Thursday, November 23, 2017
The Guest List
An excerpt from the Root -
The Caucasian’s Guide to Black Thanksgiving, Part 1: The Guest List
By Michael Harriot
Aunts
The first thing you must know about the black family tradition is that the nomenclature assigned to relatives has nothing to do with the traditional definitions assigned by white people to their family members. For white people, an “aunt” refers to a woman who is the sister of their mother or father. This does not hold true in the black community.
In the black community, an aunt is any woman more than 15 years older than you who has been around the family for more than 10 years. Every lady on the street where you grew up is an aunt. All women on the usher board at your place of worship are aunts. And it is pronounced “aww-went,” not “ant.”
https://www.theroot.com/the-caucasians-guide-to-black-thanksgiving-part-1-the-1820643386?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-11-23
The Caucasian’s Guide to Black Thanksgiving, Part 1: The Guest List
By Michael Harriot
Aunts
The first thing you must know about the black family tradition is that the nomenclature assigned to relatives has nothing to do with the traditional definitions assigned by white people to their family members. For white people, an “aunt” refers to a woman who is the sister of their mother or father. This does not hold true in the black community.
In the black community, an aunt is any woman more than 15 years older than you who has been around the family for more than 10 years. Every lady on the street where you grew up is an aunt. All women on the usher board at your place of worship are aunts. And it is pronounced “aww-went,” not “ant.”
https://www.theroot.com/the-caucasians-guide-to-black-thanksgiving-part-1-the-1820643386?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-11-23
He's Using the Same Old Playbook
Excerpts from the Huffington Post -
There’s A Reason Powerful Americans Love To Attack Black Sports Figures
Donald Trump is just keeping with a long tradition in this country.
By Travis Waldron
Powerful white Americans have been scoring political points off black athletes for as long as there have been organized sports in America. In this respect, at least, Donald Trump is a traditionalist.
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If this has become a familiar routine for Trump, it is because it is a familiar one for America. The country has never been comfortable with assertive black sports figures. Despite all the caterwauling about athletes who refuse to “stick to sports,” powerful Americans have always understood the mere presence of black athletes to be fundamentally political, a threat to the larger project of black subordination. And if black athletes themselves could no longer be kept out of sports, the culture at large would have to circumscribe their behavior, crush any outward assertiveness, segregate their blackness.
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The point of all of this was easy to see: if black athletes could assert themselves in the ring or on the baseball field, black people could assert themselves everywhere else, too. If black athletes weren’t forced to stay in their place, black people wouldn’t be compelled, either. And so laws were passed, and policies were implemented, to ensure the absence of black athletes who could give voice to black people.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-white-america-black-athletes_us_5a15db6ce4b064948072a8c4?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
There’s A Reason Powerful Americans Love To Attack Black Sports Figures
Donald Trump is just keeping with a long tradition in this country.
By Travis Waldron
Powerful white Americans have been scoring political points off black athletes for as long as there have been organized sports in America. In this respect, at least, Donald Trump is a traditionalist.
~~~~~~~~~~
If this has become a familiar routine for Trump, it is because it is a familiar one for America. The country has never been comfortable with assertive black sports figures. Despite all the caterwauling about athletes who refuse to “stick to sports,” powerful Americans have always understood the mere presence of black athletes to be fundamentally political, a threat to the larger project of black subordination. And if black athletes themselves could no longer be kept out of sports, the culture at large would have to circumscribe their behavior, crush any outward assertiveness, segregate their blackness.
~~~~~~~~~~
The point of all of this was easy to see: if black athletes could assert themselves in the ring or on the baseball field, black people could assert themselves everywhere else, too. If black athletes weren’t forced to stay in their place, black people wouldn’t be compelled, either. And so laws were passed, and policies were implemented, to ensure the absence of black athletes who could give voice to black people.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-white-america-black-athletes_us_5a15db6ce4b064948072a8c4?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Apology Generator
An excerpt from Upworthy -
The Celebrity Perv Apology Generator is hilariously, depressingly accurate.
The results from this website could easily be real celebrity apologies.
by Parker Molloy
Author Dana Schwartz jokingly tweeted plans to start "a small business ghostwriting half-hearted apologies for celebrity pervs." Within 24 hours, it became a reality.
Teaming up with designers Rob Sheridan and Scott McCaughey, Schwartz launched the Celebrity Perv Apology Generator, where anyone can go and get their very own half-assed apology for free. It's satire at its best, reflecting non-apologies back on the celebrities who give them.
"Please consult for all your celebrity perv apology needs," Schwartz tweeted.
http://www.upworthy.com/the-celebrity-perv-apology-generator-is-hilariously-depressingly-accurate?c=upw1
The Celebrity Perv Apology Generator is hilariously, depressingly accurate.
The results from this website could easily be real celebrity apologies.
by Parker Molloy
Author Dana Schwartz jokingly tweeted plans to start "a small business ghostwriting half-hearted apologies for celebrity pervs." Within 24 hours, it became a reality.
Teaming up with designers Rob Sheridan and Scott McCaughey, Schwartz launched the Celebrity Perv Apology Generator, where anyone can go and get their very own half-assed apology for free. It's satire at its best, reflecting non-apologies back on the celebrities who give them.
"Please consult for all your celebrity perv apology needs," Schwartz tweeted.
http://www.upworthy.com/the-celebrity-perv-apology-generator-is-hilariously-depressingly-accurate?c=upw1
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
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