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The term ‘people of color’ erases black people. Let’s retire it
As a black woman, I seek out inclusive spaces because I lack them in my everyday life. I don’t think I’ve ever unintentionally entered a space and immediately felt like I was a part of the majority. I remember when I joined my first women’s group. I went to one club meeting, and never returned. I felt like every issue these women were struggling with affected me more intensely because of my race. It wasn’t empowering, just depressing.
No one looked like me. I didn’t expect to be in a room filled with black women, but I also didn’t think I’d be the only one. And while the others went on about empowerment, sisterhood and freedom, I was met with, yet again, a feeling I knew only I could understand. In a room full of women discussing ways to be heard among men, ironically, I was grappling with how to do just that in the room we were in.
I should have known better when I saw the group advertised as “women of color-friendly.”
The terms “women of color” and “people of color” are meant to be inclusive. But, from my perspective, they only help to leave black people behind — specifically black women. While every minority group faces its own challenges in America, a “one size fits all” mentality toward diversity erases the specific needs of the most vulnerable communities.
EDIT: I did some background research, and I am certain that this person is 100% serious. She admits to having a whole host of mental problems, yet chooses to identify as a clown and is genuinely offended by the fact that people don't quite take her seriously, and by the fact that someone on 4chan put a clown nose and wig on a cartoon frog.
Im glad Im never having children so I dont have to worry about the left engineering my sons to be gay princesses.
Utter madness.
The next thing you know, they're going to be filling childrens' minds with images of negroes owning land, magical flying unicorns, women voting... I think it's safe to say that there is no limit to how deep into the clown-hole this will ultimately go.
That picture reminded me of a friend of mine who years ago, was a little self-conscious about his teeth. He went to a dentist and the guy said he could fix him up for $5,000. He shouted at the dentist, "$5,000?! For 5 grand I can get a set of **** put on and no one would look at my teeth!"
He never did get his teeth fixed. Nor did he get ****.
Mary Gregory rests and checks her digital timer between sets during a workout.
She put down female. Clearly, shes not a female, said Paul Bossi, 100% Raw Powerlifting Federations president. Not biologically anyways."
I love how the article, and those quoted within it, refer to him as "She" and "Her" throughout. It's so beautifully politically correct.
I could give two ***** less about the whole social justice aspect of this thing... you're free to be who you want as long as you pay taxes.
But holy ****, I thought at least he'd gone through the surgery to be able to somewhat biologically justify competing... but with a dick and ***** still attached, that's a dude on the stage. To put it the opposite way, you can claim whatever you want and wear a bra and panties out on Strand Blvd, but a chick, no matter how huge or butch can't just roll up to the SEAL grinder at BUDS with a strapon, claim to be a dude and start gettin' sandy.
Historically in the Navy, my #1 metric for "should we implement this program or strategy or whatever"... are the SEALs doing it?" When the Navy SEALs accept their first transgender bro to BUDS, I'll have to reevaluate a few things.
A kid from the ghetto with no parent figures, crappy diet, bad school, total **** life... gets like a 1300 (I scored an 1170)... the idea is that kid in reality might actually be smarter or better able to handle and succeed in college than a kid who grew up in the burbs with plenty to eat and both parents drove BMW's and got a 1350.
All the social justice implications aside...
I think there's a bunch of "follow the money" here. My outside-the-box brain looks at people who get student loans and don't complete college because they couldn't handle the pressure of transitioning to adulthood... maybe that's the 1350 snowflake who quits college and goes back home to live with parents while he works at Starbucks for minimum wage... or finishes college with a **** degree and still works at Starbucks. Meanwhile, the 1300 hard-charger from the ghetto, once he gets out of the hood and on to college, crushes it, gets a degree in 3 years in something useful. Spotting both of those kids early is a moneymaker for somebody. This new metric seems like a way to capture that data.
It was Lionel Shriver who saw the writing on the wall. Giving a keynote speech at the Brisbane Writers Festival three years ago in which she decried the scourge of modern identity politics, Shriver observed that the dogma of ‘cultural appropriation’ —which demands no less than complete racial segregation in the arts — had not yet wrapped its osseous fingers around the publishing industry. But, she warned: ‘This same sensibility is coming to a bookstore near you.’ Reader, it has come.
Next month a young, Asian-American author called Amélie Wen Zhao was due to celebrate the publication of her debut novel Blood Heir, the first in a three-part fantasy series for which Zhao was reportedly paid a six-figure sum by Delacorte Press, a children’s imprint of Penguin Random House. Set in the Russian-inspired ‘Cyrillian Empire’, Blood Heir tells the story of a magic-wielding princess who is forced to flee her kingdom following her father’s murder. ‘In a world where the princess is the monster, oppression is blind to skin colour, and good and evil exist in shades of grey… comes a dark Anastasia retelling,’ blurbed the publishers.
Before the manuscript had even reached the presses, however, a furore erupted when Zhao, a 26-year-old banker born in Paris and raised in Beijing, was accused of racism. Armed with merely the blurb and a handful of excerpts from the book, her critics — many of them fellow authors, editors and bloggers in the Young Adult genre (known as YA) — repeatedly tore into Zhao on sites such as Twitter and Goodreads, outraged by, among other things, the novel’s depiction of indentured labour. For despite Blood Heir’s Slavic setting, her detractors assumed the plot was inspired by American slavery and thus something Zhao had no business writing about because she is not black. In a tirade that might surprise students of Russian antiquity, one critic reportedly raged: ‘[R]acist *** writers, like Amélie Wen Zhao, […] literally take Black narratives and force it into Russia when that **** NEVER happened in history.’
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Nor is the contagion confined to American authors. Last month John Boyne, best known for the Holocaust novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, received such a barrage of abuse prior to the publication of his latest book, My Brother’s Name Is Jessica, which features a transgender central character, that he was briefly forced off Twitter. Critics labelled the book ‘transphobic’, suggesting that because Boyne is not transgender the story ‘lacked authenticity’ and its title ‘misgendered’ the fictional protagonist.
At almost the same moment that Boyne was deleting his Twitter account, Lincolnshire-based Zoe Marriott, a prolific writer of YA fiction, was also being hounded on the site over her new fantasy novel, The Hand, the Eye and the Heart, because it’s set in ‘fairy-tale China’. One prominent YA blogger warned: ‘White authors need to stay the hell away from the stories of people of colour.’ Curiously, said blogger’s day job involves manning the tills at Foyles, one of London’s most revered bookshops — pity the poor sod who dares trouble her for a copy of Othello, or Tolkien for that matter. The father of fantasy fiction has come in for criticism for his portrayal of orcs in The Lord of the Rings. Some feel his work is ‘racialised’.
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Already poets might understandably feel anxious: last summer The Nation, one of America’s most venerable literary magazines, published a 14-line poem about homelessness, which was swiftly accused of co-opting a ‘black vernacular’ and criticised for its use of the word ‘crippled’. Instead of defending the verses it had previously deemed worthy of publication, the magazine immediately issued an apology so spineless one of its own columnists said it resembled ‘a letter from [a] re-education camp’.
A man called the police after finding a joke offensive at Naples comedy club
How do you handle a joke you do not find appropriate? One man at a comedy club found it so out of line, he called 911.
Ahmed Ahmed said he told a joke over a thousand times at the North Naples comedy club and all over the world. But he never had someone pick up the phone and call 911 emergency services.
“I’m not trying to scare laughter into people,” Ahmed said. “But I’m trying to make people think a little bit don’t let the stereotypes hit you on the butt on the way out.”
An audience member in North Naples did not let a comedian off the hook. A day after going to the show, he dialed 911 to report how uncomfortable he felt after a joke.
“As the people raised their hands, they said I’m from Iraq, I’m from Iran,” the caller said to a 911 dispatcher. “He said that’s great we should organize our own terrorist organization. I don’t think that’s right. That really bothered me.”
The owner of the comedy club said they do not censor their talent, or else they would lose business. In fact, with all the buzz, Ahmed Ahmed will be back at Off The Hook on May 22.
The comedian, Ahmed Ahmed, told WINK News that is not what he said. He did ask if there were middle eastern in the audience. A few people raised their hands.
“Then I looked at the audience and I said, ‘well hey, it only takes one of us,'” Ahmed Ahmed said. “That’s the joke – to tell a joke – it takes one middle eastern person to tell a joke.”
But the man in the crowd who dialed 911 did not think it was funny.
“And I yelled, ‘the paddy wagon is going to be outside to get all of you,'” the caller said to the 911 dispatcher.
Ahmed Ahmed said he never threatened anyone or used the word, “terrorist.” He said the Islamophobic climate could be partly to blame for the misunderstanding.
“He should, you know, maybe get a passport, travel a little bit, maybe not be so subject to what he’s being brainwashed,” Ahmed Ahmed said. “I feel bad for him that he’s kind of closed minded.”
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