Nubian Waves edition of The Erace Racism Blog Carnival

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The Erase Racism Carnival is a collection of blog posts dedicated to creating a world free of racism. The Carnival is published around the 20th of every month.

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With that said, here are the posts for this edition of the Erase Racism Blog Carnival:

• Thugs are the new Uncle Toms - You are familiar with the term, it has been used as the other ultimate insult to Black folk - ‘uncle tom’. It is time to revisit the definition. [NubianWaves.com]
• Chinue Tao Hashim 1977-1998 - “I remember thinking that I had always heard that key phrase “police shoot unarmed black suspect”–but this time, I was working among the people who understood these events intimately. It wasn’t a political rally or TV show. It was Cynthia’s son.” [Daisy’s Dead Air]
• 2007 The Year in Race, Ethnicity, and Racism: The Top 10 List of the Most Fashionable Racial Trends - [AllyWork]
• 1512: Hatuey, defied Spanish colonization - “On this date in 1512, the Taino Indian cacique Hatuey was burned alive at Yara, Cuba — the prototypical martyr of heroic resistance against the centuries of colonial onslaught to come.” [Executed Today]
• America’s Next Top Model calls Black History Month racist - I included this, not because of the old news regarding Adrianne Curry’s involvement, but because the article breaks down the history of Black History Month and why it is still needed. [Nubian Waves]
• Race, Gender, Politics and Employment Law - “Two issues that have crept into the campaign and also find themselves well-established in the workplace and employment law are race and gender. ” And also - Lynch, Noose, Golf and Employment Law [HR Hero]
• Obama falsehoods examined - [Bite My Words]
• For Allies: How “gender trumps race” plays out in the real world - “I just wanted to point this out so that those who are committed allies to women of color can see plainly and clearly what women of color are talking about when they say that they have serious issues with how they are written out of ‘feminism’ and ‘justice’.” [Brown Femi Power]
• Color Blind Love-A Look At Interracial Relationships - “It seems rather silly to me that a black man and white woman, or black woman and white man, should have any more difficulty maintaining a healthy loving relationship than anyone else.” [Telling it like it is]
• Feminism still isn’t for black women - “There’s been this running patter from famous feminist authors as Obama collects delegates that essentially says that black women should be voting with their vaginas and not with their skin color.” [The Angry Black Woman]
• The Racial and Economic Politics of Babywearing - “According the Wikipedia, babywearing is the practice of carrying your child in a sling or other type of carrier.” [Anti-Racist Parent]
• We All Walk in Different Shoes: Kenneth Cole’s New Campaign Steps Ahead - “So as thousands of designers and modeling agencies around the globe continue to reject models of color, of size, or of varied physical abilities, Cole has provided his buying audience, or even those who just stop to admire the advertisements as art pieces, the opportunity to judge beauty for themselves.” [Racialicious]
• If Hip-Hop Is Dead, Why is The N-Word Still Kicking? - “I’m still thinking about why a person would reject the word black and self-identify as a nigga. (No “er” for those of y’all keeping track.)” [Racialicious]
• Dr. King - an example of taking charge of your beliefs - “This article is going to recognize Dr. King in a different context - beliefs.” [Nubian Waves]
• The Wrong Kind of Asian - “Apparently I was the first Asian Rick had ever seen in real life - up close and personal.” [Anti-Racist Parent]
• How to suppress discussions of racism - I LOVE this article because it is so true. Race deflectors have been using these tactics for years. [Coffee and Ink]
• Slavery continued until 1961 for Wall family - “I just got finished reading about this and did some research myself to make sure it was true - and true it is.” [Nubian Waves]

As you can see I posted links to blogs covering different aspects of race. That is just an example of how race isn’t a clear cut issue.

Get to reading and discussing!