Identifying Black Caricatures - Brutes, c00ns, Toms, and Sapphires etc..
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Knicksman20
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Just finished reading this whole thread. Some of this was really hard to read because of the history & nature of it. But I have to say is this is the best read on this site. More of us need to read & understand this to know what & whom we're dealing with. White people try to play us thinking we're imagining racism or "playing the race card" as they say when ish gets too hot & they're trying to deflect. All of this info breaks this down & I hope more read through this thread because I learned things I had no clue about here & I'm always reading. This ish is eye opening
what's crazy is isn't this stuff in the Jim Crow Museum? Never even heard about it
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Highly informative thread. I've touched upon some of this on here.
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cole phelps
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I don't know why I never seen this thread. This is some good sh*t...
Wow.
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Was expecting picaninny and mammy as i scrolled down. Great thread.
excellent thread, probably one of the best that i've seen on this site.
the one that immediately stuck out to me was the sapphire being cookie from empire. it's no wonder that that show is on fox, and draws huge ratings. whites LOVE to see blacks uphold these stereotypes. The brute can be seen in movies, reality tv, and the news. Oprah is the modern mammy. People really deny the power of imagery, when obviously whites have dedicated years using it against us. It kills me when people down play this stuff as "entertainment". It's not about blaming rappers, as these images have been presented for hundreds of years, but they are willfully perpetuating these stereotypes on a global scale. It also teaches self-hate to blacks.
the one that immediately stuck out to me was the sapphire being cookie from empire. it's no wonder that that show is on fox, and draws huge ratings. whites LOVE to see blacks uphold these stereotypes. The brute can be seen in movies, reality tv, and the news. Oprah is the modern mammy. People really deny the power of imagery, when obviously whites have dedicated years using it against us. It kills me when people down play this stuff as "entertainment". It's not about blaming rappers, as these images have been presented for hundreds of years, but they are willfully perpetuating these stereotypes on a global scale. It also teaches self-hate to blacks.
A standard day in class up here in graduate school
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/white-womens-tears/
white women’s tears
Fri 11 Jun 2010 by abagond
White women’s tears is one of the main ways White American women have of derailing any talk of racism, particularly their own racism. It is part of a more general pattern of white people making their feelings matter more than the truth – something you see too in the tone argument, for example.
White women’s tears can come about in different ways, but here is the classic scene:
Tables turned! It works so well that it is hard not to see the tears as a cheap trick.
- A white woman says something racist.
- A black woman points it out. (It could be any person of colour but it works best against black women for reasons given below.)
- The white woman says she is not racist and starts crying.
- For added effect the white woman can run out of the room.
- Other whites, particularly white men, come to the aid and comfort not of the wronged black woman but of the racist white woman!
- The black woman, the wronged party, is made to seem like the mean one in the eyes of whites.
- The white woman continues to believe she is not racist.
This is more than just a woman using tears to get her way. It is built on a set of White American ideas about race, listed here in no particular order:
All these things work together to help create the scene laid out above. It is why it works best for young, good-looking white women and why black women’s tears have nowhere the same effect in a white setting.
- It works best when these two stereotypes can be applied:
- The Sapphire stereotype - black women as mean, angry and disagreeable
- The Pure White Woman stereotype - white women as these special, delicate creatures who need to be protected at all costs. It is what drives the Missing White Woman Syndrome – and, in the old days, lynchings.
- The r-word: to be called a “racist”, however gently and indirectly, is a terrible, upsetting thing for white people – far worse than, you know, being a racist.
- White people and their feelings are the centre of the known universe.
- Hearts of stone: meanwhile whites seem to have a very, very hard time putting themselves in the shoes of people of colour.
- Moral blindness: white people think they are Basically Good, therefore if someone points out something bad about them it must be out of hatred.
- White solidarity: whites are afraid to stand up against racism, particularly when they are with other whites. Also, they do not like it when you call other whites racists – they seem to take it personally for some reason.
In my own experience White American women are by far the hardest to talk to about racism. Even if you get past all their defences and they believe what you are saying, they act like they are going to cry. So you either stop or you push on and are made to look mean and heartless.
White women, the delicate creatures that they are, attend a lynching in Indiana, 1930.
how can these black men continue to chase them after seeing shyt like this
