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“Black stardom is rough, dude,” Chris Rock tells me when I reach him to talk about D. “I always say Tom Hanks is an amazing actor and Denzel Washington is a god to his people. If you’re a black ballerina, you represent the race, and you have responsibilities that go beyond your art. How dare you just be excellent?”

— Amy Wallace, “Amen! (D’Angelo’s Back)”, GQ, June 2012

(photograph: Red Cloud in 1872)

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“Black stardom is rough, dude,” Chris Rock tells me when I reach him to talk about D. “I always say Tom Hanks is an amazing actor and Denzel Washington is a god to his people. If you’re a black ballerina, you represent the race, and you have responsibilities that go beyond your art. How dare you just be excellent?”

— Amy Wallace, “Amen! (D’Angelo’s Back)”, GQ, June 2012

(photograph: Red Cloud in 1872)

Posted September 13, 2012 at 4:28pm in Red Cloud Chris Rock D'Angelo Oglala Lakota whiteness blackness

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Bourdain hates white people

(excerpt from Get Jiro!, by Anthony Bourdain, Joel Rose, & Langdon Foss)

Posted July 8, 2012 at 10:37am in Anthony Bourdain Get Jiro! Get Jiro Joel Rose Langdon Foss comix whiteness

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“For the Euro-American demographic there is a great disturbance in the Force. A bit like Darth Vader’s family crisis. His son, his ex-droid, his future son-in-law, and his future son-in-law’s Wookiee are all coming to rescue his daughter. Stay tuned.”

— “Lynda” on citizenism versus white nationalism

(photographs via Joho345 and Shorpy)

Posted May 23, 2012 at 1:36pm in C-3PO Anthony Daniels OPP politics quotes blackness whiteness White Man