Via RaceWire, a new music video from Alicia Keys showcases an interracial relationship—and facing the condemnation of friends and families as a result.
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Video Thursday: How To Be Black
A funny look at social media and black folks. Enjoy!
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Video Thursday: We speak Racist
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We’ll ignore the fact that they wouldn’t save money because they would lose their Federal transportation funding if they only offered the test in English. We won’t ignore that it’s racist; it’s barely-coded anti-immigrant rhetoric, and in the current political climate, anti-immigrant rhetoric is barely-coded anti-Latino rhetoric. And “If you want to live here, learn [English]” adds another layer: the implication that immigrants and minorities are lazy. Learning a new language and adjusting to a new culture are not easy things, and needing a driver’s license before needing English fluency is practicality, not laziness.
Video Thursday: Tradition and Empowerment
An Indian woman and feminist shares three encounters with women who are working for women’s rights and for peace within their traditions. It’s long, but it’s worth it:
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Video Thursday: Immigration Reform and Racism
In his deadpan way, Colbert reminds us how central race is to the immigration debate:
Video Thursday: Colbert’s Race Mash-Up
For your watching pleasure, Colbert’s best comments on race collected in one four-minute clip:
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Video Thursday: Fusion
Continuing last week’s conversation on being biracial or multiracial—in a video and link to an essay about census—we have a video looking back to the 2008 presidential campaign and a group of multiracial students at Rutgers:
Video Thursday: Biracial, Not Black
An eloquent look at being biracial:
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Video Thursday: Difficult Conversations
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These children, honestly answering questions about race and racism, illuminate some of the problems we have talking about race in America. We know that children as young as 6 months old respond to skin color, so when the kids at the beginning of the video don’t know the words race, ethnicity, or racism, that’s a problem: they don’t know how to address their own reactions and experiences. They’re not having the conversations they need to understand the complicated culture in which they live.
Video Thursday: “Every time they called me some name, I hit it farther.”
On The Daily Show, baseball great Willie Mays talks about being the only black man on his baseball teams, and how he responded to racism: