Rolling 2016 Thread on Race

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

saw mention of that, haven't read the article yet

https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2016/07/11/who-is-marvels-blaxploitation-luke-cage-comic-even-for-exactly/

yes I know I've posted this to three different threads

that's a smart write-up; i like the way he acknowledges that blaxploitation films can kind of go in either direction (or both at once) .

thought this piece by riz ahmed on racial profiling & typecasting was great & darkly funny

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/15/riz-ahmed-typecast-as-a-terrorist

I was trying to determine which thread to post that on and ended up forgetting entirely.

I hope he has a follow-up in another year after he's played a... freedom fighter... in a Star Wars film.

The new Swetshop Boys single, T5, is about the same thing. The album should hopefully be better than Heems' solo one.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mirajacob/questions-from-my-mixed-race-son?utm_term=.yxEVMpwX8#.tgNE5LPw0

okay I loved that and I didn't expect to

kids rule

awwww

yeah that's great

last few articles linked from this thread were all excellent

omg

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/cary-news/article106145867.html

tbf, she did use to read WORD UP magazine

The theme of the annual celebration, which will run Jan. 14 to 16, is “Healing Race Relations through Conversation and Participation.” Attendees will be able to delve into this theme through a variety of events, including an International Diversity Summit at the Cary Arts Center, featuring panel discussions with community and religious leaders.

Participation.

Participation.

Donald Trump has made it safe for flight crews to be really, really racist again.

http://distractify.com/trending/2016/10/12/racist-flight-crew

http://io9.gizmodo.com/united-airlines-kicks-passenger-off-because-of-marvel-s-1787717851

From Donald Glover's Atlanta series on FX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKSGJcYwMM

wow

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-derek-black/2016/10/15/ed5f906a-8f3b-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html

I kind of glossed over this story until I realized:

a) this dude was the son of the guy who started St*rmfr*nt; and
b) one of his medieval history professors is a woman I sang with in college

I'm beginning to think DJP's college singing experience was spent mostly in Polyphonic Spree.

lol well I sang in two separate 60-person choirs so... kinda

Incredible story.

Off-topic, this: "X is a person I sang with in college" must be my favourite vmic-post on ilx :)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/25/white-high-schoolers-in-mississippi-put-a-noose-around-a-black-students-neck-and-yanked-naacp-says/

jesus fucking christ

and the comments are a horrorshow

On the lighter side (pun intended):

https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/791745979875753987

https://frinkiac.com/img/S08E02/515664.jpg