Hey Irina and all,
Dan speaks for me; I for one don't understand -- or
want to -- this need to express racism via this
medium. I also remind all that the American
Psychiatric Association does consider racism a mental
illness like depression.
Zennie
--- Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
out of
If the piece were thought-provoking and went beyond the tactics of
neo-blackface tactics found amongst white American bourgeois males (see
links below, and those are merely the ones I could find in a two minute
span) to make his point, I would say Loren Feldman was an artist and not a
It needed only the text in the link and the fact that there was chatter
about it (without actually reading any it) to persuade me that this was pure
and simple video trolling. We all know that the best way to deal with trolls
is not to give them any attention whatsoever. I didn't even bother to
Eric Rice wrote:
Do we allow ourselves to find something funny if we have the context
around it to imply that it's okay? A black guy did it and BET
approves for example, kinda says a lot. If a white guy did Read a
Book...? Holy crap.
It seems the signature of an antiracist is the holding
out of all the hullabahoo, daniel mcvicar sums it up best for me in what he
wrote below.
On 8/5/07, danielmcvicar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Loren Feldman's post was wrong, terribly wrong. His followup piece playing
the rehab card, tongue in cheek, was a dismissal of any responsibility that
he
Hey Bill,
Interesting post. I noticed straightaway that you posted here and on
Twitter with no explanation or comment, and figured you were fishing
for our reactions.
I don't doubt that he's well-connected and clued-up. I agree with
you that I'm sure he doesn't believe that's the only
