SIDESHOW: Sometimes there are other ideas that I think would be awesome. So think of these as guest blog entries from other sections of my brain.
This is from a Tumblr that doesnât exist called RuPaul Rand Paul. All captions are quotes from drag performer RuPaul, and all pictures are of presidential hopeful Republican senator of Kentucky, Rand Paul.
So weâre clear, âHands up, donât shoot!â has NEVER only been about #Mike Brown or #Ferguson, itâs about the entire power dynamic represented in this photo that exists throughout America, that has existed since its founding. #blacklivesmatter #peopleovermoney
When your kids are watching a video in the PlayKids app on their iPad or iPhone and you want them to take a break, just use your Apple Watch to stop the video. You can also send your kids a special message with a cartoon character telling them itâs time for bed. Time to eat. Or time to brush their teeth.
I text my kids all the time but this is frankly horrific.
Have none of you âŚever LOOKED at the world around you? Tumblr increasingly worries me in this regard. You all have warm lightbulbs in your house. Youâve all technically seen the change in color of an item close to versus far from a light source. Please⌠stop scaring me. You guys are reacting to this like medieval peasants being shown a flipbookâŚ
BURN THE SORCERER Â >:U
WHAT THE HELL?!?!
While most of the internet was having a fit, every person whoâs ever taken a television production, theatrical lighting, or graphic design class was should have been having a laugh.
I donât like reblogging entire posts by people, but this is just too perfect. Â Itâs not always easy to illustrate to white people what itâs
like to live everyday with the awareness of your skin color, so read
some of these comments by white people facing a situation where they
unexpectedly become aware of their whiteness.
Hey kids, your favorite black barista here. So I am the only person of color employed at my specific shop (I live in suburbia and itâs a living hell), and today we had this as our trivia question (answer is B). I didnât pick it, although almost every white person who came in assumed I did. I thought Iâd share some of the gems I heard because of it:
As participants adjust to the prevailing conditions of anonymity and to the potentially disconcerting experience of being reduced to a detached voice floating in an amorphous electronic void, they become adept as well at reconstituting the faceless words around them into bodies, histories, lives [âŚ] and the boundaries distinguishing ârealâ from âvirtualâ begin to fade.
âa non-exhaustive list of things that co-exist with [socially defined] whitesâ collective political, social and/or economic dominance in countries with histories of white supremacy, anti-blackness and racialized terror against people socially defined as non-whiteâ
A mummy found in a Buddhist statue
Police officers in one major U.S. city are fighting back against Waze, a popular mobile app that reveals their locations to motorists.
Hundreds of officers in the Miami area have downloaded the app, which lets users provide real-time traffic information and identify areas where police are conducting speed enforcement. The local NBC affiliate says the officers are flooding Waze with false information on their activity in an attempt to make the appâs information less useful to drivers.
Disclosing the location of police officers âputs us at risk, puts the public at risk, because itâs going to cause more deadly encounters between law enforcement and suspects,â Sgt. Javier Ortiz, president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, tells the news outlet.
The National Sheriffsâ Association first raised concerns about the Waze app, which is used by millions of motorists. Not all police officers agree that it poses a threat, however. If a criminal wants to hurt an officer, they say, they donât need an app to find a target. And high-visibility enforcement may ultimately reduce crime.
An intriguing artifact from the classical period of ancient Greece attests to the engagement of the
black presence with the origins of Western drama. The stage served as a
crucial locus for the expression of Greek culture and mores. It also
affords unique insight into interrelated issues of class, race and
empowerment. There was a clear place on the Greek stage for black people in the
presentation of both tragic and comic themes. How that role was played
out speaks to the larger experience of blacks in ancient life and the
ancient world. The object seen here is a life-size replica of an actorâs mask from
the Greek stage. Made of reddish terra-cotta pressed into a mold, the
head was then brushed with a thin layer of slip, or liquid clay, to
simulate a dark complexion. Though its precise origin is unknown, the
mask likely originates from the island of Sicily.
Republican ideology is latently about hierarchy. Older white wealthy Protestant males were at the top of the hierarchy, followed by younger white wealthy Protestant males and then by white wealthy Protestant females. More recently wealthy Jews and Mormons have been granted honorary âProtestantâ status in the party, just as the Apartheid Afrikaners decided to proclaim Japanese as âwhiteâ for business purposes. For an African-American to be president deeply violates this unstated hierarchy, which is why they treat President Obama with such lack of respect; disrespecting someone in public in primate societies is a way of putting them in their place and restoring power hierarchies. Keeping African-Americans and poor Latinos from voting is not only a partisan strategy (they donât vote Republican on the whole) but it also underlines the hierarchy, which assumes whiteness and property as connoting ârealâ Americans. Famously, some of the white working class is attached to the Republican elite because they are told that thereby they become better than workers of the lower (as they think of it when not in public) races.
Juan Cole at Informed Comment. Netanyahu & Boehner: How Israel went from being a Democratic to a Republican Project (via protoslacker)
It was around 7:50 that Jeff Roorda, whoâd been spotted in the crowd along with several other police officers wearing suits and âI AM DARREN WILSONâ bracelets, decided heâd had enough of those in the audience heckling a police officer who had taken the microphone. He stood up and yelled at the Committee Chairperson, to take control of the meeting by saying, âC’mon, Mr. Chairman, how about some order here, huh?â
Kennedy waited for the crowd response to die down and then responded by saying, âExcuse me, first of all, you do not tell me my function.â
Roorda pushed his way towards the front of the room and pushed a young black woman, Cachet Currie (@scstge), out of the way and then scratched her across the forehead.
For those still clinging to the idea of respectability politics for some reason, NY Times best-selling author Charles Blowâs son was stopped at gunpoint by cops while walking home from the library at Yale, where heâs a 3rd year biology major. đ So yeah. #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe
It is precisely that intersection, that double jeopardy, of blackness and womanhood that gives so many black women the exceptional ability to artfully render black life, to see it in all its fullness, to move beyond the perspectival limits of whiteness and maleness. That same intersection often becomes a liability in the quest for institutional recognition of black female genius.
