Topic: MTV is racist
started by: Malcolm
Posted by Malcolm on Jul. 23 2015,10:56
< Or something >.
Posted by GORDON on Jul. 23 2015,11:11
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When I see news of a black boy being shot dead by police on a playground because he was holding a plastic gun; or a black woman being pushed to the ground with a knee at her neck, then ending up dead while in police custody, I’m not wondering whether a white girl in Arizona feels discriminated against because she thinks all the college scholarship money goes to brown people....
Are they trying to say the above two examples, white people are the problem? I think it's blue people.
Posted by Malcolm on Jul. 23 2015,11:17
The hilarious part is that article references another one that directly contradicts the "white people need to feel uncomfortable" notion."If you can only stand tall because someone else is forced to their knees, then you have a problem."
Yeah, like quotas.
Posted by Leisher on Jul. 23 2015,11:35
Here's a quick bio of the man behind the documentary:QUOTE
Jose Antonio Vargas
Journalist
Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve
Journalist
Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve
Who better to report on life in white American than a non-white immigrant?
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As Jose Antonio Vargas accurately states, "white" is not a country. What is your ancestry?
Neither is "black" or "brown" or "yellow" or "Asian" or "African" or "Hispanic" or "Latin" you racist prick.
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“Whenever we talk about diversity, my experience is [it’s] usually people [of] color amongst ourselves talking about diversity and white people aren’t included — we can’t have that anymore,” Vargas told MTV News
I will give him that. I hope he makes other races understand that by constantly excluding whites or pointing fingers at whites, they're the ones being racist.
< Here's the documentary. >
Posted by Malcolm on Jul. 23 2015,16:31
Now that I'm not on my phone anymore...QUOTE
Journalist and filmmaker Vargas, an undocumented immigrant from the Phillipines, travelled across the country and spoke to young people – mostly white, although people of colour (black, Asian, Native American) do show up here and there, literally as counterpoints – about how it “feels” to be white, and what they think about “white privilege”.
For the most part, I barely remember I'm white. It's not applicable to most hours of my day because I work in IT and I'm already a minority in my department. The few times I'm reminded of it invariably involve another white dude. Like that time in Iowa.
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Vargas, buoyant and genuinely curious throughout, asks a group of young people what they think the disadvantages are of being white. One black woman says she doesn’t think there are any disadvantages, while a white man says: “That’s like asking a rich person ‘Tell me how hard it is being rich’.”
... fucking really? Why don't you ask that to a white dude?
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But the problem is, none of the white people in White People ever really get uncomfortable. And that’s what needs to happen more than anything else – even more than the big needle-moving national “conversation” all of us in the struggle fantasise about, led by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the president, and Ava DuVernay. White people need to feel uncomfortable, and black people, people of colour, need to see them sit in that discomfort – not the white tears model, but the paradigm shift variety.
And fuck you up the ass with a cactus. That's the type of ignorant separatist ideology Malcolm X taught before he went to Mecca. He was quite an asshole until that.
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It’s the kind of discomfort Toni Morrison invoked in a conversation with talkshow host Charlie Rose, in which she asked: “If I take your race away and there you are all strung out and all you’ve got is your little self. And what is that? What are you without racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong? Are you still smart? Do you still like yourself? I mean, these are the questions.”
I want Toni Morrison to ask that to a college admissions board.
Here's < Toni Morrison >:
Before you think she's completely level, I guess I need to post the follow up sentence.
Posted by GORDON on Jul. 23 2015,17:56
(Malcolm @ Jul. 23 2015,19:31)
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Vargas, buoyant and genuinely curious throughout, asks a group of young people what they think the disadvantages are of being white. One black woman says she doesn’t think there are any disadvantages, while a white man says: “That’s like asking a rich person ‘Tell me how hard it is being rich’.”
... fucking really? Why don't you ask that to a white dude?
"I have absolutely no one to blame when I make really bad life decisions."