November 2011
A question brown people are tired of hearing:
Stranger: Where are you from? [Translation: You look a bit brown. Why are you brown?]
Ariane Sherine: London.
Stranger: No, where are you really from? [Translation: You are clearly telling me untruths. Brown people do not come from London.]
Ariane Sherine: London.
Stranger (exasperated): No, where are your parents from? [Translation: Now you're just being obtuse.]
Ariane Sherine: Africa and America.
Stranger (confused): Erm … so where are your family from, like, back in the day? [Translation: People who come from Africa and America do not look like you.]
Ariane Sherine: Iran, India, Africa, America and England.
Stranger (relieved): India and Iran! Do you ever go back?
(continued - provided in the source link titled as Guardian)
WNYC Soundcheck: "The Changing Face of Hip-Hop" →
no-trivia:
I was on the radio to talk about the hip-hop issue of SPIN. I actually did alright?! Thanks a whole bunch to Soundcheck and WNYC for taking interest in the issue!
geiselhaft: I often hear people say... →
stfuracists:
geiselhaft:
”Well you dance good for being a white person”/”Your dreadlocks looks good even though you’re…” and I just can’t help to wonder if that isn’t just as offensive to a white person as it would be to a person of color? Isn’t it pretty much the same as saying that all black people are good at dancing and can pull of dreadlocks, because black people is just a homogeneous...
FEELINGS I HAVE
sometimes i think about how crazy marginalized people must seem to those in control.
like when guys tell girls they are bonkers for thinking every man is a possibly attacker.
like when whites tell the rest of us that it’s unamerican to not be surprised by police brutality.
etc. etc.
it’s just kind of amazing. people get really shocked and offended on my behalf, here in academia,...
Last member of 65,000-year-old tribe dies, taking... →
fyeahblackhistory:
The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has died, taking one of the world’s earliest languages to the grave. Boa Sr, who died last week aged about 85, was the last native of the Andaman Islands who was fluent in Bo. Named after the tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to the pre-Neolithic period when the earliest humans...
“What you see is a lot of pretty people, a lot of good looking people making...”
– David Berman (of the Silver Jews) in a previously unpublished interview with David Malitz (via pushinghoopswithsticks)
i try to look unattractive when i play shows. it’s for the people
