Archive for April 3rd, 2017
Pop culture, white privilege and widening the lens
This aspect of white privilege has bubbled under the surface of recent debates about college admissions policies and unpaid internships.
As a recent post on the Web site Journos of Color noted, for instance, “The only people who can afford to work full-time for free come from wealth, and generally, if you’re wealthy in America, you’re white.”
Outlook published this July 27, 2013 on the WP Opinions section:
Ron Koeberer/AP – Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant in a scene from “Fruitvale Station.”
Many people, especially white people, don’t realize the extent of the disparities that persistent structural privilege creates. According to some estimates, whites on average possess 6 times the accumulated wealth — in the form of home equity, savings and retirement accounts — of blacks.
That discrepancy is explained Not by financial savvy or luck, but by the legacy of now-illegal practices in housing, education and employment that formed the foundation of America’s enduring — and widening — wealth gap between non-Hispanic whites and minorities.
The challenge is creating characters that can transcend polarized and entrenched perceptions of race. This past week, a Washington Post poll found that a sobering 86% of African Americans say blacks and other minorities do not get equal treatment under the law, whereas a majority of whites — 54 percent — say there is equal treatment for minority groups.
In a recent interview about their book “Justice in America: The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites,” political scientists Jon Hurwitz and Mark Peffley described a “gulf” between African Americans, who largely lack faith in the criminal justice system, and white citizens, who consider it essentially color-blind.
Just as the roots of blacks’ mistrust of the system lie in their unfair treatment over generations, the roots of whites’ optimism can be found in our own history.
Like compounded interest from an investment we never made, the advantages white people enjoy derive from past racist practices and present-day unconscious behaviors that create channels no less wide, deep and real for being largely invisible.
If movies are equipped to do anything, it’s to make those channels visible. And the best films can show viewers how to navigate them.
“Fruitvale Station” does that, in just one brief encounter. The San Francisco street scene may begin with an acute observation of separate realities, but it ends by suggesting a possible bridge, in the simple act of a black character taking the business card of a white man he’s just met.
Adonis Diaries 
Notes and comments on FB and Twitter. Part 22
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 3, 2017
Notes and comments on FB and Twitter. Part 22
The meaning of life is What your brain sensed and pressured you to act, behave, experience and feel.
La fugue eternelle: Il y a quelque chose au-dela de ce qu’on peut atteindre
On ne peut pas negocier des abstractions. Surtout pas les trahisons aux concepts religieux, qui n’ont aucun sens rationels
On negocie pour sauver la face: qu’ on a eté manipulé tout au long et qu’on est des idiots. Comme tout le monde, meme les plus rusés.
Your opinions have no values, until supported by your credibility. Establish that you have knowledge, moral standing and acting humanly.
There was this custom of spreading salt on the land of the vanquished village to annihilate its existence: Nothing would grow again
Les rideaux sont faitent pour separer les femmes des hommes durant les discussion pour ne pas etre influencé par les maris, frères…
Et les gréffiers qui se substitutent en juges et avocats et ne transcrivent que les orders
Les peuples ont elaborés des rituels et des traditions et puis ils ont crées et institués leurs Dieux pour unifier, protéger et devenir l’idol de la communauté. Ils choisirent de ne plus reflechir and ouvrire d’autre choix
On sait lire mais ne comprent pas. Seul les humbles savent ce que les auteurs humbles dissent
The veil was used by nobility in all civilizations. Hard working women could Not suffer a veil. Those who fled Mecca to Yathreb (Al Madina) made sure their women wore the veil to discriminate against the local families who worked the land (even if they were Not from the noble class in Mecca). As the local women gained status and didn’t have to work the land, they jumped on the band wagon.
Those who fled Mecca with Muhammad to Yathreb had no land or properties in their new location. Razzia in the name of spreading the Message was a lucrative business
The milion $ question: Can a couple figure out when they start the process of tacit punishment of one another? This is a sure way to break a marriage.
Idol Allah in Mecca could not compete with the other practical idols to generate wealth to the clan owner. Allah of Islam destroyed the other idols and retained the monopoly
Wahhabit Saudi Kingdom rediscovered this economic principle: Destroy all the shrines in Islamic world and retain monopoly of Al Kaaba.
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