Running racism in America thread

Sure.

 

Suspended for a week.

 

Kimes with the awesome takedown of culture warrior Whitlock.

 

You could see that coming a million miles away.

 

1, that was funny, Mina.

2, Napoleon "Nip" Kaufman (born June 7, 1973) is a former American football player and currently an ordained minister and head football coach at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, California. He is a former NFL running back, playing for the Oakland Raiders for the entirety of his professional football career.

 

So Curtis was referring to Kaufmnn?

 

Have you seen what Southern states are doing with teaching the racial history of this country?
There are spots where the government is actively engaging in racist thinking ie what can and cannot be taught in school. There are spots where it's passive. Institutions that were established to keep certain people out or marginalize others predate any who are in power but people in power don't change those systems (or legitimate reasons or otherwise). There are also ways the government is actively combating certain practices (ie fair housing and what used to be the voting rights act).

As for individuals, to say everyone is a little racist is an un-nuanced way of saying we all have certain biases for or against certain groups based on a multitude of factors. Plus there's what we know and what we don't know. What we don't know can lead to an unintentional racist moment. What we do after is what matters and determines if we are, ourselves, racist.

For example, making a racist comment and trying to defend said racist comment by saying you were in fact making a sexist comment. Or defending the person who made a racist comment and trying to excuse it

 

Like Mila Kunis and her character on "That '70s Show," Mina Kimes know the concept of a great "BUUUURN!"

 

We had a three-hour training on Managing Bias yesterday in good old Greenwich, CT, and more than one person exhibited this very tenet. I'm not the most sensitive person in the world when it comes to things like this (as has been pointed out on this board), but damn if people in this training session couldn't grasp how asking where people's ancestors are from is not something people tend to take well. It's all about couching things properly and without driving at something. What Curtis said was obviously racist and intentional.

 

https://awfulannouncing.com/radio/w...ogizes-racial-joke-mina-kimes-mila-kunis.html

“In a pathetic failed attempt at a one-liner, I attempted to bring up Mila Kunis, which was not really that funny – sophomoric and sexist,” Curtis began. “But for reasons I don’t understand, I said Mina Kimes. That was never the intention for me to say her name. It had nothing to do with the subject matter and it dragged her into a controversy through no fault of her own regarding a slur and her race and is not at all what my intention was, but it doesn’t matter because of the absolute chaos that my words created for someone who’s just doing her job covering the NFL at ESPN.

“So, I want to apologize to Mina Kimes, I want to apologize for the stupid, lame attempt at a joke, it was something that just, there’s really no other way to put it, it was dumb and it was silly. And it’s brought a lot of things to the forefront for people that did nothing wrong and it’s all because I had a clumsy attempt to try and bring humor to a story in Boston.”​