Bitch Anarchy

Native Americans, First Nations, and Indigenous peoples have always been mistreated in their own lands. First, most of them were the victims of a brutal genocide by the White settlers who stole their land. Second, they were cheated out of the land in tricky ways, and the promises made by the White governments that took…

Have you ever heard of Anna May (sometimes spelled Mae) Wong? She was the first American of Asian descent to become a celebrity in Hollywood, though her career was sidelined by the types of roles she was pigeon-holed in, such as ‘dragon lady’, ‘exotic seductress’, you know the types. We still see those stereotypes today…

We all know that White men can get away with saying & doing things that others can only get away with by keeping them deep down inside and not letting anyone else know a bout them, and Joe Rogan is a prime example of this. His extremely popular podcast – though how it is popular…

I can say ‘not all White people’, ‘not all liberals’, ‘not all Asians’, ‘not all Blacks, ‘not all Muslims’, ‘not all Hispanics’, etc. I can say this for every group of people except conservatives mainly because every conservative person I’ve met, known, or heard of has either 1) said something racist or that could be…

Australia, one of those other White colonizer countries that many Americans hold up as a shining example of the type of country that the United States should aim to be more like, is guilty as hell of treating their indigenous people as if the natives were not even human. I have the movie Rabbit Proof…

One group of people I cannot stand are the BIPOC (and LGBTQ) community members who fully embrace systemic racism and White supremacy, who marry White people thinking it’s going to do something for them – like make them less colored, I guess. – and who vote Republican as if it’s a matter of life and…

Systemic racism is not a uniquely American problem. It exists in Canada particularly where the First Nations are concerned, it exists in Australia against the Aboriginal people (I will write about this later) and New Zealand against the Maori, and it definitely exists in Europe. I should know, I have been to Europe several times…

Twenty years ago, at Hollywood’s brand new Kodak Theatre, Sidney Poitier, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington all took home Oscars. What a night for people of color in Tinsel Town! But it was a long time coming, and a damned hard road to travel as well. In the long history of the Academy of Motion…

While Nat King Cole integrated Hancock Park, years earlier a different Black man started a motion picture company that would be the first to portray Black Americans as real people and not racist caricatures in the manner that White directed, produced, and written films did. Noble Johnson – later known as Mark Noble – was…

It began with a silent movie titled The Birth of a Nation, based upon the book & play The Clansman by racist author & Baptist minister (among other positions) North Carolinian Thomas Dixon Jr – which D. W. Griffith turned into one of the most widely talked about films of all time in 1915. That…