I’m curious about what people think of this post on BoingBoing from a white woman who was in line behind some black women at the supermarket. They are using EBT to pay for groceries and the machine declines their PIN—three women in a row, one woman three times. Then her debit card is declined and she points out the…
My twitter account was just locked and it asks me to give a cell phone number. Then there’s a message “At first, others will be able to find you by your phone number”
WTF. Is possibly giving my cell phone number to the world (or the pitiful folk who follow my work tweets) the only way to get this shit unlocked? How…
This morning I put up a Salad Bowl post about the badass filmmaker Bree Newsome who climbed the flagpole of the S.C. statehouse and took down the confederate flag. She was arrested with a white ally, James Tyson, and the flag put up immediately in time for a “don’t take away our racist cloth” rally. The flag is…
This woman, Bree Newsome, climbed up a 30 foot pole to take down the confederate flag in Columbia, South Carolina (the state capitol). She ignored demands from the police to climb down about halfway through and was arrested when she got back down.
There’s a photoshop party going on the comments to the Don Lemon story. Some burner posted gay porn. I don’t object to gay porn, but its NSFW and I know how to find virtual dicks when I want. It has 13 recommends and isn’t covered by Gawker’s categories.
UPDATE: Connie St.Louis has a new Op-Ed in The Guardian and a new custom bit,ly. /itsnotaboutyou. She starts with using Audre Lorde to show how this fits a typical paradigm of oppression and moves from there. Too bad a certain GM writer couldn’t have been this smart about it.
Shaun King, a Daily Kos writer, has tweeted a link to a manifesto he says that he’s confirmed is by Dylann Roof. No one here will be surprised that bits of this are things we see pretty often from commenters on Gawker Media whenever something comes up related to black folks.
All those people wondering why a lot of black folk don’t have “empathy” for a certain delusional person need to go do their preaching in Cecil County, Maryland (or Anywhere, USA).
Quiet Update: She’s going to be on the Today show and Melissa Harris-Perry will be one of the interviewers. People were tweeting that MHP’s comments about “deception” were transphobic (I didn’t hear them, but it sounded shady). I wonder if she was angling for this interview. I am not watching, but hoping one of you…
A Kennesaw State University student was waiting for his advisor (and refusing to fill out a form, I guess) and had an encounter with an assistant that he recorded. Now the debate on twitter & elsewhere whether this is about race or whether she is just a shitty student services official. Anyone want odds that the next…
Studio 360 is on with Kurt Anderson interviewing John Cameron Mitchell about the revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. At the end, the conversation turns to Mitchell's cameo in Girls. So as I'm going through some old mail, I hear this unexpected moment of WTF:
Why didn't I know about these? Evidently in 1978 a nine year old baseball card collector said to her mom, " why aren't there any pictures of girls on the cards? It isn't fair!" Feminist mom took this question very seriously and, when she and her sister canvassed their neighborhoods and discovered that the only…
I'm Ms. Tardy to the Party. I'm writing this here because when I talked to BF/FB, he said I was getting too worked up and rung off. I was watching while cleaning a bunch of stuff in the office, so maybe I missed some stuff, but there are some real issues here with sexism and white privilege. My main problem was the…
I missed the premiere, will likely miss next week and its not available on demand. Is it worth paying for? For the first season, people were talking about it on both sides of the pond, as it were, but I haven't seen much discussion. Is that because its not new and shiny or are people not drawn in as much? (BTW, I…
I was reading in the comments of the Gawker item about a maintenance person being mistreated in the New York Times building. A commenter posted a theory that the email was from someone at The New York Times and then linked to the exchange below:
While I was soliciting help on ordering my mother an electric pressure cooker (Cuisinart btw), BlueTexan mentioned that she cooks hard boiled eggs in hers. Mom and I were flabbergasted since I grew up using old fashioned pressure cooker to cook meats, collard greens and such. She wanted this one because someone had…
This is not a fun/weird Reddit/r/relationships post. Unless you think racism and misogyny are fun and weird. It is also long. You could td;lr it by reading the first block quote and the twist at the end.
I've never done one before, but I'm way to tired to put something together myself. I need to go somewhere warm! Any tips for good places that I can get to direct from NYC or travel websites? Or advice on how to pick a place? I'm just overwhelmed.
There's an Op-Ed in yesterday's New York Times which focuses on an Australian study which attempts to identify and quantify white privilege. I don't know anything about the Op-Ed author, Ian Ayres, but I love that he referenced so appropriately Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me" skit.
Did you know the astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Gordon Cooper were actually light-skinned black men? This is one of the many previously buried black achievements in space exploration found in this mockumentary called The Old Negro Space Program. It really gets the Ken Burns documentary style down cold.
