BLACK LIVES MATTER, Time Reports. Now, Somebody exhale …

BLACK LIVES MATTER (TIME MAGAZINE for April 20, 2015)

The story about #WalterScott by  David Von Drehle is encouraging, i guess. The problem is that @TIME is no-longer “timely”, they are nearly irrelevant. Maybe the zine should rename itself #SorryWeAreSoLate.

Why suddenly do #BlackLivesMatter to an empire that wielded enough media power 50 years ago to change public perception back then during the mag’s heyday?

And one more that you won’t answer is: Why should readers, cynical and tired of the disconnect between what we know and what we are told to believe, believe in @TIME ?

Yes, your print sales might rise half a per cent. Sensationalism is the only way to sell a physical copy of a zine in 2015. And the mainstream will call you “heroic” but surely only a few talking heads will proudly don their sheepish loyalty to the industry. It’s a tightrope; my guess is that you’ve fully de-evolved into parody.

So while cops get away with murdering Black men there is no reason to expect a community-in-fear to feel safe because of a magazine cover. There’s also no reason at all for #TIME to pat itself on the back.

RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY AND COLOR-BLINDNESS: Two heads of the same horrible monster?

Whites have long held this ridiculous notion that if only we were all color-blind, society’s ills would suddenly dissipate like cigarette smoke. They seem to base it at least part on their fantasies of themselves.

They view their pale skin as a metaphor for transparency. And express fear of the darker shades of Black men. We are reminded that in a color-blind society no-one is conscious of any difference between two different people. Color-blind meant first with a Black man, then a white man, etc.

Of course that is not what is traditionally meant when someone says they’re color-blind. It may as well be. If a truly color-blind society could exist, the problem of white privilege wouldn’t fade. Subconsciously whites would defer to other whites. They would promote only each other. The social problems would exist with or without the racism white supremacy that plagues us.

Poll a crowd of em outside the “good” mall (usuallly the mall on the non-Black side of town). I wager that a majority of those whites interviewed would self-identify as “color-blind.” (Will there soon be a new category on the U.S. Census for that racial/ethnic/delusional group the “color-blinds”)

The partially-fake controversy surrounding the Justin Simien film DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is making some people rich. Essentially Mr. Simien is exploiting the exploitation — which is what good filmmakers specialize in.