Well, I woke up this morning, flipped on my laptop, and had this image waiting there to greet me.
For ****’s sake, people.
Alright, lets get to it. Continue reading
Posted in America, bizarreness, celebrity, morality, news, race
Tagged actress, arrest, black, Daniele Watts, django unchained, Ferguson, gun, husband, interracial, LAPD, Prison Sentence, prostitution, race, racism, racist, Sean Hannity, sentencing, Small Business Loans, Social desirability bias, Statistics, Stop, Weapon, white
It happened in an instant.
One moment film producer Avi Arad was sleeping peacefully in his bed, the second a chilling sensation ran the course of his entire body, forcing his eyes open. He could feel it in his gut, the dreadful realization that this was it. There was no going back to the way things were before.
Standing up, he wearily made his way over to the bedroom window. He looked out upon a world that continued to doze, blissfully unaware. They had no idea what had just taken place, how everything had changed.
Inwardly he took some small solace in the fact that he had expected this. Those who can foresee what is to come, even if powerless to stop it, can revel in making the choices that will one day become unavailable to them.
Everything was different now, and he knew that. This was a brand new world, one he had no part in creating.
Posted in film, morality, race
Tagged Amazing Spider-Man 2, Avi Arad, black, cinematic universe, diversity, inevitable, Latino, Marvel, Matt Tolmach, Miles Morales, race, Spider-Man, Susana Polo, The Mary Sue, Ultimate Spider-Man, white
Saturday Night Live is a very White show.
This isn’t news for almost anyone who has been watched the late night sketch comedy mainstay at any point in the last four decades. Still, this fact was made all the more apparent when they announced the six new cast members that would be coming aboard last September. In case you didn’t know, they amounted to five men and one woman, all Caucasian.
Given the fairly sizable [and reasonable] amount of outcry over this, Lorne Michaels and the powers that be ushered in Black comedian Sasheer Zamata. Given the speedy response to their complaints the internet quieted, content with SNL and how it was dealing with race for the time being. That ended, of course, this past Saturday.
While Zamata’s casting was lauded by many, something else occurred concurrently which was less publicized, though arguably just as important: LeKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones, both Black women, joined the show’s writing staff. Ideally such a move would help the show to broaden its comedic range given life experiences that differ vastly from that of a White person, male or female, living in the USA. That particular perspective was showcased front and centre when Leslie Jones made her on-camera debut during the most recent episode’s Weekend Update-
Posted in Comedy, Fame Day, feminism, race, television
Tagged aesthetics, African-American, beauty, black, comedian, feminism, funny, Leslie Jones, Lupita Nyong'o, race, racism, Saturday Night Live, slave, slavery, SNL, standards, strength, strong, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, TV, W. Kamau Bell, Weekend Update, white
Today’s Shame Day has a multitude of facets, the first and largest of being that Donald Sterling is a straight-up racist.
To begin with we have the very recent news of TMZ’s recording [since authenticated by his lawyer] of the LA Clippers’ owner talking to his half-Black half-Mexican girlfriend and telling her the following:
– “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” (3:30)
– “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.” (5:15)
– “I’m just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you don’t have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” (7:45)
– “…Don’t put him [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.” (9:13)
Posted in bizarreness, money, race, Shame Day, sports
Tagged Adam Silver, basketball, black, Black People Are Cowards, commissioner, Donald Sterling, Homeboy Sandman, housing, inside out, LA Clippers, LeBron James, lifetime achievement humanitarian award, NAACP, NBA, racism, racist, silent protest, sports, struggle includes struggling, there's no room, TMZ
If you don’t like numbered lists [the internet does have more than enough] then try to look past the digits and view this as a general collection of items, free of any form or order, as to why you should head over to your local comic book store and pick up a copy of Iron Patriot #1.
1. It’s a Jumping On Point For Movie Fans
I fully realize that many comic book readers do not like it when their medium of choice makes changes to appear more in line with what takes place on the big screen. That being said, Col. James Rhodes has been wearing the red, white, and blue power suit for a little while now and it’s led to some pretty great stories.
Let’s also not forget that Iron Man 3 made $1.2 billion worldwide. That is a lot of people who know and understand Rhodey to look like the love child of Tony Stark and Steve Rogers. If you loved the film and the characters this is a great place for you to get in on the world of comics.
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Tagged African-American, Ales Kot, America, black, Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, Col. James Rhodes, comic books, government, Iron Man 3, Iron Patriot, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Marvel, Mile High Club, Military, miniseries, ongoing, Secret Avengers
Last year around this time I wrote a scathing article for my school paper about Seth Macfarlane’s attempt at hosting the Oscars in which I primarily focused on how his “We Saw Your Boobs” song basically undermined any hope for women to be taken seriously in Hollywood. In light of that I felt like this year I should balance out my review of the Oscars and acknowledge some of the good things they did this time around. Continue reading
Posted in celebrity, Fame Day, feminism, film, race
Tagged #selfie, 12 years a slave, albinism, awards, best supporting actress, black, Catching Fire, Cate Blanchett, documentary, Ellen Degeneres, feminism, Gravity, host, Jennifer Lawrence, Kenya, Lupita Nyong'o, Mexico, Oscars, pizza at the oscars, representation, Sandra Bullock, selfie that broke twitter, sexism, winner, women in Hollywood
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