After this, I might have to pick up some t-shirts and earrings:
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I only have one note; I wish the original creator of the Good Times edit hadn’t posted it on fuckin’ twitter.
Other than that it was brilliant.
ETA:
I kinda want an Alabama Slammer tee shirt now.
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The folding chairs in the original painting at the end?
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That was genius!
I pointed that out to Girlizmatic; while laughing so hard, I had actual tears in my eyes.
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I see 2 t-shirts and then the author info. Is there something I’m not seeing?
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Some of the stuff are links to sites like etsy that have items you can buy… but this one had no link:
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My response was to @PsiPhiGrrrl’s post about the Good Times mashup at The Grio.
I think you’re looking at her follow-up post about folding chairs specifically.
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That MLK Memorial one is stellar! (Powerful to visit, even without the chair!)
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It’s a fantastic monument…
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This discusses the recent documentary on HBO BS High, so I’ll put the trailer below, too. FD does a great job here talking about the larger problem with athletics in America and how that intersects with race:
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Wow. I have an HBO subscription at the moment, so I’m going to check that out. I grew up in Texas, and I saw some shady stuff surrounding football, but that seems like a whole other level. I’ll never forget this friend I had in junior high. His name was Woody. He was a standout football player. But our town wasn’t a high school football powerhouse. It had been years before, but it wasn’t anymore. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Woody’s dad gets a job offer from some oil field company in Odessa, and he moves his family there. Next thing I know, a year later, Woody is playing for Odessa Permian High School, at the time the premier high school football team in the state, and the subject of the book, film, and tv series Friday Night Lights. Woody wouldn’t have been in that book because he would have graduated in 1987 and the book was about the 1988 team, but it’s the same time period. Anyway, my point is the same exploitation was going on then, except the exploitation was by actual public schools. Not one player from those Friday Night Lights years ended up in the NFL. So I like that FD is pointing out that this exploitation is not limited to overt scammers like the Bishop Sycamore coach.
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Yeah, he’s great about taking specific things like this and showing how they are part of systemic patterns, usually related to racism and the patriarchy (in terms of how it hurts boys and men).
His stuff is always worth watching.
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Officials condemn racist text messages sent to Black residents in several states - CBS New York
(excerpt) The messages, which had almost identical language, told the recipient they had been “selected for cotton picking.” In a statement, the FBI said it was aware of “the offensive and racist text messages sent to individuals around the country” and said it is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities.
(I’m wondering how much attention these sorts of things are going to receive once Trump starts replacing high-level people now in the JD with his hand-picked loyalists.)
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Heard about that;
An acquaintance of my mentor’s got one telling her to “report to her plantation.”
This ain’t gonna go how the fuckers think it’s gonna go.
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