#race relations

[archaardvarkarchive]

I honestly wonder what sort of white hot content is gonna get churned out when indigenous people get hold of the means and realize they can make animated series about real-life modern experiences or history.

The next logical step for the online indie animation boom, tbh.

[billyengland]

You CAN NOT HATE the media enough.

CNN’s Jake Tapper labels the J6 pipe bomber suspect Brian Cole a “30 year old WHITE man.”

I mean it's bad enough that Jake Tapper decided to bring race into this story --- of which I don't see the reasoning behind it --- but even then, GOT IT WRONG. Like I said, you can NOT hate the media enough.

[alwaysbewoke]

this is chief among the reasons why i have no respect for black republicans.

[fluffycakesistainted]

The film is about Blues music, right? Which is storytelling. But it’s also a music that I think was made to help a people who are constantly under attack, to help them cope, to help them feel better, and to remind them that they were human. [...] And for me, to have a creature who’s incredibly powerful, who was human at a time, who is in pain, and who needs to cope, in a way that only a community can give him. [T]hat’s really what’s going on with him. I thought about it after I wrote it and I said, Oh man, who does he lie to, and who is he honest with? Because for me, it’s very clear that he identifies with these people.

[A]nd that connection between what we experienced–we being African Americans, foundational African Americans who experienced...forcible removal from the continent of Africa and placement in the Americas, and the systems that were built after that. Our experience and the experience of the Irish people being forced to work land that had immeasurable abundance and wealth, but being denied that. So the connections between the two cultures are really obvious to spot. But also, the history here in the States is very complicated, because of the mobility of certain immigrants—the ability to become “white”. And what that took, as it relates to camaraderie with us. A decision had to be made. And when you’re making a movie about American Blues music, Irish folks gotta have a place in that, like, they were there. 

--Ryan Coogler - Fresh Air, NPR

[itsblosseybitch]

The GOP appeals to the white working class not through class issues, but through racism. Because the white working class in the United States is, by and large, racist.

There's definitely a Horseshoe Effect when it comes to the racial politics between wealthy white Republicans and white working class Republicans. It's arguably their biggest common ground.

It's not that the white working class doesn't care about being underpaid and exploited for their labor. It's not that they're unaware of how much bosses and the capitalist system screw them over. On the contrary, they're quite cognizant of those issues. It's just that they are much more fearful of competing with immigrants over jobs or minorities fighting for racial equality, and they vote accordingly.

Some anecdotal evidence on my part: I'm a white woman born and raised in the South where my mom, dad, and stepdad's sides are all economically diverse but solidly Republican. I've heard pretty much every racist talking point across this large class gamut that doesn't include overt, KKK racism. A very close family member, a woman who grew up working class (and became middle class by marriage), cited the aforementioned fear of immigrants and minorities on why she voted for Trump, more than any other issue. The white working class kids I went to school with were also solidly Republican, and you bet your ass they had racist views!

There's a popular narrative that the white working class started voting Republican because the Democratic Party abandoned class issues. That narrative implies that the Republican Party has made class issues a large part of their platform, but that couldn't be further from the truth, as their embrace of Trickle Down Economics proves. Instead, the Democratic Party started emphasizing racial equality, which turned off the white working class by and large.

There's another popular but just as inaccurate narrative that the white working class are voting against their interests. From a class perspective, that's true. But once again, the white working class greatly prioritizes their racial politics over their class politics, so in reality, they actually are voting for their interests. Maintaining white supremacy - whether they want to admit it or not - interests them more than addressing wealth inequality.

As long as all of these factors hold true, the Republican Party will continue to court the white working class vote with Race Panic ad infinitum.

[romantichomicide95]

can we talk about how so many people still think it’s impossible for a black woman to be prettier than a white woman? it’s this quiet, unspoken belief that slips into everything; from tv to dating apps to everyday compliments. growing up, people always told me i was pretty, but it never really sunk in. deep down, i didn’t believe it. because everything around me told me that pretty meant white. no matter how many guys liked me or how popular i was, there was this voice always saying, you’d be prettier if you were white. i care so much about my looks and seeking validation still to this day.

it took me years to unpack that. to stop rejecting my own skin, my own features. i’ve had to face the fact that i internalized a lot of racism, and that’s hard to admit. i’m only half black and was raised mostly around white people, so that shaped me in ways i didn’t even notice at first. sometimes friends would act shocked if someone found me more attractive than them (the hot blonde girl) and it just reinforced how deep this idea runs. it’s wild that in 2025, we’re still dealing with this, but we are. and it’s something that needs to be said out loud.

[colombinna]

the people who think james and hbomberguy's whiteness do not matter in this context are just telling how little they know of the workings of race and white privilege in the world. If it didn't matter, that man wouldn't have gotten away with his plagiarism for so long, and creators of color wouldn't have been afraid to speak up against him. Claiming that "race has nothing to do with it" is at best ignorant and at worst malicious, if you go to any environment of cultural production you will find piles of cases of white creators/scholars/whatever failing to give credit to their racialized peers, and a lot of those times these plagiarism cases go hand in hand with other instances of racism. Sorry you get uncomfortable by being made to acknowledge your own privilege, but we're GONNA talk about race in EVERY conversation. SPECIALLY when it involves creation and cultural production.

[afriblaq]

Too confident....