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Cinematic RacismPosted on Apr 29, 2011
Major American movies primarily star white actors; poor white students fall behind their black peers in the U.K.; and a Chinese college nixes its plan to prohibit PDA. These discoveries and more, below. On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities, Gross helped found the field of gay and lesbian studies. The links below open in a new window. Newer ones are on top. Why Are America’s Major Movies So Stubbornly White? Banking on Student Debt Donald Trump’s Personal Experience with Questionable Ivy League Admittance Standards An Arab Spring for Women Poor White Pupils Lag Behind Black Peers in the UK Tagging Outside an L.A. Street Art Exhibit Fuels Debate Working Best at Coffee Shops Chinese College Drops Plan to Discourage Kissing and Other ‘Uncivilized Behavior’ on Campus Advertisement Previous item: Birther Conspiracy Theory, Part Deux Next item: Cha-Ching! ‘Visa Tax’ Brings $8 Billion in Fees to Just 10 Banks New and Improved CommentsIf you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy. |
By TDoff, April 29, 2011 at 12:19 pm Link to this comment
The L.A. Street Art folks don’t know zip about art. If they are ‘cleaning-up’, rather than cutting out and saving all the tagging going on around their show, they are foolish. Today’s ‘anarchic’ work will be selling for $millions in a couple of years.
Report thisBy TDoff, April 29, 2011 at 12:15 pm Link to this comment
Those telecommuters who set up their daily office in the best stall in the toilets are especially annoying.
Report thisBy TDoff, April 29, 2011 at 12:13 pm Link to this comment
Whenever Trump has questions about higher education, and has his secretary call one of the Ivy League schools to find the answer, she always says she’s calling on behalf of ‘someone other than The Donald’.
Report thisShe found, from experience, that when she said she was calling with a question about education on behalf of Donald Trump, she’d have to wait interminably for the laughter on the recipient’s end of the call to die down.
By TDoff, April 29, 2011 at 12:07 pm Link to this comment
If you want to view the photos Nanjing Normal University Taizhou College paid rewards for, of their students engaged in ‘Inappropriate behavior’, visit the porn site NNUTC.xxx/wildchinesesex.
Report thisBy TDoff, April 29, 2011 at 11:59 am Link to this comment
And it don’t matter how dumb you are if you’re rich.
Report thisBy TDoff, April 29, 2011 at 11:58 am Link to this comment
If the poor white Brit school kids would start peddling dope on their UK street corners, pretty soon they’d be as rich as their black, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi peers.
Report thisBy TDoff, April 29, 2011 at 11:55 am Link to this comment
The ‘Arab Spring’ for Arab women will be a reality as soon as they can get away with converting their Burkas into crotchless thong bikinis and wear them on the beach.
Report thisBy TDoff, April 29, 2011 at 11:52 am Link to this comment
If US university students were as smart as they should be, and with the access they have to this digital universe, I’m surprised they don’t follow the business practices of the American success stories, such as the Wall Street capos and the corporate CEO’s.
Report thisWhat students should do, is set themselves up with figmental identities, backing them up with tons of on-line references, doing whatever is necessary, hacking into credit company files, B of A data bases, Goldman security records, etc.
Then apply for as many credit cards under these fake identities as they can get, and each quarter or semester charge their tuition to a different card.
If the university discovers that the charge has not been paid (although if the students are really clever, they should be able to arrange fake fund transfers to pay the bills), the student can claim that ‘the charge was made to the card of a distant relative on my maternal grandmother’s side, who just died, so it may take some time to settle the estate’, or whatever BS they can come up with.
In other words, just pretend they are already a Wall Street tycoon or corporate official, and do and say whatever it takes to get what they want, dispensing with facts, truth, and/or reality.
(If I’ve let the cat out of the bag for students who are already pursuing this course, let me both apologize and give you a tip of my hat)