ching chong

 

“Ching chong” (by 1864) is a racist slur used in the English-speaking world to put down people from East Asia by mocking Chinese. Often it comes with other racist acts, like pushing someone off a playground slide – or burying them in a mine shaft.
It is not just ignorant, insensitive schoolchildren who say it. So do grown people in the US in the 2000s and 2010s. For example:”

 
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An Executive Got Mistaken For Kitchen Help. But Instead Of Getting Angry, She Turned It Into This.

 

“People shouldn’t be judged by the color of their skin, right? For most of us, that’s Martin Luther King 101. So maybe the solution to racism is to forget race exists. Forget color. But this video might make you think differently. Investment executive Mellody Hobson starts off by talking about an embarrassing moment. She suggests a really compelling thought experiment at 4:16, and at 9:04, she tells us why diversity’s good for business.”

 
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A Comic Points Out The Absurdity Of A Famous Fantasy Film For Not Including A Certain Kind Of Actor

The reality of Hollywood can be hilariously unreal when it comes to fantasy movies.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Hollywood does a lot of work in maintaining segregation and inequity. When they do not include people of color, they are keeping the jobs and the money from people of color.

 

Their movies often do not reflect the real mixture of races in today’s United States.

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Asians in the Library

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“Asians in the Library” (2011) is a YouTube video, a three-minute racist rant against Asians made by Alexandra Wallace (pictured), a White American student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It came right after a tsunami had killed 10,000 people in Japan. Three years later it is still the top suggested completion for “Asians” on Google.

 
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The model minority myth

 

Brenda brings another in depth article.

 

This one covers:

 

  • What the model minority myth is
      and
  • Flaws of the Model Minority Myth

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Positive stereotypes are just as problematic as negative stereotypes.

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Holder: DOJ To Examine Racial Bias Data In Criminal Justice System

On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) announced tthe Justice Department’s aims in collecting data on stops and arrests in order to combat racial bias in the criminal justice system. In…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

“…Department wants to peel back the layers of the data to see if there is a trend that suggests bias.”

 

There is bias, and racism too.

 

Michelle Alexander already figured that out and documented it for you.

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This is a Stereotype: Support Cannupa Hanska’s film

 

“Last year at Santa Fe Indian Market, I had the pleasure of seeing Cannupa Hanska’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art. I wandered around his exhibit, and was beyond excited by the pieces–I remarked to my friend that it was “like my blog in art form!” His exhibition was a series of handmade ceramic boomboxes, each representing a stereotypical trope of Native peoples–such as the plastic shaman, the Indian princess, the Barrymore (pictured at the top of this post, and based off this image of Drew Barrymore). The detail that went into each piece was incredible, and there were also didactic panels that went along with each trope to describe the origins and contemporary examples. Here are a few of the other (poor quality, sorry!) cell phone pictures I took”

 
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“That Awkward Moment When You Run Away from Your Home Country Due to Discrimination For Being Queer, To Be Locked Up in the Land of the Free…”

 

““That awkward moment when you run away from your home country due to discrimination for being queer…Only to be locked up in the land of the free with a lot of machista, and sexist, homophobic, transphobic ICE officers.” – Alejandro Aldana”

 
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says What He Thinks About Race and Oppression

 

When you press play it should jump to around the 1:01:00 mark where Tyson answers a question for about 4 or 5 minutes.

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Thank you to @TheCharlesiWas for sharing this.

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