Hope for Desegregation in Princess Napkins

Fancie Latour of Caramels on Maple Street and Boston Globe's The Hyphenated Life brought this to my attention during her interview on Mixed Chicks Chat when she told how Tiana napkins (included in a mixed set of princess napkins) were placed to the side at a certain "princess party on steroids."  

I'm not one to buy napkins (or mouse pads) with pictures on them because I don't want to ruin
the picture. Regardless, my point here is that companies are still segregating when manufacturing princess napkins, and band-aids.

Do companies think that children's birthday parties have only one 'race' of children attending? Do companies think that children are prejudice against certain princesses and will only want the princess napkins if they are separated by phenotype?

The U.S. already has massive housing segregation. It's absurd to perpetuate segregation to children via napkins and band-aids.

Look what I found! There's hope.
There needs to be napkins with the birthday girl's 

phenotype at the front and center of the napkin.

I don't like the confident "all knowing" vs. 

docile juxtaposition here. 

Where are the Mulan napkins?

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The Mulan and Pocahontas dolls are not included is this set from Target. 

From Target, Missing Mulan

From Target, Missing Mulan

When Xenophobia is in the Family

You think you know someone. Then you find out that a couple of "liberals" in your family are just as xenophobic as your average conservative.

So I think I'm having this friendly conversation about how great it is that my daughter is in a dual-immersion Spanish-English school, when all of a sudden a set of parents (in my family no less) tell me that they moved to another city because they heard Spanish being spoken in the classroom when they enrolled their child in school. So much for integration. 

The concept of "white flight" I didn't fully comprehend until I saw first hand that even "liberals" embrace the fear of "other" when it comes to enrolling their child in a school with children of another background. 

I attempted to explain that speaking Spanish does not lower your IQ. In fact, being bi-literate, if it doesn't increase your IQ, it will at least increase your knowledge. And with the requirement of a second language for most college bachelor degrees, one would think that bilingual immersion is the only obvious choice for a serious academic path.

For another story about the fear on others, read about Ruby Bridges' first days as the only African-American child in an all European-American school.  

Ignorance leads to fear. Fear leads to hate.

Degrees of Us vs Them / Gloria Yamato's Degrees of Racism

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Click below words for definitions.

tribalism / patriotism / bias

tolerance / self-righteous

indifference

angst

discrimination / ethnocentrism

prejudice / covert

xenophobia / homophobia / bigotry / blatant
animus

racism / sexism / chauvinism / ageism

misogyny

hate crime

genocide

For more nuanced definitions please see Definitions and Semantics at the TheStudyOfRacialism.org

Love can morph into Hate

Love of self (pride) can morph into Arrogance

Arrogance includes a dislike / disrespect for others not like you.

Dislike and disrespect leads to hate.

Many in the U.S. are blatantly xenophobic and/or homophobic.

Homophobia is evident in our nation's attempts to prevent the LGBT community from marrying.

Xenophobia is evident in our nation's willingness to spend tax dollars erecting fences and maintaining outdated immigration quotas that do not meet our county's needs.

My votes are for freedom of movement, and freedom for LGBT civil unions.

Chiggity-check yo self before ya wriggity-wreck yo self.

-Das EFX on Ice Cube's Check Yo Self