Nathan Brannon If you’ve seen Nathan Brannon’s stand-up, it shouldn’t be surprising to hear that his latest endeavor is a podcast focused on the experiences of interracial couples. In his act, Brannon doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable topics, equally seemingly at-ease whether discussing his dad’s diabetes, his son’s biracial identity, or one particularly just solution […]
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MTV Documentary ‘White People’ Makes White People Really Uncomfortable
Uncomfortable bros talking about “being young and white.” A new MTV documentary, called ‘White People’ is making white people take a look at white privilege, and that makes white people uncomfortable. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas, put together a documentary in which he travels around the US asking millennials to discuss race and white […]
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Watching a Confederate Flag Parade Fender-Bender is So Satisfying
The man who recorded this week-old video appears to have been getting some gas when he noticed a parade honoring the confederate flag motoring down the road. At 1:07, right after the cameraman seems to be at his saddest, saying, “I don’t know what the fuck going on” in response to this gratuitous display of […]
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Charleston Shooting: The Mental Health of Dylann Storm Roof Doesn’t Matter
SHUTTERSTOCK.COM The deadly and racist ideas that Dylann Storm Roof subscribed to aren’t “crazy.” They’re common. Even if, as Newsweek‘s Matthew Lysiak pointed out today, Dylann Storm Roof was “taking a drug that has been linked with sudden outbursts of violence,” suggesting that perhaps the mass-murderer was maybe suffering from mental illness (my hunch is […]
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Whitelandia: It’s Still Being Made, and They’re Still Asking for Money
After raising over $20,000 via Kickstarter last year, the Whitelandia documentary is asking for an additional $27,000. Last year, we blogged about the Whitelandia Kickstarter—and continued to cover it as the production grew increasingly complicated and contentious: Last May, Alberta residents Matt Zodrow and Tracy MacDonald collected $21,528 via Kickstarter to fund Whitelandia, a documentary […]
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Portland’s Up for a Michael Brown Protest, After All
Last night, while cities around the nation howled with outrage over the freedom of Officer Darren Wilson, Portland kept mostly quiet. It was easy to wonder if “Little Beirut” had lost some of its edge along the way. Tonight mostly dispelled those questions. What began as a heavily attended rally, march, and sing-along near the […]
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Problems in Whitelandia
Back in May, I put up a quick post about the Kickstarter for Whitelandia, a local documentary, in which filmmakers Matt Zodrow and Tracy MacDonald planned to work with “Black American communities, individuals, and organizations in Oregon” to tell the story of Oregon’s less-than-great history with race. The Kickstarter met its goal, and Whitelandia started […]
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Oregon, Race, and a Kickstarter for Whitelandia
Oregon: NOT THE BEST TRACK RECORD WHEN IT COMES TO RACE. Then or now. Which is probably something we should start figuring out how to deal with. Despite the constant deluge of “Please publicize my horribly conceived film-related Kickstarter/Indiegogo/jar of nickels that I’m desperately shaking in your face” emails that hit my inbox, I don’t […]
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Dangerous Black Kids
If you’re as disgusted as I am that Florida shooter Michael Dunn wasn’t convicted for the murder of Jordan Davis, I urge you to look at the Twitter hashtag #dangerousblackkids, a Twitter meme that is a love letter to black children who grow up in a system where they are dehumanized and targeted for simply […]