Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Stunningly ignorant teen age girls views on race
They've since been booted from their high school...
Thursday, January 12, 2012
George Lucas accuses Hollywood of racism
No really?
Director George Lucas says it took 20 years to get his latest film made, "because it's an all-black movie".
Speaking on The Daily Show, Lucas said he had to self-fund Red Tails, the true story of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II.
He claimed major film studios would not back the movie because "there's no major white roles in it at all".
"I showed it to all of them and they said, 'No. We don't know how to market a movie like this,'" he said.
"They don't believe there's any foreign market for it, and that's 60% of their profit," he added.
Read more here.
Director George Lucas says it took 20 years to get his latest film made, "because it's an all-black movie".
Speaking on The Daily Show, Lucas said he had to self-fund Red Tails, the true story of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II.
He claimed major film studios would not back the movie because "there's no major white roles in it at all".
"I showed it to all of them and they said, 'No. We don't know how to market a movie like this,'" he said.
"They don't believe there's any foreign market for it, and that's 60% of their profit," he added.
Read more here.
Friday, January 06, 2012
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Oh look, another white man saves the world, um I mean Mars
These kind of movies are getting really old. Oh and look, it's from Disney, what a shock.
Gulnare Freewill Baptist church of Kentucky: Racists of the Day
A small Pike County church has voted not to accept interracial couples as members or let them take part in some worship activities.
The decision has caused sharp reaction and disapproval in the Eastern Kentucky county.
Best, yet completely vile bullshit:
The recommendation "is not intended to judge the salvation of anyone, but is intended to promote greater unity among the church body and the community we serve," the copy supplied to the Herald-Leader read.
Read more here.
The decision has caused sharp reaction and disapproval in the Eastern Kentucky county.
Best, yet completely vile bullshit:
The recommendation "is not intended to judge the salvation of anyone, but is intended to promote greater unity among the church body and the community we serve," the copy supplied to the Herald-Leader read.
Read more here.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Racists at The Toronto District School Board disgrace Toronto
Hate to say it, but I agree with Marcus Gee about some things.
The Toronto District School Board made a terrible mistake when it approved an Africentric high school this week. Public schools based on racial background are an affront to everything Toronto stands for.
Read more here.
The Toronto District School Board made a terrible mistake when it approved an Africentric high school this week. Public schools based on racial background are an affront to everything Toronto stands for.
Read more here.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Toronto takes huge step backwards with "Africentric" schools
The Ghost of Wallace lives.
Toronto District School Board trustees on Wednesday approved the city's second Africentric school, this time for high school students.
Cheers erupted in the packed public gallery after the controversial motion for the high school for black students passed 14-6.
"It's a great opportunity to serve our students and that's what this has always been about," said the board's education director, Chris Spence. "You know, how do we think outside the box and support our students the best way we can."
Read more here.
Toronto District School Board trustees on Wednesday approved the city's second Africentric school, this time for high school students.
Cheers erupted in the packed public gallery after the controversial motion for the high school for black students passed 14-6.
"It's a great opportunity to serve our students and that's what this has always been about," said the board's education director, Chris Spence. "You know, how do we think outside the box and support our students the best way we can."
Read more here.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
OMG a brown person! Frisk him!!
The United States has apologised after former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked at a New York airport.
The government in Delhi complained after the 80-year-old was frisked on board the aircraft, and had his jacket and shoes briefly taken away.
India has complained in the past about its treatment of dignitaries by US air staff - including a previous incident involving Mr Kalam in 2009.
Protocol exempts former presidents and other dignitaries from such searches.
White ones that is.
Read more here.
The government in Delhi complained after the 80-year-old was frisked on board the aircraft, and had his jacket and shoes briefly taken away.
India has complained in the past about its treatment of dignitaries by US air staff - including a previous incident involving Mr Kalam in 2009.
Protocol exempts former presidents and other dignitaries from such searches.
White ones that is.
Read more here.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Warners Brs. plans to whitewash Akira
Tuesday will be Akira's turn at bat. Warners' adaptation of the Japanese classic is looking for the actor to play Tetsuo, a young man with telekinetic abilities who becomes a dangerous weapon. (Garrett Hedlund is in negotiations to play Kaneda, the teen's older brother and leader of a motorcycle gang.) Ezra Miller, the emerging star of indie thriller We Need To Talk About Kevin, and Alden Eherenreich (who starred in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro) are the names surfacing most often with the reading.
Hard to assign blame here. Racist Hollywood producers or their counterparts in the viewing audience.
It's a bitch to live in an age soaked in racism while it simultaneously denies anything of the kind exists.
Hard to assign blame here. Racist Hollywood producers or their counterparts in the viewing audience.
It's a bitch to live in an age soaked in racism while it simultaneously denies anything of the kind exists.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Andrew Breitbart, even Glenn Beck thinks you're a scumbag
A great crime seems to have been committed in the U.S., and voices are being raised in unlikely places to rectify it.
Shirley Sherrod has accomplished a number of things in her career, but she had never planned on uniting Glenn Beck and the NAACP.
The former USDA official was allegedly forced out of her job as director of rural development in Georgia after a video surfaced that appeared to show her admitting that race played a factor in a decision to limit help for a white farmer. Sherrod is African American.
Mr Breitbart & friends seem to have edited the video to damage Ms Sherrod, but hopefully their underhanded tactics will backfire big time.
Read more here.
Shirley Sherrod has accomplished a number of things in her career, but she had never planned on uniting Glenn Beck and the NAACP.
The former USDA official was allegedly forced out of her job as director of rural development in Georgia after a video surfaced that appeared to show her admitting that race played a factor in a decision to limit help for a white farmer. Sherrod is African American.
Mr Breitbart & friends seem to have edited the video to damage Ms Sherrod, but hopefully their underhanded tactics will backfire big time.
Read more here.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Racists in (shock) Arizona stuck with gallons of unused white paint
Some racists complain about a painting on Miller Valley Elementary School daring to depict non white children, the school decides to re-paint some of the children, to make them "brighter" and look as if they are stepping into the sunlight....
The internet get wind of this and proceeds to tell said school they ain't fooling no one.
School backs down...
Read more here.
The internet get wind of this and proceeds to tell said school they ain't fooling no one.
School backs down...
Read more here.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Why Is a White Actor Playing 'Prince of Persia' Title Role?
Because many whites won't watch a movie with a star that isn't white, duh.
Besides, it's a fucking Disney film. Disney hasn't the best record in the portrayal of "ethic" (an awful term I know) characters over the years. There's a reason they keep "Song of the South" under lock and key.
White characters they just turn into idiots.
It's awful living in an age that will be laughed at and reviled by future generations.
a comment: "Obviously the flip side of the debate is just as ridiculous; could a believable biopic about Miles Davis be made with a Chinese actor"
Read more here.
Besides, it's a fucking Disney film. Disney hasn't the best record in the portrayal of "ethic" (an awful term I know) characters over the years. There's a reason they keep "Song of the South" under lock and key.
White characters they just turn into idiots.
It's awful living in an age that will be laughed at and reviled by future generations.
a comment: "Obviously the flip side of the debate is just as ridiculous; could a believable biopic about Miles Davis be made with a Chinese actor"
Read more here.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The General Teaching Council of England are flaming morons
Calling them flaming morons is in no way "suggestive of intolerance".
Just who are they trying to kid?
A BNP activist who posted comments online describing immigrants as "savage animals" and "filth" while working as a teacher has been cleared of racism.
The General Teaching Council (GTC) had heard Adam Walker used a school laptop during lessons in County Durham to post the descriptions.
Mr Walker, from Spennymoor, said he had been singled out because of his views.
The GTC said it was "troubled" by some postings, but was not satisifed the views were "suggestive of intolerance".
Read more here.
Just who are they trying to kid?
A BNP activist who posted comments online describing immigrants as "savage animals" and "filth" while working as a teacher has been cleared of racism.
The General Teaching Council (GTC) had heard Adam Walker used a school laptop during lessons in County Durham to post the descriptions.
Mr Walker, from Spennymoor, said he had been singled out because of his views.
The GTC said it was "troubled" by some postings, but was not satisifed the views were "suggestive of intolerance".
Read more here.
Catherine Ariemma: Idiot of the Day
A North Georgia teacher is on administrative leave and could lose her job after she allowed four students to don mock Ku Klux Klan outfits for a final project in a high school class Thursday, administrators said.
The sight of people in Klan-like outfits upset some black students at the school and led at least one parent to complain.
Read more here.
The sight of people in Klan-like outfits upset some black students at the school and led at least one parent to complain.
Read more here.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Michael Bay, Transformers and racism?
Certainly the first Transformers struck me as suspect, as the black characters come across as less than balanced (check the donut scene, or the used car scene, or the video game scene...).
Now, he's moved on to stereotypical robots...
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" introduces some 40 new mechanized characters of all shapes, sizes and even sexes _ but it's a pair of jive-talking 'bots that critics are singling out as more than just harmless comic relief.
Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact Chevys, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They're forced to acknowledge that they can't read. One has a gold tooth.
Read more here.
Now, he's moved on to stereotypical robots...
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" introduces some 40 new mechanized characters of all shapes, sizes and even sexes _ but it's a pair of jive-talking 'bots that critics are singling out as more than just harmless comic relief.
Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact Chevys, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They're forced to acknowledge that they can't read. One has a gold tooth.
Read more here.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Paramount shines Avatar up all sparkly white
Seems Paramount is doing a live action version of the popular animated series Avatar. Only they are casting asian characters with...what for it...white actors.
I'm shocked, shocked!
It takes merely a glance at the title to notice some degree of Asian influence in the hit cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender...
...Like almost any successful piece of kid targeted work these days, Avatar has gone down the movie franchise route with the production of a live-action film. M. Night Shyamalan’s on it! Fans are excited!
[No, they should be horrified, but I digress...]
But they, and every person with a minutely cultured brain in her or his head, is probably more offended by Paramount’s decision to cast every main character with a White actor.
Umm, what? I know the voices are mainly Caucasian actors, but even Dante Basco has a role in the actual animated series. Rufio won’t actualize his role as Prince Zuko. Instead, Jesse McCartney will.
Read more here.
I'm shocked, shocked!
It takes merely a glance at the title to notice some degree of Asian influence in the hit cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender...
...Like almost any successful piece of kid targeted work these days, Avatar has gone down the movie franchise route with the production of a live-action film. M. Night Shyamalan’s on it! Fans are excited!
[No, they should be horrified, but I digress...]
But they, and every person with a minutely cultured brain in her or his head, is probably more offended by Paramount’s decision to cast every main character with a White actor.
Umm, what? I know the voices are mainly Caucasian actors, but even Dante Basco has a role in the actual animated series. Rufio won’t actualize his role as Prince Zuko. Instead, Jesse McCartney will.
Read more here.
Monday, April 21, 2008
2 men beaten in Montreal over possible racial slurs
Montreal police are investigating the brutal beating of two young men who were swarmed Friday on a downtown city street in an incident allegedly sparked by racial taunts hurled at a group of black people, according to an Internet video of the pummeling.
The 23 second beating left the two Waterloo, Ont., men, aged 23 and 26 years, lying like they were dead on the pavement as bystanders laughed and hooted. As several people gathered around the men's prostrate bodies, someone is heard saying "don't touch their necks man, watch their necks" before police and paramedics arrived. A male voice close to camera then says: "Stupid idiot, why would he say that?"
The beating happened at about 10:45 p.m. near the intersection of Ste. Catherine and Peel Sts. in downtown Montreal, Const. Laurent Gingras said.
The two men, both white, suffered from minor injuries, bruises and cuts, but refused to go to the hospital, Gingras said.
This is the comment by the person who posted it:
This was recorded last night in downtown Montreal. Apparently, 2 young men were hurling racist insults at a group of black people. The end result was that they got the crap kicked out of them, and rightly so. What were they thinking?!?
What are you thinking? What an idiot. Sure, if they were shouting racial slurs, they are epic fools and will make people angry. But this? They could have been killed.
Do they deserve that, by a mob?
"Watch their necks!" one conscientious sick fuck shouts.
Sorry but for me, both sides in this story have the IQs of doorknobs.
The 23 second beating left the two Waterloo, Ont., men, aged 23 and 26 years, lying like they were dead on the pavement as bystanders laughed and hooted. As several people gathered around the men's prostrate bodies, someone is heard saying "don't touch their necks man, watch their necks" before police and paramedics arrived. A male voice close to camera then says: "Stupid idiot, why would he say that?"
The beating happened at about 10:45 p.m. near the intersection of Ste. Catherine and Peel Sts. in downtown Montreal, Const. Laurent Gingras said.
The two men, both white, suffered from minor injuries, bruises and cuts, but refused to go to the hospital, Gingras said.
This is the comment by the person who posted it:
This was recorded last night in downtown Montreal. Apparently, 2 young men were hurling racist insults at a group of black people. The end result was that they got the crap kicked out of them, and rightly so. What were they thinking?!?
What are you thinking? What an idiot. Sure, if they were shouting racial slurs, they are epic fools and will make people angry. But this? They could have been killed.
Do they deserve that, by a mob?
"Watch their necks!" one conscientious sick fuck shouts.
Sorry but for me, both sides in this story have the IQs of doorknobs.
Friday, January 11, 2008
"One of the distinct advantages of getting older is that I can remember more than two decades"
Good post from Shakesville on how a longer memory helps protect you from the stupidity of others who have zero historical knowledge...
The Creeping Creepiness of Racism
Toady, I entered a conversation about whether a white news commentator might not have known that suggesting that other golfers "lynch him (Tiger Woods) in a back alley" was a racist comment worthy of public sanction.
Among the various arguments I read was this one: Given the commentator's age, she might not really understand the charged context of the word "lynch" in reference to a person-of-color.
And somehow, vaguely, in the back of my mind, I remembered a time when I could not imagine that I would be hearing this argument from progressives.
Later in the day, I read that many younger readers at the same blog did not know the racist connotations of the phrase "Shuck and Jive", "cakewalk", or "porch monkey".
I was amazed.
Read more here.
The Creeping Creepiness of Racism
Toady, I entered a conversation about whether a white news commentator might not have known that suggesting that other golfers "lynch him (Tiger Woods) in a back alley" was a racist comment worthy of public sanction.
Among the various arguments I read was this one: Given the commentator's age, she might not really understand the charged context of the word "lynch" in reference to a person-of-color.
And somehow, vaguely, in the back of my mind, I remembered a time when I could not imagine that I would be hearing this argument from progressives.
Later in the day, I read that many younger readers at the same blog did not know the racist connotations of the phrase "Shuck and Jive", "cakewalk", or "porch monkey".
I was amazed.
Read more here.
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