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#China  #Coronavirus #Outbreak #Quarantine #Racism #Xenophobia Hong Kong (CNN) On a French newspaper's front page last weekend, big block letters announced "Yellow Alert" next to an image of a Chinese woman wearing a face mask. Another  headline in the same paper  read "New Yellow Peril?" above an article about the ongoing  Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. The headlines drew immediate outrage. Readers accused the paper of using ignorant and offensive language. "Yellow Peril" was an old racist ideology that targeted East Asians in Western countries. The phrase embodies the worst of anti-Asian fears and stereotypes, which have plagued immigrant communities since the first waves of Chinese immigration to the United States began in the 19th century. In the US, government propaganda and pop culture at the time spread wildly racist and inaccurate images of Chinese people as unclean, uncivilized, immoral, and a threat to society. To inv...

Song of the South, Disney’s 1946 live-action/animation hybrid, won’t be appearing on the company’s new streaming app. Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo #Disney #Racism #SongoftheSouth For all the uncertainty surrounding the streaming wars – even for a dominant company like Netflix, which is still hemorrhaging billions of dollars – there’s a reason to believe that Disney+ is a safe bet. Even if every one of its original launch titles landed with a thud, Disney just needed to crack open the vault and allow viewers to dive, Scrooge McDuck-like, into its riches: 80 years of peerless animation, from early classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi to renaissance titles like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast to recent hits like Frozen and Moana. And that’s to say nothing of Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and a mule who kicks 100-yard field goals. Yet The Walt Disney Company has a longstanding Walt Disney problem, and for Disney+, the answer so far has been to...

Jeanette Epps.NASA Johnson/Shutterstock #Astronaut #InternationalSpaceStation #JeanetteEpps #JohnsonSpaceCenter #Racism, #Sexism NASA bumped her, and she says they never told her why. Jeanette Epps was preparing for a historic launch to the International Space Station in January when NASA suddenly pulled her off the mission without warning. Epps is still waiting for an explanation, the Houston Chronicle reported. In a January press release, NASA announced that Epps would not be part of the Expedition 56/57 crew as previously announced and that she would "return to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to assume duties in the Astronaut Office and be considered for assignment to future missions." Rachel Becker of The Verge noted that although other African Americans had been to the International Space Station, Epps would have been the first to live and work there on a long-term basis. On June 6, the six-month mission launched without Epps. NA...

# WhitePrivilege  #IbramXKendi  #ElijahCummings  #AfricanAmerican #Blackmen  #Racism  By Ibram X. Kendi   Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University   theatlantic.com Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young. I had a 30-minute ride to the train station. I nestled into my seat, opened my phone, and saw that Representative Elijah Cummings had passed away. I gasped and covered my mouth. The driver peeked at me in his rear-view m irror. He saw me shaking my head and whispering what many Americans whispered last Thursday:  He was only 68 . My mind turned to my father, whom I had just left at a hotel in Princeton, New Jersey. Dread burned in my chest. To get my mind off my father’s mortality, I started reading obituaries for Cummings, who will lie in state today at the U.S. Capitol. The more I learned about the gentleman who would not yield, the more my chest bur...