The People You Meet When You Write About Race by Guest Contributor Crommunist, originally published at The Crommunist Manifesto This post was inspired by Pervocracy’s “The People You Meet When You Write About Rape.” Mr. History “Black people were enslaved like a million years ago. Ms. “We need to recognize that everyone is just the exact same on the inside. Mr. “It’s people like you that are the real racists! Ms. “I’m a black person, and I haven’t ever felt mistreated because of it. Mr. “Here is the dictionary definition of racism. Ms. “Sure, racism used to be a big problem, but there’s lots of black people in prominent positions these days. Mr. “White people are the worst! Ms. “White people are the worst! Mr. “I’m so sick and tired of people talking about ‘white privilege’. Ms. “Affirmative action? Mr. “Of course you’d say that – the NAACP has been pushing that lie since they were formed! Ms. “You monkeys are just mad that you’re genetically inferior to our master race! Mr.
Debunking the Big Lie Right-Wingers Use to Justify Black Poverty and Unemployment | Tea Party and the Right July 29, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. In April, the Oklahoma legislature passed a constitutional amendment that would do away with affirmative action policies in the Sooner State. Kern suggested that blacks simply don't work as hard as whites. Kern was simply advancing one of the most enduring and pernicious untruths in America's political economy. It's also thoroughly and demonstrably untrue, flying in the face of decades of serious research findings. It's a myth that should be put to rest by the economic experience of the African American community over the past 20 years. In order to buy the cultural story, one would have to believe that African Americans adopted a “culture of success” during the Clinton years, mysteriously abandoned it for a “culture of failure” under Bush and finally settled on a “culture of poverty” shortly after Lehman Brothers crashed. That's obviously nonsense.
A brief cultural history of blacks and watermelons « The Edge of the American West Via Sadly, No! I learn that the mayor of Los Alamitos—a city whose proximity to Los Angeles disqualifies its citizens from claiming they live behind the Orange Curtain—recently sent the city council an email entitled “No Easter egg hunt this year.” It contained this picture: When questioned as to the propriety of sending poorly-executed racist photo-shops to government employees, the mayor claimed to be “unaware of the stereotype that black people like watermelon.” Putting the issue of what exactly is “funny” about the picture in the absence of said stereotype aside, there are some conservatives who claim that the real problem here is hypersensitive blacks and their “rat-fink” instincts: The fink who ratted him out was a black woman who sacrificed friendship to the motto, “Never Fail to Be Offended.” His commenters agree: How dare [defenders of the rat-fink] be offended at everything? Being offended because they cannot violate decorum with impunity is bad enough. Scotland is a country.
The New Yorker and Hipster Racism by Guest Contributor AJ Plaid, originally published at The Cruel Secretary By now, you’ve seen the latest New Yorker cover, with the Obamas garbed in the gear of the latest fear-mongering Americans’ wet dream. Of course, people at Michelle Obama Watch, Daily Kos, Politico, and other blogs have expressed rightful and righteous outrage over the cover. The Washington Post’s and CNN’s Reliable Sources’ Howard Kurtz said: “I talked to the editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, who tells me this is a satire, that they are making fun of all the rumors,” Kurtz added. Bill Burton, The Obama campaign spokesperson, responded: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create. My current live-in partner, who works at the New Yorker, just couldn’t believe that so many people responded so angrily at the cover at the Daily Kos and other sites. “Of course I’m angry. At all.
Black Power’s Gonna Git You Sucka: Right-Wing Paranoia and the Rhetoric of Modern Racism Prominent white conservatives are angry about racism. Forget all that talk about a post-racial society. They know better than to believe in such a thing, and they’re hopping mad. What is it that woke them up finally, after all these years of denial, during which they insisted that racism was a thing of the past? Was it the research indicating that job applicants with white sounding names have a 50 percent better chance of being called back for an interview than their counterparts with black-sounding names, even when all qualifications are the same? No. Was it the study that found white job applicants with criminal records have a better chance of being called back for an interview than black applicants without one, even when all the qualifications are the same? Was it the massive nationwide study that estimated at least 1 million cases of blatant job discrimination against blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans each year, affecting roughly one-in-three job seekers of color? It is none of this.