by matttbastard
Day: July 19, 2008
The Representation of White Perfection
by matttbastard
Professor, What If has embarked on a series of posts exploring how a consumption-obsessed culture in the US has continued to perpetuate the all-encompassing notion “that whiteness (in food, bodies, clothing, etc) is ideal”:
What if we woke up to the fact that white is not right, that brown bread is healthier, that teeth naturally yellow, that white t-shirts are boring, that, for god/dess sake, a white anus is darn right unnatural and unnecessary? Whiteness doesn’t do a body good-what it does is confer white skin privilege-a privilege that allows those with white skin to walk through the world with many advantages through no actions of their own. But [these] privileges are not good in the entire scheme of things for white skinned people either because what they perpetuate is a racist, colorist world that harms everyone-white people included.
As they say, read the whole damn thing.
h/t Renee
Salman Rushdie – Great Art about 9/11?
by matttbastard
Bestselling Author Salman Rushdie discusses what he feels is a lack of great literature or other creative works about September 11, 2001.
bastard.logic 