http://www.newhavenindependent.org/corey_menafee/
faces a felony charge! fuck
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
hopefully this link works, it's a lifetime account from a black man who grew up in the Midwest and lives around my cityhttps://www.facebook.com/brian.crooks/posts/10103901923530909
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
very good
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 07:22 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 10:53 (seven years ago) link
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
― In the mouth a memorable desert (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 11:41 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/nyregion/yale-worker-john-c-calhoun-window-slaves.html?_r=0
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
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.”
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.”
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Monday, 1 August 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
jfc
― In the mouth a memorable desert (bernard snowy), Monday, 1 August 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a61929/black-woman-journalist-at-comic-con/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 7 August 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 8 August 2016 02:21 (seven years ago) link
(putting this on fantasy/science fiction/speculative thread and the 2016 race thread)
https://medium.com/fireside-fiction-company/blackspecfic-571c00033717https://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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 11 August 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/28/manspreading-arrest-broken-windows-policing_n_7462944.html
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/10/snapchat-racist-asian-filter-yellowface
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 11 August 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/us/slaves-georgetown-university.html
― until the next, delayed, glaciation (map), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
saw mention of that, haven't read the article yet
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
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
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
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) .
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Monday, 19 September 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Monday, 19 September 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
The new Swetshop Boys single, T5, is about the same thing. The album should hopefully be better than Heems' solo one.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Monday, 19 September 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mirajacob/questions-from-my-mixed-race-son?utm_term=.yxEVMpwX8#.tgNE5LPw0
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
okay I loved that and I didn't expect to
kids rule
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
awwww
― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah that's great
― ogmor, Thursday, 29 September 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
last few articles linked from this thread were all excellent
― Tell me who sends these infamous .gifs (bernard snowy), Thursday, 29 September 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link
omg
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/cary-news/article106145867.html
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
tbf, she did use to read WORD UP magazine
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Thursday, 6 October 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― goole, Thursday, 6 October 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Friday, 14 October 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
From Donald Glover's Atlanta series on FX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKSGJcYwMM
― nickn, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
wow
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 09:15 (seven years ago) link
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; andb) one of his medieval history professors is a woman I sang with in college
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
I'm beginning to think DJP's college singing experience was spent mostly in Polyphonic Spree.
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
lol well I sang in two separate 60-person choirs so... kinda
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
Incredible story.
Off-topic, this: "X is a person I sang with in college" must be my favourite vmic-post on ilx :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
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/
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
jesus fucking christ
and the comments are a horrorshow
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
On the lighter side (pun intended):
https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/791745979875753987
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 27 October 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/img/S08E02/515664.jpg
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 October 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
@rembertcoat switching is white jason waterfalls
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 October 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
https://vivatiffany.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/academia-love-me-back/
http://i.imgur.com/ggV5yYx.png
do we have a race and academia thread?
― 龜, Friday, 28 October 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
This makes me furious.
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
yeah... it sucks. usually when we encounter this sort of thing it's more subtle and undocumented.
― Nhex, Friday, 28 October 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
xp to DJP. As well it might. It's infuriating.
The only explanation (not an excuse!) is that over a period of decades many professors' minds slowly congeal into an oleaginous mass of unmerited assumptions regarding their own superiority over their students, who they reflexively dismiss as callow, ill-educated, irritating and foolish. This prof needs to be publically humiliated in the worst possible way.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 28 October 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
it's horrible and idk how anyone could defend iti do not believe in public humiliation though
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 28 October 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
i believe in humiliating public humiliators
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
you're latino so you can't use the word hence?
The only good that could come of this shameful event would be for the professor involved to feel such a strong sense of remorse that he would never again unthinkingly repeat it.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
she
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 October 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link