Lynching Jessica Pressler
Oooooh, she really did it this time. First it was the 6th Borough of Philly brouharhar, now JP is getting burned for going blackface while sunbathing on a bed of indie rocks and she done irked all the wrong people - HuffPo, Style Dash, Gawker, Gothamist, Colonel K Speaks, and Brooklyn Vegan.
Thing is, she has a point but the unfortunate use of "blipster" ruined it. (Of course, my always-assuming/often-wrong conspiratorial instincts tell me it was a deliberate attempt to pull an atomic Tuskegee-wedgie over the music blog reading public and it worked. Smell the glove, people.) The well-intentioned among us like to fancy themselves as colorblind folk, but I'm sure there was a reason that one of the only black kids who was a regular at punk shows in the Crofton/Annapolis area called himself "tarbaby."
Hint: see The Assimilated Negro.
Thing is, she has a point but the unfortunate use of "blipster" ruined it. (Of course, my always-assuming/often-wrong conspiratorial instincts tell me it was a deliberate attempt to pull an atomic Tuskegee-wedgie over the music blog reading public and it worked. Smell the glove, people.) The well-intentioned among us like to fancy themselves as colorblind folk, but I'm sure there was a reason that one of the only black kids who was a regular at punk shows in the Crofton/Annapolis area called himself "tarbaby."
Hint: see The Assimilated Negro.
