Oct. 16th, 2006 06:54 pm
random thoughts
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toastykittenStill sick. Really pissed off, since I'd been so careful, and because I have to fly out tomorrow. There's something going around the office and I think I got it. Anyway, a new resolution: don't ever touch the bathroom handles with your bare hands. There are way too many people who don't wash, who don't use soap, and who knows where their hands have been. I think I might start buying some antibacterial gel for the office, too, given that flu season is about to start.
This discussion of why there aren't many black chefs is interesting. A fun game is counting the number of times people say in various ways "racism doesn't exist in this industry!" Also fun is the number of times that people note the increasing number of actual Latino cooks who toil for years but never get to be head chefs or anything like that and attribute that result to anything but race. Because, you know, that would be racist.
'The Last King of Scotland' renews debate about racial point of view - article about why so many movies about Africa have to involve white men as major characters. I was sort of wondering the same thing while watching the trailers for several of these movies - does every movie about Africa need to be distilled from the point of view of a white man? I think the last time there was a movie about Africa with a black lead was Hotel Rwanda.
Just thinking out loud - is this a sort of "reverse affirmative action" rule for white actors? Is there a requirement on the majority of movies about minorities that there must be a token white character? Barbershop, for example, had the white guy who "acted black", Bamboozled had that same guy, etc. I'm sure there are more.
This discussion of why there aren't many black chefs is interesting. A fun game is counting the number of times people say in various ways "racism doesn't exist in this industry!" Also fun is the number of times that people note the increasing number of actual Latino cooks who toil for years but never get to be head chefs or anything like that and attribute that result to anything but race. Because, you know, that would be racist.
'The Last King of Scotland' renews debate about racial point of view - article about why so many movies about Africa have to involve white men as major characters. I was sort of wondering the same thing while watching the trailers for several of these movies - does every movie about Africa need to be distilled from the point of view of a white man? I think the last time there was a movie about Africa with a black lead was Hotel Rwanda.
Just thinking out loud - is this a sort of "reverse affirmative action" rule for white actors? Is there a requirement on the majority of movies about minorities that there must be a token white character? Barbershop, for example, had the white guy who "acted black", Bamboozled had that same guy, etc. I'm sure there are more.