Only his victims were black, so that argument doesn’t really make sense here.

I really dislike people talking about misogyny and racism as opposing, even competing forces. Even if it wasn’t overly simplistic, it implies that misogyny and racism are two discrete, non intersecting forces of oppression, and that misogyny therefore only happens to white women. Women of color (like Holtzclaw’s…

Sure, while fighting with racially segregated troops while Jim Crow and sexism and Japanese internment was going on full swing back home. And wasn’t until their Baby Boomer kids shamed them that they decided to sort of get their shit together and cut the shit as far as racism and sexism. And even then, it was…

I don’t know if Tom Brokaw started it, but he’s fully to blame for its widespread adoption.

There’s definitely anti-blackness in the Jewish community. Just as there’s anti-blackness in society at large. But I can’t ignore the solidarity between the African American Civil Rights movement, the NAACP and the ACLU back in the day. There were a lot of Jewish lawyers who assisted in the court cases that paved the…

Blacksploitation straddles the strange fence that separates black cinematic representation in a time when Hollywood wore its racism on its sleeve and stereotypical fiction beloved by white racists (i have never met a white person who loved blacksploitation movies who wasn’t a bigot)

I hope this does well, but if the only black cinema it features is blaxploitation, it’s going to get old quick. There’s a lot more out there. I do love me some Pam Grier, though!

Well, if you are white and/or won’t be affected much by what’s happened, you absolutely do have the privilege to be able to safely (and when I say “safely” I mean both physically and emotionally) be friends with people who support racism. I’m simply not in that position.

“If you think this is just about “political leanings,” you are in denial”

It was a horrible time. My grandparents told me terrible story from their folks - of child death and polio and no ambulances and abscesses on teeth that turned to sepsis and cockroach infested housing and one toilet between 100 and TB everywhere. People died regularly through poor health and sanitation. People…

Mr. ARay and I had the longest conversation to decide if this print would be okay in our living room. We hung it and have answered so many questions about it. Neighbors, friends- my MIL asked why we wanted a painting with ‘that word’ on it. We want to remember. Forever. The little ARays say goodbye to Ruby every…

I feel like excluding the people who were there meant that nobody could claim innocence by saying, well *I* wasn’t one of those protestors. Rockwell was right. We ALL live with this, even if we weren’t actually there that day. Even those of us who just quietly stay home are responsible for what the raging mobs do,…

Agree. Although I’m not sure how much difference it would have made. Growing up in the Deep South a decade or so after the brouhaha, the “problem we all lived with” was that The Blacks(TM) were uppity and didn’t know their place. People were well aware of the ugliness; they just attributed it to a different source.

She wasn’t unaware one iota. I was the only black child in my school at the age of six, immigrated here from the Caribbean. I assure you that experience has scarred me for life.

I disagree. Rockwell actually altered the picture to ONLY include Ruby. He also cut off the heads of the white marshalls escorting her, for emphasis.

If the goal was to reach a mass audience, then showing such an image would have failed. I don’t know that people were ready to face their own bigotry in such ugly detail and would have simply tuned it out.

To all those people who are so offended that they’re being called racists just for voting for Trump - go fuck yourselves. You may not consider yourself racist, but you looked at a man with a long well-documented history of racist words and deeds, who was running an explicitly racist campaign that was managed by a…

The demographic change won’t matter. White people will dangle whiteness in front of hispanic people and enough of them will bite to maintain the status quo.

But it looks like a cheap Diablo 3 mod with a blur filter.