Dreems, Dap and Victor

Heems actually, but I mean, look at him.

Awww.

"Bald head man klux klan swine-thinkers."

This one pretty much speaks for itself.

Even red octagons couldn't stop me is a line from "You Can Sell Anything." I love how Heems is not afraid to reference HIMSELF(/his own lyrics.) He does it a fair amount on his blog Nehru Jackets.

Eliot Aronow Interviews Das Racist

That poor white boy looks fucking terrified. It's almost like he knows what he's gotten himself into, but not quite.

Das Racist answers Ford Models' Questions

Listening to their raps and watching their interviews, it seems like they really are telling the industry to "shut up," byt refusing to take themselves, or the process of becoming celebrities seriously.

Band Crush: Das Racist

I became fascinated with Das Racist when I realized they almost never take themselves seriously in interviews. In fact, they tend to mock the process.

"Himanshu says that Das Racist is about pan-brownism."

i think Das Racist is a project about race with some jokes and pop culture and internet references in orbit around the race issues, and not vice versa...

"i want to mention that almost everything Himanshu tells me is directly or indirectly about race or discrimination, like his friend's "lineage" or how the firm he worked for was run by south asians for the purpose of finding jobs for other south asians, how his tattoo is about recent waves of immigration and like twenty other things that you'll notice. he is preoccupied with brown peoples' exclusion when he talks about race, and he is sort of on a constant quest to highlight discrimination and explain the world through the lens of being brown."

It begins...

I have become obsessed with the hip-hop group Das Racist. More on that soon. Also, WHY DOES CHRIS BROWN STILL HAVE A CAREER? Really, though.

Welcome.

Hey everybody.

I used to do a blog called "Angry Black-White Girl." I'm not really angry anymore. I mean, I'm still passionate about changing the injustices in the world, but I am no longer characterized by the kind of righteous indignation that felt like one of my defining features when I started ABWG blog. I'm less in a place of having to feel like a have to prove that I'm a person of color and down for the cause because I am light-skinned and mixed-race. Having just graduated from college with a degree in Ethnic Studies, I'm more in a place of "WTF do I do now?" Not just for money, but also with the weight of the world which my studies have exposed me too and my professors have bestowed upon me. I spent this last semester studying how fucked up the American prison, welfare and immigration systems are.  When I wasn't doing that, I was researching blackface minstrelsy and queer and transgender suicide for my thesis on how QTPOC (queer and transgender people of color's) performance art can save lives. I am very glad to be done with school. My eyes have been opened, but it's hard to figure out what to do with all this new and overwhelming(ly) depressing knowledge. But don't worry, this blog won't all just me wringing my hands about what I'm gonna do with the rest of my life. It will still have the kinds of social commentary, news updates and cultural obsessions that ABWG brought you. However, unlike ABWG, instead of posting so much depressing stuff that I eventually devolve into just posting dance videos, I'm going to try and keep a more even balance or serious stuff, fun stuff and more general musings. Please keep the comments coming.