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Lol, Mooney is ridiculous and dope stupidridiculous: Mr. Paul Mooney ad taken from the 1993 April issue of the Source Magazine.

Lol, Mooney is ridiculous and dope

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Mr. Paul Mooney ad taken from the 1993 April issue of the Source Magazine.

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How stereotypical is it that I’m in a hotel room in South Georgia and I can hear the guys next door having a conversation about how other races are genetically inferior to whites? In a post racial America, you’d think racists would know how to keep it down…or at least have some theories that aren’t based on the gossip of slave traders from the 1600’s.

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The idea of genetic inferiority in ethnic races is such a prevalent stereotype that even James Watson, one half of the team responsible for discovering the double helix structure of DNA, has been fired on occasion for spewing such crap in his speeches.

~Odinaka

“When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like Avatar?”

wordsandsteel:

If we think of Avatar and its ilk as white fantasies about race, what kinds of patterns do we see emerging in these fantasies?

In both Avatar and District 9, humans are the cause of alien oppression and distress. Then, a white man who was one of the oppressors switches sides at the last minute, assimilating into the alien culture and becoming its savior. This is also the basic story of Dune, where a member of the white royalty flees his posh palace on the planet Dune to become leader of the worm-riding native Fremen (the worm-riding rite of passage has an analog in Avatar, where Jake proves his manhood by riding a giant bird). An interesting tweak on this story can be seen in 1980s flick Enemy Mine, where a white man (Dennis Quaid) and the alien he’s been battling (Louis Gossett Jr.) are stranded on a hostile planet together for years. Eventually they become best friends, and when the alien dies, the human raises the alien’s child as his own. When humans arrive on the planet and try to enslave the alien child, he lays down his life to rescue it. His loyalties to an alien have become stronger than to his own species.

These are movies about white guilt. Our main white characters realize that they are complicit in a system which is destroying aliens, AKA people of color - their cultures, their habitats, and their populations. The whites realize this when they begin to assimilate into the “alien” cultures and see things from a new perspective. To purge their overwhelming sense of guilt, they switch sides, become “race traitors,” and fight against their old comrades. But then they go beyond assimilation and become leaders of the people they once oppressed. This is the essence of the white guilt fantasy, laid bare. It’s not just a wish to be absolved of the crimes whites have committed against people of color; it’s not just a wish to join the side of moral justice in battle. It’s a wish to lead people of color from the inside rather than from the (oppressive, white) outside.

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Why are you people ruining my mindless movie watching experience w/ context and insight?

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I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called Alpine, New Jersey. Live in Alpine, New Jersey, right? My house costs millions of dollars. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. In my neighborhood, there are four black people. Hundreds of houses, four black people. Who are these black people? Well, there’s me, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z and Eddie Murphy. Only black people in the whole neighborhood. So let’s break it down, let’s break it down: me, I’m a decent comedian. I’m a’ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man who lives next door to me does for a living? He’s a fucking dentist! He ain’t the best dentist in the world…he ain’t going to the dental Hall of Fame…He don’t get plaques for getting rid of plaque. He’s just a yank-your-tooth-out dentist. See, the black man gotta fly to get to something’ the white man can walk to.
Chris Rock (via spokenbeats) (via kemiii) (via michaelmcgee) (via carolyns) (via mzreport)

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Jay Smooth On Asher Roth and the big picture.

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I’ve been tryna make a joke about that relationship/boundaries/deliberate racism/hipster ironic thing for the past 2 weeks and he just took the words out of my mouth…only less funny…but SOOOO true.