Archive for 'race'
Can Jimmy Wong cure the new Hoof-and-Mouth Disease?
Today’s post is brought to you by the word bricolage, which Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright define as the practice of working with whatever materials are at hand, and making do with what one has. As a cultural practice, bricolage refers to the activity of taking consumer products and commodities and making them one’s own [...]
Posted: March 23rd, 2011 under Japan, Orientalism, agency, diy, objectification, race, racism, racist, romance.
Tags: a lover's discourse, aflac, alexandra wallace, barthes, bricolage, ching chong, dap, dap-kings, dip, disaster, diy, earthquake, ego, epidemic, foot-in-mouth, gilbert gottfried, hoof, japan, jimmy wong, mouth, new york city ballet, nuclear, Orientalism, political science, racism, sharon jones, subjectivity, tsunami, tweet, UCLA, youtube
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Shake That Booty Politic: Das Racist’s Union of High and Low Culture
The new year is here, and with it, new questions. The New York Times wondered what it would mean if we aren’t calculating horoscopes correctly; Information is Beautiful explored what it would mean if we were; McSweeney’s Internet Tendency asked why comic sans can’t get any respect. I wonder what it would be like to [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2011 under agency, hip hop, hip hop culture, hipster, objectification, politics, postmodern, race, racial profiling, racism, racist.
Tags: Afrofuturism, artifice, B Real, barcade, body, body politic, boom-bap, booty, booty politic, Born Jamerican Apparel, bullshit, cartooning, Cheech, commodification, content vs. form, dance, das racist, Deadheads, death of hip-hop, dog, Edward Said, farley katz, fast food, Fear & Fancy, fonts, genius, ghostface killah, harold, high culture, hip hop, hip-hopster, horoscopes, hoverboards, identity politics, indie, Janelle Monae, kombucha, Kool G, krs-one, kumar, low culture, lyrics, meat is murder, metaphysics, mf doom, murder, nancy reagan, neo-rap, nucca, Oakland, Odd Future, Off the Grid, outkast, personal is political, pizza hut, politics, postmodernism, private self, public self, queens, racism, respect, Rumi, sarah palin, sasha frere jones, solar panels, taco bell, Tribe Called Quest, video games, weed, white castle, who's that broown, williamsburg
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'Zona Defense: The Phoenix Suns vs. SB 1070
This Cinco de Mayo, Arizona’s NBA team, the Phoenix Suns, will denounce their state’s immigration policy on their uniforms. NBA.com reports that the Noche Latina tradition includes uniforms displaying the team name “as spoken by the Latino population. . . The Miami Heat, for example, is called “El Heat”; the San Antonio Spurs are “Los [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2010 under institutionalized racism, legislation, liberty, race, racial discrimination, racial profiling, racism, racist, segregation.
Tags: ACLU, apartheid, basketball, Cinco de Mayo, civil liberties, el heat, federal, hispanic, immigration, institutionalized, Jan Brewer, latino, law, liberty, los suns, Miami Heat, misdemeanor, NBA, Noche Latina, obama, race, racial profiling, racism, SB 1070, south africa, state, U.N., uniforms
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Rise Like Lions after Slumber: John Pilger on Peace
The following is John Pilger’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize. It comes to you courtesy of Zcom, where the verbose, informed radicals hang out. “Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It’s an [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Media, consciousness, democracy, identity, identity politics, imperialism, indigenous, indigenous culture, inequality, journalism, justice, media bias, peace, politics, race, racial profiling, racism, truth, war, warfare, white.
Tags: 9/11, Aborigine, afghanistan, apartheid, australia, barack obama, bombing, border, bystanders, church, communism, communist, consciousness, crime, democracy, disobedience, diversity, dominance, Eddie Murray, Edmund Burke, edward bernays, First Australians, freedom, george bush, harold pinter, hypocrisy, illegal immigrants, illusion, incarceration, insurrection, Iran, Israel, john howard, john pilger, journalism, justice, Kevin Rudd, malnutrition, media bias, Milan Kundera, NATO, Nobel Prize, palestine, peace, pedophilia, Percy Shelley, poetry, poverty, PR, propaganda, public relations, Puggy Hunter, racism, Rupert Murdoch, russia, Saddam Hussein, sex slavery, social class, stalin, stock, terrorism, terrorists, Thomas Paine, thrachoma, truth, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam, war, WMD
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Glenn Beck on White Culture: "Americans Make Their Own Decisions"
If there was a takeaway message from Sarah Palin’s abominable performances on 60 Minutes with Katie Couric, it seems to have been: do not answer her questions. In the clip after the jump, Glenn Beck refuses to explain what he means by ‘white culture,’ if what he’s talking about is spelled that way and not [...]
Posted: October 1st, 2009 under race, racism, radical right.
Tags: coup, glenn beck, john l. perry, Katie Couric, military coup, newsmax, obama, race, racism, right-wing, sedition, white culture
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On Choosing Who Gets to Be Free: Feminism vs. Racism
Recently my girl Ashley pointed me to a post at Jack and Jill Politics. In my browsing there, I came upon yesterday’s post, “The Field Negro Smacks Down Shelby Steele’s Self-Hating BS.” While the post makes important points about the natural alignment of the black power movement and liberal politics’ focus on the government’s commitment [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, politics, race, racial discrimination, racism, radical politics, remind my soul, sex, sexism, sexual capital, sexual inequality, sexual morality, sexual morals, sexual objectification.
Tags: academia, academic, agent, black panthers, black power, black women, bullshit, consciousness, conservative, eve ensler, FBI, feminism, feminist, field negro, ho, hypocrisy, idealism, latinas, liberal, Man Hater, martin luther king jr., people, politics, promiscuity, race, racism, self-hate, self-hatred, sex, sexual activity, sexually active, shelby steele, violence, war
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Terrorist Fist Jab vs. Chest Bump: Fox News Shoots Itself In the Foot
To the left, we see Anna Kournikova and George H. W. Bush giving each other a gesture of mutual “greeting, departure, or respect,” known as “the pound”. Yet when Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama reproduce the same gesture, Fox News calls it a “terrorist fist jab” (see video after the jump). Fox also [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2008 under Black America, Bush, Fox News, Latin, black, black males, black single mother, black women, fox, latino, mother, obama, race, racism, racist, racists, respect, terror, terrorism, terrorist.
Tags: baby mama, body language, chest bump, discrimination, ED Hill, fist bump, Fox News, race, racism, terrorist fist jab, the pound
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