#RacialPolitics

[its-suanneschafer-author]

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #MyNameIsIris by #BrandoSkyhorse. A dystopic view of MAGA America. 

[jimfostercoc]

Mansbach: The End of the Jews

[wiseintelligent]

#KoolAidFacts the unapologetic flipside of #snapplefacts #ThisAintNoSippinTea #DontDrinkTheKoolAid #wiseintelligent #poorrighteousteachers #politicalprisoners #bpp #bla #sla #racialpolitics #freepoliticalprisoners

[fukette]

Things I Never Expected To Say Vol. 32: I Agree With Don Lemon (?)

I like to imagine that all the opinions I hold about people are stored in a single, dusty file cabinet that looks like it was bought at Office Max during a clearance sale in 1995. Each cabinet holds hundreds of alphabetically organized manilla folders whose contents contain my thoughts on a myriad of different things. Under the letter 'A", you'll find 'Adam Sandler: A Living Argument For Forced Retirement (Or, push comes to shove, euthanasia.) Under 'B' you'll most like find 'Butthair Shaving and How To Avoid The Brown Ring Of Pain.' And so on, but I've always considered the manilla folder in which I hold all opinions about Don Lemon to be as concise as it was unfavorable. Which is to say that it is essentially a simple statement reading "Glad to see a black man on air in a predominately white industry but (and this is a Nicki Minaj's ass 2 days after injections sized BUT) his unceasing side-hustle as devil's advocate combined with his Instagram thirst trap level of fame whoring had made the man as unpalatable as jerk chicken prepared in a Mormon household." I remained steadfast in my avoidance in headlines that contained his name like most people avoid debit cards that contain Russell Simmons'. And this has served me well for longer than I have the ability to recall right now because, well, I've been hitting the Fruit By The Foot and Hennessey pretty hard the last few hours. Lately, though, I've noticed....

Don Lemon will boss up on a bitch in a Facebook minute.

Gotta say, much like a Trump presidency and any combination of food from CookOut that doesn't immediately have you googling legitimate exorcists that specialize in haunted toilets, I didn't see this coming. But so far I've been absolutely tickled negro at the combative incisiveness Don Lemon has exhibited himself to have in the shadow of President Orange Julius. Incisiveness that has done much to, well, not actually do anything to diminish the unceasing campaign of low-expectation, dime-store coonery he's been waging all these years, but enough to at least get me to crane my head over to a TV with CNN on the background with an expression of wonder because I have no fucking idea what it looks like when I see this man doing his job. The latest instance of this occurred during a discussion panel of talking heads covering the used condom placed in America's can of Mountain Dew that is the Trump presidency. The bell tolled for thee when expired deli meat at a white supremacist potluck Jefferey Lord described President Donald Trump as the "Martin Luther King of health care" which, as grossly misrepresentative of MLK and outright insulting to his legacy as it is, what does that actually mean? Like in real life and shit? Was Dr. King's I Have A Dream speech in reality about lower compound percentages when factoring the cost of generic prescription drugs for a chronic illness? Was his March on Washington, in fact, a metaphor for the unnecessary amount of steps it takes to find a primary care physician? When he was beaten to within an each of his life by police and even civilians who, in that era, could be accurately described as 'mildly casual racists", was it part of a guerilla advertising campaign aimed at showing consumers what a 'beating' they took on monthly premiums?

Maybe.

Then again, definitely not.

Despite Jeffrey Lord handing the entire CNN panel a solid legal defense of "The Nigga Had It Coming," they used their intellectual acumen and words to dress this man down like Cinderella at Neiman Marcus when the credit cards get declined. I expected this from the other pundits, but not Don Lemon (See: thirstiness mentioned above and/or dime store coonery.) Either way, I'm here for it, and as glad as I am to have consensus with Don, I'll still be watching with some degree of suspicion waiting for him to turn like the tuna casserole at a strip club buffet.

[ctvpatricia-blog]

A candid conversation with @michaelsteele about #GOP #politics, the #trumpadministration & #racialpolitics. Story tonight on #CTVNews @pgctvnews @pgctv #racism #mdpolitics #race @4realmikesteele #Republican #republicanparty #gopparty @princegeorgesmd (at CTV Studio)

[brooklynartistry]

The @luxyhaus magazine cover just dropped today and the model on the cover is literally the epitome of every black woman with hair. This and the story behind it is basically my life story. #blackwoman #blackhair #donttouchmyhair #black #melanin #brownskin #luxyhair #deadass #fashion #beauty #blackbeauty #politics #racialpolitics #blackstyle #blackfashion #photography #editorialphotography #editorial #magazinecover #magazine #blogger #bloggerstyle #fashionblogger #conversation

[rmdreier]

1972 HCDJ one day, when I was lost JAMES BALDWIN ex-library $30 +ship. #malcolmx #alexhaley #jamesbaldwin #autobiographyofmalcolmx #racialpolitics #civilrights #vintagebooks #vintagebooksforsale #screenplay #cinema #film #blackmuslim #nationofislam #racism #blackhistory #movies #vintage #oldbooks #oldbookstore #bibliophile #booklover #bookstagram #instabook #booklife #bookaneer #ebayseller (at Dodge Center, Minnesota)

[realtaukunlimited-1]

A Happy BDay Shoutout to...

Ms. 'Ella Josephine Baker'...

(December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986)

Who was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist... She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades... In New York City and the South, she worked alongside some of the most noted civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. She also mentored many emerging activists, such as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks, and Bob Moses, whom she first mentored as leaders in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)...

For those that 'Did Not Know This'... ☺

#CivilRights #HumanRights #RacialPolitics #RacialJustice #BlackHistory #RealTauk

[immigrationnewsdigest]

#Trump #Racism #TRumpRacism #Bigotry #JackieRobinson #AfricanAmericans #Blacks #RacialPolitics #Divisiveness #TrumpDivisiveness #WhiteNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #BaseballColorLine #Segregation pic.twitter.com/UMc4itjOOl

— Jimmy Margulies (@JimmyMargulies) August 1, 2019

[its-suanneschafer-author]

BOOK REVIEW: #MyNameIsIris by #BrandoSkyhorse. A dystopic view of MAGA America. 

#DystopicFiction

#MagicalRealism

#UndocumentedAliensInFiction

#MAGAInFiction

#ContemporaryAmericanFiction

#RacialPolitics

#AmReading

#Bookstagram

#BookReviews

[scatv]

"Let's Talk About Race" is a podcast and radio show that invites people from all backgrounds to engage in courageous conversations around issues related to race. Join host Diane Wong and Somerville Media Center by welcoming back a panel of the past years' guests who will share their experiences and expertise. Afterwards, join us for a community meal and participate in racial dialogues facilitated by our panelists. The community is invited to join the conversation! • • • Motivation behind the event... Wong shares that, “Our country has a long history of race oppression. Because of this largely unprocessed history, fear of discussing race permeates our national culture. Somerville is no different. We must engage with race in order to break the cycles of oppression that penetrate our lives.” In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, come learn from a panel of educators, activists, young people, and community members who have engaged in these critical conversations over the past year as part of Wong’s ongoing episodes to her “Let’s Talk About Race” show. The panel discussion participants include: *Pharaoh Saunders: Cambridge, MA, Political Science Student at The University of Massachusetts Boston *Tina Cabral: Somerville, MA, Somerville Media Center *Nina Walcott-Wentzel: Cambridge MA, Medical Secretary, Harvard Vanguard Associates *Raeshelle Cooke: Boston, MA, Filmmaker & Founder of RMC Pictures *Heather McCormack: Somerville, MA, SMC Youth Media Director *Crystal Chandler, Boston Filmmaker & Producer For more information, please contact Heather McCormack at hmack@somervillemedia.org. #racialequality #letstalkaboutrace #racialpolitics #knowledgeispower #community #somervillema #dialogue http://bit.ly/2TrYGGk

[hapaklee]

...the wretched of the Earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve on the contrary, to multiply; life is their only weapon against life...This is why the disposessed and starving will never be convinced ( or some coerced) by the population control programs of the [privileged]. [...] The children of the despised and rejected are menaced from the moment they stir in the womb, and are therefore sacred in a way that children of the saved are not.

[ohthatethanmiguel]

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#Babylon5's nuanced treatment of #international, #interpersonal, and #racialpolitics; powerful #criticism of #religious, #racial, and #emotional #persecution;

— Ethan Miguel( both words please, or “E.M.”) Serkey (@OhThatEthMiSGuy) March 6, 2019

[fukette]

Melania & Muva Michelle: One Is A Victim. The Other Is Michelle Obama.

Corrected for accuracy, the Wikipedia page of Melania Trump would label her as the accessory a crime instead of the First Lady of the United States. She's as much of a 'victim' in much the same way Iggy Azalea is a 'victim' of 'mean' critics and others who consider her music to have all the appeal of listening to two arthritic penguins fuck on an air mattress. Melania was, is, and will continue to be a willing participant in a campaign cum administration more corrupt than the allegedly unscrupulous rapper whose actual pseudonym is, unironically, Kurupt. To characterize this woman as anything other a complicit accomplice in a democratically cheapening brand of fuckshit alchemy is both misleading and laden with bias. Misleading for the reasons so eloquently listed above, but biased because....hmm.

Biased because of... her stylish yet explicitly anti-egalitarian sense of style? Her perfectly symmetrical facial expressions of refined brooding? The fact that her natural speaking voice reminds you of the Slovenian concubine of a Suadi Prince whose only a blueprint-on-a-napkin away from making her escape?.

For the love of Topanga Lawrence, I'm at a loss. I can't figure out why America is so quick to heap oodles and noodles of sympathy onto a woman who, with even the most superficial of scrutiny, is wholly undeserving. It's almost as if the reaction to Mrs. Trump in her current position of First Meh is emblematic of some cultural instinct of ascribing sinlessness to...women whose lips are so thinly edged that every kiss ends in 46 paper cuts?

Fuck, this is hard.

As an avid reader of political columnists and a nationally recognized CVS Rewards gift card member, I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed to admit that this blanket absolvement of an attractive caucasian has me absolutely stumped as to why I feel as if I've seen this movie before. Before you say anything, I recognize that it could very well be the plot of a Coen Brothers film I watched while drunk on sherry and pimento cheese, but I'm still bothered. I would assume this distress originates from watching the Obamas, specifically Michelle Obama, essentially regarded as America's Most Accomplished Aunt (That Just Finished Serving A Ten Year Bid In Rikers.) America proudly touted Michelle Obama. America publicly engaged in and organized events in distinct honor of Michelle Obama. More than a few publications regarded her arms as 'an inspiration.'

Yet the regard had more terms and conditions than an Itunes sponsored Lager & Luger Family Shoot Out.

Chipotle bathrooms have seen less shit than what Michelle Obama had been subjected to during her tenure as the First Lady. This is a woman who is a graduate of Princeton University and earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School. An Associate at the Chicago office of the law firm Sidley & Austin, A woman so accomplished that even Jessie Spano would've applied for a mentorship under her. (Of course, when she wasn't high from caffeine pills, that is. My God, Jessie. Don't you know Adderall is WAY stronger?.)

The point is, Michelle Obama neither needs nor wants your sympathy. As far as I can surmise, she has never considered herself a victim of circumstance. All this, and she still found the #kween level-beast mode within herself to withstand the daily barrage of disrespect (and low key treasonous remarks) from constituents and lawmakers alike. Although, against this background, it makes sense why Melania has garnered such public compassion.

She's a bit delicate, you see. Not nearly as resilient as her predecessor

Though, still, for the life of me, I still cannot fathom the difference in superficial optics between these two women and why one is more deserving of consideration than the other.

[tvdonadio-blog]

Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American. Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn’t need any legislation; you wouldn’t need any amendments to the Constitution; you wouldn’t be faced with civil-rights filibustering in Washington, D.C., right now. They don’t have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a Polack an American.

Malcolm X