race : Brett Fish

Taboo Topics: Race – The Panel – Questions from you about Race-related things – Q1: Framing our Identity?

A short while ago i introduced this panel to you made up of friends of mine from South Africa who are from a variety of different race groups/backgrounds and then invited you to ask any race-related questions you might have. The opinions of the members of the panel are in no way expected to represent the thoughts, feelings and ideas of a whole race group or culture, nor are they anticipated to be complete expositions [...]

By brettfish|2014-05-30T12:55:27+02:00May 30th, 2014|challenging thorts, change the world, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, people, thorts of other people|0 Comments

some thoughts on Truth in terms of coffee and life and race-related things [meet Susan Hayden]

This is a reblogged post courtesy of Susan Hayden who posts some worthwhile musings over at Disco Pants & A Mountain - you should check her out... but this felt really relevant to some of our recent race conversations and so i asked her if i could add it here... When you’re told a coffee shop is the best coffee shop in the world and that coffee shop is not in New York or [...]

By brettfish|2014-05-21T09:55:07+02:00May 21st, 2014|activities, change the world, pain and Hope, shtupidt people, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – Identity and What makes me me?

Here are simply a collection of stories from people who have lived in countries or areas of diversity and have a race theme to a part of their story which they have so graciously decided to share with us: Meet Deborah Dowlath [Trinidad and Tobago] Meet Kevin Lloyd James Lok [South Africa] Meet Caley Daniels [South Africa] Meet Susan Hayden [reblog of 'Disco Pants & a Mountain' post]

By brettfish|2014-05-16T16:24:47+02:00May 16th, 2014|friends and enemas, pain and Hope, people, shtupidt people, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – What makes a person? – Meet Kevin Lloyd James Lok

What makes a person? What makes me, me? For me I’ve struggled with identity for my entire Life – one of the biggest struggles I’ve had over my identity is the one over ‘race’ (now many would consider it strange for a white guy to struggle with identity over race and don’t get me wrong – I’ve never thought I am not white) the reasons being that I was brought up (My mom assisted [...]

By brettfish|2014-05-16T08:03:47+02:00May 16th, 2014|change the world, friends and enemas, pain and Hope, shtupidt people, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – Don't be colour blind, be colour brave!

i just watched this TED talk by a woman called Mellody Hobson on the introduction of a topic she called 'Colour Braveness' While the focus of the clip is very much from a 'The American Dream' point of view, and so doesn't necessarily have the end point i would focus on [become a CEO of a company!] there are some interesting and helpful points she raises and so it is well worth a viewing... Some [...]

By brettfish|2014-05-07T21:03:46+02:00May 7th, 2014|change the world, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, people, thorts of other people, what i am watching|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – Mixed Race Connections – Meet James Davis and Sherrell Nesmith

American-African meets African-American. We met at university; both of us were on student leadership for our respective halls. Sherrell’s from Durham, NC. James is from Cape Town, South Africa (Well, mostly). Naturally, there are a lot of cultural differences we’ve discovered along the way. For starters, we have different likes and dislikes, some of them diametrically opposite each other, ranging from the superficial, like our tastes in music and to how we like to [...]

By brettfish|2014-05-07T05:56:31+02:00May 7th, 2014|love and chocolate, people, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – What I would love my white friends to hear – Meet John Scheepers

One of the most insidious forms of racism or paternalism is to take the voice of another away from them. I do not intend to speak for black people in this post and so rob them of their own dignity and humanity. You see, I am white and so I can only ever speak as a white male. While I can resist speaking for another I can choose to speak with another so adding strength [...]

By brettfish|2014-05-06T16:51:15+02:00May 6th, 2014|change the world, friends and enemas, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, shtupidt people, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – Some thoughts from the Internet – on White Privilege and Post-Racial America

Let's crank this thing up a notch. Two articles that have caught my attention recently [Thankx Tsholofelo for the first one] and have a lot to say in this Race conversation that we've started and are engaging with each other on [although am still hoping to see more of that]. These feel like they could be part of the 'can of worms' and 'Pandora's Box' i was promised [threatened with?] when i said that i [...]

By brettfish|2016-02-25T11:17:20+02:00April 22nd, 2014|challenging thorts, pain and Hope, people, shtupidt people, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – What I would love my white friends to hear – Meet Tasha Melissa Govender

Having a read through a post on this blog and having a little chat about it on Facebook, I got offered a chance to offer my opinion. And since I love talking, not race relations, but people relations I really couldn’t pass up the opportunity. Please know that the little irks below are meant to help and enhance not bring down or hurt. So dearest non-melanin-having folk, here are a few little tips to help [...]

By brettfish|2014-04-20T22:11:47+02:00April 20th, 2014|challenging thorts, change the world, inspire-ations, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – Meet Hari Kodabolu, some humour and the insulting idea of 'The other'

Changing tack a little bit on this whole race conversation as we bring a little humour into it. Comedian Hari Kondabolu appears on the David Letterman show and shares some race-related humour which becomes deeply insightful when you take a moment to realise some of the truths that the comedy is bases on and especially as he dives into the highly insulting idea of group of people from different races or cultures being classified simply as [...]