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📰 An Investigation of the Experiences of People of Color in a Primarily White American Meditation Community (A free, 18-page article from 2019)

Tags: #RaceInAmerica #USA
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/inclusion-and-exclusion-in-white-space_hase-craig-nicholas-et-al

BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020

 BLAZING A TRAIL

Hattie McDaniel wasn’t allowed to attend the Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta because of her race. Shortly afterward, she won an Oscar for her performance and earned an indelible place in movie history

Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020 John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro

Eighty years ago, in 1940, the Academy Awards were held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Hattie McDaniel, radiant in a rhinestone-studded blue evening gown, was relegated to a small table along a side wall, apart from Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and the rest of her Gone With the Wind castmates. The reason was as simple as it was outrageous: The hotel had a no-blacks policy. Months earlier, McDaniel had been excluded from the movie’s premiere in Atlanta for the same reason. If not for the film’s producer, David O. Selznick, having called in a favor, she wouldn’t have been permitted inside the Ambassador, either.

Upon receiving the Oscar for her role as the sassy maid, Mammy, McDaniel told the audience—which was all white, save for her escort, F.P. Yober— ” I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.”

Seventy years later, when Mo’Nique won an Oscar for her role in the movie Precious, she wore white gardenias in her hair, just as McDaniel had done. ” I want to thank Ms. Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to,” she said when accepting the award.

Mo’Nique has kept a framed 8-by-10 photo of McDaniel in her closet ever since she started in the industry, and she remembers the evening as a shared victory: “I felt that that night my sister’s voice, my sister’s name, would be heard all over the world. I [hoped] that people would look her up and see her brilliance and her beauty and understand that she never got her just due.”

McDaniel couldn’t change Hollywood’s culture, but she did succeed in fighting racism in other ways. In the 1940s, she marshalled a group of black neighbors in a battle against segregated housing. The case, which she and her neighbors won, served as a precedent for the Supreme Court, which later struck down racially restrictive covenants, thus ending such discriminatory practices in Los Angeles.

As for her acting career, McDaniel continued to portray characters similar to Mammy. To black critics who condemned the roles she accepted, she said, “I’d rather play a maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020

BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020

 BLAZING A TRAIL

Hattie McDaniel wasn’t allowed to attend the Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta because of her race. Shortly afterward, she won an Oscar for her performance and earned an indelible place in movie history

Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020 John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro

Eighty years ago, in 1940, the Academy Awards were held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Hattie McDaniel, radiant in a rhinestone-studded blue evening gown, was relegated to a small table along a side wall, apart from Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and the rest of her Gone With the Wind castmates. The reason was as simple as it was outrageous: The hotel had a no-blacks policy. Months earlier, McDaniel had been excluded from the movie’s premiere in Atlanta for the same reason. If not for the film’s producer, David O. Selznick, having called in a favor, she wouldn’t have been permitted inside the Ambassador, either.

Upon receiving the Oscar for her role as the sassy maid, Mammy, McDaniel told the audience—which was all white, save for her escort, F.P. Yober— ” I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.”

Seventy years later, when Mo’Nique won an Oscar for her role in the movie Precious, she wore white gardenias in her hair, just as McDaniel had done. ” I want to thank Ms. Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to,” she said when accepting the award.

Mo’Nique has kept a framed 8-by-10 photo of McDaniel in her closet ever since she started in the industry, and she remembers the evening as a shared victory: “I felt that that night my sister’s voice, my sister’s name, would be heard all over the world. I [hoped] that people would look her up and see her brilliance and her beauty and understand that she never got her just due.”

McDaniel couldn’t change Hollywood’s culture, but she did succeed in fighting racism in other ways. In the 1940s, she marshalled a group of black neighbors in a battle against segregated housing. The case, which she and her neighbors won, served as a precedent for the Supreme Court, which later struck down racially restrictive covenants, thus ending such discriminatory practices in Los Angeles.

As for her acting career, McDaniel continued to portray characters similar to Mammy. To black critics who condemned the roles she accepted, she said, “I’d rather play a maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020

BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020

 BLAZING A TRAIL

Hattie McDaniel wasn’t allowed to attend the Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta because of her race. Shortly afterward, she won an Oscar for her performance and earned an indelible place in movie history

Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020 John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro

Eighty years ago, in 1940, the Academy Awards were held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Hattie McDaniel, radiant in a rhinestone-studded blue evening gown, was relegated to a small table along a side wall, apart from Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and the rest of her Gone With the Wind castmates. The reason was as simple as it was outrageous: The hotel had a no-blacks policy. Months earlier, McDaniel had been excluded from the movie’s premiere in Atlanta for the same reason. If not for the film’s producer, David O. Selznick, having called in a favor, she wouldn’t have been permitted inside the Ambassador, either.

Upon receiving the Oscar for her role as the sassy maid, Mammy, McDaniel told the audience—which was all white, save for her escort, F.P. Yober— ” I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.”

Seventy years later, when Mo’Nique won an Oscar for her role in the movie Precious, she wore white gardenias in her hair, just as McDaniel had done. ” I want to thank Ms. Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to,” she said when accepting the award.

Mo’Nique has kept a framed 8-by-10 photo of McDaniel in her closet ever since she started in the industry, and she remembers the evening as a shared victory: “I felt that that night my sister’s voice, my sister’s name, would be heard all over the world. I [hoped] that people would look her up and see her brilliance and her beauty and understand that she never got her just due.”

McDaniel couldn’t change Hollywood’s culture, but she did succeed in fighting racism in other ways. In the 1940s, she marshalled a group of black neighbors in a battle against segregated housing. The case, which she and her neighbors won, served as a precedent for the Supreme Court, which later struck down racially restrictive covenants, thus ending such discriminatory practices in Los Angeles.

As for her acting career, McDaniel continued to portray characters similar to Mammy. To black critics who condemned the roles she accepted, she said, “I’d rather play a maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020

Here is another piece of the racism puzzle. International students from all over want to study in the US, but primarily European students are allowed study visas more often than those from Africa.

Also South Africans are denied visas only 16% of the time compared to West Africans who are denied study visas in the US up to 71% of the time.
No that isn't a typo.
You heard Trump's comment on "sh*thole countries" but rates were always bad. Current African visa denial rates are 54%. #raceInAmerica

https://tcf.org/content/report/nourishing-the-nation-while-starving-the-underfunding-of-black-land-grant-colleges-and-universities/

I've known how unfair funding for historically black colleges are for a long time. I am ashamed that I didn't ever try to do anything about it.

This report talks about the inequality in funding of State colleges with primarily white students, and those with black students with a goal to get them equal funding. #fairness #college #raceInAmerica #money

@megmuttonhead @mekkaokereke @mickeleh

I like that phrase "curating ignorance" because it is so true.
Part of not wanting conflict is not wanting to hear about things that might make you feel bad. That is the very essence of the laws to restrict any learning in school that might make a student (read child of a white parent) feel bad. It is curated ignorance to make sure that they don't learn about the violent history of their ancestors and become rebellious when they grow up.
#raceInAmerica

#rickrolled
I enjoyed this story about the making of Rick Astley's hit Never Gonna Give you Up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oADU2PIzhD0

One of the interesting facts is that the song was released before they had made a video, and it reached the top of the black charts because people thought his voice sounded black.

And then I remembered that we used to have special charts to measure popularity based on how dark your skin was.

Gosh, I'm glad things have changed.

#raceInAmerica

Song of the Day July 2 2023

In remembrance of Justice Thurgood Marshall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall

Justice Thurgood Marshall Remarks on Racism, 1988.

https://youtu.be/mntflDIPwEY

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #July2 #ThurgoodMarshall #JusticeThurgoodMarshall #SupremeCourtJustice #SCOTUS #Racism #RaceInAmerica #1980s

Song of the Day July 2 2023

In remembrance of Justice Thurgood Marshall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall

Justice Thurgood Marshall Remarks on Racism, 1988.

https://youtu.be/mntflDIPwEY

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #July2 #ThurgoodMarshall #JusticeThurgoodMarshall #SupremeCourtJustice #SCOTUS #Racism #RaceInAmerica #1980s

Song of the Day April 9 2023

In remembrance of the birth of Paul Robeson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson

Paul Robeson on “Spotlight” May 11, 1960 Australian Broadcasting Corporation

https://youtu.be/puOIdh944vk

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #April9 #PaulRobeson #Singer #TheatricalSinger #OperaSinger #Activist #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation #TVInterview #Australia #AustralianTelevision #Racism #RaceInAmerica #1960s

Song of the Day April 9 2023

In remembrance of the birth of Paul Robeson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson

Paul Robeson on “Spotlight” May 11, 1960 Australian Broadcasting Corporation

https://youtu.be/puOIdh944vk

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #April9 #PaulRobeson #Singer #TheatricalSinger #OperaSinger #Activist #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation #TVInterview #Australia #AustralianTelevision #Racism #RaceInAmerica #1960s

“A white supermajority of the Mississippi House voted after an intense, four-plus hour debate to create a separate court system and an expanded police force within the city of Jackson — the Blackest city in America — that would be appointed completely by white state officials.” #RaceInAmerica #Mississippi

https://mississippitoday.org/2023/02/07/jackson-court-system-house-bill-1020/