Posts tagged as Black People
But What if Michael Vick Was a Vegetarian Mexican?
Here's my ESPN mag essay about Michael Vick & race. http://t.co/u3DRkAc I asked them not to call it What If Vick Were White but they did.
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How stupid are magazines? So stupid that the writers of the pieces for those magazines now tend to take to Twitter to denounce the packaging, headlining and illustration. (The illustration—Michael Vick whiteface—ESPN promptly removed; you can see it here.)
In any event, if you read the actual ESPN piece by Touré, you learn that Michael Vick couldn't possibly be white but also is "heroic," because of how he's acted in his post-dog-fighting life. I... guess? I dunno? Elsewhere in ESPN the magazine's Vick package, you can read about how we love dogs too much but are too mean to animals and how we don't have a moral leg to stand on criticizing anyone because of our contradictions of eating versus petting: "We don't have to witness the stomach-turning horrors inside a farm factory in order to get chicken nuggets for lunch"! (This is not written by Jonathan Safran Foer, but ESPN definitely is starting to read like Cosmopolitan at this point.) Also, somewhere Oprah is cringing sympathetically: enjoy your food libel lawsuit, ESPN.
"8 Reasons to Date a White Man": Local Slideshow Amuses
"Ever wonder why White people can date the friends of exes and so on? It's because they don't let the past hinder the present." READ MORE
Chocolate Chip: You Black Holes Better Watch Your Back
Oh my Gawd. They did it again! The fucking N.A.A.C.P., ruining everything for us normal, un-advanced blacks that just want to live out our lives in relative obscurity and maybe even blend in occasionally (THERE. I SAID IT). Here it is: Barry's getting all kinds of shit because he's an automaton and his operating system won't allow him to show any anger/woefulness/sympathy regarding the BP oil spill (which is making all animals black), so the organized blacks are trying to raise the attention of the negative WHITE media. With what, you ask? A Hallmark card, natch! READ MORE
The Black Athletes Who Don't Play Basketball
Sometimes athletes are black. Depending on your sport of choice, this might be a big deal. And when a black athlete is on the rise-or even just in the mix-in an affluent, white-dominated sport, it becomes a very big deal. That's because writers like to write about these unexpectedly or surprisingly black athletes. In the past decade, the term "the Tiger Woods of [sport]" became common shorthand for a certain kind of athlete: the kind who is "changing the face of the game." READ MORE
Shut Up Already, White People!
Kia Matthews: "Get out of my life. This pseudo well-meaning 'white fascination' with 'how black people use' Facebook or Twitter is akin to people being fascinated by a rare species in its natural habitat. Maybe I should set up an observation room with 4 walls of windows so people can come watch 5 to 7 black youths using Twitter and Facebook on their Sidekicks."
What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night?
At the risk of getting randomly harshed on by the Internet, I cannot keep quiet about my obsession with Late Night Black People Twitter, an obsession I know some of you other white people share, because it is awesome. The only reason that White People Twitter knows about Black People Twitter is because when you white people wake up on the East Coast or when you go to bed late on the West Coast, the trending topics are hilarious chat-memes, ruling the trending topics, and yes, last night's was the very funny #uainthittinitright. There was even for a time a blog devoted to racist backlash to Black People Twitter that, unfortunately, stopped publishing this summer. See, now, MySpace and Facebook and (LOL) Friendster didn't have anything to bring different worlds together. Your "social network" was only yours, and there wasn't enough chaos in the system to bridge networks-you never know what's going on outside your stupid little bubble. And Black People Twitter isn't the noise in the signal that Twitter is trying to leach out-it's huge, organic and it is seemingly seriously nocturnal. Except it's really not. READ MORE
