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RE: the previous post…(in which Amandla Stenberg is classy in the face of idiocy)

Is anyone else REALLY FURIOUS about this whole incident, really really angry? The Hunger Games was awesome. Amandla was the best thing in it. She’s got a glittering career ahead of her, she’s so beautiful, she’s brilliant brilliant…and some TOTAL FUCKING IDIOTS are doing their best to ruin it for her. Because they don’t like her skin colour. It’s absolutely revolting and I am beyond livid that someone basically told a little girl that she was worth nothing, that they felt nothing at the thought of her dying.

And that’s not even getting into the stuff directed at Lenny, or Dayo. God, our society is really racist. It always has been, hasn’t it.

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This has been in the British news today- a man was jailed for 56 days for making racist tweets about footballer Fabrice Muamba (while Muamba was critically ill in hospital, no less).

Some people say this infringes on the right to freedom of speech, and some people have said the sentence is too harsh- in addition to the prison time, this guy (Liam Stacey- half the country knows his name now) has been thrown out of university and banned from his rugby club, not to mention that everyone now knows who he is and what he's done.

But…yeah…I'm sort of weirdly pleased. He posted those tweets knowing perfectly well they would anger and threaten a particular group- now he gets to experience what he wanted his victims to feel. And he's obviously been made an example of, but…I would like it, if using racist language to hurt people was explicitly banned, if it was responded to harshly. Maybe we could get this idiot off the internet, for a start.

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I knew Hollywood was racist, but I didn’t know it was this racist. (Basically- George Lucas had to fund his new film himself because none of the studios would back a film with an all-black cast.) Pretty disgusting, ain’t it.

Also: I’m a rariety among Star Wars fans in that I honestly like and admire Lucas. From what I’ve seen of him he seems to be a pretty neat guy (who commited the apparently unforgiveable sin of never being happy with his film creations). I hope this film is a success, and, like he says, it will open the door for more films like it.

Russell T Davies And The Unconcious Racism

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I don’t know why, but this wee snippet from The Writer’s Tale has popped back into my head…

DONNA:
It’s like Ten Little-

DOCTOR:
Niggles aside, let’s look in the library.

I just can’t quite like RTD anymore, not after that, not after really thinking about that. I once saw him critising Midsomer Murders (which oh so very deserves criticism, just not for that) for having someone saying ‘bastard’ before the watershed, while he’s the one trying to sneak the N word into a family programme. He cut it for being ‘risky’, which sounds a lot like ‘I would do this if I thought I could get away with it.’

It’s just…that word is the most taboo word in the Western world, and here he is reducing it to a schoolboy joke, like how he snuck ‘bitch’ into New Earth. Giggle, snicker, naughty RTD said a bad word! Yeah, I don’t think so…

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So, the people behind Midsomer Murders recently said that there’s no black or Asian people on their show because it would prevent the show from being ‘the last bastion of Englishness‘, because there’s no ethnic minorities in an typical English village, amiright?

So- apologies to Freema Agyeman, Noel Clarke, Sophie Okonedo, Naomi Harris, Dame Kelly Holmes, Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lenny Henry (who has become a bit of a personal hero of mine after this), Antonia Thomas, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Ruth Negga, Naoko Mori, Daniel Anthony, Anjili Mohindra, Meera Syal, Colin Salmon, Hugh Quarshie, Adrian Lester, Trevor MacDonald, Konnie Huq, Lizo Mzimba, Naomi Campbell, Malorie Blackman, Benjamin Zephaniah, Anjoa Andoh, Idris Elba, Leona Lewis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Reggie Yates, Trevor Laird, Andy Peters, Richard Ayoade, Ainsley Harriot, Angel Coulby, Dev Patel, Omid Djalili, Melanie B, and oh so very many others- apparently you’re not English enough.

Sigh.

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