Steve Sailer writes: “Sailer’s First Law of Female Journalism is that the most heartfelt journalistic extrusions will be demands for how society must be re-engineered so that, come the Revolution, the writer herself will be considered hotter-looking. Maybe Professor Tinsley hasn’t quite worked out all the details of how Beyoncé being exempted from criticism over how she chooses to play dress-up rubs off on poor Professor Tinsley in any concrete fashion, but, you know, Hope and Change!”
* Bollywood itself is appropriation. The Indians took concepts from American cinema and transformed them into something appropriate for their own culture – and that’s a good thing! Global culture is richer and more complex for it.
But you can’t paint white men as villains in that situation, so there’s no point in talking about it.
* There is no social engineering possible that would make these wannabe African feminists hot. I wonder if the taxpayers in Texas are aware that some of their money supports these morons.
As another iSteve fan pointed out, ok, you can keep your tacos, and sombreros, and rap music, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Us evil white guys will keep Western Civilization, which by the way we built, and all the good things you a**w**** take for granted. Like clean water, reliable electricity, rule of law, low levels of corruption, the Internet, und so weiter.
* Seriously, it’s b.s. like this that makes me say bring on the 3rd-world ization of the US cause it ain’t gonna be pretty for the increasingly pampered Afro-American black middle class.
Never underestimate the provincialism of US blacks, particularly if they have quasi-African made up names. For people who revel ad-nauseum in their “color” and how vibrant and diverse they are in their rainbowness, as opposed to us pasty sorts, they tend to assume brown equals kinship and sameness. They tend to down-play the very real importance of facial features and body type in determining identity. As one Afghan put it to me, where he grew up everybody had the same complexion so they used facial features to determine who was what.
My wife, of mixed ancestry, but South Asian appearance, gets lots of crap from her “sisters” in Africa. Told to go back to her country, passive aggressive behavior when dealing with bureaucrats. No doubt it’s the lingering affects of the white man’s divide and conquer. Simple sexual jealousy or just plain old fashioned, perfectly natural bigotry are not factors educated people think about when discussing or theorizing black anger or surliness.
Blacks in Eastern and Southern Africa definitely do not like “Asians.” Idi Amin didn’t chase all those Indians out of Uganda by his lonesome.
This is also really interesting considering the Tanzanian student who recently got attacked in Bangalore.
I suspect, though, these women if they actually learned anything about the regions they purport to study, beyond reading some dumbed-down Franz Fanon, they’d blame centuries of indigenous colorism on whitey.
* I’d like to see a feminist intersectional analysis of Yemenite Jewish Israeli transgender pop singer Dana International’s song “Indian Movie”.
Obviously there would be points for being transgendered, and people from Yemen who are not Jewish would definitely be considered “people of color”…
But my guess is that the Jewish and certainly the Israeli part would cancel all that out and this would be seen as terribly appropriative.
* The Democrats may be branded the black party here and at similar blogs, but ultimately they aren’t and can’t be the black party for the simple reason that there aren’t enough blacks to win elections for them. That’s why they have a sizeable number of whites and other nonwhites in their coalition. The Republicans on the other hand, can and do win elections with white voters, which is why they’re the white party, the half assed Hispandering and the like notwithstanding.
* “Ceasing to exist” is a form of racist oppression. It deprives folks like Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley and Natassja Omidina Gunasena (Someone’s Law: The more absurd a Negro’s name the lower that Negro’s intellectual capacity.) of someone to blame for their many all too obvious inadequacies and failures. If all Whites were to “cease to exist” it would reduce Negroes to a state of savagery. If all non-Negroes were to “cease to exist” it would more than likely lead to the extinction of Negroes.
* Some folks, as these two fierce feminists, have too much time on their hands. Lacking any self-discipline, self-awareness–or any historical and cultural context–engage in fantasy, i.e. how the world should be as they re-imagine by means of social critique. Yet, end up at “woe is me.”
And they certainly lack irony–studying and teaching about Africa(ns) at a Western university. Shouldn’t they practice what they preach: What happens in Africa, stays in Africa?
* I’m sruprised that with your Danny Paddy Moynihan fetish you didn’t use this chance to bring up the Indophilec pop “career” of Daniel Patrick’s daughter (and Caroline “Yunno” Kennedy posse member), Maura Moynihan (Harvard ’80). This viddy HERE makes Coldplay and Ms. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter look like culturo banditos! This is a woman truly in tune with the ethos of the east.
She even has previous experience as Hiberno-Hindi hitmaker! From the August 2, 1996 edition of your NY Daily News:
INDIA HAS MAURA TO GIVE THANKS FOR Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s daughter has changed like a chameleon again. Maura Moynihan is now a pop star in India. She has released “Chakra Chant” and “Injie Party” in the 650-million strong nation, and they have zoomed to the top of the charts. Maura has been a comedian, a singer (Maura and the Mystics), a cable TV producer and, of all things, a gossip columnist. During her divorce from Richard Avedon’s son, John, a follower of the Dalai Lama, rumors surfaced that she was dating George Stephanopoulos (she denied any liaison). Word is she didn’t get much of a settlement. She did get custody of the couple’s son, who is staying with his father while mom is back in India, where she spent her youth when dad was ambassador there. Sen. Moynihan’s office claimed to be unaware of Maura’s newfound success.
¡Madre di Krishna! Can’t a desi catch a break?
