microbrews.

I am inordinately proud of my time in the service possibly mostly because it makes me a statistical outlier
that is all

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/30/us/black-privilege/index.html

welcome to 2016

Terrible article. Why don't white people have special institutions explicitly dedicated to their group interests [that aren't also on a SPLC list]? Because they haven't needed them historically or today. However, I do understand why this stuff is coming up - because white people in the US are becoming a minority (slowly) and there is going to be a moment when they have to understand who they are distinct from their historical representation as the hegemonic majority. Are European Americans going to be an identity group like other groups? There's a lot of stuff in there that they haven't had to work out because they've just been the default culture for so long. From the context of identity / belonging I can understand why white ppl might feel like they're lacking something. (i don't think this is separable from the reality that going from hegemony to non-total hegemony will look like a terrible loss / theft to white ppl + like more equitability to everyone else.) imho sorry if anything I said was offensive.