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MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
Mon May 21, 2018, 11:34 AM May 2018

White Fragility Digest #8: 21 May 2018

Woman Calls Cops On Credentialed Black Photographer Who Was Just Doing His Job
Here's another example of being Black in White spaces.




Written By Nigel Roberts

The cops were called to a premier horse racing event to arrest an African American who was just doing his job but apparently made a White person feel nervous.

Photographer Arturo Holmes was covering the 2018 Preakness Stakes in Baltimore on Saturday. Even though Holmes had proper credential, he was racially profiled.

Here’s what photojournalist J.M. Giordano witnessed:




https://newsone.com/3800845/preakness-horse-race-cops-called-on-black-photographer/





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MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
1. Sore Losers: Georgia Tennis Team Posts Racist Photo After Losing Tournament to Black Team
Mon May 21, 2018, 11:35 AM
May 2018



By Tia Berger -May 19, 2018

The Telfair County High School tennis team really enforced the term “sore losers” after posting a racist picture following a tournament loss to a Black team.

Superintendent Lendard Harrelson was made aware of the photo and disciplined the students for their offensive behavior.

The photo was taken on Snap Chat following a state match that took Place in Rome, Ga. The boys reportedly were ‘salty’ after not winning the match against the other team, who were Black tennis players. The group of Telfair students decided to put white bags over their head with cut-out eye holes, WMAZ reported.

The image began making its way around social media and that’s when it was brought to Harrelson’s attention.

“The School District does not approve of this highly offensive behavior. An investigation was initiated and the students have received punishments accordingly,” the Superintendent stated. Details on the exact punishments doled out were not revealed.

http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/05/19/sore-losers-georgia-tennis-team-posts-racist-photo-losing-tournament-black-team/

Lars39

(26,093 posts)
4. Those tennis players didn't just "decide" to put on white bags....
Mon May 21, 2018, 11:40 AM
May 2018

that was planned behavior. I hope the punishments included being kicked off the tennis team and expelled from school. Oh, and maybe a field trip to the lynching museum, too.

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
3. Stories about racist incidents involving African Americans...
Mon May 21, 2018, 11:39 AM
May 2018
Stories about racist incidents involving African Americans in retail stores and restaurants are on the rise.




The number of African Americans reporting racial profiling incidents is on the rise since two Black men were arrested last month at a Philadelphia Starbucks for Sitting While Black.

RELATED: Calls For Starbucks Boycott After The Company’s Weak Apology For A Racist Arrest

Recently, a nationally known motivational speaker called out a manager at a Sambuca 360 restaurant in Plano, Texas for threatening to call the cops on him and his wife out after they sat down to enjoy a meal. Johnny Wimbrey was asked to move to another table to make room for a regular customer who was White. When he questioned the move, he was called a trespasser.

In the retail clothing industry, two African-American girls were asked to leave a Fuego store in Tacoma, Washington earlier this week after they questioned why a manager was talking about theft procedures outside of the dressing rooms. Simone Intrepid Gamble, one of the girls, posted an incident video early Tuesday (May 8) morning.

Three young Black men were also falsely accused of stealing at Nordstrom Rack in Brentwood, Missouri. Employees profiled Mekhi Lee, 19, and high school students Eric Rogers and Dirone Taylor as they shopped for prom clothes on Thursday. The police were told that the Black men were shoplifting, but they took nothing.

https://newsone.com/3797834/black-people-racist-retail-restaurant-incidents-rise/


MrScorpio

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5. This Guy Noticed A Critic's Startling Trend For Films Starring Black Actors
Mon May 21, 2018, 11:41 AM
May 2018



BY MUSTAFA GATOLLARI

Black Panther's commercial success has spawned countless social media posts, stories, viral moments, reactions and dialogues that run the gamut from "yaaaassss" to "yo, it's just a movie."

For me, it's hard to find anything in the Marvel Universe to top Thor: Rangarok in terms of sheer entertainment value, but it's also hard to deny the cultural significance of an entire cast of Black actors crushing it in fictional Wakanda on the big screen in such a massive production like Black Panther.

Plus, the fact it made so much money is a huge, huge plus.




Like all works of art, the quality of a film is open to interpretation. The majority of Black Panther's reviews are positive, but there are some outliers. Which isn't surprising, I mean there are some people who claim to have liked Justice League, even though it is objectively awful, so that's to be expected.

However when Astead Wesley of the Boston Globe took a look at critic Kyle Smith's review of Marvel's foray into Wakanda, he noticed a recurring trend with some of Smith's reviews.

That movies featuring black actors don't seem to be Smith's cup of tea.

http://www.distractify.com/trending/2018/03/07/222Gq7/critic-black-actors

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
8. I've seen it, but I haven't posted it yet because I'm up against the WashPo paywall right now
Mon May 21, 2018, 12:39 PM
May 2018

Until next month.

But I can add it later.

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