re: audrey
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speaking of unicef
I’ve been sitting on this for a while now. It came to my attention before I even had a blog. My blood boils every time I see it in my folder of pictures. Thank God today seems to be it’s day because now I can delete it. I’m certain that Audrey would NOT approve…
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/59019/
This is an actual ad-campaign by UNICEF Germany from 2007!
This campaign is “blackfacing” white children with mud to pose as “uneducated africans”.
The headline translates “This Ad-campaign developped pro bono by the agency Jung von Matt/Alster shows four german kids who appeal for solidarity with their contemporaries in Afrika”
The first kid says:
“I’m waiting for my last day in school, the children in africa still for their first one.”
second kid:
“in africa, many kids would be glad to worry about school”
third kid:
“in africa, kids don’t come to school late, but not at all” (!)
fourth kid:
“some teachers suck. no teachers sucks even more.”
Besides claiming that every single person in “Africa” isn’t educated, and doing so in an extremely patronising way, it is also disturbing that this organisation thinks blackfacing kids with mud (!) equals “relating to african children”. Also, the kids’ statements ignore the existence of millions of african academics and regular people and one again reduces a whole continent to a village of muddy uneducated uncivilized people who need to be educated (probably by any random westerner). This a really sad regression.
Bottom lines of this campaign are: Black = mud = African = uneducated. White = educated. We feel this campaign might do just as much harm as it does any good. You don’t collect money for helping people by humiliating and trivializing them first.
Unfortunately, if it was clear to the average German that this is wrong, UNICEF and the advertising agency wouldn’t come out with such a campaign.
Below is the official response from UNICEF about the ads run in Germany:
“Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We agree — these advertisements are not appropriate and run against UNICEF’s mission. They have been dropped from the UNICEF German National Committee’s website and there are no plans to use them in the future. We apologize for any offence caused.
As a UNICEF supporter, you may be interested to know a little more about the German National Committee’s campaign to promote child-friendly schools in six African countries. Launched in late 2004, the campaign aims to raise awareness of the fact that nearly half of all children in Africa lack even primary education.
With funds from private donors, 350 schools have been repaired or newly constructed. In addition, several thousand teachers have been trained and school management improved. In total, around 100,000 children and young people have benefited from this campaign since 2004. The right to education for all children is a prerequisite to develop their full potential and a basis for social and economic development. Again, we apologize for any offense caused.
audrey
- Audrey was fluent in Dutch, English, Flemish, French, Italian and Spanish.
- Under the difficult circumstances of World War II, Audrey ate tulip bulbs and tried to bake grass into bread.
- In fact, Audrey turned down the lead role in George Stevens’ Diary of Anne Frank because, as a young girl in Holland during the war, she witnessed Nazi soldiers publicly executing people and herding Jews onto railroad cars to be sent to death camps. Audrey identified with Anne’s story of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam so much that she claimed her participation in the 1959 film would have been much too realistic and painful in memories.
- During World War II, 16-year-old Audrey was a volunteer nurse in a Dutch hospital. During the battle of Arnhem, her hospital received many wounded Allied soldiers. One of the injured soldiers that young Audrey helped nurse back to health was a young British paratrooper and future director named Terence Young. More than 20 years later, Young directed Hepburn in his thriller, Wait Until Dark (1967).
- Audrey was a special ambassador to the United Nations UNICEF Fund for helping children in Latin America and Africa, from 1988 to 1993
- She herself was involved in an underground communication ring in Nazi-occupied Holland. It is believed that part of the reason she was such a small woman was because of the hunger and poor conditions she lived under at that time. She was a recipient of some of hte first UNICEF food supplies to ever be delivered. This is why she was such a supporter of UNICEF.
breakfast
slider cupcakes
replacing the pac-man cupcakes as my favs
i think they are edible art
These are vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with coconut as the lettuce and “ketchup” and “mustard” frosting. http://smileyssweetsandcreations.blogspot.com/2009/03/little-slider-cupcakes.html
speaking of angelina weld grimke
Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958) was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright and poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance and was one of the first African-American women to have a play performed. Born in Boston, the daughter of Archibald Grimke, a prominent journalist who served as Vice-President of the NAACP. The Grimkes were a prominent biracial family whose members included both slaveowners and abolitionists. Two of her great aunts, Angelina and Sarah, were prominent abolitionists in the North. Angelina Weld Grimke was named after her aunt who had died the year before.Her paternal grandfather was their brother Henry Grimké, of their large, slaveholding family based in Charleston, South Carolina. Their paternal grandmother was Nancy Weston, an enslaved woman of European and African descent, with whom Henry became involved after becoming a widower. Grimke’s mother, Sarah Stanley Grimke, a white woman, left her husband under the influence of her parents who never approved of her interracial marriage, and took her three-year old daughter with her. However, at the age of seven, Angelina was returned to her father, and although she and her mother corresponded, they never saw one another again. Sarah Stanley died of suicide several years later.
Grimké wrote essays, short stories and poems which were published in The Crisis, Opportunity, The New Negro, Caroling Dusk, and Negro Poets and Their Poems. Some of her more famous poems include, “The Eyes of My Regret”, “At April”, and “Trees”. She was an active writer and activist included among the figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Her poetry dealt with more conventional romantic themes, often marked with frequent images of frustration and isolation. Recent scholarship has revealed Grimke’s unpublished lesbian poems and letters; she did not feel free to live openly as a gay woman during her lifetime.
Grimké also wrote a play called Rachel, one of the first plays to protest lynching and racial violence. She wrote the three-act drama for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to rally public support against the recently released film The Birth of a Nation. The play was produced in 1916 in Washington, D.C., performed by an all-black cast. It was published in 1920.
After her father died, Grimké left Washington, DC, for New York, where she lived a reclusive life in Brooklyn. She died in 1958 after a long illness.
http://www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=1123
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Weld_Grimké
finally
I often consider that, because “mulatto” doesn’t really “exist” in the world at large, medical studies that cite race as a qualifier of the subjects studied mean absolutely nothing for me. Am I to assume that the ills that typically plague African Americans are apt to plague me, or those of Caucasians? Or neither? Or both? I mean surely our DNA does not take into account the one drop rule and decide that I have only black genes. For these reasons I was very pleased to hear of the Bogalusa Heart Study…
The Bogalusa Heart Study is the longest and most detailed epidemiologic study of a biracial (black-white) population of children in the world. The study focuses on understanding the early natural history of coronary artery disease and essential hypertension. It is the only major program studying a total and geographically well-defined, biracial and semi-rural community. http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/552027/
they love it more than i do
i wonder when they had their first mcdonald’s birthday parties
mulatto diaries 