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Aboriginal designer calls Miss Universe Canada’s 2008 costume “offensive”
Posted by Shemuses
Wearing a Cree-inspired, fringed leather bikini encrusted with rhinestones and a feathered war bonnet, the woman representing Canada at the Miss Universe pageant 2008 in Vietnam appeared before more than one billion global TV viewers on July 13. Samantha Tajik, 26, who was born in Iran, grew up in Vancouver, and now lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Yesterday, however, one of Canada's foremost aboriginal designers called Tajik's national costume "offensive". Dorothy Grant told the Georgia Straight that sexualizing the war bonnet is tantamount to sexualizing another cultures' spiritual symbol.
McCain: Maybe That’s a Way of Gookifying Them
Posted by Shemuses
Notwithstanding his hiring and endorsing white supremacists and his support for the rescinding of MLK Day and his fighting for the Confederate flag and so on and so on, the one act of racism that disturbs me most is McCain's use of the racial slur "gook" to refer to Vietnamese persons. After all, I am of East Asian descent, and I've been smeared with the "gook" slur quite a few times in my life. "Gook" is a war term and a term of racial denigration. To "gookify" a group of people is to make them subhuman so that one may more conscionably kill, exploit, maim, or manipulate them. Of course the group of people encouraged to use the racial slur to denigrate the "gooks" are also being manipulated, perhaps to kill kill kill.
The Obama Man Crush
Posted by Shemuses
Sure, women swoon, but have you ever noticed that guys, too, seem almost weak-kneed over the senator with mad skills and a million-dollar smile? Why do men as diverse as Colin Powell, Michael Eric Dyson, Andrew Sullivan, Tom Joyner, Ted Kennedy, Bill Richardson, Christopher Hitchens and numerous others, appear to have such a "man crush" on Sen. Obama? The answer: his white-collar masculinity.
Police probing reports of man targeting aboriginal women with date-rape drug
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
Vancouver police have confirmed they are investigating reports that a man using a date-rape drug has been targeting aboriginal women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A man has been preying on the women at a particular bar and spiking their drinks, Marlene George, a longtime community worker at the Carnegie Centre, told CBC News on Tuesday.
Bill Clinton Wants Obama to Pay For His Bon Bons and JuJu Bees
Posted by Shemuses
At present, it does not appear that Hillary's most rabid supporters are going to get the party meltdown they're seeking. Obama is polling 19 points ahead of McCain with female voters, a margin that wouldn't happen if significant numbers of Hillary's female supporters were planning to vote for McCain in the fall. But Obama still has lingering problems with certain factions of Hillary's support base, notably large-dollar fundraisers.
The Bad Frame: Why Are the New Yorker, Salon and Other Liberal Media Doing the Right's Dirty Work?
Posted by Shemuses from Alternet
This week's New Yorker cover image of the Obamas is shocking in the racism and gross stereotyping that is built into its supposed satire.
How positive racial stereotypes can harm your career
Posted by Shemuses
People of your racial or ethnic group are stereotyped as good employees with a solid work ethic. That should bode well for your career, right? Not necessarily. Even so-called "positive" racial stereotypes could spell trouble for you in the workplace. Here are some adverse effects you could experience.
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