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I Saw These ‘Stunning’ Anchors, But My Jaw Did Not Drop
I
f you are like me, you some-
times find yourself surfing
the Web when you are sup-
posed to be doing some-
thing more important. You
may notice “click bait” that
poses questions like, “What
has happened to these child-
hood stars?” or offers, “Se-
crets of the Mayans revealed.”
Well, the other day I noticed
one that concerned a list with
dozens of allegedly, gorgeous
news anchors called “News
Anchors Who Will Make
Your Jaw Drop.” Out of curi-
osity, I decided to take a look.
Let me tell you what I found.
The list was all women. I
mention that because my
wife’s first comment was that
there are many male news an-
chors and that some of them
are good looking.
For some reason I did not as-
sume that there would be any
men, but that may be my own
blindness.
The second thing was that
Bill
Fletcher Jr.
The Global
African
they were reasonably attrac-
tive, they tended to be on the
younger side, and there was
not one identifiable Black
woman among them. The sto-
“
skinned, not one looking Af-
ro-Latina or, for that matter,
indigenous.
The Asians were all quite
light, with Western looks, and
with not one of them looking
like the browner Asians one
might find in Guam, the Phil-
ippines, Cambodia, Malaysia
or Indonesia, not to mention,
South Asia.
I kept assuming that I would
come across at least one iden-
tifiable Black news anchor.
There were a couple that
ness from the mainstream,
the White supremacist bias
always finds a way to raise its
ugly head.
Beauty remains a category
defined largely in European
terms with a dismissal of the
very notion that beauty can
take myriad forms.
This situation is not reme-
died by the selection of one
identifiably Black person to
fill a quota.
It really goes to the very
basic question of how one
They were reasonably attractive, they tended to be on
the younger side, and there was not one identifiable
Black woman among them
ry does not stop there.
The list included Euro-
peans,
Euro-Americans
(Whites), Latinas and Asians.
Yet the characteristics of all of
the women were European.
The Latinas were all light-
looked like they might have a
little African in them some-
where, but I felt that I was
reaching.
Despite periodic initiatives
towards Black pride and de-
feating efforts to erase Black-
defines beauty and breaking
with the assumption that the
closer we are to the “purer”
European — whatever that
means — the more beautiful
we become.
I will leave it at that.
Sanders and Trump Two Sides of the Same Angry Coin
F
or all their dueling ide-
ologies, Senator Bernie
Sanders and “presump-
tive Republican nomi-
nee” Donald Trump are two
sides of the same coin. Both
of them are angry, so intense-
ly so, that they are inciting
a destructive anger among
their followers. When Repub-
licans brawled and pushed
and shoved at Trump rallies, I
never anticipated the flip side
— the fisticuffs and rhetoric at
the Nevada state Democratic
“
Julianne
Malveaux
NNPA
Columnist
Sanders expected to have
more than 1,500 delegates to
his credit. And now that he
has them he doesn’t know
what to do with them. Both he
and “Duh” Donald are public-
Both the Chump Trumps and the
Burning Bernies are being led by
whining, angry, entitled White
men, separated by ideology, but
joined by both outrage and naiveté
convention, the likes of which
might have put Trump terror-
ists to shame. Both the Chump
Trumps and the Burning Ber-
nies are being led by whining,
angry, entitled White men,
separated by ideology, but
joined by both outrage and
naiveté.
I don’t think either Bernie
or “Duh” Donald planned to
get as far along in the presi-
dential process as they have
so far. Sen. Sanders proudly
carries the redistributionist
flag with rousing rhetoric
about social and economic
justice. His agenda seems
to have been to raise these
issues aggressively and he
did. His presence in the cam-
paign pushed Hillary hard to
the left and made her engage
with constituencies she might
otherwise have ignored. For
all his success, I don’t think
ly floundering, signaling that
they never had a winning -- or
graceful losing -- plan.
Secretary Clinton and her
followers shouldn’t be so hard
on Bernie, though. While they
should not demand that he get
out of the race, he is well ad-
vised to tone is rhetoric down.
I sat with women at the 2008
campaign who sobbed their
way through then-Senator
Clinton’s concession speech
and appeal for party unity. I
debated a PUMA (Party Unity
My “Hind Parts”) activist who
swore she would not support
nominee Obama. In 2008,
Hillary devotees were as pas-
sionate as Bernie devotees are
now. The kumbaya moment
comes in July in Philly -- not
just yet. It reflects poorly on
the Hillary camp to dismiss or
ignore those who are passion-
ate about Senator Sanders.
At the same time, it is im-
portant to note that extreme
anger is a unique privi-
lege of White men. Imagine
then-nominee Obama rag-
ing at Hillary in the way that
Bernie has. His temperament
would have been sliced and
diced and parsed and inspect-
ed and he would have been so
damaged by the conversation
that it might have affected his
electoral results. If Secretary
Clinton ever managed to get
her voice to Bernie’s decibel,
if she every managed to proj-
ect such rage, she’d be written
off as a crazy lady and pe-
ripheralized. But when angry
White men yell and scream
and whine and lie, they are
celebrated not condemned.
That sounds like a double
standard to me.
Both Bernie and “Duh” Don-
ald are whining about rules
they say are rigged against
them, but the rules may have
“
likely to award delegates on
a proportional basis, which
means that a close race might
give each candidate nearly
the same amount of delegates.
Sanders has no standing
to call the system rigged. He
has kept his distance from the
Democratic Party for most of
his career, never participat-
ing in the rules process. If
he wanted to write his own
rules, he should have run for
President as an independent.
Sanders and Trump have
positioned themselves as out-
siders, but they want insiders
to roll out the red carpet for
them because they jumped
into a game they haven’t mas-
tered.
They haven’t worked at
establishing a foundation,
but they are demanding the
keys to the house. They ar-
en’t willing to put the work
into reforming our flawed,
two-party system. Instead,
Both Bernie and “Duh” Donald are
whining about rules they say are
rigged against them, but the rules
may have favored them
favored them. Donald Trump
has garnered a greater per-
centage of delegates than
votes because of the way some
states have chosen to award
delegates. He wants more,
but he failed to invest as
much time learning the rules
as some of his competitors
did. Senator Sanders says he
should have more delegates
-- but if he had to play under
Republican rules, he’d have
fewer. Democrats are more
they are finding unfairness
when none is there, whining
when work might make a dif-
ference, and leveraging their
angry, White maleness into
voter approval.
Julianne Malveaux is an au-
thor and economist based is
Washington, D.C. Her latest
book, “Are We Better Off? Race,
Obama and Public Policy is
available via amazon.com and
juliannemalveaux.com.