Comments on: Link Roundup and Open Thread http://theangryblackwoman.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/ Race, Politics, Gender, Sexuality, Anger Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:59:28 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: profacero http://theangryblackwoman.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-1364 profacero Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:51:21 +0000 http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/#comment-1364 LOL on the T-shirt! LOL on the T-shirt!

]]> By: truly.equal http://theangryblackwoman.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-1363 truly.equal Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:11:51 +0000 http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/#comment-1363 Hi, Thanks for linking to my blog. I'm working on adding some blogs to my blogroll - yours is definitely on that list! Hi,

Thanks for linking to my blog. I’m working on adding some blogs to my blogroll – yours is definitely on that list!

]]> By: nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez http://theangryblackwoman.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-1362 nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:48:51 +0000 http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/#comment-1362 thank you. :) your blog is awesome, too. and i love the stuff on your family. i'm about due for another entry in my own <a href="http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org/elgrito/mi_familia/" rel="nofollow">family category.</a> thank you. :) your blog is awesome, too. and i love the stuff on your family. i’m about due for another entry in my own family category.

]]> By: mhayinde http://theangryblackwoman.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-1361 mhayinde Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:46:18 +0000 http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/#comment-1361 Yup Tolkien is a prime example. I remember at one point, when talking about the enemy armies in LOTR, he refers to "little black men with red tongues." I think that kind of speaks for itself. Basically, all the evil in that book comes from the east and everything bad is described as "dark." I thought it was just a product of its time and the movie version would remedy that... but when I watched the movie I saw orcs with dreadlocks, and soldiers of the enemy armies wearing turbans... Yup Tolkien is a prime example. I remember at one point, when talking about the enemy armies in LOTR, he refers to “little black men with red tongues.” I think that kind of speaks for itself.

Basically, all the evil in that book comes from the east and everything bad is described as “dark.”

I thought it was just a product of its time and the movie version would remedy that… but when I watched the movie I saw orcs with dreadlocks, and soldiers of the enemy armies wearing turbans…

]]> By: pllogan http://theangryblackwoman.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-1360 pllogan Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:44:46 +0000 http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/#comment-1360 "Then anytime folks like little white girl show up flapping their jaws about nonsense I can skip arguing with them and just say ‘read this’." Whew. I'm glad you didn't use me as your example. *hides* Re: fantasy, especially Tolkien-- On a careful reading of LOTR it's evident Tolkien went with the idea of "higher" or better blood. For example, Faramir was able to resist the ring because he had more of the "good" higher blood of the Numenorians (as opposed to that evil black orcish blood, yech!) Very un-PC for this day and age, but he was making Anglo-Saxon mythology, and that was apparently a big belief in the days of yore (the whole good blood/bad blood thing). I don't feel real good about the whole species stereotypes thing in SFF either, it's lazy writing at best. “Then anytime folks like little white girl show up flapping their jaws about nonsense I can skip arguing with them and just say ‘read this’.”

Whew. I’m glad you didn’t use me as your example. *hides*

Re: fantasy, especially Tolkien–

On a careful reading of LOTR it’s evident Tolkien went with the idea of “higher” or better blood. For example, Faramir was able to resist the ring because he had more of the “good” higher blood of the Numenorians (as opposed to that evil black orcish blood, yech!)

Very un-PC for this day and age, but he was making Anglo-Saxon mythology, and that was apparently a big belief in the days of yore (the whole good blood/bad blood thing).

I don’t feel real good about the whole species stereotypes thing in SFF either, it’s lazy writing at best.

]]> By: Aireanne http://theangryblackwoman.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-1359 Aireanne Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:19:23 +0000 http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/link-roundup-and-open-thread/#comment-1359 Completely awesome link on "white victimhood." I'm a white woman and I'm definitely for affirmative action but have a hard time articulating why--I knew there was some stats to back me up and you unearthed them. The strange thing is that I've known several people who claim to have been discriminated against because of their whiteness and all of them have been successful in their subsequent second choices or whatever. Completely awesome link on “white victimhood.” I’m a white woman and I’m definitely for affirmative action but have a hard time articulating why–I knew there was some stats to back me up and you unearthed them.
The strange thing is that I’ve known several people who claim to have been discriminated against because of their whiteness and all of them have been successful in their subsequent second choices or whatever.

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