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lettersfromtaiwan:

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paach:

THINGS ASIANS HATE by Eliot Chang

three minutes of two-second lines…

tell me again how post-racial america doesn’t engage in anti-asian racism?

Been there, done that, feel ashamed, checking privilege, working on decolonizing my mind and language 

WORTH REPEATING.

(this post was reblogged from lettersfromtaiwan)
themorningnews: From 2008 onward, “Obama” is a prevalent term in racially charged searches. From the article: [In 2008], racial animus cost Mr. Obama three to five percentage points of the popular vote. In other words, racial prejudice gave John McCain the equivalent of a home-state advantage nationally….Increased support and turnout from African-Americans added only about one percentage point to Mr. Obama’s totals.

themorningnews:

From 2008 onward, “Obama” is a prevalent term in racially charged searches.

From the article:

[In 2008], racial animus cost Mr. Obama three to five percentage points of the popular vote. In other words, racial prejudice gave John McCain the equivalent of a home-state advantage nationally….Increased support and turnout from African-Americans added only about one percentage point to Mr. Obama’s totals.
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Men only, no females. The other requirement is that you must have some sort of background that Chinese people typically value. My contact is slightly obsessed with Jewish people and thinks they are the smartest, so he naturally prefers this person to be Jewish. If he can’t get someone Jewish, he would also like someone who went to a famous university — Harvard, Yale, etc. Besides those 2 qualifications, I’m sure he’d be happy with someone who has some sort of connection to someone famous or important, or maybe someone who is really tall and handsome.

Chinese business looking for a few good Jews | FP Passport (via felixsalmon)

Be sure to click through and read about China’s “rent a white guy” business practice.

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shortformblog: NYT decides to show off by making insane demographic map There’s everyone else, and then there’s the NYT. And we’re proven this fact yet again with his crazy demographic map based on U.S. Census data. You can get very detailed with this thang. We think they’re just showing off this time. source Follow ShortFormBlog This reminds me of the maps Eric Fischer made back in September, but the New York Times ups the ante (significantly) with interactivity, newer data, and additional maps. Click for high-res photo

shortformblog:

NYT decides to show off by making insane demographic map

There’s everyone else, and then there’s the NYT. And we’re proven this fact yet again with his crazy demographic map based on U.S. Census data. You can get very detailed with this thang. We think they’re just showing off this time. source

Follow ShortFormBlog

This reminds me of the maps Eric Fischer made back in September, but the New York Times ups the ante (significantly) with interactivity, newer data, and additional maps.

(this post was reblogged from shortformblog)
brain-food: Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a KKK protest in a north Georgia city back in the 80s. The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a Klan hood and robe. I have stared at this picture and wondered what must have been going through that Trooper’s mind. Before the Trooper is an innocent child who is being taught to hate him because of the color of his skin. The child doesn’t understand what he is being taught, and at this point he doesn’t seem to care. Like any other child his curiosity takes hold and he wants to explore this new thing that this man is holding probably because he can see his reflection in it and that’s a neat thing and he wants to check it out. In this picture I see innocence mixed with hate, the irony of a black man protecting the right of white people to assemble in protest against him, temperance in the face of ignorance, and hope that racism can be broken because this young boy may remember that a black man smiled at him once and he didn’t seem so bad after all. (Picture source)(Paragraph source) Wow.  So do we know how the kid turned out, now that he’s an adult? Click for high-res photo

brain-food:

Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a KKK protest in a north Georgia city back in the 80s. The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a Klan hood and robe. I have stared at this picture and wondered what must have been going through that Trooper’s mind. Before the Trooper is an innocent child who is being taught to hate him because of the color of his skin. The child doesn’t understand what he is being taught, and at this point he doesn’t seem to care. Like any other child his curiosity takes hold and he wants to explore this new thing that this man is holding probably because he can see his reflection in it and that’s a neat thing and he wants to check it out. In this picture I see innocence mixed with hate, the irony of a black man protecting the right of white people to assemble in protest against him, temperance in the face of ignorance, and hope that racism can be broken because this young boy may remember that a black man smiled at him once and he didn’t seem so bad after all.

(Picture source)
(Paragraph source)

Wow. 

So do we know how the kid turned out, now that he’s an adult?

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Who’s your neighbor? The racial and ethnic make up of New York (and other cities), mapped. The color scheme could be more, shall we say, direct, but, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, and Orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000.

Who’s your neighbor? The racial and ethnic make up of New York (and other cities), mapped. The color scheme could be more, shall we say, direct, but,

Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, and Orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000.
baltimorehorseshowwinner: Maurice Garin, the first winner of le Tour de France, 1903. Almost a century of suffering, stars and watercarriers. 1903 was good for bicyclists. Later that year, two of them would literally start flying.

baltimorehorseshowwinner:

Maurice Garin, the first winner of le Tour de France, 1903. Almost a century of suffering, stars and watercarriers.

1903 was good for bicyclists. Later that year, two of them would literally start flying.

Uh, well, so now we know.

Uh, well, so now we know.

Feeding the Tour de France riders

As I’ve mentioned before, I have food on my mind pretty much all the time, so I was excited to see these videos of how and what the riders eat.

First up, Team Garmin-Transitions built a custom kitchen from the back end of a van.

It’s pretty nice, but Team Saxo Bank puts them to shame by occupiying an entire semi trailer. Yikes.

From this kitchen, meals tailored for climbing.

Here Team Saxo Bank reveals what’s in the feed bags (musettes) they give out for on-the-go energy replenishment. Near the end of this video, you can also see how insanely fast the riders are, even when they’ve supposedly slowed down for the feed zone.

Finally, this collection of musette contents from Yay Cycling!