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I’ve seen a few things about Hemlock Grove come across my dash:
From what I have read, the “Rromani” characters are played by White people.
This has NOTHING to do with Rromani people & “privilege” or whether or not we are “White passing” because they chose White people for this show.
MOST television shows, movies, and other media portray Rromani as White-washed, or use White actors. Even “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” used White ACTORS & ACTRESSES.
THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE HISTORIC WHITE-WASHING OF RROMANI PEOPLE.We are in the unfortunate situation of being perpetually White-washed in the media, while simultaneously being severely oppressed because in reality, we are not White.
Do you now see the huge problem with this?!
This is why we so adamantly oppose non-Rromani portraying us in the media.
RROMANI PEOPLE ARE NOT WHITE.
RROMANI PEOPLE ARE ROUTINELY WHITE-WASHED IN THE MEDIA.RROMANI PEOPLE FACE RACISM EVERY FUCKING DAY BECAUSE WE ARE NOT WHITE.
WHITE-WASHING US IN THE MEDIA DOWN-PLAYS & INVALIDATES THE RACISM & OPPRESSION WE FACE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
RROMANI PEOPLE ARE NOT WHITE.
MOST RROMANI ARE BY NO MEANS WHITE-PASSING.
MOST RROMANI DO NOT HAVE ANY CONTEXTUAL PRIVILEGES.
STOP INVALIDATING THE RACISM WE FACE.
STOP SPEAKING ON OUR BEHALF.. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.
RROMANI PEOPLE ARE NOT FUCKING WHITE.
Source: big-gadje-world
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“Flesh-colored;” “Nude”
The centrality of whiteness cannot be ignored when words likes flesh-colored and nude are used to describe light tan/beige even in the context of a darker-skinned woman.
Source: subconciousevolution
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So lemme get this straight – this is a Chinese play, the setting is China, they went to China to get the technical aspects right, but what they did not bring back from China was the notion that there are CHINESE PEOPLE IN CHINA!
That’s how this little boy:
grows up to become this dude:
And this Emperor of China:
can somehow be realistically played by this dude:
Oh, and this is their Chinese princess:
CHINESE. PRINCESS.
(via jhameia)
I’m hating the fuck out of whiteness right now.
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WAIT
they did an adaptation of the ORPHAN OF ZHAO
one of the most famous CHINESE PLAYS
and whitewashed the fuck out it?
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Source: jhameia
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http://nybooks.tumblr.com/post/32806356809/two-long-reads-on-the-campaign-from-our →
Why is this link, with a drawing of Obama where he’s the same shade as Romney, on the Tumblr radar?? He clearly isn’t pink.
Glad I wasn’t the only one wtfing over that.
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Apparently Ryan Murphy wants Catherine Zeta-Jones to play Blaine’s mom on Glee proving once again that he doesn’t give a fuck about race and whitewashing.
Heaven forbid you get a Filipina actress like Lea Salonga, who you know actually wants the part and who Darren wants to play the part.
No. Gotta have more white people.
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What the hell kind of lighting are they using in the Covergirl commercials that makes Sofia Vergara the same skin tone as my white as hell mom?
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The Nightingale
July 10 – August 5Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Choreography by Dan Knechtges
Directed by Moisés Kaufmanhttp://www.lajollaplayhouse.org/nightingale
A compelling contemporary musical based on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale, The Nightingale tells the story of a young emperor in ancient China, whose luxurious but constricted life inside the walls of the Forbidden City is upended by the song of an extraordinary bird that lives beyond his reach. With music of Grammy- and Tony Award winning pop composer/musician Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award winner Steven Sater, and direction by Tony Award nominee and Playhouse favorite Moisés Kaufman, The Nightingale will captivate audiences with its poetic pop sensibility, while engaging them in the process of creating a brand new work.
This is a play set in ancient China, but there is only one person of Asian descent in the entire cast (not the main character.)
Actress Erin Quill says: This is not, Folks, like the time a Texas Children’s theater did an All Caucasian Production of HAIRSPRAY and you can claim, as they did, that they had no African Americans around to cast - this is a professional theater with a budget and access to any and every Asian American Actor in the country. It also boasts a Director of International Fame (a New York City based Director) and a Writing Team that have won TONY Awards - all they had to do was say, “Hey, this show is set in China, let’s cast some Asians up in here.
Angry Asian Man says: Congratulations to the one Asian American actress in the entire cast, holding it down in the imaginary musical world where mostly white people ruled China
Source: racebending
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I had to do a double take to realize this was Sofia Vergara! Whitewashed?
wow covergirl u aren’t even pretending
Holy shit, I had to read the description to know it was her. FAIL.
Source: subconciousevolution
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4th of July/ The Whitewashing of Mount Rushmore →
CC: The following is an excerpt from the original article.
“Let me give you an example* of how a big part of the story of Mount Rushmore has been left out of our national dialog.
Mount Rushmore is in the Black Hills region of South Dakota - or, to give it the Lakota Sioux name, Six Grandfathers is in the Paha Sapa. As the Native American activist, scholar, and writer Russell Means explains,
“The sacred Black Hills have two descriptions in the Lakotah language. Paha Sapa and Kȟe Sapa. The white man says that Paha Sapa means ‘Black Hills’. I will attempt to correct their interpretation of my language. The word ‘Pa-ha’ is broken up into two meanings: Pa describes the mountains emerging from the earth. Paha Sapa all together gives you a picture and a description of our sacred mountains as seen from a distance. The Ponderosa Pine gives the illusion of black from a distance and the mountains emerging from the earth. Paha Sapa. Therefore, what you see is holy. The words ‘Kȟe Sapa’ also gives you a description of what the sacred mountains look like close up, with the white stone cliffs, the meadows and the trees and the valleys. Therefore, you know it is holy.”
Originally, this region was purchased by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, a massive land acquisition from the French government of 828,800 square miles in the center of the American continent. The Black Hills were (and are) in rugged, formidable country, and for a long time the original inhabitants of the land were left largely in peace. Soldiers and explorers came through the area, as did a handful of settlers, but for the most part white people had little interest in such a desolate (to them) part of the country.
The Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho, and Lakota nations lived in this part of the world, and by the late 1800s tensions between the native groups and the US government, particularly over the construction of the Bozeman Trail as a route to the goldfields of Montana, had erupted into Red Cloud’s War. And believe it or not, the native groups won. The Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed in 1868 and guaranteed that the Lakota would hold the Black Hills, as well as land rights across areas of South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, in perpetuity.
Let me reiterate. The government promised the Lakota that they would be the owners of the Black Hills for the rest of time.
Guess how long that lasted? Six years. In 1874 the Custer Expedition found gold in the Black Hills. And suddenly, the US Government was vastly more interested in this sacred land than they were before.
The story of how the Lakota had their land stolen is long, complex, and infuriating, but to simplify matters let me just say that current tribal lands represent not even a quarter of their original promised allotment, as you can clearly see on this map. Furthermore, within current tribal holdings many actual plots of land are owned by non-natives, and this region of the country contains the many of the poorest counties in America, including the poorest on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
If you want the entire story, as well as the stories of many other tribes, check out Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations, by Charles F. Wilkinson.
Six Grandfathers was a sacred mountain to the Lakota within the Paha Sapa. The mountain got the name “Rushmore” when the young lawyer Charles Rushmore, out west checking land titles for a mining company, asked a guide what the mountain’s name was. “Mount Rushmore” joked the guide.
Naturally, this is the name that we now know the mountain as. Sacred Indian name? Out the window. Stupid joke name? It’s a white man’s name, isn’t it? Let’s call it that on all the maps.*My examples are often related to Native Americans because I have a particular interest - professionally and personally - in this area. If you have other examples (and there are probably thousands), feel free to mention them in the comments. I’m always excited to learn and to gather new examples for teaching.”
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Look, look, I’m not a POC myself (being asian-latina) but this is disgusting. Since you cant submit links, I’ll put it here. Just, no.
Natural & Healthy Dark Skin Removal Treatment
So if your skin gets a tad darker, its a sickness. Yep, totally, its in the article.
CC: [Asians are people of color as well, jsyk.]
Can we just look at some of the sentences that are in this article? Like I’m actually tearing up. I can’t imagine what this must feel like, to be taught from birth that your dark skin is disgusting and undesirable and A SICKNESS.I thought the above comment of presenting dark skin as a sickness was a hyperbole, but it’s actually true. This article really speaks as though dark skin is an unfortunate curse.
“Dark Skin can be a bane for people who crave a fair Complexion.”
“Symptoms of Dark Skin:
The most common symptoms of dark skin are that the skin color turns to brownish to blackish.”
“Dark skins can be cured naturally using some easy measures. Know more how to treat dark skin naturally.”
“Home Remedies for dark skin:Some of the useful home remedies for dark skin are present in below.”
And then the awful article proceeds to speak of how to treat and remedy dark skin.
Feel free to leave comments at the bottom of their blog letting them know exactly why this shit is racist.
SIGNAL BOOST: These folks need to know how disgusting they are for implying that being dark is a disease D:](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6cc96DpBy1rrq8c9o1_400.jpg)
Look, look, I’m not a POC myself (being asian-latina) but this is disgusting. Since you cant submit links, I’ll put it here. Just, no.
Natural & Healthy Dark Skin Removal Treatment
So if your skin gets a tad darker, its a sickness. Yep, totally, its in the article.
CC: [Asians are people of color as well, jsyk.]
Can we just look at some of the sentences that are in this article? Like I’m actually tearing up. I can’t imagine what this must feel like, to be taught from birth that your dark skin is disgusting and undesirable and A SICKNESS.I thought the above comment of presenting dark skin as a sickness was a hyperbole, but it’s actually true. This article really speaks as though dark skin is an unfortunate curse.
“Dark Skin can be a bane for people who crave a fair Complexion.”
“Symptoms of Dark Skin:
The most common symptoms of dark skin are that the skin color turns to brownish to blackish.”
“Dark skins can be cured naturally using some easy measures. Know more how to treat dark skin naturally.”
“Home Remedies for dark skin:
Some of the useful home remedies for dark skin are present in below.”And then the awful article proceeds to speak of how to treat and remedy dark skin.
Feel free to leave comments at the bottom of their blog letting them know exactly why this shit is racist.
SIGNAL BOOST: These folks need to know how disgusting they are for implying that being dark is a disease D:
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