The message sent is this: You, young, black, female child, are not worth the time and energy it will take me to learn to spell and pronounce your name.”This, by the way, is how you say Quvenzhané:This issue goes beyond names rooted in cultures unfamiliar to the speaker. Whatever ...
Baker said that the Atlanta shooter saw the spas he targeted as holding “a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate.” Calling Asian women “a temptation” arguably harkened Hollywood’s long history of depicting Asian female characters in interracial relationships with a subtext of white ...
Renee Holy crap (sorry!). I was totally channeling you this weekend because I said almost all these exact things to someone on Facebook. A guy friend posted that he went to see it with his wife and he was ashamed of himself for seeing it. Someone else commented, “But you have to...