Podcast #2: Pride and Prejudice
Up next on the RACE CRISIS HOTLINE PODCAST: All the gays are white, the black youth are violent, and some of us are brave. And pissed off.
What’s Racism? That’s Harder for Youth to Answer Than You Think - COLORLINES
what do you, dear readers, think racism is? and how, if at all, should we balance the conversation between combating institutional racism and confronting interpersonal racism? man, there sure is a lot of RACISM in this post….
Podcast #1: N*#$!@, please!
On tomorrow’s Race Crisis Hotline podcast, the Haitian Sensation takes a call from Nick, who is navigating nasty nouns ne’er to be used to describe Negros. She’ll also dig through the reams of Race Crisis Hotline archives for some sage advice about well meaning white people (aren’t they all?) and tries to puzzle out which is scarier, Chicago’s alleged flash mob muggers or Kreashawn’s White Girl Mob.
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Ode to Dark (Skinned) Girls
My melanin proficiency has often lead to color complex(ion) issues brought on by my country (rural) upbringing in a community (and country) fascinated (via the hegemonic influences of…
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You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland. And, I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Remember in The Matrix when Dude from Boyz in the Hood played mystical Negro to Dude from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure? Well, that red-pill versus blue-pill key to the universe is more real than we thought. Scientists are working on a pill that alters moods and as a “side effect” makes people less prone to hate. Now, we at the Race Crisis Hotline are not going to decry the development of emotion/mood regulating chemicals; but we find it interesting that rather than investing in recalibrating systems that facilitate inequality, hate, and oppression, people would rather spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a magic pill that will never go to market because people in the world are so mired in their racism that they wouldn’t even want to take the pill if it was available.
Sheesh.
re/write:: thoughts on a. wallace & asian am response
callin you out on your bullshit.
[*i use the term ‘asian american’ here for convenience, not because i don’t have issues with how the term itself is constructed (exclusions of southeast asians, south asians, erasures of the differences and different positions of “asian” groups)].
- i have not…
Is There Such A Thing As Racial PTSD?
THIS IS WHY WE NEED A RACE CRISIS HOTLINE
A recent study out of Penn State University has found that chronic exposure to racial discrimination is analogous to the pressure troops can feel in combat and war. Researchers found that many African-Americans who’ve been faced with racism struggle with debilitating stress similar to soldiers returning home from war.
According to the study:
“African-Americans who reported in a survey that they experienced more instances of racial discrimination had significantly higher odds of suffering generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) some time during their lives.”
The Penn State study confirms a condition that William A. Smith, Ph.D., of the University of Utah has coined “racial battle fatigue.” Smith has argued that individuals can go directly from the experience of racism to the experience of a serious mental health disorder. The study says that while it does not view discrimination as the same as conditions are exactly what soldiers face on a battlefield, it claims the underlying commonality is that stress is created in chronically unsafe or hostile environments.
A sentiment I voice fairly often. Especially when I’m in a city other than Phoenix. Especially when I’m in Portland. It takes me a good 24 hours to fucking relax and realize I don’t have to be on guard. Those happy white people that smiled at you as you walked by? They’re just happy white people! They probably don’t even want to touch your hair! CALM DOWN.
You mean to tell me that Black Americans in the United States face stress similar to combat veterans ???
(via crunkfeministcollective)
What's in a name?
We (ok, I) used to know a certain Jamaican who refused to answer when people called him by his “Babylon Name”. He only answered to something like ‘jahlivesforever’. His Babylon name was ‘Washington’.
It's hard to find good "Help" that will let you insult them for the sake of your twisted racist nostalgia
Remember when your mom’s book club read this book and ate Waldorf Salad and celebrated the innocence of the child and the love the housekeeper had for her? Remember when you asked your roommate “How come they just didn’t read ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ like you suggested”? Remember how white Americans really want to swaddle themselves in the myth of the happy mammy and erase the structural and personal damage racism does to people? Ah…good times.
