Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... Yes, so much this. It's the punching up v punching down problem. .... “Colorblind” or “equal opportunity” comedy ignores relationships of power and historical legacies of oppression. Using slurs against white people today that were used against Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, or Italians at the beginning of the 20th century in the United States does not have the same moral valence as using slurs against Latinos or African Americans. Those ethnic white groups have, using the terms of W.E.B. Du Bois, paid their “wages of whiteness” and transcended, for the most part, their racialized marginalization from dominant society."