JAMAICA KINCAID

Pretty Woman is an aggressively irritating movie.

You seem to be missing the point. If one of the most famous brown men in the world keeps being racially profiled repeatedly after bad PR each time, it is a symptom of a much more serious case of incompetence and racism. No one is suggesting some system of preference here, just looking at the facts and noting the…

Which famous brown American celebrity has been repeatedly subjected to this, again? I really don’t get what you’re trying to say here. I’ve said that both the American Embassy and the TSA people have issued multiple apologies to Shahrukh Khan following public outcry (and those statements included acknowledgements of…

*sigh* You’re missing the point. This has happened over and over again. People have already gotten mad over this the last time he was detained, because he has a huge fanbase and they obviously made a whole deal about it. The American embassy or whatever already apologised the last time. They KNOW he is popular, but…

All I mean to say is that they didn’t care enough ABOUT his stardom to update a database or maybe send an news update - “hey guys! so we detained this brown fellow and apparently he’s a huge star, and people are hella mad, bc this is like the 3rd time. so anyways next time this fellow pops in, maybe not stop him?…

No one is arguing that they SHOULD know him. I simply said that Americans are largely unaware of cultures outside their own, which is true. They have no need to be, nor are they inclined towards it. Whatever. The problem is that despite his stardom, he has REPEATEDLY been detained. The last time he was detained in the…

He is...Indian. Not North American. The whole point is that the racial profiling is so common and incompetent that he (being the biggest Bollywood star and frankly with more viewership than most Hollywood stars) got detained REPEATEDLY. Over and over again because of his skin colour.

Western solipsism and denial is truly amusing to witness. The most amusing.

He’s one of the VERY, VERY few Bollywood stars who came up on their own and not via family connections, and dynasties which explains his chill level. He’s always proud of himself in interviews but never comes off as obnoxious.

i legit loled when i read that line, like sweetums we all know why

It’s kind of sad/ironic because Bollywood stars are EVERYWHERE in terms of viewership - from Russia to North Africa to Middle East. I was in Brazil with my cousins and they have a whole soap opera with Bollywood themes. US people are quite...well unaware of cultures outside their own (most Europeans and Canadians too…

I got detained day before at LAX - me and Shahrukh Khan are BFFS via racial profiling I WILL BROOK NO NAYSAYERS

Canadians? What are those?

I mean, America has won the World Series since its inception - how else could any country do better than that??

Fuck this guy. I had a panic attack a week ago because of my student loans, and this inbred milksop gets all this cheddar?

Also Josh’s son.

Basically the Ancient One is supposed to be Asian - Tibetan to be more specific. They changed to a white character (and expected people to feel happy that it was a white woman)

I loved Jessica Jones so much, but I do wish they had more WoC, or at the very least, I wish they hadn’t made Misty Brown lightskinned.

I guess I just can’t bring myself to feel optimism over Marvel over all the terrible Dr. Strange crap, and then that orientalist Daredevil season. DC is a lot worse though, I’ll give you that.