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After following the race (and context) fail that's the big topic of discussion all over my flist yesterday and this morning, it feels a little weird to talk about Treme, a show that is set in the aftermath of a huge tragedy, but which doesn't, imo, fall into the same traps as the big bang story in question. (As always, native New Orleanians may ( Read more... )

RaceFail09 continues (more here and here). It's not even about race anymore, because white people who think their feelings about being called on their racist behavior are more important than PoCs' feelings about being subject to racist behavior, have detoured the conversation into a ridiculous and hypocritical discussion of why people who use ( Read more... )