August 2012
Badass Muslim Girl: No Asians or Indians: Racist... →
stopracismandhomophobiaongrindr:
A COLES contractor has been slammed for a racist job advert, banning Indian or Asian applicants.
The online advert was posted on Sunday, seeking cleaners for a supermarket at Eastlands Shopping Centre in Hobart, The Mercury reports.
The ad in part…
papervaglife:
Today made me realize that it has almost been seven years since I moved to the U.S.
Kinda bizarre, since I feel like I’ve been here all my life. I’ve been using the pronoun “we” every time I talk about the U.S. Most people don’t think much of it, but it feels good to say it.
Congrats to one of our first followers!
džulory ladžala: For the dignity of Roma people in... →
golden-zephyr:
Weariness and despair could have finally caught up with us. Haven’t the Roma people — Tziganes, Gypsies and Sintis — been persecuted for centuries? Haven’t the stereotypes against them spanned several centuries, countries and political regimes? Wouldn’t it be illusive to think that one could…
Republican Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black... →
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Anonymous asked: The people in one of your recent pictures are Inuit. I know in your FAQ you include Native peoples, and while it may be true from an anthropological perspective that they originated in Asia, from what I know, they pretty much reject the idea that their people are not native to the Americas, and they dispute the Bering land bridge theory for that reason. I really don't think they would...
Black August International (2003): A Story of... →
Black August is a month of great significance for Africans throughout the diaspora, but particularly here in the U.S. where it originated. “August,” as Mumia Abu-Jamal noted, “is a month of meaning, of repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains that bind...
Mocking “Foreign Accents” and the Privilege of... →
androphilia:
By Jehanzeb
Friday, August 24, 2012
I’ve been giving this topic a lot of thought for a while, not only because of the observations I’ve made from white and people of color friends and allies, but also because I, too, have been guilty in mocking the “accented” English of people in my community and other communities of color. The imitation and mockery of these “accents” are...
Where's the evidence Aoki was FBI informant?
Diane C. Fujino
Published 6:44 p.m., Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Where-s-the-evidence-Aoki-was-FBI-informant-3808396.php#ixzz24OmOsMqT
Seth Rosenfeld’s dramatic announcement that Richard Aoki was an FBI informant provoked an enormous response from Chronicle readers. Could it be true? Or was this a “snitch-jacketing,” a...
Muslim asks HPD to revise frisking rules on... →
typeless:
A Muslim protester is calling for revision of the frisking process at the Houston Police Department after she said she was stripped of her religious headscarf during a recent arrest this month while rallying for janitor wages.
The incident highlights the varying policies local police agencies have regulating when religious head coverings are allowed during the arresting and booking...
“The racial category Asian lumps together widely diverse groups with no common...”
– Scot Nakagawa breaks down the Pew study and race in so many succinct, clear words that I was a little too angered to come up with 2 weeks ago.
Also,
“reports like this are powerful molders of Asian racial identity, popularizing ideas about Asian traits, capacities (and threats), and, of course,...
Is the US Olympic System as Abusive as China's? |... →
socialismartnature:
The spectacle of the 2012 London Olympics should be subtitled: “the bashing of the Chinese Athlete.” Yesterday, Andrew Jacobs of the New York Times published a much discussed piece called “Heavy Burden on Athletes Takes Joy Away From China’s Olympic Success.” In it, all kinds of “concerns” are raised about the toll “the nation’s draconian sports system” is taking on the...
Family Moments:
(during a car ride.)
Mom: I can't stand Obama.
Me: Why's that?
Mom: He's one of *those people* that we're at war with and blew up the Twin Towers.
Me: What? No he's not.
Mom: He's a terrorist.
Me: Because you think he's Muslim?
Mom: I know he is, that's what his father is.
Me: you know by that reasoning, you're a terrorist too? You and your husbands are Christians. That means you helped kill abortion Doctors, gay people ect.
Mom: No true Christian would murder anyone.
Me: I love how you can apply that reasoning to your religion and not their's.
To assume that Muslim=Terrorist is racist,...
whatiremembered:
To assume that Muslim=Terrorist and Sikh=Muslim is racist, xenophobic, and hateful broken logic, founded in ignorance so profound it appears that the hate itself is a hatred of one’s own ignorance, outwardly manifest as hatred towards all things that one is ignorant of.
Being proud of your nation doesn´t give you the...
Hospitable Zeus | Yannis Hamilakis →
Since the weekend, the Greek police have rounded up around 6500 immigrants in Athens. About 1500 have been found to be without documents and are currently imprisoned awaiting deportation, in overcrowded detention centres where conditions are ‘dire’.
More than three-quarters of the people targeted by the police are completely innocent. But most of the media (even the Guardian) have described it...
waitful:
This white girl walks up to me on campus and goes “ARE YOU AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT??”
LOL. Has happened to me on so, so, so many occasions.
Broadcasting bigotry: Mainstream racism in the... →
socialismartnature:
IN THE wake of the massacre at a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wis., that left seven people dead—neo-Nazi gunman Wade Michael Page among them—Chicago’s commuter newspaper RedEye published a helpful chart…for aspiring racists.
The paper’s “Turban primer” pictured various Middle Eastern and South Asian men wearing turbans. Credited to “MCT Illustrations,” the graphic depicts...
chasing the boon: Top Ten differences between... →
cakostopoulos:
1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”
2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot,…
