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My grandfather had died, and my mother was trying to explain it to me. . . .Grandpa isn't coming back? No, she said. Not ever again. . . . And I remember saying, hold everything right fucking there. You went to all the trouble of conceiving me, and giving birth to me, and raising me and clothing me and all . . . and you make me cry and things hurt so much and disappointments crush my heart every day and I can't do half the things I want to and sometimes I just want to scream — and what I've got to look forward to is my body breaking and something flipping off the switch in my head — I go through all this, and then there's death? What is the motherfucking deal here? I wasn't having this. This was not fair.
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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
I had no idea. I guess we can even be racist about shades of gray. So to speak.

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My grandfather had died, and my mother was trying to explain it to me. . . .Grandpa isn't coming back? No, she said. Not ever again. . . . And I remember saying, hold everything right fucking there. You went to all the trouble of conceiving me, and giving birth to me, and raising me and clothing me and all . . . and you make me cry and things hurt so much and disappointments crush my heart every day and I can't do half the things I want to and sometimes I just want to scream — and what I've got to look forward to is my body breaking and something flipping off the switch in my head — I go through all this, and then there's death? What is the motherfucking deal here? I wasn't having this. This was not fair.
-Spider Jerusalem

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Dude, you really need to read Transmetropolitan - you'd like it.

-F

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Tutsi are generally taller and skinner with very angular faces.

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http://crinfo.beyondintractability.org/case_studies/rwandan_genocide.j
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The terms "Hutu" and "Tutsi" were first given significance by the early white explorers. As both Hutu and Tutsi spoke the same language, practiced the same religion, and participated in the same government, ethnographers claim that the two groups "cannot be called distinct ethnic groups" (Gourevitch, 48). Rather, the two terms referred to a caste system in which the Hutu were primarily farmers and the Tutsi were primarily herdsmen. In the Kigali Genocide Memorial, historians even claim that this status was not always permanent; by owning ten or more cattle a Hutu could become a Tutsi and vice versa. However, British explorer John Hanning Speke interpreted these terms in a different way. In what is now known as the Hamitic Myth, Speke believed that the Hutu were a typical specimen of a "primitive race," "the true curly- headed, flab- nosed, pouched- mouthed Negro" while the Tutsi were "descended from the best blood of Abyssinia" and therefore far superior (Speke, Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile).

Soon after, Rwanda became a German colony. After the German defeat in World War I, Rwanda- Burundi was given to Belgium by the League of Nations. When Europeans first arrived in Rwanda, they found a complex and well organized semi- feudal society with a strong monarchy (Melvern, 5). In order to effectively control Rwanda, the Belgian colonialists issued out identity cards in 1933, "arbitrarily [classifying] the whole population as Hutu, Tutsi or Twa" by measuring qualities such as height, length of nose and eye shape. During Belgian rule, Tutsis were favored for all administrative positions and Hutus were actively discriminated against.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
To be quite honest, people manage to be racist and still very accurate about color. There was a whole gradation of color in South Africa... very scientific... Same as in Haiti. And black people in the USA know that it is much better to be high (social standing) yellow (golden-skinned) than blue-black. In fact, criminal sentences in the USA are directly correlated to skin color, for equal crimes. The darker the skin, the worse off you will be in a court of "law".

I know you are trying to lighten up (so to speak!) the topic of racism, but this is not the answer, seriously OR in jest!

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Dude, you really need to read Transmetropolitan - you'd like it.

-F

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Ylena: What are we achieving here ?

Spider: Right then, girls.
Attack wombs to the ready.
This is about the journalism of attachment.
Monstering is, ultimately, about giving a shit.
It's about giving something back to these bastards, these people whom we somehow let run our goddamn lives for us.
Giving them a taste of what it means to be us.
Every law that curbs my basic human freedoms; every lie about the things I care for; every crime committed against me by their politics -- that's what makes me get up and hound these fuckers, and I'll do that till the day I die, or until my brain dries up or something.
THAT's what we achieve, we show them they're accountable.
We show them that just as they try to herd us back into cages of quiet mediocrity, we can chase them back to fucking hell with the TRUTH.
It's the JOURNALISM OF ATTACHMENT, CARING about the world you report on.
Some people say that's bad journalism, that there should be a detatched, cold, un-biased view of the world in our news media.
And if that's what you want, there are security cameras everywhere that you could watch tapes of.
I want to see humans talking about human life, personally.
I WANT to see people who give a shit about the world, I want...
I want to see POSSESSED journalists, YES!
I want to see people like ME, rising up with hate, laying about them with fiery eyes and steaming genetalia -- possessed by ancient volcano gods from the polynesian islands, waving vast breasts and improbable penises at the secret chiefs of the world -- NAKED GLOWING GOD-JOURNALISTS BROWN-TROUSERING THE NAUGHTY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY! A NEW PLANET EARTH --
WAITER! - FRESH UNDERWEAR, SEVEN BLANKETS AND A BUCKET OF MOIST TOWELETTES!!

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
...for Ylena...
Michelle Rodriguez - she's the right size and build, and her disposition both on and off stage is as suited to the part as anyone alive.

-Frem

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