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“…I think it might be a bad idea to simply label yourself ally or to even label the work you’re doing “ally work.” Why does a white person get to say that about themselves? You know? It also sets up this sort of superiority thing…”
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“…although newspapers technically separate their advertising and editorial operations, editors often skew their coverage toward the most affluent, advertiser-attractive readers: typically suburban, mostly white…”
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(Thanks to Tariq for this tip!) Members of BET.com’s message boards express outrage over the decision to cast Jolie as Mariane Pearl, calling it a “new generation of Hollywood in blackface.”
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(Thanks to Tariq for this tip!) …”My parents must have thought I was asleep,” the author and historian recalled… “I heard my father say to my mother, ‘The hardest thing I ever did was ask a white man to marry his daughter.’ “…
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(Thanks to Kaushal for the tip!) Many Westerners holiday in South-East Asia and return home with a spouse. Will Jory tells of his own traumatic experience
Meg wrote:
does Jolie resemble Mariane Pearl? Not all biracial people look like halle berry.
Posted 07 Aug 2006 at 7:52 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
NO, not even close. She “looks” more like Halle than Angie
Posted 07 Aug 2006 at 8:52 am ¶
brad wrote:
Hi. Jolie looks as much like Pearl as Denzel Washington looks like Al Pacino: the both have dark brown hair.
http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/07/17/which-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other/
Posted 07 Aug 2006 at 10:18 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
“For many Western men, the slender, petite, ever-youthful figures of Eastern women can be seriously alluring. Then there is a cultural aspect: Thai women have a grace, a femininity and a deferential sexiness that many women in the West appear to have forsaken.”
I’m glad you got robbed!
Instead of challenging their racist, sexist notions they decide to keep the fantasy as “just that”.
Posted 07 Aug 2006 at 10:38 am ¶
brad wrote:
I understand that there are a bunch of new biographical movies coming soon to a theatre near you.
robert deniro in the frederick douglass story!
jessica simpson is billy holiday!
christia ricci is aretha franklin!
meryl streep is coretta scott king!
brad pitt is marcus garvey!
douglas hoffman is geronimo!
jake gyllenhal is malcom x!
matt damon is young thurgood marshall!
jude law is sitting bull!
Why do we need any actors or actresses of color when there are great white thespians just need a little shoe polish to darken their faces or scotch tape to slant their eyes?
Lucy Liu, you are fired!
Denzel Washington, you are fired!
Naveen Andrews, aufswede-get the heck outta Hollywood!
In a colorblind world, is it so bad if all our actors, business people, journalists, politicians are white if they’re the “best.” Can’t all the colored folks just see the humanity and universality represented by Angelina, Brad, Jake, Marylin, etc.
Posted 07 Aug 2006 at 3:08 pm ¶
Ann wrote:
“Black Man Digs into World of White Grandfather”
That was a beautiful article about W. Ralph Eubanks researching his white grandfather, James Richardson, who wed Edna Howell, Eubanks’s black grandmother.
That Richardson was willing to love and honor her with marriage, instead of living with her the way society back then would have preferred him to, speaks volumes about this man who would not let the world he lived in dictate to him on his choice of who he would spend his life with.
He also knew that being married to a black woman in his time brought with it scorn and danger to his and her life. They would have both been forced to leave the state they lived in or risk five years of hard labor in prison.
Leave the state or go to prison.
Because you loved a woman enough to marry her and give her and your children with her your name, your protection and your property/legacy.
I admire James Richardson for standing his ground and for not going along with the racist laws of anti-miscegenation. It could not have been easy for the two of them. And I agree with the grandson, W. Ralph Eubanks, that people, especially in the South, need to acknowledge the blood ties tha bind them, both black and white, whether it was by white slave master and black slave or white man and black woman during segregation. This running from the truth needs to be confronted. And there are many black people throughout the South who are tied to white families genetically, and the time is long overdue for this part of America’s history to be acknowledged.
Strom Thurmond notwithstanding, there were some white men like James Richardson who truly loved, married (in secrecy) and cared for financially and lovingly for the black women they lived with.
Yes, they were few and far between, but they did exist. Not all were like Thurmond who was a gutless coward who would not even publically own his daughter Essie Mae Washington, especially since he was an avowed segregationist.
But, there is one line in the article that the grandson’s father says that sruck me as ironic “that he was afraid of asking a white man for his daughter’s hand in marriage”. Yes, she was half-black/half-white, but,I guess even then, asking a white man for his daughter’s hand in marriage would still have been daunting to a black man.
But, the part of the article that I loved the most was when the grandson walked onto his deceased grandfather’s property, now owned by the black “side” of the family and sat down on the porch.
He was home.
And that was as it should be.
Posted 07 Aug 2006 at 5:27 pm ¶
eric wrote:
that “beware the oriental fantasy” was one of hte most unbelievable things I’ve ever read, if anyone skimmed over it, I suggest you check it out
Posted 08 Aug 2006 at 6:31 pm ¶
Ann wrote:
brad.
I loved your list.
Especially:
Meryl Streep as Coretta Scott King.
Can’t wait for the movie to come to a theater near me!
Posted 09 Aug 2006 at 4:09 pm ¶