There seem to be two factions of commenters on this blog: the people who talk about race and the people who talk about gender/sexuality. There is frustratingly little overlap. We’re not sure why that is. Is privilege as it pertains to gender and sexual identity not a ‘black’ issue? Is ‘black’ stuff too foreign for Read More
SWPL’s Landler, from Heeb. Christian Lander, the guy behind Stuff White People Like, recently got a $300,000 book deal from Random House. The book is due out in August. We’re not sure what that means, really. Just throwing it out there.
A while back, I posed a question on a message board: is there a black person more reviled by black people than Clarence Thomas? The overwhelming answer: no. But what surprised me was how much Condi Rice seemed to be challenging Justice Thomas for that dubious title; there’s real contempt there for her — of Read More
Stacia and I disagree on the hullabaloo surrounding the cover for this month’s cover of Vogue. She gets the King Kong undertones and said it’s not a battle she cares to get all up in arms about; I think the cover and the fallout encapsulates the kind of thoughtlessness about racial imagery that are endemic Read More
Ta-Nehisi: I came up in a time when there was a healthy stigma around white people saying nigger. Moreso, I came up like a lot of black people, de facto segregated. Thus even finding a white person to slander me would have been a chore. My point is that it’s all about first impressions. The first Read More
The above is from an e-mail making its way around the innanets. (We just got back from the gym and can’t muster the energy for even perfunctory indignation.)
Stuff Educated Latinos Like, ladies and gentlemen. Apparently educated Latino/as also enjoy diminishing returns? Also, Gary Dauphin over at The Root gets at some of our issues with StuffWhitePeopleLike.
This is actually the funniest stuff he’s ever said in his career. But we don’t think he was trying to be funny. (Hat-tip Brokey.)
The blackface still worrisome?
