#racist
I was watching the episode where Fern wrote stories for her school magazine under a pseudonym and there is a scene where Francine and Fern are in the library talking about “Agatha Shelley”’s story, and Francine mentions a part where the main character dresses up as a g*psy. YES, SHE SAID THE G WORD. ON A Y-RATED SHOW.
You wouldn’t refer to Mexicans as b**ners on a PBS show, so why are you allowed to dehumanize Romani people in the same way? Also, this “g*psy” was hiding gold coins in her tambourine. Why is Arthur reinforcing stereotypes that Romani people steal things and like tambourine music? This is deeply problematic and I can no longer watch this show, one of my childhood favorites, in good conscience, knowing that Francine and Fern are racist asswipes who casually utter derogatory slurs on children’s television.
Shameful, PBS, shameful.
I don’t care how much you think Sitting Bull was a hero, I don’t care how much you admire and look up to him, dressing your dog up as a Native American, no matter how awesome he/she/they/zhe/zir/plir was, is absolutely cultural appropriation, no matter what your intentions are, and I hope your racist arse kills itself to better the world.
I love when white privileged men try to defend their gross racism and sexism by calling me racist and sexist against them for calling them out.
I’m a black lady. Obviously, I’m not in a position of power to oppress you, so why do you think that me hating you is equal to vice versa? And also, you have no reason to hate me except that you’re prejudiced arses. I have every reason to hate you white men. You creeps never talk to me except when you want to get in my pants, look at my boobs nonstop, and make KFC jokes at work because I’m the only black woman there.
Just last week a man followed me for a block or so begging me to go to his house and “make him cum”. When I told him to go away, he offered to pay me. Just because I’m a woman doesn’t mean I’m a sex worker.
I feel the whole world is systematically against me because I’m a she/her femme POC. It isn’t fair, and white cis men scum don’t realize that. I have said it before, but I must say it again: the only way that reparations and true equality can happen is if they all die. They’re all prejudiced rapists, no matter how innocent they seem, and must be eradicated.
If you’re black and you think those watermelon-eating, fat-lipped, jazz-singing stereotypes about you are actually pretty funny and laugh at how silly they are, you’re indirectly encouraging racism and you should be ashamed of yourself.
If you’re Chinese and you think those old buck-toothed, slanty-eyed, thick-accented caricatures of you are actually pretty funny and laugh at how silly they are, you’re indirectly encouraging racism and you should be ashamed of yourself.
If you’re Arab and think those money-hogging, big-nosed, terroristic stereotypes about you are no big deal and laugh at how silly they are, you’re indirectly encouraging racism and you should be ashamed of yourself.
If you’re Native American and don’t mind being portrayed as red-skinned, feather-wearing teepee dwellers and laugh at how silly it all is, you are indirectly encouraging racism and you should be ashamed of yourself.
If you’re Indian and think that being portrayed as a convenience store owner with dozens of children who always says “Thank you, come again!” in that horrible stilted English, YOU ARE INDIRECTLY ENCOURAGING RACISM AND YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING ASHAMED OF YOURSELF.
Friends of color, why do you HATE YOURSELVES to the point that you crack up over literally oppressive portrayals of your own race? That makes you JUST AS BAD, IF NOT WORSE than the evil people who reduce you to a “joke” at your expense in the first place!
WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING PEOPLE TO MAKE FUN OF YOU?
YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE OKAY WITH RACIST JOKES AND CARICATURES, ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE DIRECTED TOWARD YOUR OWN RACE.
YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE OKAY WITH RACIST JOKES AND CARICATURES, ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE DIRECTED TOWARD YOUR OWN RACE.
YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE OKAY WITH RACIST JOKES AND CARICATURES, ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE DIRECTED TOWARD YOUR OWN RACE.
SCREW
YOU
That is all.
There are some who want to silence us with their blind hatred.
Hope will never be silent.
Love will never be silent.
Truth will never be silent.
Death will come before our silence.
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Dear Donald,
Republicans are red
Democrats are blue
Everyone is putting aside their differences to disavow you
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never thought i’d see the day where tiki torches had to dissociate from neo-nazis
what a time to be alive
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A short lesson from @karnythia.
I feel like even if this wasn’t a majority white country, white supremacy would still definitely function in a way that preserves itself.
Sharing again.
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CHECK!!!
Everything Elvis did came from black people even his songs.
EVERYTHING.
kmt. Elvis was a hero to most…
It started when I was in kindergarten, and I was so proud I did not have to go to Bingo class, unlike my friends, because I could speak good English -
although I had no idea what a yellow dog that could spell had anything to do with Chinese.
(I figure out now that it was probably called Bilingual class)
I am lucky. I speak the fluent, accentless English of newscasters, the dialect spoken by the children of immigrants, that we learned not from our parents but rather from watching Sesame Street and other things on tv.
Last year, a white facebook friend of mine posted, “In order to celebrate Chinese New Year, me talk rike chinese man arr day.”
And then told me that she was “sorry I was offended” and “she didn’t mean anything by it” when I (nicely, sweetly) told her that that shit was not okay. She said that she saw it the same as doing an accent, like Irish. Or British. Or Italian. (for bonus points, she even said that she has lots of Asian co-workers and friends, and LOVES Asian people, and so is not a racist.)
And when one of my white friends gets drunk, he thinks his “Asian accent” is hilarious.
And I was told by a coworker about the time my Asian coworker mispronounced “Barroway” as “Bwawwoway” and how hilarious it was.
Here’s the thing - can you guess how many Asian people I know who actually say
me rikey
me from _____
me so solly
(or, if you like, the fetishized versions: me so horny, me love you long time)
if you said ZERO, then ding ding ding! Congratulations, you have working brain cells.
No, my misguided fb friend, the “Asian accent” is not an actual imitation of an accent, comparable to your bad British/Irish/Italian - but rather a mockery of Asian people and their supposed inability to speak English. It is the perpetuation of the image of Asian people as perpetual foreigners in America.
Like that time when my family was at an Italian restaurant, and we were speaking to my father in Cantonese, and a drunken white lady said very loudly, “GOD when you come to this country at least learn the language!”
Or when my father was pulled over for speeding, and although he said “what’s the problem, officer?” the first thing the state trooper said was, “Do you speak English?”
Your fake “Asian accents” are not harmless and silly, because at the root of the joke, it says - you, you are stupid. You cannot speak English. You are Other. You do not belong.my parents have been in this country for 30 years. They have been American citizens for 30 years.
And they are very self-conscious of their imperfect English, afraid that it makes them look ignorant, knowing that it marks them as immigrants. That, after 30 years, you can still be told (in not so many words) that you do not belong.
The Cultural Revolution started in China when my father was 13. He was pulled out of school and, later, sent to work in the fields. (He escaped to Hong Kong when he was 18, but that is another story for another time.)
When my father came to this country, he had a middle school education and did not speak a lick of English. He worked as a busboy at a Chinese restaurant, the evening shift that ran until 3 or 4 in the morning, and went to school during the day.
It took my father ten years to earn his bachelor’s degree. He is now an engineer.
Is this not your “American Dream?”
When my mother came to this country, she spoke very little English. She got a job as an entry level clerk. Over the years she earned one promotion after another. She is now management at a large federal agency, and manages funds for the whole state.
Is this not your “American Dream?”
And my father didn’t understand why his coworkers said, “flied lice, flied lice!” to him over and over and laughed.
And my father is still afraid to speak in a professional setting, even when he has ideas.
And my mother still checks and double checks her professional e-mails with me, for fear of mockery from the same people she manages.
And people don’t understand why I can’t take a harmless joke. Why I don’t think that shit is funny.
No, I don’t “rikey.”
No, I won’t “love you long time.”
And no, I’m not sorry.
So, please, kindly - FUCK OFF.
Reblogging this for, like, the fiftieth time because it has never stopped being relevant to my life and it always, always breaks my heart.
It’s not funny. It’s not okay. It’s not harmless. It’s alienating and hurtful.
MAGA Teen Nicholas Sandmann and the White Privilege of Redemption
In this op-ed, Teen Vogue wellness editor Brittney McNamara explains why a confrontation between the teens in MAGA hats and a Native elder is just a symptom of a larger problem.
When unarmed teen Mike Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson, he was called “no angel.”Tamir Rice was 12 years old when police shot and killed him as he played in a park; it took police only two seconds to make a judgment and pull the trigger because they thought he was carrying a gun. These two young people were essentially indicted and sentenced to death without any court involvement, not because they had committed a crime, but because police made snap decisions about who they were. Countless other boys and men of color have died this way, and rather than getting a fair trial, they are often posthumously vilified in the court of public opinion.
But when a white teenager does something bad, he seems more likely to get the benefit of the doubt.
We’re seeing this racist double standard play out in real time, thanks to Nicholas Sandmann, who has been given the chance to explain viral images and videos of him and his classmates laughing and chanting face-to-face with Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder, who stood beating a drum in prayer. The combination of Nicholas’s physical stance, his smirk, and the group wearing MAGA attire sent the story into a viral tailspin, and a he-said-he-said debate ensued. No matter which video you watch — the longer one, or the shorter viral clip — the teens appear to be disrespectful, at the very least, taunting and harassing at worst.
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In This Moment of Revived Racism, the Red Summer of 1919 Matters
OG History is a Teen Vogue series where we unearth history not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens. In this piece, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, organizer/curriculum writer for the Zinn Education Project and high school social studies teacher, explains the importance of the Red Summer of 1919.
Some of America’s most notorious racist riots happened 100 years ago this summer. Confronting a national epidemic of white mob violence, 1919 was a time when black people in the United States defended themselves, fought back, and demanded full citizenship through thousands of acts of courage, small and large, individual and collective.
But pull a standard U.S. history textbook off the shelf and you’re unlikely to find more than a paragraph on the 1919 riots. What you do find downplays both racism and black resistance while distorting facts in a dangerous “both sides” framing. These textbooks render students stupid about white supremacy and bereft of examples from those who defied it.
At this moment of revived racist backlash, all of us need to learn the lessons of 1919.
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