http://www.policymic.com/articles/63869/i-have-an-idea-let-s-be-racist-and-objectify-women
Racist rants broke lose on Twitter this past weekend after people discovered that Nina Davuluri, the new Miss America, is a terrorist. I mean a Muslim. I mean an Arab. I mean not American.Okay, so she's a chemistry major born in Syracuse but you wouldn't know that from looking at her because, well: RACISM! As soon as people didn't see a blond, blued-eyed young woman win the crown, they feel off their chairs and then got right back on them to tweet-binge their bigotry.I wouldn't give any credence to a few trolls, mostly because that's what they want. Whether they are angry about an interracial couple in a Cheerios commercial or an 11-year-old Mexican-American cutie pie singing the national anthem, they will always be lurking around the dusty corners of the internet, waiting to offend.
like vultures on a limb waiting to swoop down and attack the first sign of a buzz word, accolades payed to someone not like them such as this instance.
tracing lineage how many really can claim America as theirs, are their family names Cochise, Geronimo, Sitting Bull if not STFU it ain't yours to claim over those who were here when your family came from wherever.
the hyphenated tags of ethnic identity are no more then just that a virtual dog tag we wear on our skin, another way to paste a label on our foreheads to create a class assignment and who is the head of the herd.
What I am concerned about is the insidious way racism seeps into all aspects of American culture. I'm worried about women of color growing up in a world where they're told they will be more beautiful/attractive/acceptable if they look "more white."I'm disgusted to live in a society that lightens the tone of bad-ass stars like Beyoncé on magazine covers and that gets away with persistently whitewashing beauty.looking at the publications it is true we of color hav been taught by our parents that Black was not beautiful there are all kinds of names used by Blacks that demean others Blacks. s..t colored, light bright damn near white, high yellow, red, all attitdes drilled into our ancestors as it was done to them by the slave masters.The consequences go beyond the imagination and lead to stories like reporter Lisa Chen's, who was advised by those above her at a local news station in Ohio to undergo eyelid surgery to look more white. She was told she would not make it unless she got rid of her "Asian eyes."The fact that women are shamed for not looking white enough is profoundly disturbing and speaks to how systematic racism is in our society. This should spark a conversation about the ubiquity of white supremacy and how we should combat and talk to our children about it.Meanwhile, the weekend's Twitter rage doesn't just point to the inherent lack of diversity in beauty pageants, it also highlights another clamorous issue about Miss America: it still exists.Why is that in 2013, the largest benefactor of school tuition for women in America judges its recipients based on how hot they look in a bikini? Sure, the event had made it financially possible for thousands of women to get an education, but why aren't we more worried about the fact that a company that rewards 1950s-stereotypes about women is responsible for sending them to college? How does a woman's ability to parade in evening wear have to do with how much she is deserving of a scholarship? It would be ludicrous to televise men strutting their stuff on stage for college money, right? Why is it any different for women?
it's not about beauty it's not about talent but it is becoming that way been years will be more but the reality of beauty in other places generally is the real beauty not needing to put on their face but just wash it and there you go. this too will pass, nothing is forever not even hateful bigotry they all die out sooner or later.
