15th Erase Racism Carnival
on July 30, 2007
Category: Social Movements, Racism, Environment
via RaceWire
15th Erase Racism Carnival! Read all about it!
Welcome to the July Erase Racism Blog Carnival!
Every month, a different blog gathers posts from throughout cyberspace that explore issues of racial justice. The goal is to enhance the discussion of race online and connect bloggers working hard to make that happen. We thank everyone who submitted pieces for this, the 15th carnival.
This month we wanted to highlight some topics we feel don’t get enough time in the sun. So we sought out several pieces on topics that matter: Media Representations, the Green Economy and Black/Brown relations.
In addition, we grouped the blogs under a few other topics we hope you find pertinent and interesting:
–Race and the Green Economy
–Race, gender, and the media
–Black/Brown relations
–Historical identities
–Whiteness revisited
–Darfur
Without further delay, here is this month’s Erase Racism Carnival! Let’s Celebrate!
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RACE AND THE GREEN ECONOMY
Van Jones
The New Environmentalists
More people of color have not yet grabbed the microphone for three reasons: our long-standing pattern of viewing environmental issues as luxury concerns; the mainstream media’s “whites only” coverage of the green phenomenon; and serious structural impediments to action within the racial justice movement itself.
Colorlines
Toxic Waste and Environmental Justice
A report
A DC Birding Blog
RACE, GENDER IN THE MEDIA
Kai Chang
Food Racism and Capitalism
What I find rather amazing is that so many non-Asians continue to find these moronic clichés funny and/or fascinating, to the point that lurid stories about tainted Chinese food have been at or near the top of corporate fake-news for weeks.
Zuky
read more over at RaceWire
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5 Comments so far
1. Aaron
August 1st, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Hello. I really appreciate what your blog is about as I am a rare Texas Liberal and I actively campaign for equal rights with several college groups.
The comments were closed on the Resident Evil 5 post, but I wanted to make sure you guys got some information on this as I noticed some mistakes in your post, and I think it hurts activism when we appear to become angry about things we don’t understand.
1. Resident Evil 5 is a Mature game that is only sold to adults. Children are not allowed to buy Mature games and parents are warned about game ratings on every game sold in the United States with an overall rating for age and descriptions of the mature content (like movies, but with MUCH bigger boxes than on movies).
2. Resident Evil is a game about members of a special police force traveling around the world to fight off cases of bioterrorism. The people they fight use viruses to take over populations and turn them into mindless zombies that attack one another.
3. These games have been set in many locations and have mostly had “white” zombies, but the most recent was set in Spain, so the zombies were Spanish. However, the zombies are clearly the victims here and that is one of the draws of the game. You feel empathy for the zombies - the good people destroyed by the virus and turned into monsters.
4. There are always helpful characters that are strong positive role-models in the game. In Resident Evil 4, there was a very good and self-sacrificing Spaniard who played a major role in the game’s story. I do not doubt that there will be at least one black character who has somehow escaped infection and who plays a vital role in resolving the problems the player faces in the game.
There still may be a case for saying that this is bad because of the fact that it does not display Africa in a positive light as a growing, prospering content that is moving out of 3rd world status, but I think that the reactions posted in the blog were not well informed and will result in accusations of being alarmists.
I’m not certain that the game will cause any problems in creating a negative world view of Africa. . . I think most people can separate fiction from reality and it may be that parts of the game are set in highly developed areas of Africa.
However, I am certain that this game is not intended to create hate towards black people.
2. George
August 1st, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Where is the retraction for your ridiculous Resident Evil 5 story, please? Or at least an update acknowledging that you got it totally wrong. Have some accountability, please.
3. Anonymous
August 1st, 2007 at 8:01 pm
This is by far the best way to get exposure to your blog.
I give you congratulations on being incredibly racist while preaching equality.
Good job. Don’t be a little attention whore.
4. anonym
August 1st, 2007 at 8:41 pm
HEHE… a really “white game”… check it out dudes (laugh):
http://farawaystudios.com/
5. MorteAosPretos
August 1st, 2007 at 9:12 pm
FUCK OFF AND DIE!
PRETOS DO CARALHO!