As a person of mixed heritage, in this day an age, being the first non-white on a show should not be a milestone.
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It's not an equal two-way street. White people have a long, storied history of oppressing other cultures, complete with appropriating the bits they like and skewering the bits they don't - in this case, living there contributing to their culture isn't good enough for her, but she still wants to be included in their…
I ran 4 half marathons before training for a full marathon. Two weeks before I was to run that marathon on 2/17/13, my husband of 8 years (we were together a total of 13) and the father of our 2-year-old told me he had been cheating on me for 7 months with someone he didn't even like anymore. You better believe that…
I think the pro-women's-rights crowd needs to be trumpeting the Gosnell case. As in "You thought this was bad? Go ahead. Outlaw abortion and see what women are forced to suffer through then." (Of course, the ones with the goal of punishing women for having sex won't care, but maybe some of their mindless sheep who…
Hi, there. I'm eileen_grey, you're roving black person at Jezebel. (one of many, by the way!)
" Start going to church or another place where bloody Bronze Age fairy tales and magical wine are served up in equal measure. "
You guys, I started watching "The Vampire Diaries" on a whim last night, and I'm already on episode 7. WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME THIS SHOW WAS SO GOOD.
Do these secret price codes apply also to Costco stores in Canada?
Why does it upset me that the point of this joke seems to be that there's NO WAY someone like Jimmy would even THINK of marrying someone like Gabby? I just... this is more sad to me than anything. And yes, even if Gabby is in on the joke, it's still sad.
Okay I shall save you all the trouble and I volunteer to be That Person because somehow....I just didn't like the joke. It's like she's laughing at herself in a particularly self-hateful way like "Oh!! haha!! wouldn't it be funny IF Jimmy Kimmel were marrying a fat black chick!! Ahahahah!! But it's pretend!! Get it?…
Why is it people always get so upset about Affirmative Action but not about legacies? For some reason we're ok with the historically advantaged having a leg-up over the rest of us, but not the historically disenfranchised.
Great. But this is a topic about a prominent Southerner being racist in public and that leading to a national conversation about "racism in the South". Perhaps if you'd like to read an article about "racism across the US" you should go find that article and read it instead of this one.
I've been to Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, and all throughout my native California. I can tell you that ,as a Mexican-American, I've been treated in the same racist way in all of those places. There is no safe-space, no place where I can go as a POC where I won't encounter…
Slut help here please. I am invited to attend a college reunion that I am both crazy excited about and super leery because I don't know how to handle comments like "wow, you used to be such a slut! I can't believe you are a mom/spouse/sober now!"
I'm honestly pretty uninterested if southerners get their fee-fees hurted by dismissive attitudes if those kind of divisive politics lead to liberal policies. If we abolished the senate and moved to more proportional representation, the rural areas in this country - and yes, the south - would lose their political…
But this article repeatedly addresses that fact that this sort of racism is not only found in the south and that not everyone in the south is racist. If she hadn't gone out of her way to so actively make it clear that she is not making a blanket claim about racists/southerners you might have a point, but since she…
Yes, these types of racists can be found all over the world. No, these types of racism are not as prominently on display in many other culture's as they are in southern culture. A huge amount of southern culture (and southern cultural pride) is tied to their history of defending their right to own slaves.
This whole thing just hurts my heart. In fact, I spent a couple hours writing a piece yesterday I was going to post to Groupthink, but I wound up trashing it, because I really didn't feel like hosting arguments. Now I wish I'd hung onto it, because of flummery like this.
let's see: the south held SLAVES for 250 years. The legacy of history might have something to do with this assessment. Oh yeah: JIM CROW too. Segregation. Until, you know, the 1960s