I’m really starting to be afraid of this culture on tumblr where people hate interracial relationships. i think it’s really toxic for many reasons:
1) many black people who start coming on this website could be in interracial relationships. they may start feeling bad for who they’re in a relationship with and they shouldn’t have to feel that way.
2) (and this is a HUGE concern of mine) there are millions of kids on this website, and i’m sure there’s a huge amount of kids on this website who are biracial kids. they could start feeling bad about their parents being together because of the things tumblr said about interracial relationships.
3) many black celebrities in interracial relationships are being isolated from the black community on social media. did u guys see how they treated dwayne “the rock” johnson when they saw his wife? they were so disappointing that they she was white. it’s sad that they’re willing to slander a man so much just because of his wife’s race. they also said mean things about zoe sandala because her husband is white.
overall, i do believe love is love no matter the color. and i think it’s so offensive and toxic that many people are trying to create the ideology that something’s wrong with being in a interracial relationship. it’s not okay to me.
It makes me so upset when I look at the WWBM tag here on tumblr. It is full of porn gifs and rude remarks. Talking about how black males shouldn’t be with white females because of how it looks.
Im sorry that I love a man of color and that I’m white. It saddens me when I see how our relationship is portrayed through society. No, I’m not a sex slave, no he doesn’t beat me, all the stereotypical things aren’t true.
We are a girl and a boy, who found each other through the high school drama and fell in love. A girl with the complexion of snow, and a man of color. Two complete opposites drawn together. Fighting together against the world. A girl who only stands at five foot two inches, who at times finds it hard to keep herself strong, and a varsity football player, towering above her at six foot four inches but a man who would do anything for her. Our relationship isn’t perfect, and it won’t be. We will fight and argue and have bad days, but at the end of the day I love him with my whole heart.
Within: When an oldie hits the radio you two will bond over the familiarity and jam out and that’s cool.
Outside: When an oldie hits the radio and you start jamming and know all the words your significant other will look at you like you are amazing be like “what is this song so I can download it?” As if it just dropped yesterday. You can open their eyes to a whole new cultural world and vice versa.
Which is also cool.
My point is date, marry, and be with whoever, no matter what race or culture they come from.
Holy shit I just witnessed Colin murder the entire movie industry.
I just saw a new episode of Who’s Line is it Anyway? in which other cast members made a transphobic joke where the punchline was “that woman has a penis.” Colin, who has a trans daughter, stood there and just repeatedly said “Really?” Until they apologized and redid their joke. Very small thing, but I appreciate the man.
Colin is sunshine.
And to think, I didn’t believe Colin Mochrie could earn more respect from me.
You have to understand. Improv comedy has rules you follow. And rule number one, the Golden Rule: NEVER CONTRADICT. You never take what someone suggests and say “no, not that, this instead!” You never reply to a joke with “No, I don’t want to do that!” You roll with it. You ALWAYS roll with it. The ridiculousness added on top of ridiculousness peaks into a primo superdense ball of hilarity incarnate.
And his reply to something offensive was “Nope. Stop the bit. Nope. Nope. Nope. You fucked up.”
I’ll bet you money Wayne Brady would do the same if a white person on the show dropped an N-Bomb, and people would be understanding. Colin stood up for an oft-maligned group, whose members include one very personal to him, and completely ground that show to a grinding halt by saying “No. That’s not fucking funny.” and ruined the joke. This is a man who builds his entire career off of making jokes, and he /ruined another’s/.
I’m sorry, Colin isn’t just a god amongst improv comics. He’s not just funny as all get-out and witty as hell. He’s a stone-cold badass, and he deserves recognition.
Props, Mr. Mochrie. You, sir, are deserving of respect.
I’ve worked with him (just briefly) and can confirm: he is just as excellent in real life as he seems here.
what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”
That’s actually fascinating, does anyone have any examples?
I took an entire class about Italian American immigrant cuisine and how it’s a product of their unique immigrant experience. The TL;DR is that many Italian immigrants came from the south (the poor) part of Italy, and were used to a mostly vegetable-based diet. However, when they came to the US they found foods that rich northern Italians were depicted as eating, such as sugar, coffee, wine, and meat, available for prices they could afford for the very first time. This is why Italian Americans were the first to combine meatballs with pasta, and why a lot of Italian American food is sugary and/or fattening. Italian American cuisine is a celebration of Italian immigrants’ newfound access to foods they hadn’t been able to access back home.
(Source: Cinotto, Simone. The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and
Community in New York City. Chicago: U of Illinois, 2013. Print.)
that corned beef and cabbage thing you hear abou irish americans is actually from a similar situation but because they weren’t allowed to eat that stuff due to that artificial famine
<3 FOOD HISTORY <3
Everyone knows Korean barbecue, right? It looks like this, right?
Well, this is called a “flanken cut” and was actually unheard of in traditional Korean cooking. In traditional galbi, the bone is cut about two inches long, separated into individual bones, and the meat is butterflied into a long, thin ribbon, like this:
In fact, the style of galbi with the bones cut short across the length is called “LA Galbi,” as in “Los Angeles-style.” So the “traditional Korean barbecue” is actually a Korean-American dish.
Now, here’s where things get interesting. You see, flanken-cut ribs aren’t actually all that popular in American cooking either. Where they are often used however, is in Mexican cooking, for tablitas.
So you have to imagine these Korean-American immigrants in 1970s Los Angeles getting a hankering for their traditional barbecue. Perhaps they end up going to a corner butcher shop to buy short ribs. Perhaps that butcher shop is owned by a Mexican family. Perhaps they end up buying flanken-cut short ribs for tablitas because that’s what’s available. Perhaps they get slightly weirded out by the way the bones are cut so short, but give it a chance anyway. “Holy crap this is delicious, and you can use the bones as a little handle too, so now galbi is finger food!” Soon, they actually come to prefer the flanken cut over the traditional cut: it’s easier to cook, easier to serve, and delicious, to boot!
Time goes on, Asian fusion becomes popular, and suddenly the flanken cut short rib becomes better known as “Korean BBQ,” when it actually originated as a Korean-Mexican fusion dish!
I don’t know that it actually happened this way, but I like to think it did.
Corned beef and cabbage as we know it today? That came to the Irish immigrants via their Jewish neighbors at kosher delis.
The Irish immigrants almost solely bought their meat from kosher butchers. And what we think of today as Irish corned beef is actually Jewish corned beef thrown into a pot with cabbage and potatoes. The Jewish population in New York City at the time were relatively new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe. The corned beef they made was from brisket, a kosher cut of meat from the front of the cow. Since brisket is a tougher cut, the salting and cooking processes transformed the meat into the extremely tender, flavorful corned beef we know of today.
The Irish may have been drawn to settling near Jewish neighborhoods and shopping at Jewish butchers because their cultures had many parallels. Both groups were scattered across the globe to escape oppression, had a sacred lost homeland, discriminated against in the US, and had a love for the arts. There was an understanding between the two groups, which was a comfort to the newly arriving immigrants. This relationship can be seen in Irish, Irish-American and Jewish-American folklore. It is not a coincidence that James Joyce made the main character of his masterpiece Ulysses, Leopold Bloom, a man born to Jewish and Irish parents.
We all know those people
who says “I don’t see color”. They’re usually a part of an interracial relationship.
However, they’re just as dangerous as the blatant racist. With my hue comes my
culture, heritage and traditions. And most importantly the struggles that comes
with it. Don’t turn a blind eye to these racial problems, do not invalidate
them by saying you don’t see color. I want you to see me. We are not the same
and that’s okay. I want you to see the color of my skin; however just don’t
discriminate me because of it.
if you are in an interracial relationship with a BLACK person and you’re not ready to have half BLACK kids and you’re not ready to accept the possibility of dark skin or kinky hair, if you’re gonna try to erase or hide that side of them don’t have kids periodddddd.
There are a small number of changes in my life, things are happening. Its definitely new, its nerve wracking but I choose to embrace the change. It can be sweet and comfortable in the zone I am in now, but life keeps moving. I want to live a good life, I want to have stability in my emotions. I choose to manifest that I will find a psychiatrist who will help me, and be able to provide me with a a plan to manage my emotional states. I sincerely and truly want to make this work. I will direct positive energy to making these changes in my life. It is a huge step forward for me to acknowledge what I have, as some people live their whole lives going undiagnosed and untreated. Mental illness can be so stigmatised on one hand and it can be completely romanticised on the other, it can be completely ignored and forgotten or it can be worshipped and idolised. I wish to bring it to the center, not to throw people into psychiatric wards, not to label and demonize them, and not to worship celebrities who come out with Bipolar like Kanye or Mariah, which is great but its not actually encouraging mentalhealth. These celebrities can afford to pay for treatment, the important issue is the treatment of mentally ill people who are of low socioeconomic backgrounds and how they don’t fall through the cracks, but even then - this can be hard as they may have fallen in way too far into drugs and crime. So we definitely want to have balance. I really want to grow, and heal from my trauma, and I’m so scared of medication changing my weight and creating health issues, so I need to raise this with the psychiatrist. I believe that I will be able to work through this. I believe that I can do it. Its a tough journey, but I am committed to it. It is an emotional rollercoaster, but I am ready for the next step in my life.
