… (or, 25 examples of the racism we witness on a regular basis)
by basil, billie, qwo-li, jenn and colin
Examples:
11. ask a native person; “do you make your own jewelry?”
12. use the identity of white anti-racist as a shield against accusations of racism.
(thanks to Walking the Walls for the pointer.
As a game, I started counting how many of the 25 I’ve experienced. Stopped when I’d gotten to 10 and was barely half-way through the list.
-nalo
From the blog of Black. Geek. And Fine With That:
That woman stood in front of men from her community and said she wanted to see solid representations of black women in the books her men create. One of them told her to wait for the men to get situated, the other told her it’s too hard.
Oh, wait. They didn’t say that to her, only. They said that to all of us.
Via Monica Jackson’s Books in Black. Excerpt:
Dean Koontz read an early draft of my first novel, gave me excellent critical notes, and I spent a year revising the manuscript according to his feedback. When I sent it back to him, he was so impressed by the newly improved book that he forwarded it to his own agent.
And the agent STILL rejected the book! This proves that whom you know can get you only so far.
