Americans are fatigued by race. More accurately, some Americans are fatigued by feeling continually, beyond their point of comfort and tolerance, “forced” to think and talk about race, while other Americans are fatigued by the maddening lack of progress coming from having thought and talked about race their entire lives. Regardless of whether your life […]
Amethyst Amelia Kelly … Igloo Australia … call Iggy Azalea whatever you want, just don’t call her “Becky.” Today in Dumb Opinions About Beyoncé’s LEMONADE that no one asked for, Australian “rapper” Iggy Azalea expressed grave offense at being called “Becky,” referencing that already infamous line from Bey’s stunning visual album: “He better call Becky with the good hair.” Iggy, you see, believes […]
Today in “Oh my god, please stop, you’re embarrassing yourself” news: racists are apparently upset that Marc Anthony was asked to sing “God Bless America” at this week’s MLB All-Star Game because, they claim, he’s not even American. While Anthony sang the patriotic tune on Tuesday, racists with Twitter accounts went off, referring to the singer as […]
Wendy Bell, an anchorwoman at Pittsburgh’s WTAE-TV, was fired this week after posting a missive to Facebook described by various media outfits as: racist, “racist,” racially tinged, racially insensitive and racially charged. It’s easy to see where the outlets that frame these comments as “racist” (in scare quotes) stand. They see those comments as not […]
Art comes in many forms and sometimes people don’t always “get it.” But for University of Buffalo art student Ashley Powell, the point was to get a reaction when she posted “White Only” and “Black Only” signs over the drinking fountains in the school’s Clemens Hall. The Spectrum, an independent student publication at UB, reported that Powell admitted to posting […]
In a recent essay published in The Guardian Thursday, Riz Ahmed writes about facing the same quiet discrimination as his character in the HBO series The Night Of. I say quiet not because it’s not violent or hidden. In the piece, Ahmed recounts incidents in which he and his brother were held at knifepoint or got into fights on various occasions, and […]
Now that the apocalypse has arrived, I want white feminists to lean in. We need to have a chat. See, yesterday I peeped you all celebrating your white suffragette faves. Stanning for Susan B. Anthony and whatnot. Leaving flowers on her grave, being all cute trying to bow down to your sisters who paved the […]
As with most professional fields, working in media has its own unique set of obstacles that apply to everyone but invariably hit women harder. Being disrespected as an anchor on live television is bullshit no matter who you are or how you slice it, but the constant disrespect towards female news anchors is off the charts. In a […]
Our interpretations of art tend to reflect what’s going on with us internally, which is extremely telling for the nursery staff that accused a 4-year-old of extremist radicalization, after they assumed his drawing of his dad cutting a cucumber actually depicted his dad handling a “cooker bomb.” Located in Luton, England, the nursery staff apparently started suspecting […]
