Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I guess your kid crying inconsolably in her bedroom trumps racial sensitivity.
Never at my house. My parents were pretty okay with deluge of tears if it had to do with racial education. And they started early. We got exposed to a lot of general violence, etc, that you probably wouldn't tell a seven year old about, but it was slavery and civil rights, so it was required reading and viewing and retelling.
You're right, ita. I was oversimplifying to keep the post short. :)
I think they couldn't really explain the history of blackface to her, but then I guess that's the point of privilege. You're shielded from that kind of hurt.
hivemind - do any of the cat owners have a litter that they like and does not track? I have been using Feline Pine for years and the odor control is great, but the pellets track everywhere and ow do they hurt when stepped on barefoot. Just tried the Feline Pine Clumping and am unhappy with it. The boxes smell much sooner and it tracks just as bad, instead of pellets, it's like sawdust everywhere.
I think they couldn't really explain the history of blackface to her, but then I guess that's the point of privilege
I think that's it.
Oh, god, I've become a Zac Efron apologist. Still, if you're going to cast Akira white, why not?
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Sean Hannity donated $5,000 to Rep. Michelle Bachmann's campaign, and he has not been suspended.
Sullivan posted about this, and IMHO his title was better: "Why The Web Is Filled With Crap"
“We aren’t here to break news, lay out editorial opinion, or investigate the latest controversy,” Demand’s corporate manifesto declares. “Our audience tells us they want incredibly specific information and we deliver exactly that – in a style that the average consumer appreciates and understands.” In a nutshell, what the company does is to take informational demand and create, in virtual-sweatshop fashion, supply. Basically, if you plug it into Google — “Seasonal mating habits of poison dart tree frogs,” say — it’s got a good chance of eventually finding its way, via a proprietary set of content-churning algorithms, into a list of “topics” to be turned into an article or bullet-point list by Demand’s cadre of stay-at-home moms, independently accredited experts in something or other, magical writing elves, and junior high honors students. Just kidding! These people are professional freelancers, who make $15-30 per piece. Then, the next time you’re researching the seasonal mating habits of poison dart tree frogs, or anyone else on Earth is, since Demand’s properties reach 59 million users a month, said article will top out the Google results.
Stephanie and I, who are not foodies, and who are both from northern Florida, decided to bring a fake, disgusting casserole and pass it off as a Northern Florida/Southern Thanksgiving tradition that both of our families, who didn't even know each other, made every year. (The other people at this Thanksgiving celebration, in addition to being foodies, were also Northerners.)
Well, arguably, dressing as a specific person or character isn't "black face".
If your costume is "I'm a black guy" then you're playing on stereotypes to create a parody of blackness and black people and its a statement (and not historically a particularly nice one) about status and all that. Minstrelsy was "this is what those wacky black people do!"
If you're dressed as Vanessa Huxtable or Mr. T, on the other hand, you're portraying a particular individual. You dress as that individual and try and talk or move like that individual and not some broad sterotype.
Of course, that costume doesn't exist in a vaccuum (see above re: minstrelsy) so you want to pick your moment and maybe not do it -- but its not quite the same thing.