Comments on: No, you’re the racist one! I myself am colorblind.

By: These things are relevant to my interests too. « Zoe Writes

These things are relevant to my interests too. « Zoe Writes — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:31:31 +0000

[...] decline of Annie Leibovitz or Americans seeing racism everywhere these [...]

By: On Becoming a Sexual Female, via Miley Cyrus « don’t ya wish your girlfriend was smart like me?

Mon, 05 May 2008 09:31:56 +0000

[...] Lennon that surprised our gender expectations. She has recently become more known for replicating racist images of the recent past, and now this. And while, as I said “they’re not that bad” (isn’t is sad we [...]

By: docweasel

docweasel — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:22:45 +0000

“both stances seem so forced”
How’s this for closer?
If they were basketball fans, instead of women, they’d know that far from being a put up job by racist Vogue editors, LeBron probably made the face himself, naturally. Its one of his signature “grimaces” after he scores or makes a big play:
http://docweasel.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/whine-on-you-crazy-feministe/
that was on the first page of google images, I’ll wager there are 50 more where that came from. I’ve seen him do it dozens of times, and they don’t telecast Cavs games down here very often, I’m a transplanted Ohioan in Florida. He’s becoming such a big star, they might start, though, thankfully.

But still, if you want to make something out of nothing, or assign motives where they don’t exist, I’m sure this won’t stop you.

By: Ion

Ion — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:38:13 +0000

In the prior post, Jezebel states that “just because you don’t see racism, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t there”, and then she goes on in this post to state how “stupid” many of the posters are that disagree with her. This is why so many Americans have a problem with Feminist theory – the adherents and proselytizers of it tend to prevent open and honest discourse through just such ad hominem attacks.

Jezebel absolutely fails to take an opportunity to post something more intelligent and more insightful to the many readers who, as she seems to understand, are not well versed in feminis theory.

By claiming that those who disagree with her are “stupid” she circumvents the many arguments that attempt to force her to confront the Orwellian nature of her above quoted assertion.

Just because you don’t see terrorists in our midst, it doesn’t mean they aren’t there. Quick… suspend Habeas Corpus…

By: pablo

pablo — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:36:12 +0000

I think it’s disgusting that he is portrayed as a stereotypical basketball player. There is no reason in this day and age that we should still be seeing such anachronistic images of a black man as an athlete.

Thank god there are other people to tell him he’s being used, and that he shouldn’t be forced to be associated with basketballs just to get publicity.

By: Racism Fatigue at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Racism Fatigue at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:00:57 +0000

[...] And for good measure, check out this old U.S. Army recruitment poster (H/T Jill at Feministe): [...]

By: rosa

rosa — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:42:06 +0000

singthelist, you are one person that really make me belive a little more in people.
if the cover is racist or not, i still don´t have a grip on my feelings about it (since racism is for me a very emocional subject) but the talk is what matters.
ah, and as some fellow brazilian said, Giselle IS white, and not only by “brazilians standards” (wich are very twisted, at times, in this issue) but by anyone who knows a little about her. She is a german-descendent (hence her last name) and from both sides of her family (in Brasil we hear a lot about her and her family, her dog, her manager, her friends, her love life…). Just so you understand we do not have a etnicity that is dominant, as in America.

By: Feministe » I know Vogue isn’t exactly racially conscious, but…

Feministe » I know Vogue isn’t exactly racially conscious, but… — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:18:26 +0000

[...] there, or that the people who do see it are the “real” racists. And please check out this update post on the Vogue issue, which I think visually clarifies the imagery a lot [...]

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:43:55 +0000

To Signthelist:

Oh, I guess you may have meant dredlocks too. Whichever one you meant… My point stands.

And while I’m clarifying things, I really can see that you’re well-meaning and thoughtful about this. But I would urge you to be even more thoughtful about the way you say things. A discussion about the history of American racism and the way that Black men continue to be stereotyped as animalistic–not at all the appropriate place for hair jokes. Actually, I’m not really sure there’s ever going to be an appropriate place for you, a white person, to make hair jokes.

By: piny

piny — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:37:58 +0000

“I’m really sorry that my ancestors and relatives treated your ancestors and relatives like shit and I’m really sorry that white men get to be in charge of everything all the damn time, and I promise that I will check my prejudice and privilege as much as I can and I’ll be open to other people calling me out on it and I’ll call other white people out on it when I hear prejudiced conversation and PS, I’m pretty sure that I totally would have been a part of the civil rights movement if I was alive back then so….can we call it even now and all be friends? And also, am I allowed to put my white girl hair in twists because it looks really cool on you…” And if that isn’t making it all about me, I don’t know what is.

I think that you’re allowed to make it “all about you” in a sense when you’re figuring out what you’re going to do with this new information. Questions like, “How will I vote?” and “How will I speak?” and “What will I say the next time my coworker makes some crack about Barack Osama?” are not selfish. It’s just that these are questions you might need to work a little bit to find the answers to; you won’t have difficulty finding discussions between anti-racist activists, but you might not be able to find it in any particular comments thread on any particular blog.

I think that Kristin pretty much said it all about “calling it even,” (or even calling it a day). It’s more a matter of agreeing not to ignore the past or its continuing consequences. Again, there’s plenty of stuff to do with all this information, and plenty of ways to get out of paralyzing guilt. They just don’t have much to do with setting history aside in order to ignore its moral ramifications. All that ever accomplishes is willful ignorance of the present.