Posts tagged Race
This is an interesting read.
A fascinating history of the relationship between Madison Ave. and minority consumers in the Mad Men Age.
A tidbit we did not know, about Pepsi’s vanguard (and later scuttled) attempts to break color barriers in magazines and advertising:
After World War II, seeking a competitive advantage…
A week ago, for Martin Luther King Day, a friend and I organized an event for my dorm floor in which we discussed and addressed issues of race, inequality and discrimination, both in terms of their historical narratives as well as their modern day relevancy. The aim of the night was…
Good read.
Newt Gingrich launched a now-infamous tirade against moderator Juan Williams during Monday night’s GOP debate after Williams dared to ask him if he could understand why some African-Americans were offended by Gingrich’s obsession with food stamps and child labor. “No, I don’t see that,” Gingrich sneered back.
Williams later insisted he wasn’t offended by Gingrich’s pointed defense, but did say his food stamps rhetoric is “very racial and…unless I missed it, black people haven’t been out there demanding food stamps, or marching for food stamps.”
Today, during a campaign stop in South Carolina, Gingrich recalled his exchange with Williams and used the same kind of suggestive language that Williams had objected to — this time directed at Williams himself:
GINGRICH: I had a very interesting dialogue Monday night in Myrtle Beach with Juan Williams about the idea of work, which seemed to Juan Williams to be a strange, distant concept.
Remember that Juan Williams used to be Fox’s favorite PoC martyr after he said some pretty Islamophobic stuff and was fired from NPR.
Newt just makes me ill.
You know, one of the things I’ve been ridiculed about by peers, family, and outsiders, is how I speak. To narrow it down, I was bullied about my race, not being my race, wanting better for myself, being a stereotype, not being a stereotype— seriously, fuck you.
You know, each…
