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12 May
@interstellaire
©ave-atque-vale

In the original Trek, Khan, with his brown skin, was an Übermensch, intellectually and physically perfect, possessed of such charisma and drive that despite his efforts to gain control of the Enterprise, Captain Kirk (and many of the other officers) felt admiration for him.

And that’s why the role has been taken away from actors of colour and given to a white man. Racebending.com has always pointed out that villains are generally played by people with darker skin, and that’s true … unless the villain is one with intelligence, depth, complexity. One who garners sympathy from the audience, or if not sympathy, then — as from Kirk — grudging admiration. What this new Trek movie tells us, what JJ Abrams is telling us, is that no brown-skinned man can accomplish all that. That only by having Khan played by a white actor can the audience engage with and feel for him, believe that he’s smart and capable and a match for our Enterprise crew.

—

Marissa Sammy on Star Trek: Into Whiteness.

perfect commentary which parallels what Rawles was saying earlier about the possibility of Moriarty being a person of color:

“…The actual issue is that black people aren’t often allowed to play full and complete characters, and an antagonist who isn’t unintelligent, thuggish cannon fodder is just as much of a rarity for black men as the stubbly hero who saves the world or wtfever. “
“…The stereotype in no way intersects with brilliant geniuses who choose to step outside of the boundaries of society in order to exercise their intellect while having no concern for lesser beings.

Or to break it down further: the problematic stereotype regarding black people is that of being, in essence, subhuman. Characters of the Moriarty (and Holmes) archetype are rooted in being superhuman.”

You see? It’s more complicated than “people of color get typecast as villains.”

Black people get typecast as an extremely specific type of villain - they’re thugs, brutish and animalistic. South Asian actors are similarly typecast as scary oppressive (usually coded Muslim) terrorists.

But when your villain is of the superhuman archetype? When they’re brooding antiheroes, when they’re nuanced, when they’re multi-faceted?

They’re white.

(And check out this post on the glorification of white criminality in shows like Dexter, Breaking Bad, Weeds, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, etc.)

(via ave-atque-vale)

HIS NAME IS KHAN NOONIEN SINGH

KHAN

NOONIEN

SINGH

DID WE REALLY JUST LET A GUY WHO IS THE HUMAN EQUIVALENT OF CURDLED MILK PLAY A CHARACTER WITH ONE OF THE MOST BROWN CODED NAMES IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA??

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS GUY MANAGED TO UNDO THE PROGRESS MADE BY A SHOW THAT COULDN’T HAVE AN INTERRACIAL KISS AT THE TIME FOR FUCK’S SAKE.

(via interstellaire)

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12 May
@enfantdesaccorde
©enfantdesaccorde

enfantdesaccorde:

Apur Sansar, Satyajit Ray (1959)

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12 May
@gatsbysfuneral
©foucaultthehaters

When Mahatma Gandhi launched his campaign of peaceful resistance, Churchill raged that he “ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back.” As the resistance swelled, he announced: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” This hatred killed. To give just one, major, example, in 1943 a famine broke out in Bengal, caused – as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has proved – by the imperial policies of the British. Up to 3 million people starved to death while British officials begged Churchill to direct food supplies to the region. He bluntly refused. He raged that it was their own fault for “breeding like rabbits”. At other times, he said the plague was “merrily” culling the population.

—Not his finest hour: The dark side of Winston Churchill (via foucaultthehaters)

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12 May
@intersectionalityis4lovers
©sexhaver

sexhaver:

“don’t play the race card,” you start to say. but it is already too late. my Race Card is face-up in attack position. you scream as your body is sucked into the Shadow Realm

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11 May
@intersectionalityis4lovers
©madhuri-dixit

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10 May
@gatsbysfuneral
©mizoguchi

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10 May
@intersectionalityis4lovers
©allisonkilkenny

adriofthedead:

snoozlebee:

allisonkilkenny:

Chris Person fixed TIME’s new magazine cover. Now it’s accurate. (TIME version #1, Person edit #2)

Update: And here’s another stellar contribution from @direlog

EXCELLENT

From @EARNEST_CYBORG9

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09 May
@shiksasquad
©cyberflix

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08 May
@intersectionalityis4lovers
©thegestianpoet

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07 May
@minhorahs
©brashblacknonbeliever

brashblacknonbeliever:

A Black man can save the lives of three women who have been held captive for ten years and the first thing most people want to do is make fun of his hair and autotune the news report.

Good job internet.

Stay classy.

★ Who is your favourite villain?

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Heems - Soup Boys [Prod. By Lushlife]
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Soup Boys - Heems

redplebeian:

Ali Abunimah: “The Obama Doctrine: Remote Control Colonialism”

Das Racist - Fake Patois
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Das Racist - Fake Patois

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