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Saturday Satire

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 2nd July 2016

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Good morning!

Lia: I don’t laugh as much as I’d like to about anything these days. Sometimes I think I’ve lost my sense of humor, which is not something I want to lose. So when something strikes my funny bone, like you just did, I’m so grateful I still have it. Laughing out loud. Thank you for showing me I still got it.

Steve: I couldn’t help but respond because I’m laughing out loud at your comment too. So thank you. I love the way you think women aren’t fit to judge men in politics. You’re probably one who thinks men are better at making decisions over women’s bodies too. I agree with ZL, go stroke, and I will add, that tiny thing between your legs, at home in private, thanks.

Yesica: Yes!

Since I’m in that kind of mood this morning, here’s something else to keep you laughing into this holiday weekend. It’s hilarious in a unsettling kind of way. 😅 From the Daily Kos:

Jimmy Kimmel shows how some people will fall for any ridiculous lie about Hillary

The way that propaganda works is that once people develop a certain perception of something, it is very hard to disabuse people of that opinion. A case in point has played out over the primaries this season with Hillary Clinton. The general belief by many is that Hillary Clinton is a manipulative, cynical veteran of politics who is interested in her own power.

Depending on what side of the political spectrum you fall on this perception, while based in many good bits of evidence, it’s seemingly exaggerated when you compare Clinton to virtually every single liberal moderate politician in America. Bernie and Hillary voted on the same things 93 percent of the time. We don’t need to have a pie fight about that. That’s a fact.

Once again, I’ll note that I voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary and that too is a fact. Jimmy Kimmel Live took on that perception in a piece that they occasionally do called “Lie Witness News.” The premise is that they ask people about something in the news, in this case the recent release of more (mostly) unremarkable personal email server emails from Clinton. The humor comes in that they ask people, while leading those people with more and more outrageous “facts” about what was revealed in the news.

Some of the jokes are cute:

Can you believe how many Nigerian Princes she responded to?

To considerably more sinister:

What did you think about the fact that she accepted Osama Bin Laden’s LinkdIn request?

In every case, the people being interviewed lie by saying they heard, or read or know, about these “facts.” In every case, they say things like “it doesn’t surprise me,” and “I can believe it.” The point in the end is that whether or not Hillary Clinton has done anything wrong, or the degree to which she has done things wrong, matters not at all to someone who is ready to apply this general brush of corruption and ill intent on her.

It’s also funny.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Happy Saturday, everyone! Thanks for being here.

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michelle

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Sunday Funday

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 12th June 2016

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Good Morning!

Time to “slow jam the news!”

Readers: Lol…I absolutely love this! No other president could do this. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Bushra, Elenora, Hafizah, Jazmin, Daisha, Cala, Dima, : My heart goes out to all of you and what you endure on a daily basis. No man can ever step in your shoes and understand the plight of women. If they could they wouldn’t last for a day. I have seen men cry like babies when the tables are turned and they are on the receiving end of torture. They can dish it out but they can’t take it. I’ve always said I am an “eye for an eye” kind of girl, and I have been called “barbaric.” So be it. I wouldn’t feel that way if men didn’t commit such barbaric atrocities toward my sisters around the world. You are in my thoughts and prayers. May you all be safe. Sending love… 😘

Fatima: Well said. Thank you. And your assessment of American history and current events is right on. If only Americans were as well versed instead of ignorant, perhaps things would be different. But there are many who are hell bent at keeping America dumb and uninformed by lying about our history, and covering up the current. Unfortunately it has been working. But I have faith, the tides will turn. Be well and be safe. Sending love… 😘

Kazima: 👍🏽

Thelma: Thank you.

Done for now. Happy Sunday!

✌🏽& ❤️

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michelle

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Tuesday Talk & Super Tuesday Too

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 7th June 2016

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Efenia: Since most of the comments made yesterday were in Spanish, I couldn’t resist translating yours. You are very welcome. Happy to hear that. Deseandote lo mejor! (I hope that is correct. :)

To the commentators from yesterdays blog, and anyone else from South or Latin America, this one is for you. From Think Progress:

Thanks To Donald Trump, The RNC Just Lost A Crucial Hispanic Official

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, known for his brash anti-immigrant, anti-Latino sentiment, may profess love for Latinos, but the feeling is far from mutual. In fact, he’s already holding to his campaign promise of driving out Latinos. This time, it’s an in-house job.

In the latest indication that Latino Americans feel uncomfortable with Trump’s rhetoric, Ruth Guerra, the Republican National Committee’s director of Hispanic media relations, will step down from her role at the end of this month — a “rare” move for party staff members particularly during a presidential campaign.

Guerra, whose parents are from Mexico and who grew up along the southern U.S. border in McAllen, Texas, will be resigning after nearly two years in the role.

The New York Times, which first broke the news, reported that Guerra had “told colleagues this year that she was uncomfortable working for Mr. Trump, according two R.N.C. aides who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the difficulties surrounding the party’s presumptive standard-bearer.”

“I’ve had a great nearly two years at the R.N.C., and I’m excited for the new opportunities that I will have at A.A.N,” Guerra said, though she did not mention Trump by name.

Since Trump’s campaign announcement last June, Guerra has had to defend him on television and in public appearances, which left her increasingly exhausted, the Washington Post reported.

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A sign sits near the site where Marcelo Lucero was killed in Patchogue, N.Y., on Wednesday, April, 13, 2016. The Rev. Alan Ramirez, an adviser to the family of Lucero, has called for Donald Trump to cancel a planned appearance at a Suffolk County Republican Committee fundraiser on Thursday, April 14, in Patchogue, because it is being held at a nightclub just blocks from where a gang of teenagers killed Lucero in November 2008.

Trump built his campaign on harsh rhetoric surrounding immigrants, particularly those of Hispanic descent. He has broadly characterized undocumented immigrants from Mexico as rapists, drug dealers, and criminals. He has also called to build up the border wall along the southern U.S.-Mexico border and to kick out the country’s 11.3 million undocumented population.

Guerra will be going to work at the right-leaning super PAC American Action Network, a move that would land her at a “less prestigious job at a super PAC, which focuses on down-ballot races and thus will not require her to defend Trump,” the Washington Post reported.

Guerra is not the only person whose exit has been expedited by Trump. At least two other Republican National Committee staff members — the director of African American outreach and communications director for black media — stepped down in March.

“As a Hispanic, I know that we have an opportunity with Hispanics/Latinos — they want to hear from us and want to know that we care,” Guerra previously said. “The Republican National Committee has been showing up and engaging with all communities like never before, but we can all do more and a lot more work needs to be done.”

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Readers: Not to mention his apparent racism towards U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel. The guy will not stop. That is unless we stop him. Any more repubs wanna join us over here on the Dem side?

Well…It’s Super Tuesday here in California and 5 other states (New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota) A super important day. Get out and vote for Hillary, if you haven’t done so already. Let’s bring this home! Easy peasy, right?

Blog me. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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A Black Actress Cast As Hermione in Harry Potter

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 5th June 2016

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Good morning! Oops it is after noon…

How is everyone doing? I’ve been reading all of your comments and it’s inspiring to see the back and forth banter between all of you. I know many of you have asked me questions, or made comments to me, and I haven’t responded. This is nothing personal. I’ve decided to open our blog back up again and just be an observer for awhile. It’s been interesting taking a back seat, like a butterfly on the wall.

I do feel that I want to engage with all of you, however, so this silence won’t be forever. I have kept a running list of the comments and questions I would like to respond to so those will be addressed shortly. In the meantime, keep it going. I like what I’m reading.

I had a very late night out hence the late posting. So without further ado, here’s today’s write. I like it. I think you will too.

From Think Progress:

J.K. Rowling Shuts Down Backlash To ‘Black Hermione’

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A black actress has been cast as Hermione in the upcoming “eighth” Harry Potter story, the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, prompting a firestorm on social media. Actor Jamie Parker has been cast as Harry Potter, Paul Thornley will play Ron Weasley, and Noma Dumezweni, an Olivier-award-winning actress born in Swaziland will play Hermione.

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The play is an entirely new Harry Potter story penned by Rowling, following Harry’s troubles as an overworked government employee and father of three, including his son Albus Severus Potter — who is struggling under the weight of his family legacy (and, probably, his ridiculously grandiose name).

Although the real bombshell here ought to be that Paul Thornley, the actor playing notorious ginger Ron Weasley, doesn’t have red hair, it’s the casting of a woman of color as Hermione that has fans all a-twitter. In the books, Hermione’s main descriptors are her bushy hair and large teeth (pre Goblet of Fire, that is), but in the movies she’s played by Emma Watson — a white actress. Citing “continuity” — and their own images of “canon” Hermione as white — fans peppered J.K. Rowling with questions about the casting choice.

Her response:

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She has since retweeted some fan art featuring a Hermione of color, and a tweet from Matthew Lewis, who played a brunette Neville Longbottom — pointing out that Neville was described in the books as blonde.

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It’s not the first time Rowling has engaged in such debates on Twitter: In February, she favorited a Buzzfeed article by Harry Potter Alliance press coordinator Alanna Bennett, unpacking what the racebending of Hermione as biracial — as done by fanart, redditors, and the internet at large — represents.

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It’s the very fact that Hermione’s race is so little discussed in the books that made this kind of speculation possible — bushy hair, which in the movies became Emma Watson’s sleek curls, could easily be kinky-curly, and the one time her skin is mentioned in Prisoner of Azkaban it’s described as “brown” after a summer holiday, which could mean anything. But it’s also the fact that her skin color isn’t mentioned that makes fans read it as white.

White is taken as the neutral race — which means if it’s not specified, the person is white. For decades, the ‘flesh‘ crayon was a peachy, pale color. The same went for ‘neutral’ pantyhose — they were only neutral for pale women. So when a book character isn’t described, we (or the filmmakers tasked with adapting the literary to the visual) often put a white face on them because that’s the culturally-created norm — and that’s a huge problem.

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The same skewed normal dominates our fantasy worlds. We have imaginary universes populated with Jedi Knights, Hobbits, Elves, Starks and Lannisters, Witches and Wizards — but the vast majority of their inhabitants are white and Anglo-Saxon. High fantasy is highly homogeneous. It’s fantasy — people can be whatever we imagine — but somehow, they tend to end up Emma-Watson-white.

Even Rowling is complicit: In the Harry Potter books, generally, if a character is a person of color, that is made explicitly clear, as with Lee Jordan, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and Cho Chang — all are at some point described by their ethnicity. Ron and Harry? Not so much.

Sometimes, characters end up white even if they’re described otherwise. The upcoming blockbuster Gods of Egypt would, presumably, star actual Egyptians, but instead its cast is almost entirely white. Lavender Brown was black in the first Harry Potter films, then recast as as a white actress when she had a speaking role. It barely made a ripple in terms of mainstream internet outrage. And, if people were truly concerned about canon and continuity, surely they would be equally outraged by the fact that the actor playing Ron in Cursed Child doesn’t have red hair, and that Harry — whose main literary trait is his bright green eyes — has blue eyes in all of the movies.

Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in the Entire ‘Harry Potter’ Film Series

There are authors that are actively working against this. Junot Diaz’s books intertwine the immigrant experience with Spanish and Dune lines equally. Marlon James, this year’s Man Booker Prize winner, is planning on writing an “African Game of Thrones.” The new Star Wars brings some much-needed diversity to the franchise. And now, a talented black actress will bring Hermione to the stage. In the end, J.K. Rowling’s approval is an added bonus, because she still reigns supreme over the Harry Potter canon. But it’s not really the most important aspect of the announcement.

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Hermione is a revolutionary female character. She’s smart, resourceful, and bossy — and never apologizes for any of that. And let’s be honest: Harry and Ron would have been toast without her. Even beyond that, though, she’s also a powerful face for discrimination in a book series that was literally about the rise of a racial hate group that wears pointy hoods. As a muggle-born, she faces taunts, discrimination, and even violence, like the Basilisk attack in the second book, based on her parentage. Now, black women will see themselves reflected as a strong, capable woman who owns her intelligence, and as a main character in a huge fantasy franchise to boot. And that is revolutionary.

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Readers: Love some of the tweets too.  It’s soo typical that no one says anything when white actors play non white parts in the movies – it is completely accepted – no one even questions it.  This has been going on…Helloo…forever.

No one questioned the difference between how Hermione was described in the book in comparison to the actress who played the part, Emma Watson. But the moment an OTW plays a part that many are envisioning should be played by a “white” person, all hell breaks loose.

Did you check out the video? Interesting too. Only 6 minutes and 18 seconds of the spoken script went to OTWs out of 19 hours and 39 minutes total of all the movies put together. Whoa, not much presence.

What are your thoughts about that? I wonder what Rowling would say about that stat. I’m sure she was well aware – How could she not be? Perhaps that is her reasoning for casting a black Hermione. Whatever her reasoning, I give kudos because it is a problem when the “white” race is taken as the “neutral” race…as the “norm,” the “expected.” White washing is done actively and subliminally and it takes  our awareness that this is a huge problem to address it and change it. One way to change it is through movies. So I hope this encourages more writers of the silver screen to follow suit.

Thoughts? Blog me. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Fury At Racist Cartoon

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 22nd May 2016

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Good morning!

Lois: Wow, That’s dedication. Thank you. I’m happy that we’re back too! Even happier that you are supporting Hillary.

Marcie: Thank you. I’m amazed at the dedication. My first thought is, “Gee, how long would you have keep this up?” I missed being here too. I can’t believe it was a year and a half. It certainly didn’t feel that long.

Rebecca: Thank you.

Speaking of Trump, (and really how can we not?) once again, we experience the hypocrisy of the right claiming to be for women while encouraging body shaming and racial profiling. Some things never change.

Here’s the write:

Fury at racist cartoon comparing ‘butch’ and ‘masculine’ Michelle Obama to pageant-ready Melania Trump

  • The cartoon showed Michelle Obama and Donald Trump’s wife Melania 
  • Mrs Obama appeared muscular and had a bulge in the groin area 
  • Meanwhile Mrs Trump looked ready for a beauty pageant in a pink gown 
  • Artist Ben Garrison tweeted: ‘First Lady will be great again! #Trump2016′
  • Dozens of people condemned the drawing as ‘racist and misogynistic’

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A cartoonist has been accused of racism after he portrayed Michelle Obama as masculine and butch next to a pageant-ready Melania Trump in a controversial drawing.

The cartoon – which has been branded ‘racist and misogynistic’ – shows a muscular Mrs Obama wearing a green dress with a bulge in the groin area.

Stood next to her is a feminine, smiling Melania Trump in a pink dress and holding a Trump sign.

The artist Ben Garrison tweeted the picture on Friday with the caption: ‘#InTrumpsAmerica The #FirstLady will be Great Again! #Trump2016.’ 

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So…what’s your take?

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michelle

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