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March 30, 2010
by ernesto |
- What Tami Said has written about Jill Scott’s recent Essence magazine article on interracial relationships and the maginalization of Black women’s
voices and beauty. The Scott piece “has everything to do with the story of African-descended peoples in America. More specifically, it has to do with the history and present of black women in America. It has to do with being a body that is constantly demonized and marginalized, not just by the majority, but by your own people, too…by the men who share your history and with whom you might find refuge. And though you cannot tell by looking why one person chose another person–whether that black guy over there picked his white girlfriend because they are uniquely suited, because love struck them like a thunderbolt or because society says women like her are the ideal or all of the above–the ‘wince’ isn’t about fact but feeling. It is about feeling confronted with the reality of your lack of social worth and the limitation of your own choices.” Visit Racialicious for more on Jill Scott’s comments and CNN interview.
- “Young, colored folks will drive the economy, the culture, the politics – and the country’s rapidly shrinking, white-dominated enclaves will grow increasingly defensive about that fact,” Kai Wright relates on the roots of the tea party movement controversy for ColorLines, and the need for progressive movements to align working whites and people of color. Wright also analyzes Obama’s comments on the tea party movement.
- Color of Solidarity reminds everyone about food justice and why people of color should boycott McDonald’s. Students at one Canadian school are organizing against the corporatization of food service.
- And on the radical culture front, 2DopeBoyz cuts loose with a new free Rhymefest track, part of his mixtape dropping Wednesday.
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Tags: black women, food justice, multiracial organizing, rhymefest, tea party movement
