*Racism has not end it seems. (Yes, we’re surprised, too.)
Her’s another example: The creator of “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” Issa Rae, encountered some racist haters after winning the 2012 Shorty for Best Web Show.
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Last week, the series beat out 783 other online shows in the Shortys Awards, which celebrates the best in social media and online content. But the victory wasn’t without it’s negative repercussions.
One Twitter user called her a “n*ggerette,” while another posted, “I nominate @awkwardblkgrl for a @shortyawards in #cottonpicking.” Still another one stated, “Congrats on winning do you get 3/5 of an award?”
But the worse came from another user who posted, “#ThingsBetterThanAwkwardBlackGirl The smell coming from Treyvon Martin.”
But Issa responded quite calmly and sarcastically, saying that maybe people were upset because “many had traveled to and paid to attend the New York ceremony, ready to receive what was obviously due to them.”
She continued in a written statement saying, “The bewilderment that our show not only exists, but that it could actually be good is indicative of how mainstream media thinks,” Isaa wrote. “I’m pretty sure none of the people tweeting that I’d only get three-fifths of my award had even seen an episode of our show, but they were 100-percent positive that it couldn’t be as good as whatever it is someone who didn’t look like me produced.”
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Not shocked at the haters, but I am shocked she won an award for her series. It is well produced. However, I could not even finish a full episode. A lot of cursing and I personally can’t relate to the awkward theme.
The fear of the white man manifests itself in many ways and attempts to disguise itself with numerous guises.
A favorite guise of the white man’s fear is hate.
Trayvon Martin was ultimately killed because of the fear of the white man. Not fear that a black boy posed any physical threat to him or any member of his community, but fear of not anymore able to keep blacks from “rising” to the “affluence” of his neighborhood, even with his feeble attempts to “gate” himself in.
Every day the white man sees more evidence that he is fighting a losing battle in maintaining his dominance, from housing, online content to POTUS. Rather than responding with anger to the fear of the white man, the black man should continually feed off his insecurity, and go forward with more and more confidence.
Reds, my brother, you hit the nail right on the head! This Easter let us be mindful that we too shall rise.