1960’s Jello Ad
Nevermind that American babies mostly eat Jello with their hands…
Source: chartcontemporary
Why does Netflix recommend Breakfast at Tiffany’s as a comedy? Cuz of the racist chinese landlord character?
(Totally not watching this, because it sucks and I hate it).
Source: fossoaposto
Native People Suffer Racism in Employment
GUATEMALA CITY, Jan 2, 2012 (IPS) - “There’s a big difference in the way indigenous people and mestizos (people of mixed ancestry) are treated. We are not paid the same wages for the same work,” Higinio Pu, an activist with the native group Waxaquib Noj, which means “wisdom” in the Maya Quiché language, told IPS.
“When workers are hired we are also passed over. And indigenous women who work in the ‘maquilas’ (plants assembling goods for export) are hit especially hard by discrimination,” said Pu.
These views were corroborated by a survey on “Racismo y discriminación racial en el sector empresarial” (Racism and racial discrimination in the business sector), carried out in November by the Association for Research and Social Studies (ASIES), an NGO, and the Presidential Commission on Discrimination and Racism Against Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala (CODISRA).It saddens me that this kind of behavior still lives on today.
Really, I went out to smoke and became very pensive and quiet after reading this.
Source: unpocoderojo
Math: you’re doing it wrong.
Third graders in in Gwinnett County, Ga., were given math homework Wednesday that asked questions about slavery and beatings.
Another question asked how many baskets of cotton Frederick filled.
Another math problem read, “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week? In two weeks?”
I don’t even have words.
Source: flowers-for-hamlet
“Not everything is about race!”
says the white people who never have to face discrimination based on race.
“The strong man of India” was drawn by “Ding” Darling for the New York Herald Tribune just after Mahatma Gandhi was arrested during the “Quit India” Movement (1942).
It implies that Gandhi wanted to blindly tear down 100 years of “building for India”- a charitable act by the British, indeed. Notice the ghoulish, dark caricature of Gandhi.
This cartoon was not the only one portraying India’s struggle in unflattering light. A wide swathe of American newspapers supported the British as they sought to quell the Indian movement for Independence. This loyalty has always flabbergasted me. The United States was founded on the principle of “inalienable rights,” against the tyranny of the British Empire; the War of 1812 was fought by the US against the British; and the British were poised ever ready to support the South in case the Union was dismembered during the Civil War.
Source: backsheesh
Response to Anon question regarding Jar-Jar Binks
Submitted by ragingcomics
It may or may not be it. But it’s close
