Let me ask my kid. He fits that description- white kid in a school where most of the kids are black.

I really wish more people got this. Against my better judgment, I’ve tried explaining why a few black people who may call whites crackers doesn’t somehow make things even. It’s not like black people running banks after WW2 were saying “no crackers!” while denying applications to live in predominantly black communities…

You’re welcome! I have taken long breaks from Jezebel when I get tired of the racism and cluelessness. I tend to come back to read some cute, non-controversial thing and then get sucked in. Maybe I should stop even that.

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You really don’t get that I was making fun of people ignorant enough to believe “racism against whites” is a thing? You sound exhausting.

Anyone can be racially prejudiced. But racism requires systemic support and infiltration to maintain itself and effect others beyond the dual interaction. So yes, a black person, for example, can engage in racial prejudice — but they don’t have the weight of an entire system that aids and abets their prejudice. Their…

Way to ignore the cultural and institutional results of the presence of racism across a society, across multiple centuries, in a country that was founded on the ideas of racism.

Again, definitions change. That there are people who scream about “reverse racism” shows that this usage is gaining traction is actually proof of that. Because if it was just any prejudice based on skin color, it would be impossible to be in reverse. So it actually implicitly implies that racism usually comes from…

i remember reading that the civil rights protestors were told to be patient, don’t cause a ruckus and just let time eventually turn the tide in their favor. fuck that shit.

So far, in all the articles I read, people talk as if PoC= black people. I guess the rest of the minorities are now delegated to lesser tokens in terms of the movie business. No mention of Asians, Latinos (two of the year’s strongest performances were from Latinos, yet no one mentions them in this debate) or…

As a part of a larger institution, the Oscars has a weird dual role. Explicitly, it’s there to honor the best of what the studios have to offer. Implicitly, it’s there to make sure that what the studios offer is honored. So if you were to draw a scatterplot, the sweet spot of honorees is where you have technically…

And there we go: calling out their racism as not charming equals ‘getting self-righteous’.

I see the Oscar protests as a way to call attention to the unfairness of the entire process. The Oscars aren’t the biggest problem - the biggest problem is an industry unwilling to make movies by, about, or featuring people of color - but the Oscars are part of the problem because they do have an effect on which…

I wonder if during the bus boycott Michael Caine was like, “I actually prefer the back of the bus. More leg room!” This is some “let them eat cake” shit right here.

Caine’s statements were outrageous (and idiotic) because Eddie Redmayne didn’t have to “be patient” to win an Oscar, but Michael B. Jordan has to be patient to even get a nomination. Jennifer Lawrence didn’t have to wait. Unless you’re playing a slave (Lupita), a domestic (Octavia Spencer), musician (Jamie Foxx), or…

I’m mostly shocked by the fact that she believes that there is such a thing as reverse racism.

That new kid Samuel L Jackson seems to be going places.

The problem with Oscars with regards to black people is that, even though they get awards, they only get it for stereotypical roles, which is just as incredibly degrading. I just wished people even mentioned other PoC when they talk about this Oscars so white thing.

His message to black actors was “be patient.” “Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar,” he added.

Equal opportunity here: Michael Caine is also an asshole: