FYI: The fetishization & eroticization of people of color is ANOTHER FORM OF RACISM.
Some of y'all are watching porn so much that you have normalized this shit.
From BBC and Black bucks, to docile Asians and muy caliente Latinos -- the oversexualization is killing US.
When they try to say that this white man isn't racist -- but was driven by a sex addiction -- his sex addiction to Asian women was a fetishization. That sex and racism can't go hand-in-hand is ignorance.
As a Black queer man, I know what it's like to be fetishized for presumed sexual attributes that I don't personally invite to be violated.
But I have also heard Asians be erroticized in certain ways as well. It has and continues to be a form of racism society let's slide.
I can't tell you how many times I have heard men of all racism make remarks on Asian women being something safe, tender, and/or softer.
I can't tell you how many times in the queer community, the term "Asian twink" has been used to fetishize presumed innocence of Asian men.
In pop culture, we've seen Asian women be hypersexualized and pitted against other women of color as being more feminine.
Asian men aren't used in films/TV as love interests, often framed as nonsexual unless shirtless and hyperaggressive.
To try to deny the role of race in the white terrorism that took place in Georgia is to continue to ignore how sexual addictions driven by racial fetishizations is violence.
You can be sexually attracted to someone of a different race and still be racist.
CUT THE BULLSHIT.
Part of the problem with racism and sex is that people presumed that sexual attraction equates to love.
White supremacy shows us that sexual desires are separate from love and compassion.
In fact, racism is reinforced often in sexual pursuits driven by fetishization.
And for the love of all mankind, can we stop continuing this romanticism of American soldiers' fetishization of Asian women during the Vietnam war be anything less than an act of racism.
Using your military power and presence to lure sex with women isn't romance -- it's manipulation and coercion -- a perpetuation of the very rape culture that continues to terrorize all women.
What happened in Georgia was an act of racism, sexism, and misogyny that was driven by a white man who felt entitled to the bodies of Asian women.
And to be clear, I am not shaming sex workers or blaming porn soley for these crimes taking place ----- BUT just noting how the industry itself sometimes aid in perpetuating racism and misogynoir within it and how such tropes induce such fetishes.
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THREAD: It's important for people to understand that these concerns around Tamika Mallory aren't new or unwarranted.
There's one particular incident during the Breonna Taylor protests in Louisville, Kentucky that a lot of people aren't talking about enough that raised red flags.
In July 2020, Tamika Mallory's Until Freedom organization rolled up in Louisville without coordinating and strategizing with local Black activist organizations on the ground, notably BLM Louisville.
She brought several of her celebrity reality TV star friends along the way.
Their plan was to stage a protest outside Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's home.
During the protest, which featured outside camera crews and lots of social media traction that would later be used on reality TV shows like RHOA and Love & Hip Hop, it was a vanity fair.
I'm not going to fall for the Grammy's fake diversity trap, nope.
They do this like every year. Get all of the tribal category wins out there untelevised so Black folks can get hype to watch the show -- only to then give mostly white winners awards on air. #GRAMMYs
Notice how most of the pop categories haven't been called on air yet, but most of the Rap/R&B ones are already done?
An opportunity to give airtime to Black and brown artists by default is systematically reduced to give more on-air time to mostly white artists in predominantly white music categories.
THREAD: Just so we are clear, as we begin to say forever dismiss aggressive Trump supporters like Candace Owens, Diamond & Silk, and others who made money off dismissing Black dissenters and activists -- don't forget to include passive ass Trump apologists like Van Jones as well.
Van Jones have spent the last four years enjoying the token Black liberal role of seeing "both sides" of the issue and defending conservatives who meant us harm.
As he cry for change, he actually supported quite the opposite.
While Black organizers were calling out corruption in the White House, Van Jones was talking about how "presidental" Trump was at his first State of the Union...after talking about a "blacklash" in 2016 once Trump won.
Now that it's clear that Philly pulled through for Biden in this new lead in Pennsylvania, I just want to remind you all of this @phillymag op-ed I wrote on Election Day of how he owes us BIG TIME. #Election2020#ElectionResults2020#Philly#PA
I received the sad news late last night and was hoping it wasn't true.
Earl Harvey was an incredible man who created inclusive spaces for all people in local media and walked the talk that so many people in this industry rarely do.
When I first started getting citywide attention for my journalism five years ago, he invited me to what has been his legendary holiday party. I was exposed to some of the most influential and prominent Black leaders in Philly and began to build a network from there.
I used to get locked out of spaces like that because I was considered too young, gay, and outspoken. Earl didn't care and wanted me in the room. He was always opening doors for newcomers and embraced young people in a town that often tell us to "wait our turn."
THREAD: There's two ways to view that Bill Burr SNL clip as funny, and I fear some have underestimated how some could find humor its irony.
Here's how I did.
I am always going to find humor in the irony of white people going after each other on the things that Black people been saying for years.
I'm aware that Bill Burr has a problematic history of racist/homophobic jokes. Therein lies the joke within himself.
For me, I didn't find Bill Burr a hero or exempt or "woke" for what he said -- I found it comical that another white person was basically ranting about how a subset of their demographic was being seen anything less than.
His rant reveals more about himself, than white women.