Race relations
This just in from our good friends at New Demographic/Racialicious/AntiRacistParent…
“We want this Anti-Racist Parent to be the premier resource online for anti-racist parents. And we need your help. Please take a moment to complete a brief survey that will help us uncover the issues that are of most value to you. We will share highlights of the survey results next month.
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Also…I’ve been invited to join AntiRacistParent editor, Tami Winfrey Harris, and New Demographic president Carmen Van Kerckhove on this week’s “Addicted to Race” podcast, Sunday at 12 EST. You can listen live here.
The topics we’ll be covering include racial covering; mistaken identity and racism; race as it relates to the healthcare protests; and finally, kids, discipline, and race.
August 21st, 2009 at 6:17 am
I enjoyed my visit, peace.
August 21st, 2009 at 9:46 am
Thanks for stopping by, Eve! ~Deesha
August 25th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Just listened to the the Racialicious podcast. Coolio DP!
On a monolithic blackness – as I see it, as long as we continue to care what white people think about us, we’ll always be and feel inferior to them – as demonstrated by the lady Tami mentioned, who feels that the behavior of one black person, or a group of black people, is somehow a reflection on the entire race of people. I guess because whites are in the majority and in power (at least for now), and because there are so few, and not enough variety in the representations of us in all media, we care about how white people see us… unnecessarily, I think. And, amongst some of us, there’s this need to distance ourselves from those “unsavory others.”
On spanking your child – as Clay Davis on “The Wire” would say, sheeeeeit! Spank away, I say… if deserved. I don’t plan on having children, and I certainly have no experience raising children; but my parents didn’t hesitate to smack us around. And I’m talking belts and sticks… hardcore stuff! Last I checked, we (my siblings & I) turned out mostly OK. So, while it certainly wouldn’t always be my first option, if I were to father a child, to piggy-back what you said, it’ll still be one of many options! But, yeah, this notion that black people are less bashful with the spanking than white parents is a myth. Although I’m sure, like all myths, its roots can be traced to something very real. However, I’ve seen unruly black kids, just as I’ve seen unruly white kids. I wonder if it’s more of a “class” issue than of race…
August 25th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Thanks for listing, TAO! You wrote a lot, but I’m just sitting with the idea of you knot having kids, when Peytie STILL asks to go to NYC just to see you (i.e., The Tickle Monster) again…
Oh, well, you’ll always be a beloved Uncle Tickle Monster!
August 25th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Wow…”knot”? Guess I was thinking of the phrase “tying the knot” which is another, yet related topic, I suppose…