What does a white girl like Jen Graves know about racism?
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After sexualizing and juvenaliizing everything under the sun for some time, the Stranger has finally broken new ground:
Now it happily uses racial slurs such as WHITEY, HONKY*, CHINAMAN, etc. to casually refer to Caucasians and Chinese (but never, God forbid, uses "nig---" to refer to a black person or "k---" to refer to a Jew.
Racial/ethnic slurs are all ugly and made all the uglier by the fact that The Stranger has decided that some are O.K., whereas others are not.
I dislike hypocrisy, cowardice, and dogma. I guess that means I have problems with The Stranger's policy of not reporting violent crime committed by African-Americans, only that of whites, preferably white-on-black, even though black-on-white is far more common.
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On the eve of the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, I think it would honor him that I state that
You can choose to remain silent but you cannot prevent me from choosing not to.
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I get it::
Jen Graves, staff writer at The Stranger, is not actually a person.
She is, in fact, a tape recorder--stuck on repeat play.
"Given the fact that African Americans, women, and lesbians all struggle to be seen as non-stereotypical individuals..." (The Stranger, first sentence of film review, January 3, 2012).
Why exclude African-American men (super-cool/noble/misunderstood victims of history), Asian-American men (grinds/nerds/eunuchs), gay men (un-subversive folk-like-us), straight white men (oppressors), men--period--, seniors (sexually starved grannies), Hispanics (hard workers), immigrants, handicapped, French, Germans, SPD (pigs), Republicans (rich repressed suburban white assh---s), Micronesians, canines, inanimate objects, fat people (born comedians)?
Or the staff of the Stranger (cool hipsters, but not so poor that they can't go to uber-hip clubs and "super-cheap" restaurants that the real poor can't afford to go to)?
Oh, yes, it's just my prejudices (as a triple minority which would put auto-proclaimed cognoscenti such as Ms.Graves to shame) that "stereotype" African-Americans as being, in general, bigger, louder, tougher, more aggressive, and more likely to play the victim role (and cry "Wolf!") than any other racial/ethnic/sexual/religious minority. And we all know it's the white man's fault if they are.
Oh, I'll admit that it's really Asian-Americans and whites deliver sucker punches that knock their victim to the ground, bleeding and semi-conscious.
http://seattletimes.nwso…
I, for one, don't want or need her grotesque hand-wringing or commiseration.
Jen Graves is either a tape recorder or the assumed name of a group of writers, all encased in layers of P.C. resin like fossilized beetles.
And if she is actually a single person, some one should tell her that self-abasement in public is not attractive.
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"Driving the narrow streets, I'd notice that young black men would sometimes walk in the middle of the street and refuse to move for cars. They'd downright lope, slow like the South, where African American families coming to work at Boeing in the 1950s hailed from when they moved to this neighborhood--the only area of the city where they were allowed to live until the middle 1960s. To me, this loping was a form of historical communication, intentional or not: This is our street.."
Did you ever consider actually asking one of these men what they were up--or what they thought they were up to, rather than indulging your penchant in getting lost in your own precious liberal-white fantasies?
http://www.thestranger.c…
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Enough of Jen Graves, read what is worth picking up The Stranger for: the film and theater reviews--see, for instance, the perceptive review of the Tony Award-winning "Spring Awakening" [1/11-1/17/2012].
Though one may disagree with a particular article, the latter should be written without hypocrisy.
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Why are the lives of whites, Southeast Asians, Hispanics, etc. worth less than those of African-Americans?
Why, for instance, did The Stranger to decide NOT to investigate and write about the murder of a Vietnamese Buddhist in Tacoma--a year before the Theresa Butz murder--whose young black attackers, when the man tried to flee, chased him down with a hammer and repeatedly hit his skull?
The Vietnamese man had been sitting on his porch when the young men passed by and decided to attack him. This horrible murder was almost totally ignored by the American press. As a so-called "alternative" newspaper, The Stranger could have broken new ground if it had had the courage, political and ethical, to open its eyes.
http://seattletimes.nwso…
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The Stranger: Seattle's Afro-Saxon elit
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