The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors declared racism a public health crisis during the in-person meeting Tuesday. While supporting the unanimous vote, Dr. Beilenson referred to Asians as “yellow folks.”
“It’s a crucial thing we need to be doing to address the issues of the African American and brown and yellow folks in our country as well as the white folks,” Dr. Belienson said during the meeting.
This obsession's with finding racism is beyond crazy, its not even accurate. "Asian pacific islander", bet there are a lot of Chinese, Korean and Japanese folks who don't relate to that term, and "African American" doesn't include a lot of "black folk', like Harris's Jamaican dad but does include one of your white readers Kim Du Toit who is from South Africa.
ReplyDeleteOh for fuck sake. Yellow people use the term "yellow people". Sometimes sarcastically or ironically, but we use it. Indians and Pakistanis use the term "brown people" to refer to themselves.
ReplyDeleteYou wanna know what's insulting? Lumping me in with Pacific Islanders. I literally have nothing in common genetically or culturally with Polynesians. Personally I have more in common with bloody Finns than with Polynesians. For that matter, being lumped in with any "Asian" group other than Koreans or Japanese is pretty insulting. North Asians are disgusted by being grouped with, say, Filipinos, or Malays, or Laotians, etc. (And those groups no doubt despise us right back.)
Anyone got a problem with that, talk to a Swiss-German about being lumped in with Italians, or Greeks. You'll get an earful. Or tell an actual Spaniard that she's Latina, and belongs with Mexicans. But wear your helmet, and all the Nomex you have, if you do that. "I am a white European. I am NOT one of those people!"
I reckon it all boils down to if you are ashamed of your color. I'm white and mighty proud of it. Call me white all day long cuz that is what I am.
ReplyDeleteSee many TV commercials. Six people, not one white man.
ReplyDeleteIf you do see a white man, he is depicted as gay, or with a black woman.
DeleteBuddha
I thought I was the only one who noticed that. All television commercials now cater to minorities. While I have no issue with inter racial couples or even with gay or lesbian couples, married or not,one would think that they would be represented on television in proportion to the proportion they hold in society. But when the NFL forces teams to first interview an African American,read black,person for the head coach job, before they can interview anyone else, something is wrong. That is just as bigoted as forcing a team to only interview white,or in my case, American/Scotsmen for the head coach job. Either ignore race completely,which is how things actually should be,or don't pretend that you are trying to make things unbiased, because if you specify a certain color, then you are being as racist as all get out,no matter your goals.
DeleteAnd don't think that I am bigoted or racist, because I assure you that nothing could be further from the truth.
pigpen51
Corporate America has concluded that advertising aimed at white people is no longer as profitable as advertising aimed at blacks. You are seeing the results of that mindset, ads with nothing but blacks, and of course ads featuring white women adoring black men have been around for a long time.
Delete...and this booooolllllssssshhhhhiiiiittttt is only going to get worse after 20-JAN-21.
ReplyDeleteI have to wonder if the founding fathers were prescient in picking an inauguration date around the New Year, instead of say June or July, to help prevent CW's over the choice of a new president.
Nemo
The founders picked it in March, much closer to April Fools Day.
Delete"Where's da yella wimmenz at?"
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