i’m totally using this the next time some jackass asks me this.
Bwahaha! Maybe I should include this clip during my dissertation proposal defense :P
(Source: quinnfabray)
Reblogged from brownroundboi/Originally from quinnfabray
10 months ago on July 07, 2011 at 03:14pm
One way I would fix the country is to create a program that focuses on ending our racial illiteracy. I’m concerned that we’ve been asked to be afraid to talk about race, how talking about race is a racist thing to do, our educational system is driven by very significant differences on race. Our incarceration rate is extraordinary on this matter. Housing segregation, wealth accumulation, access to various resources, they way Obama is being handled – it has everything to do with race and yet we can’t figure out how to mention that word. We need to have a collective way of talking about race, that includes everyone talking together. Ask the artists, ask the historians, ask the teachers, ask the journalists. What do we need to know, in order to be literate?
Professor Tricia Rose (via brownpeople)
learned so much in her class. gifted teacher, brilliant mind. read her book the hip hop wars ~ http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1866048,00.html
(via dancingonembers)
Like this quote points out, I think that a major step involves turning the conversation to the systemic and the fact that we all have a role in the system whether we choose to or not. Too many times, people are myopic in their definitions of racism, isolating it to individual, overt acts between people. Once you confront people with the fact that we all live in a racist SYSTEM that continues to privilege certain groups over others, that incites dissonance within a person. The dissonance leads to feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness, shame, guilt, anger - very difficult emotions. Learning how to cope with that dissonance in a way that is constructive to social change is critical to building the kind of racial literacy that is cited here. A disengagement from the systemic nature of racism allows people to preserve their self-esteem as non-racist, good people who live in a fair and just world. So let’s be courageous: look at the facts, the research, the stories of injustice - and be willing to be uncomfortable with what we find.
(Source: racialicious.com)
Reblogged from kimberlylo/Originally from brownpeople
1 year ago on January 03, 2011 at 11:24pm
“Hatred” and “prejudice” aren’t even really especially useful concepts. They make racism seem much more personal and individual than it really is. Because racism isn’t a parasite or a virus or even a personality defect that we can detect if we just know how to read the signs. It doesn’t so much live in people as it exists between them. Racism helps people accomplish something; that’s why they buy into it. It’s a characteristic of their relationships, not of their selves. It’s negotiated and mutable, rather than fixed in the soul. And the mutation we’re seeing is a relatively new one. So if we’re looking for racism on the right — if we’re looking to explain Knotts — we need to look in the connective tissue of the conservative coalition, and ask, “What is racism doing here? What is it accomplishing for people?”
Knotts’ comment fits into a pattern of plainly racial solidarity underlying conservative nationalism and war-on-terror ideology. You can see this all over the place: in the insistence that Obama, our first non-white president, must somehow be an ally or even a member of the teeming Islamic hordes. There’s the hysteria about the “Islamicization” of Europe, cast fairly plainly in racial terms. There’s the love affair between the right wing and Israel; pundits love to attribute this to Christian conservative millennialism, but that doesn’t do nearly enough explanatory work. Not every conservative ultra-Zionist is also a fundamentalist Christian. It’s something else: the Jews, at least, are cousins, but the Arabs are brown-skinned strangers.
1 year ago on June 04, 2010 at 12:35pm
Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back « OkTrends ›
I’m telling you - hard, meticulous data on online dating fascinates me.
Fascinating! Albeit not surprising. Some highlights: White men receive the most messages, but are the choosiest in writing back to all races. Black women respond the most, but receive the fewest messages. Asian and White females reply the least out of all females, BUT both disproportionately respond to White males more than no-white males. Though these stats are certainly interesting, they must be taken into context of the types of users on OkCupid. As the researchers (weird) note, the typical user tends to be more educated, younger, and more “progressive” (at least on explicit measures, right?). So the trends you see by race speak to a specific cache of people. I would expound more, but this is long as it is.
At any rate, this data is super cool. It’s nice to see that online dating sites are not totally worthless.
2 years ago on October 06, 2009 at 07:54am
