Archive for March 10th, 2009
Post-Racial Yet?
This is a story about a woman who wrote a
handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.
This is such a problem. We are clearly not living in any kind of post-racial society when racialized screening like this is still occurring. [...]
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Tags: post-racial, racism
Mixed Bill of Rights
I love this video/bill of rights for so many reasons. One of the hardest things about my own racial identity is that I feel like it must always mirror that of my families. Because my fathers racial identity is always changing based on location and discussion topic it can be really [...]
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Tags: family, muti-racial
1. They might be getting back together. A lot of what I’ve heard in the news/magazines/talking to people when they hear that Rihanna might be taking Chris Brown back is that she is “crazy” that she’s “stupid,” how could she? etc. Just because this particular relationship is under the scrutiny of the national media doesn’t [...]
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Tags: consumption, domestic violence, objectification
