Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Friday, August 18, 2017

Keeping Up With White Guilt News

This is not FAKE NEWS, but they are just stories we are pulling off the internet.  Take them for what they are worth, and that's not a ton, but there are some articles that help our culture define what white guilt means. Legends of Tomorrow: Sara Will Be Motivated By Guilt in Season 3 Screen Rant Season 3 of The CW series Legends of Tomorrow will explore a new character arc with Sara Lance, the White Canary, as the character struggles with ... Flag as irrelevant Biracial Singer Halsey Speaks About Passing For White, Says She 'Feels Black' Blavity Halsey was born to a white mother and a black father in New Jersey. ... "White guilt is funny, but this is a really...

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

White Guilt: Still Wrong

It has always intrigued me: the trope of a white person travelling abroad to “find themselves.” Turn on the TV, open a magazine, look to your left: there it is. Furthermore, despite being the minority in many of these countries, white people still manage to inject their privilege into every aspect of their experience, all under the guise of “exploring and understanding.” This is called white guilt. The classic Hollywood-spun tale of a group of Caucasians briefly changing their race or cultural practices, but refusing to relinquish any privilege. Films like Seven Years in Tibet, the Last Samurai, even James Cameron’s Avatar, support the problematic view of the white man as the savior to the savage peoples of the “outside” world. Often in these films, the citizens of the country...

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

White Guilt Over Slavery Is Not Helping Black America

By Jack Kelly September 13, 2015 I’m glad I live in a time of automobiles, air conditioning, indoor plumbing, the Internet and great medical advances. But if I had to live in an earlier period, I’d want to be a soldier in the Union Army. I can think of no greater cause than to fight to eradicate America’s original sin. Slavery isn’t America’s original sin because it was unique, or uniquely horrible here. If prostitution is “the world’s oldest profession,” slave trading is second. Since the dawn of recorded history, slavery has been practiced in nearly every society known to man. More he...

Friday, May 17, 2013

Mr. Midnight Movie and Jewish Producer Discuss Soda Limitations

In 2012, Mr Midnight Movie and Jewish Producer discussed a ban on big (15 ounces or more) soft drinks.  Fair or too much government meddling in your life? Discus...

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