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Mapping Black Santa Claus: How And Where To Find St. Nicks Of Color

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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T he annual holiday ritual of waiting in long lines so your children can appeal to Santa Claus for presents is officially upon us. But as America’s collective skin color skews increasingly darker, so are the men dressing up as St. Nicholas to accommodate the demand from families of color who want their children to see a Kris Kringle they can ethnically identify with. Enter Christmas 2017, where there are seemingly more Black Santas peppered across the nation’s map than ever before. You can find them at malls, churches, schools, community centers and maybe even just walking down your block, depending on where you live. But the overarching point here is that you can find them easier than ever, which wasn’t really the case just a few years ago. READ MORE: Tamron Hall Posts ‘Woke’ Black Santa Statue Photo On Instagram From the Pacific northwest to rural Georgia, and a handful of spots in between, the U.S. has more Black Santas on deck than ever before. But to simplify things a bit for those looking for them, News One has created this handy little interactive tool to help you map where exactly to find one or more Black Santas during this holiday season. Just click on the point located nearest to you to find the closest Black Santa to your town. Strangely enough, or perhaps not strangely at all depending on who you ask, there are a number of Black Santa Clauses concentrated in Indianapolis and North Carolina. On the other hand, not surprisingly, the same is true for the metro Atlanta area. Maybe most notably is Santa Larry , the Black Santa Claus who last year began making appearances at the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis. He has triumphantly resumed his post this season at the largest shopping center in the U.S., an indication of the type of demand he and other Black Santas have generated in recent years. READ MORE: First Black Santa Comes To Mall Of America But more important that reinforcing the fictional legend of a seasonal gift-giver based on the premise of good behavior, parents who take their kids to see Black Santa will get to introduce the idea of diversity and Black identity into their children’s collective consciousness. “We are so bombarded by Caucasian images of things that are considered good, that I want [my children] to have the experience, too,” Crystal Mozell, an African-American living in Los Angeles,  told the International Business Times in 2015. Please let us know if we missed any locations where to find Black Santa and we will update our map. Seasons greetings! SEE ALSO: Sundial Co-Founder Talks Unilever Acquisition, SheaMoisture And Representing For ‘The Culture’ Robert Mueller’s Russia Collusion Probe Heats Up With Michael Flynn Charges [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3478918″ overlay=”true”]

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SMH: Cops Lock Up 12-Year-Old Indian Boy For 3 Days After Racist Bullies Accuse Him Of Having A Bomb

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Armaan Singh Sarai Locked Up For 3 Days After Bully Accuses Him Of Bomb Threat A 12-year-old Indian boy was locked up for 3 days after a bully at his school accused him of making a bomb to blow up the campus according to International Business Times reports: A Sikh 12-year-old spent about three days in a juvenile detention center this week after police arrested him at school in what some are comparing to the case of “clock kid” Ahmed Mohamed. Armaan Singh Sarai, a 7th-grader in Arlington, Texas, was accused of making a terrorist threat, though his family and the police were still arguing over on the circumstances days later, the Dallas Morning News reported. The Arlington Independent School District alerted the local police department Dec. 11 after Armaan allegedly threatened to blow up his junior high school using a bomb in his backpack. Officers searched his bag but found no explosives, the Arlington Voice reported. Though Armaan said he was just kidding, the police arrested him. “Unfortunately, when things like this occur, we do take this very seriously,” Lt. Christopher Cook told the local NBC affiliate. “Whether it’s written or spoken, when it crosses the line and causes this type of alarm, this panic in the community, that’s when it really rises into this terroristic threat statute that’s on the books.” Armaan went to juvenile detention. The school district said it notified his parents where he was, but the family said they panicked when he went missing. That wasn’t the only part of the story they were fighting over. In a viral Facebook post Tuesday, Armaan’s cousin Ginee Haer wrote that “a bully in his class thought it would be funny to accuse him of having a bomb” and “without any questioning, interrogation or notification to his parents, called the police.” Discuss. Facebook

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Lightskinned Privilege: “Skin Tone Memory Bias” Study Shows Successful Black Men Are Remembered With Paler Complexions

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Skin Tone Memory Bias Study: Educated Black Men Perceived Whiter Skin tone memory bias study shows an educated black man is thought to be lighter and perceived as “whiter”… According to International Business Times: Evidence of underlying cultural beliefs about race and intelligence has been uncovered by researchers, who found successful black men are often remembered as “whiter” than they actually are. Published in the open access journal Sage Open, researchers found that cultural beliefs about race and intelligence are still rife, with authors saying their study has “grave implications” for current racial attitudes. Lead researcher Avi Ben-Zeev, from San Francisco State University, said: “When a black stereotypic expectancy is violated – herein, encountering an educated Black male – this culturally incompatible information is resolved by distorting this person’s skin tone to be lighter in memory and therefore to be perceived as ‘whiter’.” The authors called the phenomenon, where black men associated with being intelligent are remembered as having lighter skin, “skin tone memory bias”. They conducted a two part experiment with 160 university students. In the first, participants were subliminally exposed to one of two words – ignorant or educated. This was immediately followed by a photograph of a black man’s face. At a later stage, participants were shown seven photographs that depicted the same face – the original, three with lighter skin and three with darker skin. They were then asked to pick which picture was the one they had seen originally. Findings showed that participants primed with the word “educated” showed more memory errors in picking lighter skin-toned pictures than those who had subliminally seen with word “ignorant”. Ben-Zeev said: “Uncovering a skin tone memory bias, such that an educated Black man becomes lighter in the mind’s eye, has grave implications. We already know from past researchers about the disconcerting tendency to harbour more negative attitudes about people with darker complexions (e.g., the darker a Black male is, the more aggressive he is perceived to be). “A skin tone memory bias highlights how memory protects this ‘darker is more negative’ belief by distorting counter-stereotypic Black individuals’ skin tone to appear lighter and perhaps to be perceived as less threatening.” Interesting. What are your thoughts?

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Sharkeisha Video, Reactions Slammed By Anti-Bullying Groups

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The video showing a Houston teen named Sharkeisha beating up another girl is still getting heavy play on social media and blogs over a week after it went viral. Anti-bullying groups and others aren’t pleased about that, either, particularly when it comes to people cheering on the girl and her vicious sucker punch. Sharkeisha Video The video was uploaded to Instagram last week before being removed due to terms of use violations. It has also been yanked from Twitter and Facebook. Still, Sharkeisha remains a hot topic across the web, and the Anti-Bullying Alliance is condemning it, as well as the act of sharing violence online. The group’s Luke Roberts told the International Business Times: “It is important that young people, the media industry, government and parents work together to make young people feel protected when online.” “It is important to remind young people that what they put online is permanent and difficult to take down,” he added of the video’s staging and sharing. “Young people don’t seem to comprehend that what you do at 14 might affect you when you are 19 looking for a job,” he said, stating the obvious. Sharkeisha may have trouble getting one after this, we’re guessing. Sharkeisha: Fight Video Heard ‘Round the World Kidscape’s Director of Services, Peter Bradley, said the bigger issue here is that lots of people enjoyed watching and sharing the video in question: “These actions illustrate thousands of young people who have taken a part in an attack on an innocent young woman and the images posted on the internet.” Demetria L. Lucas, an editor with the Root, denounced the apparent glorification of the violence in the Sharkeisha video on Twitter and Facebook: “It’s a vulgar display of violence, a tragic depiction of someone lacking anger management and humanity and a shocking example of just how wayward some teens are.” “Sharkeisha’s reaction to a petty dispute over, likely, a boy who didn’t care about either of these girls is a clear-cut case of assault.” “This isn’t funny. At all. This isn’t entertainment to get through the workday. The way that girl was kicked in the face could have resulted in her death.” Sharkeisha Victim Speaks Out! Sharkeisha victim Shamichael Manuel told KHOU-TV that Sharkeisha used to be her friend before this, and that she was invited over after school. Little did she know she would be assaulted in cowardly fashion. She says she was set up by Sharkeisha and others, punched and kicked when she wasn’t even looking in what was a pathetic act of senseless brutality. VOTE: Should Sharkeisha be arrested for this attack?   Yes. Look at what she did! No. She deserves a similar cowardly beating instead. No. It’s between the two of them. Everybody just back off … View Poll »

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Daaaaayyyuum: Korean Model Mangles Her Face By Injecting It With Cooking Oil After Doctors Refused To Do Plastic Surgery [Before & After Photos]

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Model Severely Damages Her Face By Injecting Cooking Oil In Plastic Surgery Attempt A Korean model who became addicted to plastic surgery has now done irreversible damage to her face after she took measures into her own hands when doctors refused to perform any more surgery. via International Business Times A former Korean model addicted to plastic surgery injected cooking oil into her face when doctors refused to perform any more cosmetic operations on her. Hang Mioku, now about 50 years old, has been left with an badly disfigured face following her desperate attempt to attain softer and smoother skin. Mioku had her first plastic surgery when she was 28 years old, and soon became obsessed. She moved to Japan to pursue her career and underwent several more bouts of surgery, Mail Online reports. However, after undergoing repeated operations to enhance her looks, doctors refused to provide her with any more silicone injections when her face became noticeably enlarged. A desperate Mioku then injected an entire bottle of black market silicone into her face and finally decided to inject cooking oil, leaving her cheeks and forehead severely swollen and scarred. Following the do-it-yourself beauty treatment, Mioku was left so disfigured that her own parents could not recognise her. When doctors analysed her, it was confirmed she was suffering from a psychological disorder. All of this to be what she thought was “more beautiful.” SMH. Hit the flip for a timline of pics showing the evolution of Hang’s face from model to plastic surgery nightmare, on the flip… Photo Credit: YouTube/Pinkfreud62

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Hoy En Mi Gente News: Latinos Aren’t Feeling New Passport And Chihuaha Toting “Mexican Barbie” Too Tough

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Soooo what exactly are they trying to say with the accessories though? Parents beware. Mattel is under fire for opening the door on the ugly immigration debate with their latest toy. Via International Business Times reports : A new Mexican Barbie in Mattel’s “Dolls of the World” series has sparked outrage for what opponents argue is an offensive depiction of Mexican culture. According to Fox News Latino, the new line of Barbie dolls was launched to appeal to a more “diverse generation” of customers and boasts a number of dolls from Latin America. But the Mexican Barbie, its newest addition, sparked a particular backlash when journalist Laura Martinez mocked it on her blog, writing, “The folks over at Mattel are so smart, that not only they have come up with a Mexican Barbie, but they have given her all the possible tools to go around the U.S. the world undisturbed [sic].” By “tools,” Martinez was referring not to the Barbie’s fiesta dress and pet Chihuahua, but more specifically, to the passport and sticker sheet she came with. “It is not for me to inform you about the ‘play value’ that a passport provides, so go ahead! Play with your Barbie Mexicana and don’t even think of calling her indocumentada,” Martinez wrote. While the bright pink passport isn’t specific to the Mexican Barbie (a passport comes included with all of the Barbies in the “Dolls of the World” collection, which was created in 1980) its inclusion struck a nerve among readers on sites like Twitter and Reddit. “’Mexican Barbie’: Only doll in International Collection that needs to show her passport. Unbelievable,” Twitter user @CSGRealty wrote. “Uh, #clueless? Mexican Barbie: Doll Comes With Documentation And Passport” journalist @AnneKeramer tweeted. In an interview with Fox News, Chairman and Co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Felix Sanchez didn’t seem to take issue with the passport, but he said that Mattel could stand to modernize their dolls and make them less stereotypical. “It would be nice to see some contemporary images from these countries,” Sanchez said. “These images seem very dated and seem to have been created for a different time.” Sara Rosales, a spokeswoman for Mattel, said that the Barbie was created to help foster learning and appreciation of different countries and cultures. “Girls enjoy exploring the world and learning about different cultures through play,” Rosales said. “The Barbie brand understands the significance of introducing new cultures to girls in a relatable way.” If all the dolls come with a passport it doesn’t seem like a huge issue, but times are definitely changing and all corporations need to come with some serious cultural sensitivity training. Do you take issue with Mexican Barbie or is this just another excuse for people to get riled up over every little thing?

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Elsewhere In The World: Freakazoid Chinese Man Sentenced To Death After Cops Find Slave Cave Under His Crib!

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Chinese government doesn’t play when it comes to the death penalty… According to the International Business Times , this lunatic had six women imprisoned, and cops only found out about his dungeon after one of his victims escaped! A man has been sentenced to death in China for keeping six women in a dungeon as slaves and then murdering two of them. Li Hao, 35, was found guilty of murder, assault, organized prostitution, illegal detention, and spreading adult films for profit. He was given the death penalty at the Luoyan Luoyang Intermediate People’s Court in Henan Province, Xinhua news agency has said. The court heard how Li had dug the dungeon himself under a basement he had bought in Luoyang in 2009. He would trick the women into going there and then kept them prisoner, the court said. The six women had been imprisoned for between two and 21 months. Li repeatedly assaulted the women, forced them to have intercourse with customers, and made them appear in obscene web shows. His motive, police said, was to make money by forcing the women into prostitution and appear in his shows. Two of the women were killed while they were kept in the dungeon. Three more of Li’s prisoners were also found guilty of murder; in one case Li had instructed the women to kill. The court allowed the women leniency for committing these crimes as they took place under extreme circumstances – one received a three year jail sentence and the other two were put on probation. Li’s dungeon was discovered after one of his victims escaped and reported her captor to the police. Prior to his imprisonment, Li had been a clerk for Luoyang’s technological supervision bureau. He was married and had an eight-month-old baby when he was arrested last year. He’s got some pretty twisted skeletons in his closet. Images via tumblr

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Racism Across The Pond: British Police Officer Says…”All Black People Look Like Monkeys And Live In Mud Huts”

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

This shady son of a beyotch just looks like his lips spew out racist remarks allll day long! According to International Business Times: A police officer has appeared before magistrates in London for telling a colleague that black people “look like moneys”. PC Costas Dakoutros said that PC Kevin Hughes, of Brentwood, Essex, made the comments while they were on patrol after seeing three black men standing on the pavement. Prosecutor Kate Wilkinson told Westminster magistrates court how Hughes turned to Dakoutros and said: “Look at them, they look like f*****g monkeys.” She said: “PC Dakoutros looked shocked and said ‘You can’t say that’.” Hughes replied: “No, but it’s true.” Wilkinson continued: “He began to deliberate that they [black people] were closely related to chimpanzees and then said they were more closely related to Neanderthals.” Another colleague, who was also in the car at the time, is alleged to have heard Hughes say: “Black people hadn’t evolved and lived in mud huts in Africa.” Following the shift, Dakoutros wrote an email to himself detailing events, which read: “Kevin looked at three IC3 (black) males and stated they looked like monkeys.” Hughes denied the charge and said he was commenting on the way one man was walking. Wilkinson said: “[Hughes] said he didn’t recall seeing three black males but said he saw someone with a certain gait who walked like a monkey and he had said to PC Dakoutros something about a monkey.” Word??? Just imagine what kind of isht they’ve said that was not heard. And y’all thought it was bad here in the U.S. SMH.

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Some Random Patriotic Ridiculousness: Man Transforms Himself Into Human Flag

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Man Transforms Himself Into Human Flag Just in time for Independence Day. A Taiwanese man is about to embark on a six-month world tour during which he’ll repeatedly transform himself into a human flag, reports ITN. He first began the stunt at train stations around Taiwan last year. Known as the “Taiwan Floatman,” the 29-year-old balances on poles while sporting a t-shirt printed with the Taiwan flag and the word “Taiwan” shaved into his head. To capture his patriotic move, his partner takes photos of him holding the horizontal position. According to the International Business Times, the cyclist says he plans to spread the word about Taiwan as he visits countries around the world. Happy Fourth of July. Source Image via Youtube

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