Sick of the Bullshit
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Anonymous Black Fema
Sick of the Bullshit
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Anonymous Black Female:
Re: White Stamp of Approval - July 2008 Vogue Re: White Stamp of Approval - July 2008 Vogue Good video. Your perspective on superficial beauty in African American (AA) community is generally on point. I have yet the to see the July '08 Vogue, as I do not frequent beauty/fashion/lifestyle oriented media. I believe women of African descent should NOT frequent ANY beauty/fashion/lifestyle magazines--including mags targeted to AA women (Essence, Sister 2 Sister, etc.) because these magazines subscribe to European beauty standards. I think people from different ancestry (Asian, European, etc) are all superficially beautiful. That said, so many AA women are SO insecure with themselves superficially that the 'white stamp of approval' validates them. Most AA women lack self love and express it superficially by wearing relaxers/weaves and not taking care of their body & mind. When an AA woman truly loves herself, SHE shows the world that she accepts how she is physically, whether she has kinky/wavy/curly hair, fat/skinny nose, is dark/med/light brown, etc. by setting her OWN beauty standards no matter what the mainstream media determines it to be. She then educates her children to love the variety in their features. When an AA woman truly loves herself, love manifests in all areas of her life, she is NOT angry, bitter, selfish, or hositle. She IS giving, nuturing, supportive, and compassionate.
Note: I'm of direct African descent-dad from W. Africa & mom from the US. I was born and raised in the US.
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Katie Couric: Sexist Media Hurt Hillary Clinton's Chances. Adding to her comments last nig
Katie Couric: Sexist Media Hurt Hillary Clinton's Chances. Adding to her comments last night in Washington — "that Sen. Clinton received some of the most unfair, hostile coverage I've ever seen" — Katie Couric has filmed a Keith Olbermann-style special commentary (called ner "Notebook") slamming the media for its sexist coverage of Hillary Clinton and claiming that the sexist coverage hurt her chances at becoming the Democratic party nominee. The Notebook will air tonight on CBS affiliates and on CBS radio, and will live on CBSNews.com.
"One of the great lessons of [Hillary Clinton's] campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life, particularly in the media....It isn't just Hillary Clinton who needs to learn a lesson from this primary season — it's all the people who crossed the line, and all the women and men who let them get away with it." Couric's reference in the video to "mainstream pundits saying they instinctively cross their legs at the mention of her name" is specifically about Tucker Carlson, who often made such a claim while still on MSNBC during the campaign. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/katie-couric-sexist -media_n_106595.html Last night, without naming names, Couric seemed to excoriate both MSNBC's Chris Matthews — who has come under fire for sexist remarks against Hillary Clinton — and NBC's Lee Cowan — who reportedly said he found it "hard to stay objective" covering Obama — saying, "That's your job...find another line of work." Matthews notoriously announced that he "felt [a] thrill going up [his] leg" while listening to Obama speak, and was forced to apologize for sexist remarks against Clinton in January
I have been, I must admit, a bit bemused by the rise of the Angry White Woman (AWW) this year. That older white women should support Hillary Clinton with passion did not surprise me, of course. That they should decry incidents of sexism made perfect sense. Even that they should turn angry when her frontrunner campaign began to fail was no great mystery. After all, I came of age, and launched my career, in the time of the Angry White Male. Pissed-off white folks are old hat to me.
What confused me was the tone of that anger—the way it was consistently and passionately framed in terms of shock and woundedness. The way the words betrayal and abandonment have been hurled about, with their insulting implications of what was owed and to whom, of what battles were fought and on who's behalf they were so launched.
I also didn't get how so many white women could be so shocked that sexism still exists. Such a level of insulation seems a privilege in itself. When I am stopped by a white cop for driving in a white neighborhood, I am not shocked. When my neighbor tells me confidentially I am the least ethnic black person he has ever met and how happy that makes him, I am not shocked. My mother, a seventysomething woman who grew up in Mississippi being stomped by black men and white folks—male and female—alike, is not shocked. My sister, who rose to become a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and who says quite clearly that sexism is far worse than racism in the military, was not shocked by this discovery. How could she be? Growing up black in Memphis had well prepared her for discrimination of any stripe. (One example: the white female guidance counselor who told her not to bother applying for college because she could not possibly do the work even if she got in. Result: one B.A. plus two masters' degrees, including one from Harvard.)
But now I see why I have been confused: This whole thing has nothing to do with me. This is a family fight between older white women and their daughters, and me and my mother and my sisters are not even in the conversation. What a relief. Ya'll carry on. http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/06/07 /family-fight.aspx
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Thanks to newsbusters.org for alerting us to the latest bit of Olbypocrisy from the infamo
Thanks to newsbusters.org for alerting us to the latest bit of Olbypocrisy from the infamous, deplorable one.
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