White Space (by MuseCommunications)
A video inspired by AMC’s The Pitch and the real advertising industry’s lack of color.
For the record, I’ve really enjoyed the show. And maybe its inadvertent window—just as Mad Men has opened—into advertising’s diversity issues is a good thing. I’ve written about this in the past, but change seems to be coming at a glacial pace.
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Roundtable on Diversity in Silicon Valley | Bloomberg West
Glad this discussion is happening. If only for the fact that aspiring entrepreneurs who don’t look the Valley part can see contemporaries worth modeling theirs paths off. The low numbers of blacks, Hispanics and women at the center of the tech boom will eventually increased. Sooner than later, I’ll hope.
UPDATE… I deleted the video. Why Bloomberg only has auto-play embeds boggles the mind. Anyway, here is the link Enjoy it.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race
Jay Smooth tells us we have something racist in our teeth.
Louis CK - Being White (via Godhatesfatpeople)
The truest and funniest shit ever about the benefits of being white. “Black people can’t fuck with time machines” (ROFL). A must watch. I’ve always liked this cat (raw like Pryor and cringe worthy at times), but this is some of his best stuff.
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Done. Easy. And following fellow mixed American, Barack Obama, I checked “Black.”
Reporter receives $500k prize for investigating decades old hate crimes
I just saw this guy on Colbert and probably like the rest of the audience I was humbled by his actions. With all the talk about the loss of reporting, journalism and newspapers (Which I’ve written about before), Jerry Mitchell is the type of investigative journalist we really can’t afford to be without.
Watch the videos for the story of how Mitchell, after becoming inspired by the movie Mississippi Burning (1989) cracked open a long dormant murder case. In 1964 three young civil rights activists were brutally murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and the crime was never solved. But through Mitchell’s tenacity 25 years later, the perpetrators were eventually convicted and sent to jail.
Mitchell’s winning of the $500,000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship won’t save the jobs of thousands of newspaper reporters, but it will at least draw attention to why, even as we embrace new media, we need to find a way to fund and support serious reporting. It’s simply in society’s interest to.
Jen Kwok - Date An Asian (via jenkwokfunnygirl)
From Angry Asian Man:
Comedian/musician Jen Kwok sends me this silly little music video for “Date an Asian” (NSFW language), her comic ode to “the awesomeness of dating an Asian guy” — who, let’s face it, sometimes need a little love in the form of a smoothed-out R&B joint. My, look who’s getting objectified now.
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