i hope you know, i only ever 'liked' things on here because i think they're awful.. but one of them was so terrible and stupid that i just couldnt take it and so now i cant like any of them ever again.
I understand. I feel the same way sometimes.
March 2012
February 2012
Teppi Jacobsen and Blackface.
Teppi Jacobsen
-loves The Help,
-doesn’t think Denzel being honored for his role as a thug had anything to do with being black,
-thinks blackface is no longer racist
-thinks if blondes aren’t getting offended over dumb blonde jokes, blacks shouldn’t get offended over blackface jokes.
A day after she wrote about her thoughts on this controversy, she wrote this:
I choose to write this blog to express my freedom of speech and opinion. That is my right. This blog from Chicago Then was written in support of my position. Please click on the headline to take you to the blog.
I stand by it.
In 2007, I’m guessing, Ms. Jacobsen was probably one of the many people who were offended when Halle Berry made that ‘jewish cousin’ comment on the Jay Leno show, which Halle immediately apologized for. I could be wrong, but based off of some of the comments she left:
You are not a Jew, therefore you obviously don’t know that there are physical traits that are associated with us. These traits are noticed, believe me and there are plenty of people that discriminate as soon as they look at us.
I might not be too far off.
So what have I learned today? Nothing new. If something offends POC, we should get over it so white whiners can mock us in peace.
Billy Crystal's blackface at the Oscars
There is this blog that is the second google link for “billy crystal blackface” and it is this woman going on how blacks should not be offended by the blackface skit at the Oscars done by Billy Crystal. Tumblr, you know what to do. BTW I can’t wait for the white opinions to show up.
http://www.chicagonow.com/when-you-put-it-that-way/2012/02/billy-crystals-blackface-controversy-puhleeeease/
Did she really compare dumb blonde jokes to blackface? Wow. Here’s the link http://www.chicagonow.com/when-you-put-it-that-way/2012/02/billy-crystals-blackface-controversy-puhleeeease/
So, here’s a basic recap of what happened right before my business class yesterday (I’m copying and pasting the text from an email I just sent my Sociology professor; following links to the Anne Spurzem fiasco, because she was interested in that, too!):
My class after Sociology is Business Mgmt/Entrepreneurship, and before class, the professor butted into a conversation I was having with the woman who sits behind me. She & I were talking about Girl Scout cookies, because I’d brought some in to eat yesterday. The woman behind me was saying how her favourite GS cookies are Samoas, and we started talking about price difference from when she & I were GS and now. I brought up that prices also vary according to region because each region has a different bakery; which also meant that some regions had different cookies or the same cookies with different names. I used Samoas as an example, bringing up how in some areas, they had to change the name of Samoas to Caramel deLites or something because the name “Samoas” could be perceived as offensive or racist.
Professor jumps in, saying PFFFFFFT People are too sensitive, they get upset over EVERYTHING when it’s not racist.
I tried to politely, calmly explain to her in generalities that, y’know, some groups of people have been oppressed and Othered for their entire histories, and sometimes, when- No, no nonono, she cut me off.
I can’t remember everything she said in order, but her continuous argument against me included: “they should be honoured that they’re being recognised and have a cookie named after them” (to which I tried to explain again the whole history of oppression & being Othered and how people should be allowed to celebrate themselves rather than be forced to appreciate being tokenised and reduced to a selling point by one’s oppressor, and she kept talking over me); I tried to explain that the society in which we currently live is set up for white people, & all that white privilege “nonsense”; when she asked where is White History Month and White Entertainment Television, and I told her regular tv is for white people full of white people, and 12 months out of the year is White History Month, she got REALLY huffy and kept telling me that was the most prejudiced thing she’s heard in a LONG time and that I don’t know what I’m talking about because I’m sorely mistaken and I’ve just got “a chip on my shoulder” (a phrase she used multiple times to try to silence me); she told me that the history we are given in school is not white-centric, that I don’t know what I’m talking about because Chip on Shoulder!; she brought up the ‘fact’ that America pays more for it’s poor/PoC/minorities than any other country, payments the nation is wrongfully making out of the most misguided guilt of course!, and that is why we, as a nation, are suffering right now; she brought up how she, as a little white girl in East Texas, didn’t always get some things that certain other people got simply by virtue of their non-white skin colour so Reverse Racism is a Real Thing and I need to stop talking and get a real education & actually learn about this stuff since I’m only talking from the Chip on my Shoulder so I don’t keep sounding like a uninformed racist bigot. Then she told me there are MANY MANY other places on this planet besides here; I am welcome to move any darn time I want and leave this place I apparently hate so much (because, y’know, the rest of the world doesn’t have it’s own problems). I told her I’d done that before, I’d lived in Australia for a few years, so well Why Don’t I Leave Already?- Because I don’t have money? How’d I pay for school? Someone’s helping me & financial aid… *HA, she laughs! “Case in point” laugh!* But, surprise, it’s a white guy! At that point, she talked over me with a final, “No no no no no, We’re not going to talk about this anymore until you don’t have that chip on your shoulder …”
Why is everyone so preoccupied with race?
I’m so sick of being told because I’m white I can’t have an opinion or my opinion doesn’t mean anything!
Well that’s racism too! I have had a brief experience with racism. It’s horrible. But please stop generalizing all of one race! Its not a specific race that projects racism!
It’s RACISTS that project racism.
Oh God...
Bill O and Monica Crowley just finished hollering about reverse racism because Barack Obama is encouraging African-American supporters to talk to people at their churches, and if Rick Santorum was to encourage white people to vote and talk to church members, then he’d supposedly be called a bigoted racist for encouraging white people to vote.
Alan Colmes just about shit a brick but pointed out that “there’s no association for the advancement of white people” because white people are the empowered political group. We went downhill from there.
O’Reilly: “Oh, so then you have more leeway, then, to appeal to a minority group to help you than the majority? Is that written down anywhere?”
Colmes: “No, that’s accepted.”
Crowley: “So since it’s a double standard but it’s accepted, it’s okay?”
O’Reilly: “As far as politically correct acceptibility in this country, if you’re a minority group you can rally around anybody, but if you’re a white guy, you can’t. And that’s basically true.”
Crowley: “It’s this huge double standard, and a huge hypocrisy, but this is the way it is, and unless we call them out on it, they’ll continue to get away with it.”
Poor Alan Colmes. You can’t convince a couple of bigots that reverse racism doesn’t exist. You just can’t.
But God love you for trying, Alan.
Kristal Marie: I honestly cannot wait until this month is over with. →
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Call me whatever you want, but I am so sick of black history month. I’m sick of hearing about all these awesome programs that would be really fun to be in for African Americans! I’m so sick of watching the news and hearing about a “great” African American that helped start a “great” club that only African Americans are allowed to be part if. What if I wanted to be in something like that? Apperently I couldn’t be because I’m white. But yet if someone started the same thing for white people, it would be against the law and they would be racist. I am so sick of it. Our society makes no sense.
::QUEER HAIRY VAGINA::: My brother knows racism before he's even 16. Fuck everyone →
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Welp! That’s great! Gonna rant now!
AS USUAL WHAT ELSE IS NEWBefore he was 8, things were fine and dandy and he’s a happy adorable snotrag!
He isin’t treated any differently and if he is, he’s too young to notice at the time.
He’s 10. He’s talented at creating animation and draws like a pro.
Early primary school; things are fine but he feels a little confused that he’s one of the very few black kids in his school. Apart from that, he enjoys school and no trouble making friends. Still a witty & bright little smartass!
12 years old. Parents are called into school because teacher feels my brother cheated on a test (he was one of the few that scored the highest. Also the only black boy in his class).
Brother is confused. Says he didn’t cheat on anything. Parents tell him not to cheat and to work harder.
The year goes by. Parents are called in again. Teacher puts my brother at the very back of the class because “he was late for school”.
13 years old. A little bit wary of how his teacher only seems to target him- and only him- in his entire class of 20+ pupils. Notices he’s the only one in class not getting enough attention for homework stuff. Doesn’t put his hand up in class for questions much anymore because parents are always called in because ‘he asks too much questions’.
14years old. Last year. There’s a group science project (the group with the best science model gets to represent their school and meet the President of Ireland). Years of being good with drawings, animation and now physics helps him a lot. Other teacher remarks on how great his science model was. His group wins. He gets to meet the president.
Principal tells my brother he’s no longer allowed in his own group work. He’s replaced with a white boy that’s not even in his class. This boy and the rest of the group are the ones to meet the President and be on local newspaper. With his science project on the front.
My brother is devastated. He cried so hard the entire night. He was frustrated, confused, angry and shocked.
The principal asks my brother to join the group again right after they other boys have met the president. My brother joins but he’s raging. He’s wary. The president will never know that the boy who made the science project that was on the newspapers was him. A black boy.
He doesn’t talk much in class anymore. He doesn’t raise his hands up anymore. He doesn’t care. School sucks. Parents are called in about his ‘bad attitude’. Parents are alert at what’s going on but say nothing because they threatened their son with expulsion.
Brother knows his teacher hates him and singles him out. He has learnt to not be smart in class. He now hangs around a rough crowd (he’s never done this before). School sucks, who cares when your teacher mocks u in front of everyone else?
He gets into big trouble these days. His grades are slipping. He even smashed a neighbour’s window ‘for fun’.
He’s watching other black kids in his area stereotyped as lazy hooligans.
He is sort of becoming one. He still loves to draw and is still a bright boy in school. Teacher not happy with it because he prefers if my brother does nothing.
I’m MAAAAD when I find out finally why my brother has changed so much. I hate the world. I hate white people sometimes. You have made my brother believe that he’s good for nothing at school. He was a bright and smart-assy kid.
He’s a wary and quiet boy now.
And you have no fucking idea how exhusting it is to remind him everyday that he’s just as good as all the other boys. Fuck you. I fucking hate this world. I fucking hate you for telling me that ‘racism is over, its all in your head’
I fucking HATE that my little sister (8) is being mocked by the kids in her class for ‘having chocolate fingers he wants to eat’. My sister is uncomfortable in that class when that kid is around.
I hate you for telling the world that black people aren’t good enough unless they are at the back of the class, shutting the fuck up. I hate everything at this moment.
If racism completely alters my brother’s perception of himself, i will cry. I will rage. And I will be called the angry black fucking woman.
And tomorrow and the rest of his childhood, he’s going to have to get over this and pretend it doesn’t happen. Pretend racism doesn’t happen.
