檳榔嶼

一個自由、平等、博愛的世界，不需要去排名誰比較民主、誰女權進步、誰比較適合居住。因為有歧視、有不公平，才會有排名。或許妳會以為，黑人的種族歧視關我們什麼事，當我們這樣想的時候，我們心裡就沒有愛。別人的事不會跟我們無關，種族歧視、性別歧視、階級歧視...都是歧視，只是對象不同，在這樣的世界裡，如果無法有意識的活著，沒有人能擺脫壓迫跟被壓迫。

我們就從來不曾從黑人/女人的角度想過好萊塢電影裡的黑人/女人角色，這對她們來說是什麼意義。

我相信，要得到身心靈的滿足，先從愛自己開始，於是要先從放棄那些讓自己舒適的所有習慣開始。因為那些舒適，是讓我們安心甘於受宰制的枷鎖，是裹著糖衣的毒藥。


- Instead, we keep paying far more attention to our work than to loving others.
  - We spend more time cleaning our houses than caring for our relationships. We do whatever our 'thing' is and tend not to get around to love.
- Wanting too much affection, either verbal or physical, was a sgin of not growing up. Often we were taught that cultivating the ability to hide and mask emotions was central to the process of maturation.
- We were expected to surrender attachment to all notions of love with the exception of romantic love. Love was not always a central agenda.
- An unequal world waiting to tell us we were inferior, not smart enough, unworthy of love.
- Everyone knew that the lighter you were the luckier you were. And everyone judged you on the basis of your skin color.
- The world outside the home, which constantly reminded us that black was not the color to be, that the darker you were, the more you would suffer.
- Paradoxically in that black world we saw blaceness revered and we saw it treated as the mark of shame.
- Susan Douglas, <<Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media>> : "Here we have Lana Turner as Laura, a selfish, blond bitch who is always primping in front of mirror and is obsessed with her career. She is...the mother who once she gets a taste of professional success, callously relegates her child to the care of others so she can claw her way to the top. The word sacrifice means nothing to this bloodsucker."
  - To our young black eyes, it was Sarah Jane who embodied the new and troubling image. To black viewers, she symbolized a new rebellious generation who wanted access to the same opportunities their white counterparts desired, including a white partner. Her punishment was a warning to all of us; it was meant to keep us in our place.
- Contrary to the movie version, in real life mothers who sacrifice everything usually want something in return, whether it be obedience to their will, constant devotion, or something else.
  - Many females who sacrifice everything are rageful and bitter. They may act out that rage in domineering and/or controlling behavior.
  - We now know that this is not a gesture of love.
- When the contemporary feminist movement began, it helped many women to see that the sacrificial model was really designed by patriarchal men to keep women subordinated.
  - It helped women distinguish between being a loving mother and an anti-loving model which required that women repress all their own needs and desires to serve others.
  - Some women were disturbed when feminist thinkers compelled everyone to acknowledge that the self-sacrificing woman was rarely genuinely loving, no matter how nurturing and caring her actions might appear.
- Black women who embrace this ideal often have the most tragic stories to tell of use, exploitation, and abandonment.
- Often women cling to this model because it is the only available positive image, one that is constantly reinforced by mass media.
- Collectively black folks refuse to acknowledge that selfless maternal giving is a sign of neither self-love nor strength.
- The callous, cynical, narcissistic female has no understanding of love.
- Significantly, if black women are to choose love, we must rebel against both these models of desirable womanhood the sacrificial martyr and the selfish diva. Nowadays hip-hop culture often idealizes the out-for-what-she-can-get, "what have you done for me lately" bitch goddess.
  - But neither the opportunistic, greedy, self-involved diva nor the long-suffering maternal martyr represents self-loving womanhood.
- To choose love, we must choose a healthy model of female agency and self-actualization, one rooted in the understanding that when we love ourselves well (not in a selfish or narcissistic way), we are best able to love others.
  - When we have healthy self-love, we know that individuals in our lives who demand of us self-destructive martyrdom do not care for our good, for our spiritual growth.
- Sexism has taught them to see loving, particularly nurturance and care, as a female task.
- The hard pose is deemed cool and alluring. Personified by rappers like the now-murdered Tupac Shakur.
  - Trying to live up to a code of hard masculine prowess usually leads black males who embrace this identity without question to devalue and destroy relationships.
- Jarvis Jay Masters, <<Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row>> : 
  - the myriad ways young black males don mask of hardness to avoid acknowledge emotional vulnerability. To be vulnerable is to be weak.
- Religious teachings were once the place where most of us learned ways to think deeply about love, but the place of those teachings has been usurped by mass media.
- Mass media tends to ignore the diversity of black experience. The worst aspects of black life are fictionalized on television and in cinema so as to reproduce race and class stereotypes.
- Working-poor black nuclear family that constantly struggled to create a love ethic despite the hardships created by poverty and racism.
  - More often than not, this show failed to radically challenge stereotypes. Instead it was the stereotypically "funny" behavior of the coonlike character J. J. that made the show a hit. (Good Times)
- Still, one can choose to be loving no matter what one's economic status. When poor families are portrayed in mass media, they are always and only depicted as dysfunctional - spaces where love is absent and foolish behavior reigns supreme.
  - Material privilege does not ensure that one will be raised in a loving home.
- Why is an image of an uncaring out-for-what-she-can-get crack addict more "real" than the image of a churchgoing single mom who receives welfare and attends college courses in an effort to change her lot?
- The fact is that racism, sexism, and class elitism together encourage individuals to assume that the negative image is more "real"; individuals approaching blackness from this biased perspective have an investment in presenting the negative image as the norm.
  - To do so promotes, perpetuates, and sustains systems of domination based on class, race, and gender.
- No one working from a white supremacist perspective would create postive decolonized images of black people. And that includes cultural producers who are white, black, or from other ethnic groups, as well as black people who have internalized racism.
- The vast majority of the images of black people we see in the mass media simply confirm and reinforce racist, sexist, and classist stereotypes.
  - Now, we all know that stereotypes often exist in part because when any subordinate group is required by a dominant group to be a certain way in order to survive, the powerless group will take on those characteristics.
- More recent files, like the much celebrated Green Mile, provide leading roles for black men who exist simply to serve the needs of unreconstructed, unenlightened whites. In this film a black male happily awaits execution for a crime he did not commit.
- When it comes to the issue of love, the mass media basically represent black people as unloving. We may be portrayed as funny, angry, sexy, dashing, beautiful, sassy, and fierce, but we are rarely represented as loving.
- When black characters are affectionate and caring, they are usually directing that care to white folks. This cannot surprise, given the ongoing reality of white supremacy.
  - Indeed, the black servant white folks have trasured the most, from slavery to the present day, is the one who cared for them while neglecting himself or herself.
- Think about how many times we sit in a move theater and watch hateful racist images of black people depicted on the screen. The vast majority of black people do not boycott or avoid such movies. (把黑人代換成女人也是如此)
  - These images do not teach love, they reinforce the message that blackness is hateful and unloving.
- From Hollywood movies (Harlem Nights, Jungle Fever, A Perfect World, The Pelican Brief, Waiting to Exhale, Soul Food, Crooklyn, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Jackie Brown, A Time to Kill, Men in Black, and Independence Day, to name a few) we learn that black folks will betray each other; that black men will give their lives to protect white folks while showing little or no concern for black family and friends; that black women are hostile castrating bitches who must be kept in check by any means necessary. These movies teach us that if we dare to love one another, our love will blossom but not last, that suffering, more than love, is our fate.Black folks may suffer together, joke, and have fun, but love will leave us. Importantly, what black characters do best on the TV and movie is slaughter one another. Blackness represents violence and hate.