Get Out. The more I think about it, the better and better it becomes.
racism
Minority Report: The Real Problem of the Atlanta Hawks Implosion
An interesting byproduct — perhaps a trick — of labeling someone a racist is making them an exception. Racists, once outed, are banished to Racism Island, and then it’s business as usual for everyone else. That’s the Sterling example. But Bruce Levenson isn’t an anomaly. Who doesn’t know a Bruce Levenson? Who hasn’t overheard someone at work or a friend’s dad talk like this before? They’re everywhere.
Minority Report: The Real Problem of the Atlanta Hawks Implosion
Stanford Man: Richard Sherman and the Thug Athlete Narrative «
And while the intentions were good, and helped shift some of the conversation about him back in his favor, it shouldn’t be a primary argument when given the all-too-common task of proving someone isn’t a thug. If anything, it’s harmful logic. Because the next Richard Sherman may not have attended Stanford. So what then?
Stanford Man: Richard Sherman and the Thug Athlete Narrative «
The Logic of Stupid Poor People
One person’s illogical belief is another person’s survival skill.
This essay is so damn good.
Kanye West and White Women | The Awl
I haven’t heard the album yet.
i don’t know, man: Only the Internet Could Compel Me to Feel Sorta Bad for Racist Teens
“The Help” by Kathryn Fleishman
Okay, definitely feeling some confirmation bias when I read this, but I was glad to see this criticism about a movie I never saw.
The Help fails to challenge us now, instead creating an easy, rather than troubling, space, in which we can laugh at the “pastness” of our past, especially its prejudices.
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
Ta-Nehisi Coates. Cf. Anil Dash.
Racist Culture is a Factory Defect – Anil Dash
Post-Popchips reflections. Anil Dash is awesome.
One of the great struggles in trying to challenge racist aspects of culture is that we’ve moved from overt, obvious, overbearing racist practices to things that are much more nuanced, and which are often the result of bad habits or ignorance from otherwise well-intentioned people.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race – Jay Smooth – TEDxHampshireCollege. I’ve said it before: Jay Smooth is one of my favorite thinkers.
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Electric Purgatory is a cool documentary about black musicians in rock. [via joshua blankenship]
I wish I could find online Gerald Early’s essay, “Dancing in the Dark: Race, Sex, The South, and Exploitative Cinema”. It was far and away the best thing I read in Best African American Essays: 2009, but it looks like it’s hidden away in Issue 57 of the Oxford American, subscribers only.
In any case, Early talks about self-mythologizing Southern culture, American gothic, blaxploitation and sexual taboo. Case studies include D.W. Griffith films like The Birth of the Nation, His Trust, and His Trust Fulfilled; Gone with the Wind; I Spit on Your Grave; Free, White, and 21; Murder in Missippi; Black Like Me; and To Kill a Mockingbird. Read it if you can find it.
When Tyra Met Naomi, a look at racism in the fashion industry.
Stuff White People Like—I find this highly amusing. [via funkaoshi]
