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Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence took the stage at Saturday Night Live last night, and wasted no time in mock-swiping at her rivals for best actress, reports People. To 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, of Beasts of the Southern Wild, she snarked, “the alphabet called. It wants its letters back.“ 

Fuck the SNL writers for this one

don’t make jokes about the name that little girl’s parents gave her

Are Emily and Jamal More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?

Abstract: “We perform a field experiment to measure racial discrimination in the labor market. We answer help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers by sending resumes. To manipulate perception of race, each resume is randomly assigned either a very African-American sounding name or a very White sounding name. This manipulation produces a significant gap in the rate of callbacks for interviews. White names elicit about 50% more callbacks than African-American names. We also investigate how improvements in the credentials affect discrimination. For each employment ad, we send resumes of higher and lower quality. For Whites, the higher quality resumes elicit 30% more callbacks. For African-Americans, however, the higher quality resumes do not elicit significantly more callbacks. In other words, African-Americans benefit little if at all from improving their credentials. The extent of discrimination is also remarkably uniform across occupations and industries. Similarly, Federal contractors (for whom affirmative action is better enforced) and employers who list “Equal Opportunity Employer” in their ad discriminate as much as other employers. In Chicago, we find that employers located in more African-American neighborhoods discriminate less.”

^ Why I don’t appreciate when White people “make fun” of Black names…

Guys….it was a little joke on SNL and I’m sure civilization will remain standing tomorrow.

Please calm your fucking life.

Please kiss my fucking ass.

No 

CHILD should have to go through life having people mock and blast tehir name just cause it’s not white.

No person should have to worry about supporting themselves for no other reason than their name is ” uncomfortable” because it doesn’t scream white .

Yeah the world will go on tomorrow where in if she wasn’t nominated for an OSCAR , we’d be talking about her being mocked/denied everything from employment. aid, to proper school placement.

Wanna calm my fucking life?

Make folks not pull up on my resume for having a ” funny” name

Be a little less excited that this lazy ass bullshit is funny. 

You wana gimme instructions about how to handle y fucking life?

Work on that hsit

till then enjoy the world that will keep on spinning because of this stupid shit propogated by nasty self centered vapid twits like yourself who get to do underminings asshole things like THIS

and giggle about our overreactions cause hey YOU never feel that pinch

Source: youngbadmangone

Django Unchained and the Expendability of Black Bodies in Cinema

ethiopienne:

I should preface this by saying I enjoy reading. writing, and watching material about Black histories. There is no history of Black peoples that has not been marred by white colonialism and the devastating violence that comes with it. I am no stranger to imagining, describing, or viewing these brutalities.

Even so, I was not prepared for the toll that director Quentin Tarantino’s Christmas release, Django Unchained, would take on me. I walked into the theater feeling hesitant but cautiously optimistic, excited if for no other reason than to see Kerry Washingto and Jamie Foxx act opposite one another. I left 2 hours and 45 minutes later feeling jittery, unsettled, and overwhelmed by emotions I hadn’t experienced consciously in ages.

To be perfectly fair, the film is breathtaking from a cinematographic perspective. Tarantino is an artist, and his eye for camera work is impeccable. He is by no means afraid to take risks, and this resonates with audiences; it is no accident that he has acquired so large a following.

The work has alreay been applauded as groundbreaking; Tarantino has been referred to as “bold,” “daring,” and “edgy” for having the tenacity to write and direct a thriller loosely based on the antebellum South and reveling in depictions of violence primarily against Black people. If I may be blunt, however, I do not believe the risks Tarantino takes in Django are his to negotiate. In “post-racial” America—where Black bodies are disproportionally targeted by hate crimes, police brutality, the prison-industrial complex, dishonest housing and banking practices, and numerous other institutional forms of violence—there is nothing novel about a white director choosing to regale audiences with the coordinated murder of Black people.

[spoilers and descriptions of graphic violence under the cut]

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Source: ethiopienne

I have to turn off my brain when I watch TV shows because that’s the only way for me to get into them without the problematic bullshit turning me off. I wish I didn’t have to do that. 

I think the only TV show I’ve ever had my brain on for was The Wire. All my other favorites—Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Homeland, Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones—gotta keep it off.

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