I went to go see Avatar.

I knew what it was going to be going in, so I can't plead ignorance.

I don't really have much to add to the critique that others have already made.

However, I would just like to point out that these people wouldn't need a honky if the damn honkies would just stay the fuck out of other people's homes ( Read more... )

Sonia Sotomayor has been confirmed as a Justice of the Supreme Court.

The vote was 68-31, with all the nays being cast by Republicans (the missing vote is that of Ted Kennedy, who was absent because of illness).

Seriously, I do not understand how incredibly short-sighted the Republicans are being. Hispanics/Latinos are a community that is not ( Read more... )

A heads-up:  this is a wandering post, but my meanders do have a point. I think. I'm not entirely sure of it, though...One of the important things I learned back when I worked in ethnographic market research at Cheskin was about Hispanics/Latinos in the United States ( Read more... )

karnythia has made an impassioned post today that I wish to boost the signal for:

We Have Feelings Too or The Cost OF Being A POC in Race Discussions

Also, in general I want to point out that karnythia, sparkymonster, unusualmusic, rawles, and many, many other people have been engaging in important discussions about racism. Seriously, go check out ibarw and the link round-up posts. People are ( Read more... )

My mother is a brave woman, although she wouldn't think to call herself that. She's just persevering, you know? You do what you have to do, especially if you have kids to raise. You carry on ( Read more... )

Yes, I know.

It's not a helping thing to say, "coconut." It's not helping to judge him like that, and who, by the way, appointed me arbiter of all that is Mexican? No one, that's who. I'm no one to judge. And it's not like I don't understand his dilemma and his choices and how that must be so hard, so conflicted for him. I do. I get it. I know ( Read more... )

My America is a thousand peoples, a myriad tongues, a full spectrum of colors ( Read more... )

I'm a brown man who writes fantasies ( Read more... )

A friend and I were having a heated discussion about MammothFail the other day, and toward the end of it (where we stopped because the burgers needed to come off the grill and we had to get on with the business of dinner), she pulled out what might have been meant to be a trump card in the debate, or perhaps just an attempt to validate another ( Read more... )

So, part of the current race/culture/privilege controversy exploding all over the SF&F community online involves a very prominent and well-respected author in the field being a complete idiot about the existence of fans of color (apparently, we're newly-sprung from the head of Octavia Butler, all Minervas of Color). In response, a call was put ( Read more... )