This is one documentary that we are bracing to watch. “Good Hair” is a film that challenges the notion of the racial implications of what hair should look like. This has gone on for years on end during and after slavery. It’s a residue of racism that has managed to cling-on while skin color precepts have been at the forefront of racial tensions. Hair is a human feature that has not gotten the same treatment as skin color in a racial context. Now, it not only serves as a benchmark for how far we have gone, but also an indicator of how much more we have to work on to dispel racial myths.
Tag Archives: discrimination
Now that discrimination is on the books…
It’s hard to assess what is to become of the Calfornian courts decision to uphold the right for many to marry. On one side they shut up and calmed down the raging conservatives for a hot minute and that is always good for politics since they are the big funders of against civil rights movements. On the other hand, those judges probably washed away a bit of their guilt with the decision to take out 18,000 couples out of limbo and actually giving them the right to stay in a marriage. So, even if they think they achieved something with this, they left without taking a standpoint. What is to make of a couple of judges who OK some marriages and not others. They definitely are not right-wing or left-wing. They are just feeding their own prejudice without wanting to look inhumane. This will be looked on as a bump in the road and a misstep from the courts who came to this wishy-washy conclusion. In any case, their credibility lost more tract with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s public insistence that marriage equality will inevitably happen in California. They’re just stretching hate and defacing California’s image as a progressive state especially after Iowa just got it. Proposition 8 might be here, but it’s not here to stay.
Obama to end discrimination against gays in the military…
It’s about time. Finally, someone is getting rid of that little sordid law. It was government-sanctioned homophobia, anyway. I’m glad it’s one of the first things Obama will do. Maybe it’s a reaction to the Rick Warren thing. Notice how the reporter says “a gay.”
Beyoncé trash talks the Jacksons…
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Beyoncé, who is known in the music industry for always being nice or at least trying, just trash talked a whole family of celebrities. And not any family, the Royal Family Of Pop – The Jackson.
“I grew up upper-class,” she said. “Private school, My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 124
“Victims of discrimination may begin to see themselves as inferior. Thus, they are likely to have low self-esteem. People with low self-esteem tend to have low expectations for themselves, thus reducing their chances for success.”
- 10th grade psychology textbook.
Zain’s ageism reminds me of…
7This ad campaign…
I was so vehemently angry at the blatant sexism in the campaign that I forgot another form of discrimination in the adds. Ageism. I wonder how the elders feel about this.
Zain disrespects women
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The new Zain commercials for their mobile back-up are horrible and bigoted. This misogyny has got to stop. So much so, that I am considering a boycott. In this series we see an elderly women portrayed as a tool, her ailments (a result of old age) seen as a reason for replacement and discrimination.
The woman in the videos is objectified and made to be the equivalent of a mobile phone. Zain is using sexism for comedy.
Zain’s prejudiced marketing team apparently did not do a demographic study or deem these commercials too discriminatory to be aired.
Shame on Zain. Call 107 and ask to leave a recorded complaint.
HIV / AIDS in Kuwait
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Kuwait Times have posted an article about a person living with HIV/AIDS in Kuwait. It’s short, but its candid and heart-wrenching. It’s sad to see that someone who had to go through seroconverting finds discrimination to be his worst fear.
