Well Japanese and Chinese descendants were brought to the country as slaves, they don’t have that trauma latent in their identity. Power structures aren’t as bias against them as they are against black and to a similar extent, latinos. Also, white dudes like fucking Asian women so I’d wager that’s a subtle reason not…

The African diaspora is indeed diverse, but that’s not important to non-Africans who pretty much treat us the same. You’ve got to go back more than 400 years to understand slavery and exploitation, that it’s not exclusively a thing white people did to black people, even though the fallout from the Atlantic Slave trade…

That’s exactly what I propose, you need a ton of endurance and I’ve been through a roller coaster of self doubt at times, that whole “feeling like a loser” crap. But what are you going to do, it’s hard to for sure say, you didn’t get that interview or you didn’t get that job because you’re black in a specific…

No, I don’t understand the new context you created by inserting words I never said into my original comment, altering my initial tone. Maybe you should use quotations next time.

Thing is if you really go into history, you’ll see that this is shit people have done to each other since pre-history. We tend to only consider the history of the last 400 years and come to incomplete conclusions that white people are just plain terrible.

An uplifting mentality to help black people deal/navigate through racist power structures. As faulty as Kanye’s perspectives on new black are, still way more inspiring than calling a successful black person an uncle tom

I don’t really understand your first paragraph, but I’ll agree that history is crucial.

I can agree with that, but the underlying tone of what they’re saying is meant to be inspirational, positive. I can’t knock them for that, but this thing we do of framing the racial landscape and experiences through the celebrity lens just makes us resents celebs for doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

Nah - equating “New Black” mentality to Uncle tom “lite” and self hating is just being dismissive. At least propose an uplifting alternative if you’re going to do that otherwise - nah.

Yeah - point taken. But Greenwood was 100 years ago, pre civil rights legislation, heck pre-atom bomb. From anecdotes, you can hack a lot of ignorant racist crap just by showing you have some $$$.

As flawed as it is, this so called “New Black” mindset is far better than the alternative - sitting around and blaming the system and history coz you got the short end of the stick. It’s easy to criticize the shortcomings of the concept, but I don’t really see new uplifting ideas put forth. This “white people stop…

Oh, now I see that. Not surprised, Toronto sports fans have the biggest inferiority complex in North America.

A-Fucking-Men!

So when white supremacists claim, technically correctly by the way, that black males account for the vast... Vast majority of crime in America, you think that’s an acceptable thing to say?

Isn’t this TFC?

Pretty good track I can already hear it all over the summer airwaves.

Nah even before House of M X-titles were just becoming lackluster. The Grant Morrison Xorn was the last interesting character I remember, and they even managed to fuck up that up with a bs retcon.

See now I was the opposite, growing up in the 90s I exclusively followed mutant storylines and the occasional Spidey comic. I’m glad that Avengers is exciting again and all that, but its disconcerting that when the superhero movies we’ve all wanted since forever finally arrived and were super successful, that it they…

Been a while since I read the article, but the main point is they diverted resources from X-titles to other properties that Marvel still had the movie rights to. They’re rebalancing their comic book portfolio so to speak. They’re not deliberating trying to destroy the X-men to hurt Fox, as you stated this doesn’t make…

There’s a great Business Insider article that summarizes why X-titles, which used to dominate comic book sales from late 80s to early 2000s, have now been relegated to 2nd tier properties by Marvel. This is exactly what’s happening here and it’s all about the cinematic universe $$. Would be great to see io9 do an…