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  • 9th May
    2012
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  • 1st May
    2012
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blackfashion:

Mbathio Beye the first “Miss Black France” a marketing student who hails from Senegal.

“The goal of Ms. Black France according to the pageant’s organizer Frédéric Royer, the was to “celebrate black beauty,” and “to shine a light on the many Black women in this country who are rarely given any media attention.”

The last woman of color to win the title of “Miss France” was Chloé Mortaud—a biracial woman of African American and French descent in 2009.

Protesters have called the “Miss Black France” pageant “stupid,” “dangerous” and “hostile.”

*One of the conditions of the pagent was Natural Hair.

Do you agree with the protesters is the pagent unprogressive or is it needed?

  • 14th April
    2012
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Part of the Titanic parable is of arrogance, of hubris, of the sense that we’re too big to fail. Well, where have we heard that one before?

There was this big machine, this human system, that was pushing forward with so much momentum that it couldn’t turn, it couldn’t stop in time to avert a disaster. And that’s what we have right now.

Within that human system on board that ship, if you want to make it a microcosm of the world, you have different classes, you’ve got first class, second class, third class. In our world right now you’ve got developed nations, undeveloped nations.

You’ve got the starving millions who are going to be the ones most affected by the next iceberg that we hit, which is going to be climate change. We can see that iceberg ahead of us right now, but we can’t turn.

We can’t turn because of the momentum of the system, the political momentum, the business momentum. There too many people making money out of the system, the way the system works right now and those people frankly have their hands on the levers of power and aren’t ready to let ‘em go.

Until they do we will not be able to turn to miss that iceberg and we’re going to hit it, and when we hit it, the rich are still going to be able to get their access to food, to arable land, to water and so on. It’s going to be poor, it’s going to be the steerage that are going to be impacted. It’s the same with Titanic.

I think that’s why this story will always fascinate people. Because it’s a perfect little encapsulation of the world, and all social spectra, but until our lives are really put at risk, the moment of truth, we don’t know what we would do. And that’s my final word.

James Cameron (via wildglitterwolf)
  • 13th April
    2012
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  • 13th April
    2012
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cheattowin: Look at her. Gaze upon the one person who is even more aware of the irony and hypocrisy of the world than Daria Morgendorffer. This is the one person who has even more right and insight to call everyone out on their sh-t. Meet Jodie Landon–popular girl, homecoming queen, model student, and young woman of color. I love this article post but I can’t help but think it should have been three times the length and considerably deeper.  What about Jodie’s decision to attend Turner over Crestmore - to the chagrin of her father?  How come we didn’t delve into Jodie’s behavior during the small business project at Lawndale?  Let’s not be anti-feminist, but her relationship with Mack is incredibly important, as well.  He regularly plays off of her token status as a man in similar circumstances, freely commenting on his disdain for the Lawndale community. I read this piece and I love what’s been put out there, but I feel like it’s less of a definitive reading of Jodie Landon and more like a start to a conversation about the intersectionality of identity and privilege within the realm of Daria at large. Source: Racialicious

cheattowin:

Look at her. Gaze upon the one person who is even more aware of the irony and hypocrisy of the world than Daria Morgendorffer. This is the one person who has even more right and insight to call everyone out on their sh-t. Meet Jodie Landon–popular girl, homecoming queen, model student, and young woman of color.

I love this article post but I can’t help but think it should have been three times the length and considerably deeper.  What about Jodie’s decision to attend Turner over Crestmore - to the chagrin of her father?  How come we didn’t delve into Jodie’s behavior during the small business project at Lawndale?  Let’s not be anti-feminist, but her relationship with Mack is incredibly important, as well.  He regularly plays off of her token status as a man in similar circumstances, freely commenting on his disdain for the Lawndale community.

I read this piece and I love what’s been put out there, but I feel like it’s less of a definitive reading of Jodie Landon and more like a start to a conversation about the intersectionality of identity and privilege within the realm of Daria at large.

Source: Racialicious

  • 13th April
    2012
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