Race (2016)
Jesse Owens’ quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy.
Big Book of Subraces by Marvl101
Hayes dropping some facts on Watson!
An independent candidate running for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District seat is under fire for a campaign billboard he posted with the slogan “Make America White Again,” local TV station WRCB reported Wednesday.
Rick Tyler confirmed to the station that he put up the billboard, which also lists the address for his campaign website. Tyler told WRCB that he does not hate people of color, but does believe America “should go back to the 1960s.”
“(The) Leave it to Beaver time when there were no break-ins; no violent crime; no mass immigration,” he told the news station.
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Why do people think there was no crime back in the 60s? The burglary rate – which would be the “no break-ins” – back in 1960 was 508 per 100,000 people. In 2014 it was 542. That’s basically flat. Violent crime has about doubled, but the murder rate is lower now than it has ever been in the past fifty-six years (x).
Rick Tyler is running as an Independent, but this is obviously Republican rhetoric without the cushion of respectability. Much of the GOP base would love to go back to an imaginary time where crime was non-existent and brown people didn’t exist…in a country their ancestors stole from brown people they tried to extinguish.
America has never been white. Ever. It was brown when white folks got here and then they imported some Black folks to build the nation. The only time you can argue that America has ever been white would be that highly distasteful period of government-sanctioned white supremacy where white men were the only people recognized as people under the law. That wasn’t 1960, that was more like 1760. So Rick Tyler needs to knock off about 200 years from his fantasy, learn to load a musket, shit in a closet built in the backyard, and wash his ass twice a month in a good year. That’s the America he wants to go back to, but he can go to hell for all I care, him and all his racist supporters.
I had to show you this… I asked on Yick Yack to play never have I ever because I was bored at work …. Then this person just tells me I have to not “be waste of space at work” and I am a very committed person to work and my college… THEN he asked if I was female because I sounded like “A stereotypical Sassy BLACK woman” and besides being called lazy… I don’t like it when a race is stereotypes so I just wanted to show you this because I hate this I am Latina and I’m proud but I won’t let someone use my Latina race as my weakness when I believe it’s my strength.
This is an essential read.
As awful as the events in Orlando were, they are only a part of a larger trend of violence and inequality that disproportionately affects those with marginalized identities. As the New York Times reported (and also cited in this article) LGBT folks are the individuals most likely to be victims of hate crimes (and it’s widely acknowledged that these crimes are underreported). But LGBTQA+ status is often only one factor. Gender non-conforming folks who identified as Latino were almost twice as likely as their white counterparts to be the victims of physical assault in public accommodations - 11% vs. 6% of respondents in the Injustice at Every Turn study - and a staggering 22% of black respondents reported being the victim of physical assault.
I am sure that once again this year the list of victims on the Transgender Day of Remembrance will be almost all trans women of color. It is shameful to minimize how those intersectional pieces are at play in Orlando and our failure to address them broadly all but ensures continued discrimination and violence. And most of those acts will be far less visible, far less likely to provoke outcry and action.
Yes, in the wake of Orlando we need to talk about gun control (and let’s not forget that the majority of gun deaths in this country are suicides…another issue that desperately needs attention), we need to talk about violence in general against LGBTQA+ folks and the lack of protections we have in many areas; but we also need to talk about discrimination, violence, and marginalization of the Latino community, about issues of race in general within our country, about supporting and welcoming immigrants, and about building a culture that can learn to love and embrace the broad and beautiful set of identities we all hold.
The time to release the beast is almost upon us. Stay tuned. #BeastoftheGreenHell
Short of outright extermination, is there anything you could do to a race more calculated to destroy it than forcing unending mass alien immigration upon it? It reveals a truly genocidal hatred.
Our country is filled with individuals of Middle Eastern descent who have contributed constructively to American society. Yet surprisingly few of these Americans are actually perceived as Middle Easterners. Instead, their ethnicity is frequently whitewashed. On one hand, this fact highlights the assimilability of Middle Eastern immigrants in the United States. On the other hand, it creates a problematic signposting of Middle Eastern identity when it becomes associated with transgressive activities.
The long list of Middle Eastern Americans includes individuals from virtually every aspect of American life, including athletes such as tennis player Andre Agassi (Persian/Armenian), Indy 500 champion Bobby Rahal (Lebanese), and NFL quarterbacks Doug Flutie and Jeff George (both Lebanese); entertainers such as actresses Cher (Armenian), Kathy Najimi (Lebanese), Catherine Bell (half Persian), and Gabrielle Anwar (half Persian), actors Danny Thomas (Lebanese) and Tony Shalhoub (Lebanese), radio deejay Casy Kasem (Palestinian/Lebanese), and singer Paul Anka (Lebanese); prominent entrepreneurs such as hoteliers the Maloof family (Lebanese) and Apple CEO Steve Jobs (half Syrian); and politicians and activists such as former New Hampshire governor and White House chief of staff John Sununu (Lebanese), former senator George Mitchell (half Lebanese), and prominent consumer advocate and presidential candidate Ralph Nader (Lebanese/Egyptian). Even “good” Middle Easterners who are perceived as nonwhite are not racialized as Middle Eastern. For example, although they are both half Lebanese, neither Salma Ilayek, a famous actress, nor Shakira, an internationally renowned singer, is identified as Middle Eastern. Instead, they are almost universally considered Latina.
By John Tehranian
Excerpt from Chapter 3: From Friendly Foreigner to Enemy Race: Selective Racialization, Covering, and the Negotiation of the Middle Eastern American Identity (x)
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anonymous asked:
are white people with full blooded native american heritage considered biracial/poc?
i think it depends. a lot of white people claim to have native american heritage but have either a) no proof of this ancestry, b) no ties to that culture at all, or both.
me personally, my family claims that my grandfather was full-blooded native. like, lived on a reservation and all of that good stuff. however, i have no documented proof of this, nor do i have any connection to that culture at all. if someone asks me, i might say, “well, my family says…” but i would never outright claim “well i’m native american” because i feel like that would be laying claim to a culture and society i’m not actually apart of. even if i did have proof of it, i still wouldn’t feel comfortable necessarily saying “well i’m part so-and-so tribe” because, again, i don’t actually have any connection to that side of my family. i have no ties to that heritage.
to me, it’s like, if i was to claim i was bantu. my family has done a genealogical report on the black side of the family and we traced our roots back to mozambique. so technically, somewhere down the line, i do have ancestry from a bantu tribe. but do i identify with the bantu people? no, because none of those traditions have carried over and i have no connection to that culture. so i would never say “i’m bantu”. i’m simply african american.
that being said though, there are plenty of white-passing poc who are just as valid as any other poc. just because you can pass for white doesn’t disqualify you from being poc, i would just say, you know,…if you’re claiming native american heritage and you’re actually 100% certain that it’s not just hearsay, then cool. but if you’re claiming that heritage and you have nothing to go on other than “well my mom/grandma/aunt told me so” i, on a personal level, feel like that might be a bit disingenuous. because you might be claiming heritage that doesn’t actually exist.
idk if that makes any sense and i’m not trying to offend anyone but it is actually very very common for white people to say “oh well i’m 1/16th so-and-so” but they actually have no connection to that heritage, and sometimes it comes off as people trying to be like, “well, actually i’m not 100% white okay my great great great grandfather was native american.“ and it’s a little yikes to me but again that’s just me speaking for myself