Rolling 2016 Thread on Race

Good, long Guardian piece on "the enduring whiteness of American journalism" by Howard French

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/may/25/sports-analytics-african-americans-michael-wilbon-article

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/25/white-high-school-football-players-in-idaho-charged-with-raping-black-disabled-teammate-with-a-coat-hanger/?postshare=3241464184999722&tid=ss_fb

Hang onto this the next time someone says "kids are growing up less racist"

that is insanely fucked up and sad beyond words.

stuck somewhere beteewn nausea & rage myself

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/24/commencement-speaker-gets-booed-after-speaking-briefly-in-spanish-and-criticizing-trump/

Gizmodo jumps straight to the point:

http://gizmodo.com/yo-fuck-this-commercial-1778914903

Without even clicking, I'm guessing that's the Chinese detergent ad.

Anyway. I thought it was a better idea when it went the other way.

http://i.imgur.com/Y2uIS04.jpg

It wasn't a better idea

I'm really bothered by the cal state fullerton thing. how the shit do you graduate in a class that's 40% latino and then get screaming mad when part of the commencement speech is in Spanish? How fucking pathetic and stupid and tiny-dicked do you have to be to think you have any cause to act like that? Who fucking raised you? I'm from fucking Alabama. I don't understand you children. Please leave.

This Alesha Dixon thing on another thread?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/

Wait so this Alesha Dixon thing, the controversy is that a black woman told a bunch of black men that they were awesome black men? Is this accurate?

(also I am bookmarking that Smithsonian link for a time when I am less likely to cry while reading it)

goes w/out saying, but avoid the comments

Stop fucking avoiding the comments. Read them and understand what people are capable of.

Wait so this Alesha Dixon thing, the controversy is that a black woman told a bunch of black men that they were awesome black men? Is this accurate?

― DJP, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 16:35

She called them "sexy chocolate men" and people on social media demanded she apologize or be fired and it has been said she isn't allowed to perform her new single on the talent show (might be unconnected though).

I think it's mostly white people who were complaining.

lol at mostly

I didn't want to assume too much because I haven't trawled through enough

So... yes, then.

What a stupid controversy

Stop fucking avoiding the comments. Read them and understand what people are capable of.

― DJP, Tuesday, May 31, 2016 8:55 AM (3 hours ago)

well, i mentioned it because i didn't avoid them and learned nothing. ymmv.

re Trump's history of racism:

http://theweek.com/speedreads/569355/donald-trumps-first-quoted-words-new-york-times-42-years-ago-thats-ridiculous

Well, our (Scotland's) First Minister has said she won't meet Trump when he visits Scotland. It's for his golf resort, which was widely opposed but went ahead anyway. It's odd how much this election campaign has mentioned Britain - arguments about the mayor of London etc.

Also, I don't think Trump wants to be president - he just wants to be elected president. I.e. He wants to win, but that's all. Can you imagine how bored he would be as president? His biography doesn't show a guy who commits to jobs well. He's a quitter, really. (Not that quitter is an insult - I come from a long line of quitters, and I am proud to count myself amongst their ranks)

It's odd how much this election campaign has mentioned Britain - arguments about the mayor of London etc.l

and yet trump had not the first fucking clue what brexit was in that hollywood reporter article from the other day

I didn't know his golf resort went ahead, I thought everyone opposed it. How did he get permission?

Ask Alex Salmond.

wtf is wrong with people?

http://addictinginfo.org/2016/06/10/racist-conservatives-wish-sasha-obama-a-happy-15th-birthday-hope-u-get-raped-screenshots/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

I have nothing to say about Alton Sterling. We've seen this so many times already, I have no idea what can be added to the conversation.

I guess I can say it's been 68 years since this happened in my family and we're still seeing it happen:

http://nuweb9.neu.edu/civilrights/mississippi/samuel-bacon/

CW: lynching, suicide

http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/piedmont-park-hanging-atlanta-georgia-stone-mountain-police-report-suicide-lynching-social-media-twitter-kkk-ku-klux-klan-closed/

things have gotten edgy at The CW since America's Next Top Model went off the air

(sorry)

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ramona-hate-crime-20160707-snap-story.html

Feel like this anecdote is bound to get swallowed up, given all of the high-profile news these days. I just attended a wedding for two of my wife's colleagues. The bride was a white American. The groom was an immigrant from Chile. His entire family traveled to Maryland for the ceremony. After everyone walked up the aisle, the pastor (from the groom's side) began the ceremony in Spanish. About 15 seconds into it, from the wife's side: "Speak English!"

At a fucking wedding.

It came from a teenage kid, and his mother hushed him down immediately. And for our part, and like most of the guests, we were very friendly to the groom's family. But what the fuck, people?

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/corey_menafee/

faces a felony charge! fuck

hopefully this link works, it's a lifetime account from a black man who grew up in the Midwest and lives around my city
https://www.facebook.com/brian.crooks/posts/10103901923530909

very good

faces a felony charge! fuck

― 龜, Monday, July 11, 2016 10:13 PM (Yesterday)

story updated that yale is not pursuing that; he seems like an awesome guy. hope someone gives him a job.

viral story going around about cops at Zaxby's in Shelby, NC who were taunted & served bad food (too much spice) repeatedly refers to the employees who prepared the food as "boys".... I'ma keep slapping my forehead even though it feels like I should be checking my watch

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/nyregion/yale-worker-john-c-calhoun-window-slaves.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/critics-see-efforts-to-purge-minorities-from-voter-rolls-in-new-elections-rules.html

This is almost Snidely Whiplash villainy, but in real life and fucking disgusting.

When the deputy sheriff’s patrol cruiser pulled up beside him as he walked down Broad Street at sunset last August, Martee Flournoy, a 32-year-old black man, was both confused and rattled. He had reason: In this corner of rural Georgia, African-Americans are arrested at a rate far higher than that of whites.

But the deputy had not come to arrest Mr. Flournoy. Rather, he had come to challenge Mr. Flournoy’s right to vote.

The majority-white Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration was systematically questioning the registrations of more than 180 black Sparta citizens — a fifth of the city’s registered voters — by dispatching deputies with summonses commanding them to appear in person to prove their residence or lose their voting rights. “When I read that letter, I was kind of nervous,” Mr. Flournoy said in an interview. “I didn’t know what to do.”

jfc

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a61929/black-woman-journalist-at-comic-con/

there are a myriad of problems, from black women being underrepresented in most genres covered by comiccon, the inability of people to tell one black woman from another, etc

in unrelated news someone at work thought I look like the dude who plays Moriarty on the current Sherlock tv series but I think it's the forehead and the fact the coworker is indian and all white ppl look same

(putting this on fantasy/science fiction/speculative thread and the 2016 race thread)

https://medium.com/fireside-fiction-company/blackspecfic-571c00033717
https://storify.com/Charley_Locke/n-k-jemisin-on?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=email&utm_medium=email

I've spent quite a lot of time this year reading about diversity and discrimination in speculative fiction, it's truly labyrinthine with all the blogs, social media, lists and semi-regular shitstorms. I've been reading these articles for a few days now and I fear all the links are going to keep me reading for days more.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/28/manspreading-arrest-broken-windows-policing_n_7462944.html

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/10/snapchat-racist-asian-filter-yellowface

https://mediadiversified.org/2016/04/20/porn-our-colour-blind-spot-when-it-comes-to-racism/

Been horrified at the (increasing?) prevalence of this stuff, there's even a video site called Apetube. Too many dominatrix custom clips with the "racial humiliation" genre, like videos with a torrent of racist abuse for Asian viewers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/us/slaves-georgetown-university.html