This is really good. The late Dwayne McDuffie on being a black writer in superhero comics. via comicsalliance
Source: comicsalliance.com
Race and ethnicity mapped by block: Detroit
Found on the always interesting FlowingData blog. Blue is black, red is white, green is Asian, and orange is Hispanic. That stark line at the top of the large section of blue is 8 Mile road.
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The REAL 'Stuff White People Like'
Another really fun report from the folks behind okcupid.com.
I think it’s interesting to see that the most popular sports team for both single white men and single white women is The Red Sox.
Shannon and I love the Detroit Tigers, and we’ve been together for almost nine years. In fact, we are getting married. We plan on growing old together, and navigating this strange, beautiful world in each others arms. So if you are a Red Sox fan and you’ve been a little lonely, maybe its time to discover a new team.
Also, Middle Eastern women want, seemingly more than anything else, than to learn about different cultures. Middle Eastern men want or describe themselves as Arabia more than anything else. I smell a remake of West Side Story.
Finally, the fact that Tom Clancey and Van Halen are the top 2 things white men want prospective mates to know about them MAKES ME SO SAD TO BE WHITE.
Felony is the New "N-Word."
This last problem – felony marking – is no small problem for social and racial justice in America. The prison experience itself is only the tip of the many-sided mass incarceration iceberg, whose chilling impact on black opportunity spreads across the societal terrain. A black minister in Waterloo, Mississippi argues: “Felony is the new ‘N-word. They don’t have to call you a nigger anymore. They just say you’re a felon…today’s lynching is a felony charge…A felony is a modern way of saying, ‘I’m going to hang you up and burn you.’ Once you get that F, you’re on fire.”[1A]
There’s reason for the preacher’s strong language. In the fourth chapter (titled “The Cruel Hand”) of The New Jim Crow, Alexander shows how once you’re branded as a felon, all the “old forms of discrimination – employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service – are suddenly legal. As a criminal,” Alexander observes, “you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow.”[2]
We punish folks long after they’ve served their sentence, further casting a shadow of bleakness and disappointment on the people that actually try to reform their lives. Toss in the disproportionate rates surrounding arrests and convictions with race and you have a system of racism and discrimination is not only entrenched in our society, but lawful.
Source: azspot
Just because not everybody is racist doesn’t mean a lot of people aren’t.
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Even before this photoshop disaster we have to wonder about these white people pumping their black-power fists and co-opting hip-hop culture with their backwards caps.
Hoping to illustrate its diverse enrollment, the University of Wisconsin at Madison doctored a photograph on a brochure cover by digitally inserting a black student in a crowd of white football fans. The original photograph of white fans was taken in 1993. The additional black student, senior Diallo Shabazz, was taken in 1994. University officials said that they spent the summer looking for pictures that would show the school’s diversity — but had no luck.
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Yes. It matters.
But I will one-up the linked blog postand say that what SNL needs are WRITERS of color. By this, I just mean non-white, having some perspectives from outside the bubble. (And Canadian does not count as a minority.)
WAD CITY: Thing I Don’t Like: Why Are There No People of Color on “Saturday Night Live”?
I’ve been thinking the same thing for all sitcoms. It was well reported at the launch of the new fall TV season how increcibly whiteysomething it was. I’ll take it even further and say that the majority of television shows (especailly those aimed at teens) are about mutha-fucking-rich whiteysomethings.
Where are the Roseannes? The 227’s? The closest we get is when ever Darell rolls into frame on The Office (and I supposed My Name is Earl).
Its not about being diverse for diveristy’s sake, its about differing viewpoints, varied experiences, and the battles that must go on in writer’s room as they attempt to make one another laugh.
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