Rolling Race 2021

it's hardly the most upsetting element of the video, but that CADENCE

Uhh...

the cheerful warmth of the tone and cadence makes it sound that getting on boats to become slaves was a nice thing for black people to do .... yeah, ughhhhhh

Meanwhile, over at Oberlin:

https://www.facebook.com/1569723009914148/posts/2922254581327644/?d=n

that is terrible but it is also...hilarious.

did no one, when putting together that banner think..."oops. maybe we don't show their photographs?"

and this is Oberlin? ... damn.

A friend sent this to me last night— (I minored in music comp at said institution). Seems like an obvious case of someone shitting the bed on design for a flier, the response to criticism being atrocious, and the whole thing spiraling into an awful controversy because of a hit parade of mistakes on the Con's end of things.

Another friend posted on the original (now removed) IG post— "Well there is a little bit of the color black in each photo, maybe it's a conceptual piece?"

lol ... your friend is great.

(You'd probably get along with him, sarahell, he started West Nile, the east coast version of East Nile. One of the Shinkoyo boys.

ohhhhhhh nice!!!

that is terrible but it is also...hilarious.

a million times OTM

A little bit white really.
Very condescending sounding tone to the yoga teacher's voice. Is that intentional cos she's got kids in her audience.
& is the idea thought through properly should this be the 2 elements you want to combine.
Couldn't you reenact the voyage of Abu Bakari from 200 years earlier if you wanted to be positive. Or pretend you were wearing leg chains in an oh so tasteful way if you didn't.

I would say “don’t pretend you’re wearing leg chains”

Just thunk it about matched the taste level.
& it might just possibly wake whoever was writing that routine up.
Like wondered if there was a point too far for tehm

xp, a good rule of thumb in general

I am literally begging you to move the Netflix logo on this image https://t.co/nIriKbf7XB

— David Thomas Moore (@dtmooreeditor) March 2, 2021

why did I look at this while my work meeting camera is on

xp I was being intentionally tasteless if that wasn't clear.
Wasd that like a pseudo woke yoga meeting , have met supposedly liberal theatre makers who seem to be about as tactful as that appeared.
So yeah thought I'd take the p. Only saw a bit of that so they didn't actually move further in taht direction did they.
What's the next stage in that sequence after pretending to be boats ?

I'll leave it to others to comment on this, but it seemed worth a mention

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-on-lovecraft-country-extras-claim-her-skin-was-darkened-this-should-not-have-happened

hoo boy

Papa John’s ex-CEO says he’s been working for the last 20 months “to get rid of this N-word in my vocabulary” (h/t @mount_bees) pic.twitter.com/8heITnJJxA

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 8, 2021

guys he's really TRYING

I love the idea of this dude literally spending 20 months with a diction coach trying to get the n-word out of his vocabulary and failing

20 months???

now that i think about it there aren't any pizza toppings that start with the letter "n"

(i am aware that someone british is typing one right now)

Nutella and new potatoes

there it is

Nduja

"know what else you can put on a pizza, is n-"
"PAPA JOHN, NO"

meanwhile, Armie Hammer is all 'hey I heard you got a pizza for me'

https://www.thedailybeast.com/teen-vogue-staff-rail-against-new-editor-in-chiefs-past-tweets-mocking-asians

1. maybe I'm square but AFAICR this is my first time seeing the acronym "AAPI" (asian american and pacific islanders)
2. I know we've done "how did neither you nor your new employers vet your social media presence before taking this major media job?" before, but this is one of the more dunderheaded ones considering, well, it's Teen Vogue! hyper-wokeness is their entire brand at this point!

AAPI's been used on govt forms since at least the '90s, probably further back

weird coincidence that this woman was dating the Biden staffer who just got let go because some reporter harassed him about their relationship

that said, we've all spoken dumb shit when we were 19 years old, and McCammond did apologize at least

AAPI's been used on govt forms since at least the '90s, probably further back

my Canadian ignorance again reveals itself

it IS a little off we all get lumped together that broadly, but ya know, America

On some level, I have to admire the brazen chutzpah of this explanation: https://apple.news/AlC9Qs0cgRZGTI3w6W7suMQ

tired: "I was caught up in the heat of the moment and used words I regret"
wired: "My Type 1 diabetes made me say racist things"

"you can't punish me, this is a side-effect of my pre-existing medical condition" is absolutely swinging for the fences and it's making me laugh a lot harder than it should

lol, amazing. Is this the reason he's no longer a youth pastor or…?

On a tangential note, do Apple News links work on non-Apple operating systems?

yeah, it redirected me to NBC News on my Windows machine

(I didn't realize I was posting an Apple News link when I was on my phone)

"I'm not racist, I'm hangry"

I am reading his statement and crying with laughter

During this time I was with a colleague and friend Scott Sapulpa. Scott Sapulpa was not the one who made these comments, it was me and me alone. It is not my desire to shirk my responsibility in this matter and I certainly do not want Scott Sapulpa to share in the blame of this most unfortunate incident.

"To be 100% clear, Scott Sapulpa had nothing to do with this. My coworker Scott Sapulpa did not make these comments, I did. No one should associate Scott Sapulpa, that S-A-P-U-L-P-A, 'Sapulpa', with these racist comments."

While the comments I made would certainly seem to indicate that I am racist,

Yes, they certainly do-

I am not, I have never considered myself to be racist,

Oh! Well that's sorted, QED

and in short cannot explain why I made these comments.

It's such a conundrum! He has never considered himself to be a racist and yet he made these terribly racist comments. HOW CAN THIS BE? itisamystery.jpg

My diabetes has been racism-ing, not me

It's like a William Burroughs parody: "The Man Who Taught His Pancreas To Talk (And Discovered It Was Horribly Racist)"

I went down a rabbit hole with this and found this horrifying thing: https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/24/8/1498.1

Whoa, that is terrible.

Kara Walker comes to mind
Also the twinkle defense

https://www.ethicaleditor.com/entertainment/twinkle-khanna-comes-out-in-defense-of-people-who-publicize-charitable-acts-on-social-media/

unfortunately i was thinking about it some more while i was walking and the article would make no sense logically if the writer was unaware that there is content created by and for black people! like it kind of sounds like that's what he'd prefer to see more of.

anyway it's nice to see that expressed in the elite circle jerk culture ecosystem

ugh insert "poor" in that xpost

the article would make no sense logically if the writer was unaware that there is content created by and for (poor) black people! like it kind of sounds like that's what he'd prefer to see more of.

He came up with exactly one example — Moonlight, a movie with a budget of $1.5 million according to its director. If he really wanted to make the point that he wanted to see more content by poor Black creators, it would be a simple process of listing some books and saying "More like this, please." (Or allowing music to be part of the discussion.) But he's only concerned with what wins National Book Awards and what gets written up in the Atlantic.

The sentence "A decade of unprecedented interest in Black arts and letters has now passed—the greater portion of it bought with footage of people possessing Floyd’s particulars lying dead on the tar—and still you cannot walk into a bookstore to find a shelf named for Black authors raised in poverty." is absurd bullshit. First of all, the last time I went into a physical Barnes & Noble, there was no section for Black authors at all — their books were shelved alphabetically with everybody else's. But when there have been separate sections (and when I worked at Barnes & Noble 20+ years ago, there were), there's absolutely special consideration for "Black authors raised in poverty" — they call it "urban fiction," and it's books like the one I mentioned above, the kind of books this author has zero interest in promoting, by authors whose names he'll never bother to learn, because the readers of Current Affairs would never let such a thing stain their fingers, and he'd rather attack Colson Whitehead and Roxane Gay (whose name he misspells in the piece) for being rich. (I didn't know Gay came from money until reading this. It doesn't change my opinion of her work one way or the other. I used to know one of Whitehead's sisters, a little. She came to a reading I gave for my first book.)