Comment Highlights

See, already posting too much today.

Another thing I have wanted to do is point out certain comments that you might have missed (like I did with Wendy’s on the Pirates movie). I’ll try to consolidate these into one or two posts a week.

In Things You Need To Understand #2 – Tubman’s Law, swere writes:

another example Tubman’s Law is co-opting Civil Right speeches to support racist notions. E.g. “I don’t see color, I judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.”

Yes. Double yes.

In Cannibals of the Caribbean, Laurel writes:

“I was actually so uncomfortable in the theater that I leaned over to my girlfriend… and said ‘Dude, can they still make movies like this?!?’”

Yes, they can, and do, and will again.

In Always Blogging Against Racism, Anonymouse writes:

“You depress me with your constant jibber jabber — all whites are racist. Its fuuny anything I or any other white seem to say can be considered racist. The fact that you are sensitive about race is proving that you live in a world controled by skin color… You are the one keeping the racial tensions alive. Cut the ‘everyone is picking on me’ crap and grow up.”

This is provided so that everyone can point and laugh.

Keep ‘em coming!

The Rules Of Engagement

Since I moved this blog over to WordPress, I figured I’d revise and update The Rules Of Engagement to reflect current policies. 

WordPress allows me to not only moderate comments, but to edit comments as well.  Moderation is only on for spam (a filter I will check daily).  Anonymous folks can still comment, you don’t need to sign into anything.  If your comment doesn’t show up right away, don’t worry, I’d pluck it out of the spam if it accidentally ends up there. 

While Anon commenting is allowed, be aware that anyone who comes to this blog, leaves a comment expressing a contrary or unpopular opinion, then doesn’t sign their name or identify themselves in any way, won’t be cut any slack.  If you have strong beliefs and convictions, stand by them. 

This may sound quite hypocritical coming from a person who blogs as “The Angry Black Woman”. The answer to that is simple: it doesn’t take much ‘investigation’ to figure out who I am. There are several posts that point to my other efforts (LJ, my personal website, etc.) and, with very little searching, you can find posts by me elsewhere claiming this blog as my own. I don’t make it overly blatant because I usually keep my various online identities separate so that folks who don’t care that I’m angry and black can ignore this and folks who don’t care that I sold a story to a magazine can ignore that.

So, you anonymous people need to step up the way the rest of us step up. Your brand of silliness not tolerated here. 

I will not delete comments merely for being Anonymous, nor will I delete comments that disagree with me or even those who argue.  All of that is fine.  However, I will not tolerate bullies.  You will not abuse other commenters.  You will not troll.  If you do, I will roast you. 

Yes, I will ridicule you, your beliefs, and your mother. 

Frequent trolling will result in a Nielsen Hayden style de-voweling.  And I will enjoy it. 

Your White Privilege will not be allowed to flourish here. Don’t like it? Go away. 

As for the rest of you: I’m glad you stuck around.

Wednesday Link Extravaganza

Many times I come across articles or discussions that i’d like to point to, but don’t want to clutter up the blog with one every five minutes. Instead, I’m going to do twice-weekly link roundups. If I find I need to, it’ll be daily (say in the morning). We’ll see how this goes for a while.

Man arrested for ‘stealing’ own car – What I’d really like to see come of this is a huge settlement, some firings, and a beat down. I fear that only the first is likely to happen, and even then… [Source]

This post about Storm, Black Panther, X-Men comics, and racism is really inteesting. Unfortunately the wank in the comments is mostly deleted. Boo deleted wank! I don’t read comics regularly, but Storm has always been one of my favorite characters.

A Girl Like Me, a 7 minute documentary by Kiri Davis, 16, Urban Academy.

“I wanted to make a film that explored the standards of beauty imposed on today’s black girls. How do these standards affect her self-esteem or self-image. Through making this film I learned a lot about where some of these standards might stem from.“

This is a very powerful little film. It made me really sad for us us black girls.

(found on LJ Sex and Race)

This post will be updated randomly throughout the day.

I’m Not Dead

Just incredibly busy. Every now an then real life intrudes and blogging is the first thing to go. Sorry about that! I’ll get back to regular posting soon. I’ll also deal with that weird person in the comments on the last post. Right now I’m so frazzled his works make NO sense to me.