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it really bothers me that this guy is still allowed on TV with all the stupid shit he comes out with

 

So many hot takes for someone who's greatest contribution to the world is gutter press phone hacking and getting decked by Jeremy Clarkson

 

speaking of

 

His replies to people rightly criticizing him are even worse... Christ.

 

Also hmmm...
http://indy100.independent.co.uk/ar...ed-donald-trump-in-just-132-words--bk3pFYAimW

 

At least he's embracing the shock jock persona and is no longer taken as a representative of the American left.

And I'm not sure he makes my top ten media personalities that I would prefer be banished.

 

Apparently anglo-saxonizing oneself to fit a white supremacist definition of "American" (i.e. looking more like an upper middle class white) that is not itself consistent with any biological premises just isn't enough.

 

KING: Brock Turner, Cory Batey show how race affects sentencing

 

Black Students Nearly 4 Times As Likely to Be Suspended

 

"
Omar Mateen may have been a member of a minority religion, and he may have expressed admiration for a foreign terrorist organization, but his despicable act is part of a homegrown tradition of hatred-inspired shooting and burning. These mass killings struck terror into black communities, as they were meant to do, and reinforced white supremacy in the North as well as the South. They were also sanctioned and sometimes supported by civil authorities. Similarly, gay nightclubs have been the targets for arson, shootings, and other mass violence as well as police harassment and beatings.

What were called one hundred years ago “race riots” were in fact pogroms, in which mobs armed with guns, explosives and fire – sometimes dropped from private planes – killed African American men, women and children, destroyed homes, and racially cleansed entire towns and cities, driving survivors into exile."

Orlando Mass Shooting Not Deadliest in American History

 

Even been seeing posts on Facebook suggesting Wounded Knee was the biggest mass murder in American history.

 

Saw a documentary on the rise of the modern Black Power movement in the US. The KKK supporters were making monkey noises at the black activists and were too ignorant to know their ancient ancestors were apes too!

 

What an injustice.

Insuffiecient evidence in Kendrick Johnson case for federal charges

I've followed this case since day 1 and EVERYONE knows that the FBI agent's son killed him.

 

KING: Sotomayor’s powerful dissent gives voice to people of color

 

Nigel Farage refuses to apologise for racist poster:

This is the poster:

 

Rick Tyler, House candidate, wants to ‘Make America White Again’

 

And people are still going to find a way to say that that isn't racist somehow. Ugh.

 

haha, what the fuck is that? How is that alright?

 

Freedom of speech is also the freedom to be an asshole. Still you can't have one without the other.

 

right. but you also can't have freedom of speech without others having the freedom to call you out the fact that you're being an asshole

 

A Look Behind Halifax’s Recent Murders Reveals City’s Ugly Racist History | VICE | Canada

 

Every once in a while, particularly when news stories pop up about well-off white kids from Greek organizations having ethnic themed dress up parties, I think of when I was seven. I was a huge Chicago Bulls fan, and my favorite player was eccentric rebounding machine Dennis Rodman. So, for Halloween, I put on one of my Rodman jerseys, spray painted my hair a bunch of colors, put on an array of temporary tattoos, and my mother used some type of makeup to paint my skin a shade of brown.

Around the age of 18, while developing racial consciousness, I became horrified that my parents allowed me to dress up in blackface, as I realized it was objectively offensive. But as I've gotten older, sophisticated my view of racial social relations, and spoken about the costume with friends of color who unanimously think it's hilarious, I've become less sure of the moral ambiguity of having painted my skin brown and the assumption that it was in bad taste. I was, after all, impersonating a personal idol and someone who embodied individuality and boldness to me and had no concept of previous expressions of less benign nature when it comes to skin painting and parodying our black brothers.

So, what says the POC here? I'm not sure why this popped into my head today, but were my parents in the right to allow that costume idea to go about?

EDIT: This is, with no doubt, a trivial and privileged topic, but I hadn't thought of it in some time and I would like to hear perspective on the concept. And, to be clear, I am white: very white. My great grandfather emigrated from Northwestern Germany.

 

It is never okay to do blackface. Regardless of your intention, there has historically been people that put on that make-up to caricature black people as unintelligent, feeble and completely subservient. That is what it evokes in my mind. More than that, it demonstrates a form of privilege in which white people can use our skin color, our flesh, our being as costumes without consequence and then be discarded at will.

 

This came up on AP a few years back if I remember correctly. Not your particular case, but whether or not it was okay for children to dress up like that. I'm white so my opinion means little, but I'd have a hard time getting mad at an 8 year old if, say, he/she had a project to do for school where they had to dress up as their favorite president and do a 'report' on their life, and the kid picked Obama and went the whole 9 yards with it.

Problem is, there's a lot of other kids whose parents would probably dress them up as "urban" in a mocking way and think that's okay and give the kid the wrong idea and what is and isn't okay, especially giving the historical context of blackface.