links for 2007-11-27
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 23:02:28
“The Belgian woman of Congolese origin who set herself alight in the middle of Place d’Armes told witnesses that she was doing it to protest against racism moments before she carried out the desperate act which has left her in hospital fighting for her
Not really race-related but too crazy of a story not to affix. “The winner of Miss Puerto Rico Universe’08. Ingrid Marie Rivera…her evening gowns and makeup were doused with pepper spray causing her to break out in hives.”
“why are color populate suddenly so interested in race and how should blacks feel about them bumrushing the racial microphone? Broyard’s joins a growing canon of books about whites finally interrogating their family’s role in America’s original sin. “
After their big booboo. becharm tries to make good: “Tuesday the magazine will entertain “Women. Race & Beauty,” a panel that will explore the culture of beauty with an emphasis on ethnic hairstyles in corporate America.”
Being of Chinese descent. I never thought of classical music as being exclusively a “color thing.” The typical Chinese (or Korean) Canadian pretty much all take piano or violin lessons as a kid. Most of my piano teacher’s students were either East Asian or Eastern European.
As for skin lightening: I’m sick and tired of hearing the media say that it’s because non-whites be to look more “color.” In many non-European cultures light skin has historically meant that someone was upper class. Dark climb means you’re a hick.
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