cassandrashipsit:

panopticblast:

Okay, some more detail on the “Peter David is super racist thing”:

First off, this wasn’t an official Marvel panel. It was being held by the New York Times. The panelists were Peter David, Chris Claremont, Max Wittert (who does that Jean and Scott webcomic), and Marvel editor Daniel Ketchum. The focus was on the history of gay X-Men characters and mutants as a queer metaphor, although it didn’t really end up focusing on that very much. Wittert and Ketchum, who are gay, did most of the talking about LGBT issues while Claremont and David were just playing the part of lovable crotchety comic uncles. Everything was fine until the Q&A. The second person up introduced himself as a Romani activist, and launched into what wasn’t so much a question as a long plea for writers to stop using the g-slur and for his people to get better representation. He ended by lobbing a super-softball “do you guys agree” question at the panel.

At that point, before anyone else could speak, David glared at the man and said something along the lines of “do you really want to ask me that question.” The room went dead silent. He then launched into a diatribe about having been in Romania “for the movies” (not really sure what that meant) and seeing a child pulling “itself” along behind its mother because both of its legs were broken. His guide then told him that “g*****s do that to their own children to make people want to give them money” (paraphrasing). David concluded by telling the man (again, paraphrasing) “I saw those broken children, so don’t complain to me about the suffering of the Romani people”. When the man tried to respond from the back of the room, David shouted “I don’t care” over and over, eventually driving the man out of the room. People were fucking shocked. A lot of people in the audience were muttering “no dude” and “stop” while he was getting into it, and everyone was clearly uncomfortable, but the Q&A kept going for a few more minutes. As the panel ended and everyone was walking out, David leaned in to the microphone and apologized, saying that “the Romani situation is a very sensitive subject” to him.

It was weird, it was frightening, and it was super, SUPER uncomfortable, and I get wanting to believe it didn’t happen, but it did. And I don’t understand how the only reference I’ve seen to it so far is “Peter David shared some negative opinions about Romani portrayal”.

@_@ What the ACTUAL FUCK? Like honestly can we just ban white men from comics? Please? Because it’s the only way it’s going to get better.

(Source: jewish-psyop, via a-spoon-is-born)

lightskinlivinglavish:

so there’s a spotify ad that starts with the non remix version of flawless and then these white ppl start saying shit like “boy your kicks are on fleek” and “girl your nails are on fleek” and “our squad gets turnt to this on fleek playlist” and then the ladies voice is like “check out the playlist filter on fleek” and it was honestly the most cringeworthy thing I’ve ever experienced like pls stop white people and their marketing campaigns

*cries* yup 

theangryviolinist:

positive stereotypes do not exist. there is no such thing as a positive stereotype. “all asian people are good at math”, “all asians are great at musical instruments”, “asian people all go off to be lawyers & doctors”

go fuck yourselves. stereotypes at their heart seek to reduce human beings to two dimensional caricatures. stereotypes do not exist to help or better groups of people. stereotypes are, by their very function & nature, racist and destructive

(via traicionerra)

pocineurope:

flickerman:

recently in sweden: a black man who works as a bus driver was on his way to the bus depot at the end of his shift, and assumed he could take the bus for free as long as he wore the uniform. but a couple of ticket inspectors disagreed and abused him in front of all the passengers. handcuffing him, dragging him out of the bus, pushing him, sitting on top of him, screaming at him asking if he wants to keep his job. (video) the branch head for the company the bus driver works for says the drivers are allowed to take the bus for free at the end of their shift. (another source)

black people are one of the most marginalized minorities in sweden, and are the most subjected to hate crimes. (x) a reminder when someone tells you how great this country is.

-A

(via covenesque)

brownpeopleproblems:

bobby jindal applied fair and lovely to his soul 

(Source: racialized)

navigatethestream:

your friendly reminder that Malala Yousafzai actually had a polite sit down with Obama to talk about how his drone strike policy was perpetuating the conditions for the Taliban to thrive in Pakistan and it literally changed nothing about the U.S’s droke strike policy.  

your friendly reminder that last year Muslims went to iftar at the white house only to be told that the U.S will continue giving financial aid to Israel as Gaza effectively burned in the background

so tell me again why what Jennicet Guitierrez did was “disrespectful” and not a necessary act of civil disobedience when clearly polite political sitdowns with the marginalized are not affecting Obama’s policies 

(via traicionerra)

Somebody set a Church on fire on Charlotte.

pinkcoatedlips:

charke105:

telvi1:

Briar Creek Baptist Church. Possible Hate Crime.

Briar Creek Baptist is a predominantly black church and the fire has been ruled an arson. >$250,000 damage and they had to cancel their kids summer program.

😔 I’m so tired of this

(via lumbeendnprincess-deactivated20)

That awkward moment when you want to make a friend and introduce yourself to the person and try to have small talk with them but eventually into the conversation you can tell that the person doesn’t have an interest in being friends with you ._.

If Michael Brown was called a “man” at the age of 18, then Dylann Roof cannot be called a “child” at the age of 21.

(Source: beautiful-musical-anarchy)