Archive for 'racism'
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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That's What My Daddy's Made Me: Simian Mobile Disco's "Hustler" Videos
I’ve been listening to the London-based Simian Mobile Disco, a music production team who call themselves “Electro/ Psychadelic/ Alternative” on their Myspace page. They are composed of two guys named James (foreground, left) and claim to sound like “good, old-fashioned, analogue party music” (as their wacky Brit-ball spelling has it). Specifically, I’ve been listening to [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2008 under Female Sexuality, Misogyny, Pornography, Sex Roles, agency, child molestation, female empowerment, feminism, feminist, feminist academics, feminist theory, gender, gender dynamics, gender power, gender roles, gender socialization, gender theory, male gaze, male sexuality, materialism, music, music video, objectification, objectification of women, objectify, patriarchy, politics, porn, power, power structure, prostitute, racism, sex, sex work, sex worker, sexism, shoplifting, subjectivity, subversion, theory.
Tags: abject, alternative, appetite, attack decay sustain release, child molestation, electro, electronica, feminist, girl on girl, honey hooker, hustler, kristeva, larry flynt, lust, male gaze, marx, Misogyny, mulvey, music, music video, myspace, objectify, party music, patriarchy, pink, politics, porn, Pornography, power, prositute, psychadelic, racism, sexism, sexuality, shoplifting, simian mobile disco, subjectivity, theory, video, women
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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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The Commodification of (White) Morality: Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul?
Like Gil Scott-Heron (you may be familiar with his hit “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised“), I’m going to spend this post, the first in a long time, asking the admittedly pretentious-sounding question, “Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?”. I’m asking because it sure won’t be Whole Foods, or hybrid cars, or organic cigarettes, or [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2008 under America, American, God, Guantanamo, White America, americans, anti-racism, capitalism, capitalist, class, free, freedom, guantanamo bay, minority, morality, morals, obama, race, racism, racist, racists, revolution, social class, social construction, white.
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Man Killed For Residing In United States While Black
On November 25th, 2006, Sean Bell was shot the day before his wedding date — because he was going to a bachelor party with friends at the Kalua Club in Queens, New York. He was shot by three detectives; two friends in his bachelor party were wounded and he was killed by the fifty shots [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2008 under court, police, police brutality, race, racial discrimination, racial profiling, racism, racist, racists.
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Don't Kill For Me: The Case Against Death for Child Rapists
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the case of Patrick Kennedy, who is being tried for raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter, in Louisiana, a state where the crime of child rape carries the death penalty. This will be the first case to reexamine the use of the death penalty for rape since 1977, when [...]
Posted: April 16th, 2008 under Supreme Court, abuse, black males, institutionalized racism, race, racial discrimination, racial profiling, racism, sexual, sexual abuse, sexual assault, statutory rape, supreme, women's rights.
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Whassup, Bitches?: Female Chauvinism's Place is in the Garbage.
This poll discussed over at Slate in the article “Man Up!” found that “Despite the recent frenzy of media attention over the issue of race in America, a new poll by CBS (PDF) suggests that gender may cause more problems for contemporary presidential contenders. Thirty-nine percent of those polled think that a woman candidate would [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2008 under Bush, Tina Fey, bitch, bitch is the new black, bush-clinton, candidate, chauvinism, clinton, equality, female, female leader, female president, feminism, feminist, feminists, garbage, gender, gender power, heterosexual, hillary, inequality, know your place, leader, leadership, man up, poll, president, presidential, race, racism, sex, sexism, sexuality, snl, trash can, united kingdom, woman, woman president, womb, wombs.
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