Hasan Minhaj nails the Ashton Kutcher/PopChips dumb racist ad debacle
“You have a shitty accent. You’re not even being racist correctly. If you’re gonna be racist, come correct with your racism.”—Hasan Minhaj.
“CNN’s Don Lemon was interviewing commentator-about-town Goldie Taylor about the social faultlines this case [Trayvon Martin] has exposed, and casually said, as an aside, “please don’t send me any more tweets that by having this conversation, I’m a racist.”
After a commercial break, Lemon revealed that someone on Twitter had responded by saying “Don Lemon, you are a racist. You are fixated on this one issue over and over. We want to hear the news, not your personal agenda. Go work for BET.”
Mr. Lemon added, “That was the nice one. He didn’t call me the n-word.”
Melissa Harris-Perry gives white people’s guide to talk Trayvon Martin
“My favorite line of Mrs. Obama is when a journalist asked her if she thought her skirts were not too tight and she answered, ‘Why you don’t like my big black ass?’ This is a line I admire.”
Fashion “genius” KARL LAGERFELD, in the pages of Metro, which includes this statement from FLOTUS’s spokeswoman: “Mrs. Obama never made that statement.”
Oh, so he’s not only a fashion genius — he’s a racist, too.
“I’ll tell you something else,” he said. “We don’t like paying millions of dollars for Mrs. Obama’s vacations. The NASCAR crowd doesn’t quite understand why when the husband and the wife are going to the same place, the first lady has to take her own Boeing 757 with family and kids and hangers-on four hours earlier than her husband, who will be on his 747. NASCAR people understand that’s a little bit of a waste. They understand it’s a little bit of uppity-ism.”
![“There is absolutely nothing racist about Raffi and his wife’s costumes,” read the Coyotes’ statement. “Raffi is a huge fan of Jay Z and his wife loves Beyonce. It was a Halloween party. The fact that this was reported is ridiculous.”
“For someone to dress up as one of the most successful couples of our generation on Halloween isn’t racism,” Bissonnette [teammate] later tweeted. “You are wrong.”
Raffi Torres in blackface is a disgrace to the NHL - latimes.com](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu3pe2nHT81qz80pso1_1280.jpg)
“There is absolutely nothing racist about Raffi and his wife’s costumes,” read the Coyotes’ statement. “Raffi is a huge fan of Jay Z and his wife loves Beyonce. It was a Halloween party. The fact that this was reported is ridiculous.”
“For someone to dress up as one of the most successful couples of our generation on Halloween isn’t racism,” Bissonnette [teammate] later tweeted. “You are wrong.”
Raffi Torres in blackface is a disgrace to the NHL - latimes.com
“our blacks are so much better than their blacks”
“When Colbert played a sound effect of a stereotypical Chinese riff, Huntsman joked, “When’s the delivery food coming?” After a few seconds of awkward silence, Colbert replied, “Did that go over well in Beijing?” This portion of the interview was cut for time from the broadcast. “There was a gasp,” audience member Dana Cole told ABC News. “A little tasteless. No one really saw it coming. He got ahead of himself.”
Now, as Elizabeth continued walking south down Park, more and more of the people lining the street fell in behind her. Some were Central students, others adults. They started shouting at her. The primitive television cameras, for all their bulkiness, had no sound equipment. But the reporters on the scene scribbled down what they heard: “Lynch her! Lynch her!” “No nigger bitch is going to get in our school!” “Go home, nigger!” Looking for a friendly face, Elizabeth turned to an old white woman. The woman spat on her.
(via Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan: the story behind the photograph that shamed America - Telegraph)
“Many presidents have vacationed at questionably named resorts.” “For instance, Chester A. Arthur spent all his summers at Thieving Chinaman Springs! And Richard Nixon used to go fly fishing at Jews Control The Media Creek! Even Barack Obama spends a lot of time at Camp David, which until recently, only admitted white presidents … “Nothing offensive about it, okay? Let’s move on!”
Stephen Colbert defends Rick Perry says the controversial hunting camp rock story was “much ado about nothing.”
“The test of how racist you are is not how many people of color you can count as friends,” I recall someone telling me—I can’t remember who now. “It’s how many white people you’re willing to talk to about racism.”
Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk Awkwardly About Race
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THIS!!!!!!! If you are not actively calling out your white friends on their racism, you are not an ally. Plain and simple. If you are not policing your own whiteness, you are not an ally.
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“A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of more than 1,300 Americans nationwide finds that about nine of 10, black and white, say civil rights for African Americans have improved during their lifetimes.
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On the question of whether race relations between blacks and whites will always be a problem, there has been virtually no change at all among whites since 1963: 44% of whites said then that relations between blacks and whites would “always be a problem in the United States.” In the new poll, almost precisely the same number, 45%, of whites hold that view.
In contrast, the days of soaring optimism among blacks has ended.
In 1963, seven in 10 blacks predicted relations between blacks and whites “will eventually be worked out”; 26% said they would always be a problem. Now, 55% of blacks see it is as a conflict that won’t end.”
Poll respondents chart racial progress since MLK
More —> USATODAY
