Tuesday Talk
Posted by Michelle Moquin on May 14th, 2013
Good morning!
I HOPE everyone is doing great. I have a very busy week so I won’t be checking in much until the weekend. Thanks for being here with me!
Brought to you from the Huff Po:
My Racist Encounter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Seema Jilani
Physician reporting from Afghanistan
The faux red carpet had been laid out for the famous and the wannabe-famous. Politicians and journalists arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, bedazzled in the hopes of basking in a few fleeting moments of fame, even if only by osmosis from proximity to celebrities. New to the Washington scene, I was to experience the spectacle with my husband, a journalist, and enjoy an evening out. Or at least an hour out. You see, as a spouse I was not allowed into the actual dinner. Those of us who are not participating in the hideous schmooze-fest that is this evening are relegated to attending the cocktail hour only, if that. Our guest was the extraordinarily brilliant Oscar-nominated director of Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin. Mr. Zeitlin’s unassuming demeanor was a refreshing taste of humility in a sea of pretentious politicians reeking of narcissism.
As I left the hotel and my husband went to the ballroom for the dinner, I realized he still had my keys. I approached the escalators that led down to the ballroom and asked the externally contracted security representatives if I could go down. They abruptly responded, “You can’t go down without a ticket.” I explained my situation and that I just wanted my keys from my husband in the foyer and that I wouldn’t need to enter in the ballroom. They refused to let me through. For the next half hour, they watched as I frantically called my husband but was unable to reach him.
Then something remarkable happened. I watched as they let countless other women through — all Caucasian — without even asking to see their tickets. I asked why they were allowing them to go freely when they had just told me that I needed a ticket. Their response? “Well, now we are checking tickets.” He rolled his eyes and let another woman through, this time actually checking her ticket. His smug tone, enveloped in condescension, taunted, “See? That’s what a ticket looks like.”
When I asked “Why did you lie to me, sir?” they threatened to have the Secret Service throw me out of the building — me, a 4’11″ young woman who weighs 100 pounds soaking wet, who was all prettied up in elegant formal dress, who was simply trying to reach her husband. The only thing on me that could possibly inflict harm were my dainty silver stilettos, and they were too busy inflicting pain on my feet at the moment. My suspicion was confirmed when I saw the men ask a blonde woman for her ticket and she replied, “I lost it.” The snickering tough-guy responded, “I’d be happy to personally escort you down the escalators ma’am.”
Like a malignancy, it had crept in when I least expected it — this repugnant, infectious bigotry we have become so accustomed to. “White privilege” was on display, palpable to passersby who consoled me. I’ve come to expect this repulsive racism in many aspects of my life, but when I find it entrenched in these smaller encounters is when salt is sprinkled deep into the wounds. In these crystallizing moments it is clear that while I might see myself as just another all-American gal who has great affection for this country, others see me as something less than human, more now than ever before.
When I asked why the security representatives offered to personally escort white women without tickets downstairs while they watched me flounder, why they threatened to call the Secret Service on me, I was told, “We have to be extra careful with you all after the Boston bombings.”
I explained that I am a physician, that my husband is a noted journalist for a major American newspaper, and that our guest was an esteemed, Oscar-nominated director. They did not believe me. Never mind that the American flag flew proudly outside of our home for years, with my father taking it inside whenever it rained to protect it from damage. Never mind that I won “Most Patriotic” almost every July 4th growing up. Never mind that I have provided health care to some of America’s most underprivileged, even when they have refused to shake my hand because of my ethnicity.
I looked at him, struggling to bury my tears beneath whatever shred of dignity that remained. They finally saturated my lashes and flood onto my face. Shaking with rage, I said, “We are all human beings and I only ask that you give me the same respect you give others. All I am asking is to be treated with a dignity and humanity. What you did is wrong.” They stared straight ahead, arms crossed, and refused to even look at me. Up came the cruel, xenophobic, soundproof wall that I had seen in the eyes of so many after 9/11. Their eyes, flecked with disdain and hatred, looked through me.
The next affront came quickly thereafter. “You were here last year, weren’t you? You caused trouble here last year too. I know you,” they claimed, accusing me of being a party-crasher. Completely confused, I explained that this was my first time here and that I had no idea what he was referencing. Clearly, he had assumed all brown people look the same and had confused me for someone else.
I wonder what their reaction would have been to a well-dressed white woman trying to reach her husband. Would she have struggled for over an hour while they watched and offered to escort others in? Would they not have extended an offer to help, bended over backwards to offer assistance, just as they did with the woman who “lost her ticket”? Would the Boston bombings even be mentioned to a white woman?
Let’s stop this facade that we are a beacon of tolerance. I don’t need you to “tolerate” me. I don’t want you to merely put up with my presence. All I ask, all I have ever asked, is to be treated as a human being, that bigoted jingoism is not injected into every minute facet my life, that there remains at least the illusion of decency.
Despite being a native English speaker who was born in New Orleans and a physician who trained at a prestigious institution, all people see is the color of my skin. After this incident, I will no longer apologize, either for my faith or my complexion. It is not my job to convince you to distinguish me from the violent sociopaths that claim to be Muslims, whose terrorism I neither support, nor condone. It is your job. Just like when a disturbed young white man shoots up a movie theatre or a school, it is my job, as someone with a conscience, to distinguish them from others. It’s not my job to plead with you to shake my hand without cringing, nor am I going to applaud you when you treat me with common decency; it’s not an accomplishment. It’s simply the right thing to do. Honestly, it’s not that hard.
This year, Quvenzhané Wallis took the world by storm with her staggering performance in Beasts of the Southern Wild. At several award ceremonies, reporters refused to the learn the accurate pronunciation of her name, and one reporter allegedly told Wallis, “I’m gonna call you Annie,” because her name was too difficult to pronounce. If reporters can learn to pronounce Gerard Depardieu and Monique Lhuillier then surely they can take the time to learn how to pronounce Quvenzhané. It’s not hard; it’s just not deemed worthy of your energy because she is someone of color.
A school child recently threatened my 12-year-old niece claiming, “I’m going to kill you Miss Bin Laden.” Again, it is not my job to teach your children manners and social justice, to remove the disgusting threads of racism that you have woven into their hearts with your insecurities. Last week, a 39-year-old Muslim American cab driver who served in the Iraq war was attacked and had his jaw broken in a hate crime. The assailant, an executive from an aviation company, told the veteran “I will slice your fucking throat right now.” I suppose the “support the troops” rhetoric by the right only applies to white veterans.
It wasn’t enough that I have had to prove my “American-ness” at every step of my career, but now the next generation is suffering as well. It wasn’t enough that I was asked whether my father taught me how to make bombs, or that I was told that I was doomed to the seventh circle of hell during my medical school interviews. I was also asked whether I would wear a burqa or if my parents would arrange my marriage during interviews. It is outrageous that I have to actually prove to the world how horrified I am that an 8-year-old boy was brutally murdered by a terrorist bombing. Any normal human being feels this agonizing grief with the rest of the country. I do not have to prove to you that, I, too, find it morally reprehensible. Of course I do. I have a heart. I am human.
So, I no longer want a seat at your restaurant, where you serve me begrudgingly, where I am belittled for asking for food without pork, where I endure your dirty looks at my hijabi friend. I want my pride intact, I want this struggle of mine to be recognized, for you to look me in the eye and acknowledge that yes, this tumor called bigotry is indeed rivering through your veins, polluting your mind, and is so malignant that it compels you to squash my dignity.
It’s the little indignities that slowly devastate your soul. The ones where your guard is down, and you just expect to dress up, look pretty, and enjoy an evening as a newlywed, or at the Oscars, but instead end up humiliated and snubbed. The ubiquitous racist slap in the face is thinly veiled just beneath the carefully crafted façade. This filthy, highly infectious plague is transforming our nation into one of unwarranted suspicion and anguish inflicted on disenfranchised, voiceless people of color. And now, it is no longer my job to enlighten you. To quote what you so often tell ethnic communities, “It’s time for you to step up to the plate, take responsibility, and stop taking what I have earned,” my integrity, my dignity.
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Readers: Again, I have no words. I cannot imagine how Jilani must’ve felt. That is just a horrific story. People can be so cold and cruel. And, I bet there is plenty more to be said about this. The forum is open. Your turn – Blog me.
Peace & love…
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May 14th, 2013 at 7:37 am
5 Myths About Brain Health
Appeared in the print version as “How Healthy Is Your Brain?”
Why sometimes forgetting is good…and other surprising facts.
For most people over age 40, glitches in memory are high on their lists of health concerns. Whether it’s lost keys, forgotten names or other “senior moments,” we fear each is a sign of a deteriorating brain.
What science now tells us: Memory is not necessarily the most important measure of brain health. And no matter what your age, there are ways to improve the mind. However, many of the popular beliefs about improving mental performance are outdated and incorrect.
Most common myths…
MYTH #1: Brain health steadily declines with age. Scientists used to believe that people were born with all of the neurons (brain cells) that they’d ever have and that the ability to form new brain connections ended in adolescence.
It’s now known that the brain is the most modifiable part of the body. It’s constantly being changed by how we use it, and the changes can be measured within just hours . That’s why you can be confounded by, say, a new cell phone in the morning and then be using it proficiently by the end of the day.
While you are focused on new learning—such as writing an original report or preparing new recipes—neural activity increases and promotes the development of new neurons. But if these neurons are not put to proper use, they die.
As you age, your ability to think more broadly and deeply can continue to grow if your brain is exercised properly—thanks to the functions of your frontal lobes, the part of your brain that sits just behind and above your eyes in your skull.
Even though brain health is tied to all parts of the brain, the majority of the heavy lifting is directed through the frontal lobe networks. The frontal lobes are responsible for decision making, judgment, planning and other “executive” functions. (To get an idea of how effectively you’re engaging your frontal lobes in everyday life, see box below.)
My advice:
Engage your frontal lobes by being curious and creative and by solving problems whenever you can. Challenge your brain by thinking deeply and extracting meaning from information you are given. Example: Think back to a favorite book that you read several years ago, and come up with five to eight different take-home messages that are applicable to different contexts. Better yet: Read it again, and then come up with the list.
MYTH #2:
A good memory indicates mental robustness. Surprisingly, memory skills do not correspond to everyday-life performance as much as frontal lobe functioning. This means that you can have an excellent memory but not be very innovative, insightful, creative or mentally productive.
My advice:
Don’t worry when you can’t remember everything. Although we tend to note what we forget, we rarely take stock of all the things we do remember.
A brain that gets too occupied with remembering everything works less efficiently and becomes stressed, overwhelmed and bogged down in the details. If something is important in your life—it could be your work, a hobby or even a weekly card game—you’ll remember the details that really matter.
Do not worry about, say, occasional forgotten names or unimportant tasks. But when forgetting regularly interferes with your performance, it may be a sign that something more than benign memory glitches is taking over.
Many things can impair memory—not enough sleep, some medications, such as antidepressants and blood pressure drugs, and stress. Memory issues do not always mean Alzheimer’s disease. See your doctor if you’re concerned about your memory.
MYTH #3:
Multitasking gives your brain a good workout. Again, not true. When you multitask, the brain has to call on different regions to handle the load. It works inefficiently because the communication isn’t synchronized. When you “overuse” your brain in this way, the frontal lobes become fatigued. This slows efficiency and decreases performance.
My advice:
Whatever you’re doing, focus on that and nothing else for at least 15 minutes. Put a “do not disturb” sign on the door. Turn off your phones, and don’t check your e-mail. You’ll think more clearly in those 15 minutes than someone who multitasks for an hour.
MYTH #4:
People with a high IQ have the most brainpower.
Today’s IQ tests are based on measurements that were developed more than a century ago. They mainly emphasize such skills as knowledge, memory and speed in ability to perform mathematical equations—all of which were much more important in the days before computers and the Internet.
What’s more important is knowing how to use knowledge in novel ways and bringing together facts from disparate areas to create original ideas. As Einstein said,
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
My advice:
Whenever you’re confronted with a problem, stop and think deeply about the knowledge you already have. Connecting it and generating original ideas is crucial to brain health.
MYTH #5:
Unrelenting mental work boosts brain capacity. It’s true that high achievers can put in long hours and consider lots of information when they try to solve vexing problems. But they also know when to stop looking at more information—and they reach that point earlier than most people do.
Productivity and achievement are not linked to how many hours are worked and how much information is accessed. In fact, decreasing exposure allows your frontal lobes to be deployed to focus on key data, and, even more importantly, to know what information to ignore.
Using knowledge to support a novel approach is essential to enhancing integrated reasoning and deeper-level thinking. Example: Instead of taking copious notes on specific points made in a meeting, boil down the discussion to key issues, new decisions and possibilities.
My advice:
Keep your key frontal lobe operations finely tuned by blocking, discarding and ignoring less relevant tasks and information. Consolidating facts and options into big ideas and perspectives is necessary to cultivate creative thinking and problem solving.
Source: Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist who is the founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth and the Dee Wyly Distinguished University Chair, both at The University of Texas at Dallas.
She is coauthor, with Shelly Kirkland, of Make Your Brain Smarter: Increase Your Brain’s Creativity, Energy, and Focus (Free Press). http://www.CenterForBrainHealth.org
May 14th, 2013 at 7:44 am
Zen Lill, wonderful hearing you have been taking your fans request for a view of your summer enjoyment. But why bother with make up this time. We could handle both.
How about a before and after. That way we get TWICE the pleasure.
May 14th, 2013 at 7:46 am
Zen Lill sometimes I am so jealous of you. I couldn’t get in once yesterday and there you were posting twice.
May 14th, 2013 at 7:49 am
I have had so many “racial” moments in the US, I can’t count. It seems that most white there think it is there country alone and anyone else is an interloper.
May 14th, 2013 at 7:50 am
Well, Michelle, what your article is describing is being OTW in America.
May 14th, 2013 at 9:17 am
Michelle, being that we are approaching another July 4th, and you have posted this article I feel that it is close enough for me to begin discussing a topic that is very dear to me, the U.S. Constitution.
We often hear how special it is and how that it is so complicated that it takes a well educated constitutional lawyer to explain it to us. REALLY!
I don’t think so, and I can prove it. Over the course of the next few weeks until July 4th, 2013 I will give my interpretation of this document and welcome any discourse on the topic. If Michelle objects, I will of course, defer to the Lady.
Let me start by expressing my over all opinion of this document that Americans are constantly told is so sacred. My opinion is that it is a bald face lie. The only impressive thing about the Constitution is that it has been able to resist simple examination all this time because those for whom it was designed to benefit exclusively have managed to lie very skillfully about what the document actually does and says.
The document begins loftily with the words “We the People…” That is the biggest lie and the one that makes the document a sham. The Elephant in the room whenever this phrase is used is that the “People” here refers ONLY to white men.
If someone says anything to attempt to dispute this. You can kill their attempt at the lie by asking if the “People” in that document meant ALL the people of the United States, how come you needed amendments added to permit other “People” such as women and OTWs to benefit from “…a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”?
Up and until those amendments were added, no one but WHITE men could lay claim to those lofty words. There was NO justice, domestic Tranquility, and NO liberty for anyone who was not a WHITE male.
Now ask the person to explain to you again how special that “We the People…” is in that document.
There is no getting around the fact that if the document meant ALL the “People” in that lofty “We the People” opening, then there would have been no need for any amendments to add other people.
Has anyone noticed that there were NO amendments needed to give any benefits to white men separately? Duh, that’s because the entire scam was a document designed for them exclusively while purporting to be for all the people of the United States.
That makes this bullshit document a government sponsored action making white males the exclusive Affirmative Action Beneficiaries of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Now, do you understand why they want to continue the myth that it is so special. Doing so makes them special. The rest of us are left to argue over what rights it extends to us, because white males get everything from the beginning.
Are you beginning to understand why southern states argue for a “strict” interpretation of the Constitution? But does that make you wonder why southern white women would go along with that since they are basically arguing that white men should be entitled to keep that Affirmative Action Benefit the Constitution gives to them exclusively and that women should remain “Chattel” as they were defined in the Constitution to be?
Next I will discuss exactly when the U.S. Constitution began to be something representing “We the People.” The “People” meaning more than just white men. But the next time someone tells you that the US Constitution is such a special document, you can safely say, “yes, if you are a white male. But if you are not, it didn’t become anywhere near being special until the 13th, 14th, 15th, and the 19th amendments were added.”
Robert, RT
May 14th, 2013 at 10:13 am
I’ve always been a huge fan of Alan Grayson, Congressman from FL. He calls out Obama on this. I hope that this administration doesn’t sell out everything before they leave…they passify some people on issues just enough to make people see some good and keep the optimism, however, the fact that he even put it on the table shows his lack of a backbone against the GOP. He so wants to be liked by all, and it just ain’t gonna happen.
http://alangraysonemails.tumblr.com/post/50427866039/90-year-olds-would-face-1000-a-year-cuts
Obama has let the financial debacle simply get pissed away….and Eric Holder is a waste. He should have been fired a long time ago. Actually, he should have never been hired for AG.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/eric-holder-banks-lanny-breuer_n_1218452.html
May 14th, 2013 at 10:34 am
Mischa, this article actually made me feel nauseated as in much smaller situations I’ve been the white woman who was taken first in line, shown where to go by an eager whoever, while I would stand and say, ‘it’s cool, she was here first’ – I can understand the outrage. Ugh.
Cary, I’ll pick the best of both when I’m complete in my task : ) and there’s nothing before about it, I walk around often wearing no make up just because…I think I look okay so why not, what everyone else thinks is their business. I’m planning another photoshootfest for this week so I’ll be cropping and sending ‘befores’ and ‘afters’ soon.
Lois, I know, not sure why but really I do think it’s my longevity on MM blog factor maybe?! Who really knows? (likely the alien presence does, though I don’t ever question their authority about anything, that’s a commander/alien issue, as a girlZ I just follow orders : )
Luv, Zen Lill
May 14th, 2013 at 10:37 am
…and hey, didn’t mean to make it sound like her plight was about me and my experiences as a white woman, I’m not THAT self referencing…just a mention bc it does occur and with more regularity than I care to tell you. Freaking hate it. It’s ignorant behavior. – ZL
May 14th, 2013 at 4:07 pm
Robert,Rt, I showed your article to my son who has been practicing constitutional law issues for 13 years. He as argued twice before the Supreme Court.
He said that you were pretty much right on all points. But since Scalia, Roberts, Alito and Kennedy don’t recognize the Constitution as anything but the basis for all their decisions, you are pissing in the wind.
I take that to mean this was a white man’s country when it began and it still is. Everybody else including the women are johhny-come-latelys.
So make your arguments boy, but it mean shit.
Kurt
May 14th, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Can you take the outrage at the IRS by the MSM because they checked on some TEA party members? This is the same IRS that did it to Martin Luther King and us blacks for years.
In 2004, the NAACP was hit with an audit over accusations of improper political activity for criticizing the Bush administration. I didn’t hear all this outrage from Chris Matthews or any other of the whites in MSM.
Once again we are seeing two sets of justice. One when whites feel slighted and another when OTWs are slighted.
Robert, RT, I say f**k the Kurts and the bullshit they are sitting on. I look forward to the enlightenment you have to share with us about the Constitution.
May 14th, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Zen Lill I am looking forward to seeing the photos. But when? Summer isn’t getting any longer.
May 14th, 2013 at 4:27 pm
This white girl agrees with you Alycedale. When I hear Chris Matthews laud Reagan as a strong president for breaking up a union, I am reminded how white men can’t smell their shit.
May 14th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
When I hear we need to fire people in the IRS so that people will have confidence in the IRS again, I want to say, why didn’t someone think of that when Bush and boys were using the IRS to screw their enemies.
May 14th, 2013 at 4:37 pm
If they wanted to be honest it would have read “We the white people who are men of the United States, in order to form a less perfect Union,….”
But, getting white men to tell the truth is harder than pulling rooster teeth.
May 14th, 2013 at 4:42 pm
President Obama himself has never been free from racism in the White House. It’s just that the MSM isn’t interested unless it is one of their own being discriminated against.
May 14th, 2013 at 9:46 pm
Although the republicans were calling for an investigation into the leak that had the Obama administration daring to check on the names reporters talked to they will not miss the opportunity to back stab Obama.
There is another rumor that one of the serious leaks that the Obama administration is concerned about is the name of Anonz coming out.
If it does, you will learn about a man some say has been personally involved, one way or another, in the deaths of over 23 million people. Yes, I said over 23,000,000.
He has either been personally involved in the saving or killing of over 23 million people across the globe.
That does not count the billions his money and power affects every day. Some countries like Greece can pin point the exact influence his actions have had upon their economy.
Before you go off, remember in 1982 when Reagan went on national television to laud the efforts of the ruler of Guatemala at the time the man was exterminating the remaining 2,000 of an indigenous people of that country because they lived on land he wanted?
Obama is not supporting such a man, quite the opposite. Anonz has saved more people than most governments have. And he has destroyed the economies of some governments in the process. Commanding hundreds of billions of dollars is a power that perhaps shouldn’t be in the hands of one man.
Yet, men in the office or position of President Obama and other political leaders or dictators of other countries have used the same power.
Only the future will have the answer.
May 14th, 2013 at 9:54 pm
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/14/military-sexual-assault-another-prevention-coordinator-faces-charges/
May 15th, 2013 at 6:37 am
RobertRT, yes, ‘we the people’ was a group of aging white guys (not men, sorry) attempting to keep control over what the took when they invaded the shores of this country, they couldn’t have cared less what women or OTW’s thought at the time, and that age old ‘tradition’ of the constitution is what repugs live for. Women arguing for the arguments in the ‘we, the people’ doc are just lock-stepping with the man they’re attached to…or they haven’t read it. I have and recently, too, I have a 14 yr old, can’t let her be learning things I’ve forgotten, how am I supposed to discuss if I don’t. (though that’s not the only reeason).
Forget Kurt and post and enlighten those who have not read the ‘WTP doc’, ZL