HALLOWEEN 2018

Hello...Is it me you're looking fooooor....

DEAR ASIAN WOMEN I'M CALLING YOU OUT ON THIS ONE

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BY ELIZA ROMERO

...Every time an Asian woman complains that only white guys want to date her and that white guys fetishize Asian women, it usually turns out that she herself has only dated white guys. 

Interesting how that works, right?

 

You can go ahead and say it's ok for these women to have a preference but what about the guys? Why is it a fetish for them but not the other way around? Why the double standard?

Here are my theories: 

1. Asian women experience a much greater amount of privilege in a white-dominated society than Asian men, specifically lighter-skinned East Asian women. 

2. Asian women have been societally influenced to think that white men are more attractive than Asian men because western media has emasculated Asian men.

3. Certain Asian women just don't want to admit that they have a white guy fetish so they put the blame on the dudes. 

Since the day you were born, different influences on your mind – the bedtime stories your parents read to you, the cartoons you saw as kid, the school you went to, the movies and shows you watched, and the wallpaper on your computer – have come together to create a cohesive image of the world....

~Aesthetic Distance

This is something all people of color living in a society where one is bombarded by positive white images constantly should think about:

How did "my racial preferences" get to be "my racial preferences?"

So Read More https://aestheticdistance.com/blog//dear-asian-women-im-calling-you-out-on-this-one  

KING OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE PRAISES WILLIAMS BET SPEECH

AND GETS DRAGGED BY BLACK TWITTER

Williams’s wide-ranging speech paid respect to the black women “who have spent their lives nurturing everyone before themselves—we can and will do better for you”; name-checked those whose lives were lost in the struggle for racial equality, from Tamir Rice and Eric Garner to Rekia Boyd and Sandra Bland; and it took on how “this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil—black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.”

Enter Justin Timberlake, he of “SexyBack” fame, who tweeted the following:

READ MORE:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/27/justin-timberlake-dragged-over-bet-awards-tweet-stop-appropriating-our-music-and-culture.html

Black Twitter had to inform Justin Timberlake that Jesse Williams was complaining about him among many white people who steal from us and give back nothing, not even much of a peep from him on Black Lives Matter. Most of us haven't forgotten the cowardice he showed during Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" either. 

First, Timberlake tried to be sarcastic when black twitter started going after him. Then he realized it was snowballing and tried to apologize. But even his apology tweet sound like "All Lives Matter" and "We're All One Race The Human Race" between the lines.






Is it just me or do the last four words mean "WHITE LIVES MATTER TOO" as if  white male lives don't matter first, middle, last, and always. Why didn't he stop this tweet four words sooner? Not that this would have compensated for decades worth of taking sans an ounce of giving. But, the wording is so awkward, it almost has to have some specialized meaning. I can't help but think he's one of those people who hears "Black Lives Matter" and thinks

"But what about us? The history books, the movies, the people who run our government looking 90% like me isn't enough. What about white people?"

Justin Timberlake probably just a simple-minded entertainer that was lucky to graduate high school. But I'm glad those who steal from us get handed their heads nowadays. It's the only way they will learn.

And if Timberlake does more than apologize, if he gets up off his imitation - of - black - life ass, admits he capitalized off black music ala Eminem, and consistently does something for Black Lives Matter from now until the day he dies of old age, maybe we can call what he did to rise to the top of the music world "cultural exchange" instead of calling it the "straight cultural theft" that it is for now.

EVOKING THE MULATTO

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Evoking the Mulatto is a multimedia project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States. It was created by the filmmaker Lindsay Catherine Harris, and features compelling interviews with young Americans as they reflect on the complex process of defining themselves. This is the first of four episodes

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/471885/mulatto-its-not-a-cool-word/

" 'MULATTO' IS NOT A COOL WORD"

ETYMOLOGY  (noun) - the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. [Definition from google]


ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "MULE"  - 1590s, "offspring of a European and a black African," from Spanish or Portuguese mulato "of mixed breed," literally "young mule," from mulo "mule," from Latin mulus (fem. mula) "mule" (see mule (n.1)); possibly in reference to hybrid origin of mules (compare Greek hemi-onos "a mule," literally "a half-ass;" as an adjective, "one of mixed race"). As an adjective from 1670s. Fem. mulatta is attested from 1620s; mulattress from 1805.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mulatto

The Other Thin Blue Line: OFF DUTY BLACK COPS ARE AFRAID OF WHITE OFFICERS

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All but one  [of the officers interviewed] said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime.

 The officers [interviewed] said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.

Reuters interviewed [a total] of 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving

Reuters 

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/23/us-usa-police-nypd-race-insight-idUSKBN0K11EV20141223 

Anniversary of TRAYVON MARTIN VERDICT

"Several years ago, as I was leaving for a dawn run (still dark outside), I was followed by a young man.  

I walked, he walked; I ran, he ran; I ran faster, he ran faster. 

When there was no doubt he was chasing me, I stopped and asked him what he wanted. He simply beckoned to me, saying, "Come here, come here." 

I responded, "YOU need to get away from me," as I assumed my fighting stance: feet apart, keys between fingers.

He stood there for a few moments and then began slowly backing away; he finally turned and ran back in the direction from which he'd come. 

Had he continued toward me and got within striking distance, this was my plan: stab him in the eyes with the keys and immediately kick him in his "man parts," and if that worked, beat his head into the concrete until he was unconscious or someone pulled me off of him. 

Yes, I would have struck first as a total stranger was pursuing me in the dark for apparently no good reason."

~ Gloria’s Story

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Seems like Gloria had a logical reaction to me. Even if there had been no dialogue between her and her stalker, and Gloria had wound up having to turn around and kick him in his assets, it STILL seems like a logical reaction. And I think it might seem like that way to 95% of the population, if they read her story too...for so long as race remained out of the picture. 

Now this might not be right, but it is mostly certainly true that the image George Zimmerman presented on the night he killed Trayvon Martin looks very similar to the image presented on television and in movies, over and over again, as the thief, the rapist, and the murderer. On THAT night George Zimmerman looked very much like 1,001+ actors who have landed the role of Hispanic Thug on shows presented on FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, FOX AGAIN and a motion picture near you.  If this same man, as pictured above, had been the one going home after getting skittles and tea, and then someone who could be cast as Mike Brady had done the killing, the very same people who support Zimmerman NOW would be JUST as unable to see past his Hispanic stereotype and acknowledge him as a victim.  That's just as galling as it is ironic.

Don’t you wonder what kind of book Zimmerman's father would have written then? 
In either case, Zimmerman as real chaser or as fictional chase-ee, I'm trying to imagine the conditions in which a logical person could perceive the chaser as the one whose fright counts most in a confrontational “misunderstanding” where someone ends up dead ... without some bone-marrow deep racism being involved. 

There’s no doubt, racially speaking, that things have improved in this country. We have a black president and at least 1/3 of the white population voted for him. This was unthinkable just 20 years ago, and maybe even 8 years ago. And despite the wishful thinking of covert and overt racists all over the United States, the Trayvon Martin case is NOT even close to being divided straight down racial lines. Things are not exactly like they were during the Rodney King trials.

Thank God. 

Even so, George Zimmerman's personal store of racism is a drop in the bucket as compared to the amount of racism it took to support a murderer's right to kill Trayvon Martin this year. The people that water, shine light on, and fertilize the Zimmermans of this country do more than enable racism. They have turned all these Zimmermans, these cowardly weasels with guns, into the unstable weapons of mass destruction that they are, taken all together. And the passing of these “Stand Your Ground” type laws was the enabler's way of pushing THE BUTTON. But without seeing day-to-day hate in their own mirrors and racial epithets foaming out of their own mouths, the superiority remains.

And that superiority sans much hate remains invisible to them…but not to the rest of us. 

More importantly, in this condition they will never recognize themselves as Zimmerman's accomplices. And those that tsk-tsk this first group of enablers/accomplices for some stray “politically incorrect word ” or two, will be perfectly comfortable in calling these people “friends." And they won’t recognize their own roles as secondary accomplices either.

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

— George Burns

The election of President Barack Obama is two steps forward. But more than half(?) the country being unable to recognize Trayvon Martin, a man-child of 17, as a human-being frightened of a stranger following him in the dark, frightened enough to stand HIS GROUND and fight back just like Gloria would have - in Klan Country no less - is likely three steps back.*
If Mamie Till were still alive to see all this, I wonder if we would be able to stand hearing her tell us why the accomplices said her son deserved to die. I wonder if she would be able to tell us how to make these accomplices take responsibility for what they’ve created --- and how she lived with it when many of the accomplices of her time never took responsibility for a thing. I wonder if she would be able to tell us all how to move forward again anyway.

Originally written the day after the verdict.

#BlackLivesMatter Was Conceived By Alicia Garza,  Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi as a result of what happened to Trayvon Martin. And #BlackLivesMatter has turned a national spotlight on a number of cases, including Freddie Gray's.

*http://www.pbs.org/harrymoore/terror/k.html

RACHEL DOLEZAL NAACP PRESIDENT LIED ABOUT BEING AFRICAN AMERICAN?

AND HER PARENTS PROVIDED A CHILDHOOD PICTURE OF RACHAEL DOLEZEL AS A BLOND, LANK HAIRED WHITE GIRL TO PROVE IT.

When I first read this story, I almost felt like I'd fallen into an alternate universe. Anyway... In the video, ,Dolezal did NOT say my father is mixed race from way back when, but passed as white. She also did NOT say something like 'I decided to acknowledge my African American Roots' She got that *deer caught in the headlights* look then implied she was confused when there was nothing to be confused about.

Looks to me like she straight up lied.

So did Dolezal lie to get her first NAACP job? When, how, and why did she change her hair? I am especially interested in the when and the why of her changing the hair. Isn't hiding the hair texture (or lack thereof) the equivalent of black-face? I don't know if I care about how much good she's been doing. I imagine somebody else, black or white, who hasn't told so fundamental a lie might have done just as good a job. If she deliberately deceived people about something so basic as the social construct of her race, that's a problem. She changed her hair so as to fool the eyes. She said she was African American so she could fool the ears. And wearing blackness as a costume, for any reason, is a problem in my opinion. White people can be NAACP Chapter Presidents. They have been before. In the early 20th century, I think NAACP Presidents were predominantly white. I know white people were predominantly influential in the NAACP, even more so than blacks - and that was a major problem. However in 2013, Jeff Blanck, who is openly white, became NAACP Chapter President in Reno, Nevada. So she could have been openly white AND a NAACP Chapter president. Maybe less likely, but you still don't get to cheat your way into a job by changing your look to fool people. I guess her friends, co-workers, and people she's helped will be the final judge of whether or not she stays in the organization. But I'd hate to see this become a trend because everything in me says, "This is unacceptable."
CHILDHOOD PICTURE & READ MORE

http://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2015/06/11/media-firestorm-swirls-around-rachel-dolezal-the-local-naacp-president


Pssst!!!!  I never ever thought I'd use the phrase "openly white"

WHITE FRAGILITY: A definition

from
LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY &
THE GOOD MEN PROJECT

FROM LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY

LINK TO LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY/Subject is race in the U.S.

I love it when sociologists and creative lay-women come up with names for things that black people have been observing for decades and decades.

"Challenges to this identity become highly stressful and even intolerable. The following are examples of the kinds of challenges that trigger racial stress for white people:   

Suggesting that a white person’s viewpoint comes from a racialized frame of reference (challenge to objectivity);    

People of color talking directly about their own racial perspectives (challenge to white taboos on talking openly about race);    

People of color choosing not to protect the racial feelings of white people in regards to race (challenge to white racial expectations and need/entitlement to racial comfort);    

People of color not being willing to tell their stories or answer questions about their racial experiences (challenge to the expectation that people of color will serve us);   

A fellow white not providing agreement with one’s racial perspective (challenge to white solidarity);    

Receiving feedback that one’s behavior had a racist impact (challenge to white racial innocence);   

Suggesting that group membership is significant (challenge to individualism);   

An acknowledgment that access is unequal between racial groups (challenge to meritocracy);    

Being presented with a person of color in a position of leadership (challenge to white authority);    

Being presented with information about other racial groups through, for example, movies in which people of color drive the action but are not in stereotypical roles, or multicultural education (challenge to white centrality).

 
Not often encountering these challenges, we withdraw, defend, cry, argue, minimize, ignore, and in other ways push back to regain our racial position and equilibrium. I term that push back white fragility.
READ MORE at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/white-fragility-why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism-twlm/#sthash.1Ps0EnXN.dpuf

Video: On Using Privilege Wisely

Dr. Joy DeGruy 

author of
"Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome"

Dr. Joy DeGruy is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher, educator, author and presenter. She is an ambassador for healing and a voice for those who’ve struggled in search of the past, and continue to struggle through the present. Dr. Joy is the acclaimed author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome —America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: The Study Guide , with a second book in the works , Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Part 2: Be The Healing.

More of her biography on the next page

A HANDMADE CARD FOR HARMONY'S BIRTHDAY

 

A few days ago, when I read this for the first time, all I could really think about was how hurt I was as a little girl when things like this were directed at me.

I was trying to imagine how upset I would have been if my friends parents, Laura Watt's parents had been different.  If Laura's parents hadn't been kind, generous white people with one foot inside always inside hippy culture, if they hadn't been as open as they were, I wonder how many different shades of devastated I'd have been if Laura had given me a card like this in 4th or 5th grade....or any grade.

Looking at this story again, I see that a 10 year old white girl drew her friend a pretty card; knows that being a racist ("races") is a bad thing; and hopes her mother will change her father's mind.

Judging by the video, the little white girl's hopes were dashed.

In the video, Harmony's Father said that the birthday party went off without a hitch. And maybe it really did. Everything  probably was okay during the party itself.  But Harmony wasn't okay. I know she wasn't  because I wasn't. My parents always wanted to believe the same thing when I was targeted because of my skin color. And I helped them believe everything was "okay." As young as 7 or 8 years old I knew what I was supposed to say.  I knew how to make my parents less upset on my behalf.

It still amazes me when parents say 'bad thing *x* happened yesterday, but then we did fun thing *y* immediately afterward. So she forgot all about it'  ...especially when bad thing *x* contains a suitcase full of racism that weighs more than the little person expected to carry it.

Still, I'm hoping Harmony genuinely did have the happiest of birthdays this year. Maybe her mind really didn't travel back to the moment she opened this card/folded note--- not during the party anyway. And I hope she won't remember reading the note OR the reaction of her parents when they first read it... not too often, anyway.


I also hope the little white girl was at least somewhat distracted the night of the party. But better she had a night full of tears over being left out than lose the knowledge that her father's actions were indeed racist and hateful --even though she loves him. Ten years old is rather a young age to figure out that you can love a person but despise some of what is inside them.

But she can do it. Others have. Others can. Others will.

More than anything, I hope that neither one of these girls ever completely forgets this incident and that we don't either.

I wonder what kind of artwork was drawn on the cover of the card?



READ MORE/SEE VIDEO  http://abc7chicago.com/562622/