a positive conversation about faces
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“As white people, we are used to representations of ourselves crowding the covers of magazines, crowning the posters of newly released films. The good guys are white, we have learned, after eons of our faces being plastered under cowboy hats and in impeccable Bond suits. White men are Superman, we have learned. White men are Ethan Hunt and Neo and white men are hobbits. Bad men, we have learned, are black. They're gang bangers and thugs and talk loud and sometimes deliver funny lines where we laugh at their Otherness. Black men aren't heroes, we learn. Our imagination and subconscious are so saturated with white supremacist notions of goodness, beauty, and heroism, that when confronted head-on with an image of a black man who is brilliant and kind and normal and who saves the day, we transform into robotic versions of ourselves: Does... not... compute. Hero... must be... white.”

Olivia Cole
Huffington Post

NEXT LIVE SHOW: 2/10/14

OUR BLACK YEAR
THE LIMITS OF WHITE IMAGINATION
RESTORING OPPORTUNITY
$40 MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES

OUR BLACK YEAR – We tell the story of one family’s quest to buy black in America’s racially divided economy.  And, THE LIMITS OF WHITE IMAGINATION – The casting of an intelligent black man in “Hunger Games” reveals how racism is expressed when a stereotype is crossed.  Plus, RESTORING OPPORTUNITY – 2 no nonsense reformers take a hard look at the crisis of inequality and the challenge for American Education.  And $40 MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES – Writer Bill Rhoden reveals the urban and rural “conveyor belt” in big time college sports and the Sports/entertainment complex that benefits owners more than players.

OUR BLACK YEAR
THE LIMITS OF WHITE IMAGINATION
RESTORING OPPORTUNITY
$40 MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES

MONDAY, February 10 - 10:00 am to Noon