Tuesday, July 18, 2017
What?
From the Root -
Wait, NBC Sports Announcer Mike Tirico Isn’t Black?
By Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
Wait ... hol’ up. Normally when we wade into these blackness waters, it’s because some fair-skinned pop star is refusing to accept that the back of her hair—you know, the area above the neck; the area that old folks call the “kitchen”; the area that used to make my sisters cry when my mom really dug in with the hairbrush and Posner Light Touch hair grease ... that area—is a little thicker than the rest.
But this news here is mind-boggling. Longtime ESPN broadcaster-turned-NBC Sports announcer Mike Tirico doesn’t believe himself to be black. To hear him tell it, he’s just an Italian kid who grew up in Queens, N.Y., who people keep insisting is black.
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Let me start by saying that I am no genealogist. I couldn’t tell you what blood runs through Mike Tirico’s veins, but I can tell you what my grandfather, who also was not a genealogist, would say about Tirico’s claim of being Italian:
“That dark-ass black boy needs to go sit his ass down somewhere in a dark-ass corner until he finds himself.”
https://www.theroot.com/wait-nbc-sports-announcer-mike-tirico-isnt-black-1796985416
Wait, NBC Sports Announcer Mike Tirico Isn’t Black?
By Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
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| Mike Tirico - Getty Images Staff/Getty Images |
Wait ... hol’ up. Normally when we wade into these blackness waters, it’s because some fair-skinned pop star is refusing to accept that the back of her hair—you know, the area above the neck; the area that old folks call the “kitchen”; the area that used to make my sisters cry when my mom really dug in with the hairbrush and Posner Light Touch hair grease ... that area—is a little thicker than the rest.
But this news here is mind-boggling. Longtime ESPN broadcaster-turned-NBC Sports announcer Mike Tirico doesn’t believe himself to be black. To hear him tell it, he’s just an Italian kid who grew up in Queens, N.Y., who people keep insisting is black.
~~~~~~~~~~
Let me start by saying that I am no genealogist. I couldn’t tell you what blood runs through Mike Tirico’s veins, but I can tell you what my grandfather, who also was not a genealogist, would say about Tirico’s claim of being Italian:
“That dark-ass black boy needs to go sit his ass down somewhere in a dark-ass corner until he finds himself.”
https://www.theroot.com/wait-nbc-sports-announcer-mike-tirico-isnt-black-1796985416
Arrested For Wearing a Skirt
From the Washington Post -
Saudi woman who wore skirt in viral video has been arrested, state television reports
By Adam Taylor
A young woman is at the center of a controversy about clothing in Saudi Arabia, after she posted videos of herself in one of the nation's most conservative provinces wearing a short skirt and a cropped top.
The woman has been arrested by Riyadh police for wearing “suggestive clothing,” Saudi state television station Al Ekhbariya reported Tuesday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/07/18/a-video-of-a-woman-in-a-skirt-sparks-outrage-in-saudi-arabia/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_wv-saudi-skirt110am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.dd76c6395f80
Saudi woman who wore skirt in viral video has been arrested, state television reports
By Adam Taylor
A young woman is at the center of a controversy about clothing in Saudi Arabia, after she posted videos of herself in one of the nation's most conservative provinces wearing a short skirt and a cropped top.
The woman has been arrested by Riyadh police for wearing “suggestive clothing,” Saudi state television station Al Ekhbariya reported Tuesday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/07/18/a-video-of-a-woman-in-a-skirt-sparks-outrage-in-saudi-arabia/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_wv-saudi-skirt110am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.dd76c6395f80
Mothers Who Have Died in Childbirth in the US
From ProPublica and NPR -
The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth
The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and 60 percent are preventable. The death of Lauren Bloomstein, a neonatal nurse, in the hospital where she worked illustrates a profound disparity: The health care system focuses on babies but often ignores their mothers.
by Nina Martin, ProPublica, and Renee Montagne, NPR
https://www.propublica.org/article/die-in-childbirth-maternal-death-rate-health-care-system
https://www.propublica.org/article/lost-mothers-maternal-health-died-childbirth-pregnancy#nws=mcnewsletter
The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth
The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and 60 percent are preventable. The death of Lauren Bloomstein, a neonatal nurse, in the hospital where she worked illustrates a profound disparity: The health care system focuses on babies but often ignores their mothers.
by Nina Martin, ProPublica, and Renee Montagne, NPR
https://www.propublica.org/article/die-in-childbirth-maternal-death-rate-health-care-system
https://www.propublica.org/article/lost-mothers-maternal-health-died-childbirth-pregnancy#nws=mcnewsletter
A Guide on What to Say & When to Say It
From the Washington Post -
But the latest sports apparel brand to step into the minefield of politics and consumer purchases did so by choice. On Friday afternoon, Reebok tweeted a flow chart trolling Trump's now famous comment to French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron's wife last week that quickly went viral online. During his visit to Paris, Trump was caught on camera telling Brigitte Macron, who is 25 years older than her husband, that she was "in such good shape — beautiful," a comment some viewed as an example of sexism and ageism toward Ms. Macron, who is 64.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/07/17/reeboks-trolling-tweet-is-the-most-prominent-example-of-a-trump-news-jacking-yet/?utm_term=.486087f2d26a
But the latest sports apparel brand to step into the minefield of politics and consumer purchases did so by choice. On Friday afternoon, Reebok tweeted a flow chart trolling Trump's now famous comment to French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron's wife last week that quickly went viral online. During his visit to Paris, Trump was caught on camera telling Brigitte Macron, who is 25 years older than her husband, that she was "in such good shape — beautiful," a comment some viewed as an example of sexism and ageism toward Ms. Macron, who is 64.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/07/17/reeboks-trolling-tweet-is-the-most-prominent-example-of-a-trump-news-jacking-yet/?utm_term=.486087f2d26a
In case you were wondering when it IS appropriate to say, "You're in such good shape...beautiful,"... THIS: pic.twitter.com/Z1cnnRD8Ut— Reebok (@Reebok) July 14, 2017
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