A NYU professor is invited to go back home with bae to meet his family...only to discover that bae comes from a family that made its fortune thru a restaurant chain that specializes in pepperpot + rice-and-peas.
An NYU professor is invited to go back home with bae to meet his family...only to discover that bae's family made its massive fortune teaching schlubby white dudes how to swag out and kick proper game to the women of their dreams.
An NYU professor is invited to go back home with bae to meet his family. . ..only to discover that they have sworn a sacred oath to guard Stonehenge for eternity.
winding back the clock a bit: race has always been central to how movement conservatism and its institutional organs have been organized.
People point to the SCOTUS decision in Roe v. Wade as the catalyzing event of the modern evangelical movement, but as the historian Randall Balmer writes, its genesis is actually two decades earlier, in the white backlash to Brown v. Board.
The modern Religious Right sprouted directly from the political organizing around whites-only Christian academies that popped up in the South as a way to resist court-ordered desegregation.
With all due respect to the point this person is making...you don’t have to really contort your brain too much to think of all the many places and ways it’s not safe for certain kinds of young men to walk alone at night.
I dunno. Let’s be a little more specific, maybe. Let’s say, instead, that women live with a constant fear of of violence from men that men don’t have to ever to account for.
i said this backwards: the notion that racism (and specifically antiblack racism) is a central part of American life is a feature of Black conservatism — and that notion is pretty incompatible with white conservatism.
And this is, again, why you have plenty Black folks with conservative leanings who will never vote Republican. Movement conservatism is organized around the imperatives of whiteness — it's why, for example, the NRA didn't rally around the case of Philando Castile.
Kanye embracing Trump won't break some taboo and bring more Black folks into the Republican fold, which is what a lot of conservative pundits seem to think. It will ultimately only end up getting Kanye disinvited from the cookout.
re: these, my first time being called it was at a church function, by some white boy from "the pocket." if you're from South Philly, you know where that is.
my "truckload of white boys" incident came a few years later — again, in the pocket, which i had to cross to get back from the basketball courts at Taney Playground: "GO HOME, COTTONPICKER!"
i've talked about this on here before, but like...i didn't have a bank account until i was 24 — until i started working at the New York Times — because I couldn't *afford* it. I couldn't afford ATM fees and minimum balance fees or the $10 min to use my card at the bodega.
these fees — minimum balance fees, overdraft fees — are a way for banks to pad their profits, and they're necessarily only assessed to poor people and the economically unstable.