I hope this series addresses the topics in your 1st sentence, because they do seem to play a major role in identity.
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So far, they’ve chosen a great, thoughtful group of people to speak. I wonder if they will delve into the differences between those reared in mostly black, white, or mixed environments, or include statements from people who are less thoughtful for balance (for accurracy’s sake, not b/c those perspectives need any more…
As a woman born of this generation, I can say that it has been my experience that self-identification was dictated largely by two factors: the race of your mother and your phenotype. Because my mother is Black and from South Carolina, those were the values I was raised with and what firmly guided my identity…
There is a criticism about Key and Peele and Blackish and Dear White People, that had been floating around, and it’s something to the affect of its media by black people about black people FOR white people. And its a criticism I never fully understood until I listened to this 2 Dope Queens podcast. I did not even…
Fuck her. The damage is done. She was just doing it last week. Nope. Noooooooooooope. I hope she’s through.
Except that the journalist was guilty of this as well. And it is something I have noticed with the BBC (and us, I’m sure); they interrupt women far more than men, and they interrupt people who speak deliberately before they have finished their sentences (as in the case of Ms. Adichie), even more if their accents are…
Hi borgohuris,
Thank you for bringing this up. We and the artists will keep this in mind going forward.
—Michelle Woo, Offspring editor
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The people responding to your comments are experiencing something called “Cognitive Dissonance”. When people (ccomfort, ddiiggss, kat lyons etc ) begin to feel discomfort when they are faced with behaviors (in this case,your comment) that goes against their fundamental belief (I.e, this isn’t racist) People don’t…
I’m not sure what you’re doing or where you were planning on staying - it’s gentrified just like everywhere else, so I can’t just go “stay near Roxbury but not on the Dorchester line”. If Deval Patrick were still governor I’d suggest you call his office for a “Green Book” list, but ... he’s not. Off the top of my head…
The “OK” knocked me out. It has to be the the step child of “I said what I said” This child is COMPLETELY unbothered by his teacher. It’s fabulous. And I have been trying to find a way to articulate what my mood for 2018 is and this child found it for me.
Minnesota Nice. (Read: passive aggressive as fuck)
Thank you!!! I appreciate that!!
“you knew this house of cards was going to crumble. White women are craven and selfish and lack any self awareness. I knew the minute some white women were getting more attention than other white women, they would get mad as hell and self destruct in some fashion and derail whatever momentum that was going on”
SHE NEVER SAID YES
I work in local government in a City Manager’s Office and am responsible for oversight of our Police and Fire departments.
White women are complicit in the continued abuse of people of color, white women elected Orange Julius. White women nearly elected Roy Moore. We need to take responsibility for our contribution to the patriarchy and do better.
I’m so done with this. So. Done. She knew. Meryl knew. Everyone knew. They all, we all, need to confront our complicity in men’s bad behavior. Whether you’re a mother whose grown son is shit to his sisters in your presence, whether you’re a wife whose husband makes inappropriate comments to your nanny, whether you’re…
...it is surprising that people don’t understand the deep-rooted emotional racism attached to calling black people “monkeys.”
I’m not for this “Scandinavia is a racial Shangri-La” stuff. That is a sentiment that is readily debunked. Nowhere in the world is free of anti-blackness, if the population is pressed hard enough (i.e. the minority population rises from being “interesting and insignificant” to “wait, y’all are here for real?”). See:…