Tag: race
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Ignoring The Shy Nerdy Girls
“We were told repeatedly, we ugly, shy nerdy girls, that we were not even worthy of the category ‘woman.'”
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Shonda Rhimes on the Glass Ceiling
“I picked my spot in the glass and called it my target. And I ran.”
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The History of Whiteness Is The History of Exclusion
“For whiteness to maintain its superiority, membership had to be strictly controlled.”
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5 Reasons Gay Asian Men Should Stop Dating White Guys
“White people invented the concept of leasing a car and trading it in when it’s old, and they’ve carried that concept over to their dating lives too.”
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How Denying Black Soldiers FHA Loans Denied Black Families Post-War Prosperity
“America had a chance to fully bring the black community into the fold with every other ethnic group but instead we dropped the ball big time, leaving a lasting schism in our society.”
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"He Went to Stanford"
“He can’t be a ‘thug’ because he went to Stanford. But his Stanford-ness isn’t what magically makes him not a thug.”
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Marginalizing Women and Minorities as Attention Whores
“It’s a coded way of saying someone is just looking for attention because it assumes by default an illegitimacy for that person’s identity and experiences.”
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Peforming Ethnicity
“It’s just one of those things that you, as a person of color, have to do to survive in a culture that tends to be a little hostile to your existence.”
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Race, Always Race
“Race, always race. Feed a person, educate them and refrain from hitting them, and my guess is you end up with a smart person, regardless of the color of their skin. Immigrants come here because they feel like they’ve got a shot at that, not because they already have it, you morons.” Commenter on a […]
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The White Correspondent’s Burden
“But this doesn’t explain why journalism from Africa looks and sounds as it does. For this, we blame our editors, who (we like to say) oversimplify our copy and cut out context. … For these tendencies, our editors in turn often blame readers, whom they assume can’t or won’t follow us through villages with difficult-to-pronounce names […]