Like their male counterparts, the Spanish women's basketball team were also photographed making the slant-eyed gestures. Fuck ya'll.
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How ludicrous (almost spelled this ludacris...sheesh the permeation of pop culture can be bad for the English language) is this? This year model Jourdan Dunn walked the runway at the Prada show. What makes this so Mrod newsworthy? She's Black. "So?" you ask. The last time a black model walked for Prada was in the fall of 1997. Over ten years ago. Can you guess who that last model was? Hint: She likes throwing cell phones. Allegedly. For the answer click here.
I enjoy fashion, but boy is that industry seriously FUCKED UP.
I subscribe to a number of advertising industry related emails, such as those sent out by MediaPost. Yesterday I received a daily round up of advertising and media related articles of note, and one in particular caught my attention. As a lead in to a San Francisco Chronicle article about Bradley Horowitz, a vice president executive at Yahoo charged with inspiring and sparking in-house innovation within the company, the MediaPost summary states:
Yahoo needs a superstar executive. Apple has Steve Jobs, Google has Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and Microsoft has Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie. Former CEO Terry Semel and former Chief Sales Officer Wenda Harris-Millard are gone, and the understated Jerry Yang lacks panache. Yahoo's Bradley Horowitz, vice president of advanced development, stands out. And advanced development is exactly what Yahoo needs--to be first in the Next Big Thing.
What's interesting to me about this is the author's choice in subjectively characterizing Yang, co-founder and the newly appointed CEO of Yahoo, as "understated" and lacking "panache." I wish I could get my sources together on this, but one of the significant barriers facing Asian Americans climbing the management corporate ladder is that eventually they bump into a glass ceiling that prevents their ability to rise from middle to upper executive management, because of an inherent impression among those in the management elite that believe Asians in America lack a certain elan and savoir faire to effectively lead and inspire a company. This perception of course is simply an extension of the pernicious racial stereotype that Asians are submissive and passive.
I've been reading the Supreme Court's decision rejecting Seattle's and Louisville's modest attempt to promote racial diversity and integration within their school district as unconstitutional. Many pundits have noted this, but I can't go without mentioning how horrifyingly ironic (a "cruel irony" as Justice Stevens charges in his dissent) it is that the majority decision cites in part to justify itself the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education decision overturning segregation in schools. This should be disheartening to all Americans, but I know that really it's sad for mainly "Liberals."
However, Conservatives should also disagree with this Court's decision--issues of race aside--because federalism (balancing of federal powers with that of state and local prerogative) has been trumped by the Conservatives' horror of horrors, judicial activism.
These are my summary thoughts for the moment.