Florilegia

ktempest:

jhameia:

mountainousmoundymarmalade:

rakalak:

i mean, there’s dante basco and mako—-

WHOA, JUST GOT THAT— mako in legend of korra is named after the voice actor who played uncle iroh until he passed? omgggg

but all the other main characters (or most of them? i think?) are white. according to imdb.

i… okay.

i know, right? that’s the one thing i struggle with the very very most. is that two of the strongest indigenous women characters on television have been voiced by two white women. i know the total babe from hawai’i 5O has voiced a couple of characters, and in the last airbender, the guy who plays the govenor who put aang on trial was used repeatedly through the show and is a pretty prolific actor.

but that’s about it, that are the major characters at least. it makes me wonder if they don’t have much of a budget for voice actors, so they can’t put the effort into training a new actor like we’ve seen in other situations (like: pixar trained several kids, including the voice of kid in UP)—i don’t think many of the people whose voice talent they use were brand spanking new. and if it’s an industry dominated by white folks, then it becomes one of those “never challenged” situations.

but either way, it surprised me too, cuz they’ve been SO good about working with and empowering the artists they work with in korea, and making sure that korean talent is throughout the entire process—it’s surprising that they don’t have access to korean voice talent at the very least…

The voice acting pool is pretty small, and I feel for some reason producing companies don’t feel it necessary to widen the pool, because it’s not like people notice anyway, or something like that. (This is how Jim Cummings is in like almost every cartoon from the 90’s.) It is totally an industry dominated by white folks, but there are POC here and there (Keith Richards, anybody?).

Did you mean David Keith (voice of Goliath)? And yes, from what I understand it’s very hard to break into voice acting b/c it’s a very insular little community. And the POC who do get in tend to be in EVERYTHING because they ain’t lettin’ no one else in!

The two that come to mind right away are Cree Summer, who is almost guaranteed to show up if a character is black and female, and Phil Lamarr, who shows up a lot when a character is black and male. Though interestingly, on the Avengers cartoon he is NOT the voice of Black Panther, but of J.A.R.V.I.S.

I don’t know why the voice acting community is so insular. The fact that it is creates this problematic thing around race. If you don’t have a deep pool to draw from in the first place, then most everyone is going to be white. I’m willing to accept that voice acting is different from other acting and you don’t want to bring in someone random who can’t handle it. But then I think about how all those Disney and Pixar and Dreamworks movies get big name stars who have never done voice acting and they seem to do a fine job and I think: shenanigans are happening here.

Really interesting reading the above, and it’s not something to which I’d ever given much thought, BUT, I just wanted to throw out there the fact that OMG I ONLY JUST NOTICED GEORGE TAKEI VOICED THE LEAD FIRE NATION DOOD IN “IMPRISONED” OMG OMG.

That is all.

ktempest:

I’m on it.

tariqk:

searchingforknowledge:

pengaling:

Do not fucking use this phrase if you are engaging in a debate/argument with me. I will crawl through my computer screen, find you and punch you in the fucking nose.

Actually, just stop using this phrase PERIOD.

If a POC has internalised racism, call them out on it, but to say they are ‘white-identifying?’ what the fuck is that bullshit?

If a woman has internalised sexism, do we say she is ‘male-identifying’.

And lol, white people who tell POC they are ‘white identifying’, there is a special place in hell for you. 

yes “male-dentifying” is a term that is used.

I don’t understand the rage. I mean, I’m pretty sure this dude was a “white-identifying” POC, even though his biological father was Arabic.

Actually, up until September 11, Arabs were White, although, you know, Not Quite White. And of course, post-9/11, you’d have a hard time not finding someone who considered Arabs “not quite human enough”, much less not quite white enough, but hey.

Mind you, if you’re pissed-off with how so many Caucasians are using a term used to describe edge cases to their unequivocally White selves, sure, I get that. But the phrase does have functional utility, especially for POC who can “pass”, and do so.

I think the issue is whether someone is expressing themselves as white-identified (for the reasons tariqk mentions) or someone is telling someone else that they are white-identified in a case where they have internalised racism. The latter’s just not cool.

anticapitalist:

The 10 Most Disturbing Facts About Racial Inequality in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

1. While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men of color: 1 in every 15 African American men and 1 in every 36 Hispanic men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men.

2. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. Individuals of color have a disproportionate number of encounters with law enforcement, indicating that racial profiling continues to be a problem. A report by the Department of Justice found that blacks and Hispanics were approximately three times more likely to be searchedduring a traffic stop than white motorists. African Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.

3. Students of color face harsher punishments in school than their white peers, leading to a higher number of youth of color incarcerated. Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement. Currently, African Americans make uptwo-fifths and Hispanics one-fifth of confined youth today.

4. According to recent data by the Department of Education, African American students are arrested far more often than their white classmates. The data showed that 96,000 students were arrested and 242,000 referred to law enforcement by schools during the 2009-10 school year. Of those students, black and Hispanic students made up more than 70 percent of arrested or referred students. Harsh school punishments, from suspensions to arrests, have led to high numbers of youth of color coming into contact with the juvenile-justice system and at an earlier age.

5. African American youth have higher rates of juvenile incarceration and are more likely to be sentenced to adult prison. According to the Sentencing Project, even though African American juvenile youth are about 16 percent of the youth population, 37 percent of their cases are moved to criminal court and 58 percent of African American youth are sent to adult prisons.

6. As the number of women incarcerated has increased by 800 percentover the last three decades, women of color have been disproportionately represented. While the number of women incarcerated is relatively low, the racial and ethnic disparities are startling. African American women are three times more likely than white women to be incarcerated, while Hispanic women are 69 percent more likely than white women to be incarcerated.

7. The war on drugs has been waged primarily in communities of color where people of color are more likely to receive higher offenses.According to the Human Rights Watch, people of color are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs than whites, but they have higher rate of arrests. African Americans comprise 14 percent of regular drug users but are 37 percent of those arrested for drug offenses. From 1980 to 2007 about one in three of the 25.4 million adults arrested for drugs was African American.

8. Once convicted, black offenders receive longer sentences compared to white offenders. The U.S. Sentencing Commission stated that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10 percent longer than white offenders for the same crimes. The Sentencing Project reports that African Americans are 21 percent more likely to receive mandatory-minimum sentences than white defendants and are 20 percent more like to be sentenced to prison.

9. Voter laws that prohibit people with felony convictions to vote disproportionately impact men of color. An estimated 5.3 million Americans are denied the right to vote based on a past felony conviction. Felony disenfranchisement is exaggerated by racial disparities in the criminal-justice system, ultimately denying 13 percent of African American men the right to vote. Felony-disenfranchisement policies have led to 11 states denying the right to vote to more than 10 percent of their African American population.

10. Studies have shown that people of color face disparities in wage trajectory following release from prison. Evidence shows that spending time in prison affects wage trajectories with a disproportionate impact on black men and women. The results show no evidence of racial divergence in wages prior to incarceration; however, following release from prison, wages grow at a 21 percent slower rate for black former inmates compared to white ex-convicts. A number of states have bans on people with certain convictions working in domestic health-service industries such as nursing, child care, and home health care—areas in which many poor women and women of color are disproportionately concentrated.

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*DIES OF ADORE*