and she's not even pretty!: 13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass. →
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick…
Hey Rochester.
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But if the woman who once simulated masturbation on a world tour can’t understand the impetus for a provocative notion from a notoriously impetuous pop star, then it was clear the outside world was going to have a collective meltdown. And, of course, M.I.A. was effectively flipping off America, but not everyone in America—just what is perceived as America’s middlestream, the football-watching populace that traverses gender, race, class, age, and sexual orientation.
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It’s telling that one of the main critiques of M.I.A.’s finger-flip this week had to do with the fact that she is “not even American,” as Republican Dana Perino groused, which is true (she holds British and Sri Lankan citizenship), but is also veiled code for “brown.” Let us not forget the role race played in Nipplegate, and how it corresponds—woman of color onstage with white pop star offends the country by will or by accident—and wonder if M.I.A. was white and gave the finger, how commentators would react. While we aren’t inclined to think a middle finger is all that interesting—we view it with something approaching boredom—it is somewhat subversive that a young brown woman rapping about her “uranium hits” did it.Why MIA Was Right to Give America the Finger at the Super Bowl | | AlterNet
Julianne is awesome, and reblogging this for MMM.
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http://wheniswhitehistorymonth.tumblr.com/ →
ppl need 2 chill
lmfao
it ain’t even been two days and white people are already misbehaving
oh my god
so much secondhand embarrassment/shame for my race
so much i could cry
so
much
Oh Lord.
This is embarrassing.
RACIST.
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2 things.
1. child i’m finna hit you, anastasia is not disney you know that.
2. i was JUST talking to mel about how there are no hispanic princesses.
she was debating to me whether esmeralda counts, which she totes doesn’t.
I DEMAND A LATINO PRINCESS.Esmerelda doesn’t count as Latina. What the fuck. She’s a gypsy, probably from Bulgaria, Romania, or Georgia.
hence why i argued.
also because i think she was a thinly veiled whore. not a princess.oh my god, DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT THE RACE THE PRINCESS ARE OR NOT? REALLY? DOES SKIN COLOR REALLY MATTER THAT MUCH TO YOU? you are wanting disney princesses of EVERY race to become more ‘diverse’ am i right? and trying to point out the ‘racism’ in disney and how bad disney is, well, disney is not the racist ones in my mind. their movies did not become fun-filled, humorous, heart-warming classics because of the race of their characters! the color of their skin was NOT minded until this generation hit. and your shot for ‘diversity’ has hit another target because YOU are the ones who brought up the fact of the races of these characters. YOU are pointing out that snow white, cinderella, aurora, etc are white, mulan and jasmine are asian, and pocahontas is native american. i never minded that. and i HIGHLY doubt disney made them that way just to HAVE white, asian, native american characters. as much as i hate to admit it, princess and the frog was made because they complained about not having a black princess. WELL GUESS WHAT, i care not for whether tiana was black or white or asian or hispanic. princess and the frog is an AMAZING movie, with amazing art, songs, characters; all in all, the whole movie was perfect, a true classic, and tiana is my number one (next to pocahontas) favorite disney princess. i wouldn’t love her any more or less if she were of a different race. so please, just shut up about this hispanic princess thing! it is not needed since we already have ten amazing disney princesses, and i’m not sure but i believe they’ve recently added alice to the list. but anyway, honestly, just shut up already. plus, disney has currently shut off from making any more disney princess films. there’s a little to no chance they’ll make another so just shut up. please.
White girls, amirite?
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Dear Angry White People,
I got a full tuition scholarship to college. Not my first choice college. Honestly, I refused to even apply to my dream school (Columbia) because I knew I couldn’t afford it and it would break my heart to turn down an offer. Just like it did when I had to turn down U. Chicago, and U. Penn, and half a dozen other schools I couldn’t afford. But I got a scholarship to a school that ended up being awesome, and I appreciated the opportunity. Which I earned by having nearly perfect grades and test scores, every extracurricular activity known to man, and a part time job all throughout high school. Oh, and yes, I have brown skin, but I didn’t steal your spot. I earned my own. I’d hate to think that if I were white, I’d be whining about how I couldn’t go to my top choice for free because I was ingrained with a false sense of entitlement. Every time a white person cries because some black kid supposedly stole their spot, I wonder, did you have a spy cam on my house when I was starting my AP US History homework at 11pm after attending school from 7 to 2, running student government meetings and volunteering until 4, and then working at the mall until 10? Were you the one brewing my coffee so I could stay up studying until 2am? Did you write and rewrite and perfect my admissions essays? Maybe you were the one who set up drunk driving demonstrations and ran SADD meetings every week for a year, making you eligible for a $1000 book scholarhip that helped you survive freshman year. And maybe it was actually you and not me who blocked out the racial slurs echoing down the halls and the discouraging teachers and managed to pay attention in class anyway; I know white people have to deal with that all the time. You must have been the one whose dad said, “I can’t afford to send you to college but you have to go. So, get a scholarship” and then proceeded to make that happen. I’m sorry. Here you go; here’s your fully funded college degree. I forgot that it belongs to you because you’re white.
That was a lot of words, so I’ll summarize it for you: If you look at someone’s success and all you see is their skin color and not the hard work that got them there, you just might be a racist.
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