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Gucci designed the Sg$1k sweater + face mask below, but denies it was intended to be racist. Teo Chee Hean : "What do you think?"
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/gucci-creative-head-breaks-silence-over-blackface-sweater-003548916.html
On a related note, a college black girl is pissed off that 99% of the time, it's white boys who speak up in class, giving their white boys opinion on everything, and not giving a chance to white girls, black men, and (most pitifully of all) black girls like herself the chance to speak.
“When you ask a question at a lecture, is it secretly just your opinion ending with the phrase ‘do you agree?’ If so, your name is something like Jake, or Chad, or Alex, and you were taught that your voice is the most important in every room,” Fisher wrote in her opinion piece. “Somewhere along your academic journey, you decided your search for intellectual validation was more important than the actual exchange of information. Now how do you expect to actually learn anything?”
“American society tells men, but especially white men, that their opinions have merit and that their voice is valuable, but after four years of listening to white boys in college, I am not so convinced,” the American studies major wrote. “In my time at Dickinson I have listened to probably hundreds of white boys talk. It feels incessant. From classes and lectures, to the news and politics, there is an endless line of white boys waiting to share their opinions on the state of feminism in America, whether the LGBTQ+ population finally has enough rights, the merits of capitalism, etc. The list of what white boys think they are qualified to talk about is endless. Something very few of them seem to understand is that their (ill-informed, uncritical) opinions do not constitute truth. In fact, most often their opinions aren’t even original. White boys spout the narrative of dominant ideologies and pretend they’re hot takes instead of the same misleading garbage shoved down our throats by American institutions from birth.”
Fisher said she gets annoyed sitting in class listening to “a white boy explain his take on the Black experience in the Obama-era. Hey Brian, I’m an actual Black woman alive right now with a brain. In what world would your understanding of my life carry more weight than my understanding?”
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/not-racis...white-boys-allowed-talk-speaks-221855881.html
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/gucci-creative-head-breaks-silence-over-blackface-sweater-003548916.html
On a related note, a college black girl is pissed off that 99% of the time, it's white boys who speak up in class, giving their white boys opinion on everything, and not giving a chance to white girls, black men, and (most pitifully of all) black girls like herself the chance to speak.
“When you ask a question at a lecture, is it secretly just your opinion ending with the phrase ‘do you agree?’ If so, your name is something like Jake, or Chad, or Alex, and you were taught that your voice is the most important in every room,” Fisher wrote in her opinion piece. “Somewhere along your academic journey, you decided your search for intellectual validation was more important than the actual exchange of information. Now how do you expect to actually learn anything?”
“American society tells men, but especially white men, that their opinions have merit and that their voice is valuable, but after four years of listening to white boys in college, I am not so convinced,” the American studies major wrote. “In my time at Dickinson I have listened to probably hundreds of white boys talk. It feels incessant. From classes and lectures, to the news and politics, there is an endless line of white boys waiting to share their opinions on the state of feminism in America, whether the LGBTQ+ population finally has enough rights, the merits of capitalism, etc. The list of what white boys think they are qualified to talk about is endless. Something very few of them seem to understand is that their (ill-informed, uncritical) opinions do not constitute truth. In fact, most often their opinions aren’t even original. White boys spout the narrative of dominant ideologies and pretend they’re hot takes instead of the same misleading garbage shoved down our throats by American institutions from birth.”
Fisher said she gets annoyed sitting in class listening to “a white boy explain his take on the Black experience in the Obama-era. Hey Brian, I’m an actual Black woman alive right now with a brain. In what world would your understanding of my life carry more weight than my understanding?”
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/not-racis...white-boys-allowed-talk-speaks-221855881.html
