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Some of my friends had relatives fleeing the attacks, and they waited for WhatsApp updates with worry and fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909903/for-many-former-soviet-immigrants-russias-war-on-ukraine-is-horrific\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russians and Ukrainians are literally kin\u003c/a>, as we are in my blended family, and the war began to tear us apart. Clashing views led to schisms in relationships. Russians like me who didn’t support the invasion were forced to reexamine the foundations of our identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My reexamination came about in a somewhat unexpected way — yet maybe one that was predestined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13922061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Nastia.bio_.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\">Assimilation comes with a sense of loss. Immigrants acquire a new accent, and new habits, and grow alienated from our old ways of life. I’ve held on, trying to find a bicultural identity in the aisles of Russian markets, in music and in books. But I’ve had to make a concerted effort to stay in touch with my culture as I get older and more American. After the war started, questions began to run through my mind. \u003cem>Was it actually worth the struggle to prove I belong to something that seems so hateful? Wouldn’t erasing my identity because of shame become its own form of pain?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was grieving on multiple levels. My grandfather, my last grandparent, passed away in St. Petersburg a week before the invasion. As economic sanctions, flight cancellations and mass arrests of anti-war protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910742/jc-smith-jackie-gage-san-jose-musicians-russia-war-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sparked chaos in Russia\u003c/a>, it began to sink in that I had no idea when I might be able to safely return to my hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My Russian group chat lit up with \u003ca href=\"https://novaukraine.org/en/homepage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relief\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://upogau.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fundraisers\u003c/a> and updates, and even as I tried to find productive ways to help, my anxiety showed no signs of letting up. I knew I needed to get grounded, to get back into my body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, I was invited to a wedding in snowy Utah, where my outdoorsy friends incorporated skiing into their nuptials. I had only skied a handful of times in my life, so I was unaccustomed to how the cold air numbed my chin, and how snow felt going down my ski pants when I fell. But as I descended the slopes at speeds way beyond my comfort zone, I had no choice but to be present. Gripping my ski poles in simultaneous awe and terror, I flew past green pines glistening with puffs of powdery snow, and watched snowflakes swirl as wind and fog drifted in over a mountain ridge in the distance. After a few hours, my jaw unclenched and my brows unfurrowed. And as I defrosted in the shower, I realized that the cold air had filled me with an aliveness that I hadn’t felt in months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had to do it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The snow trip unlocked a deep memory, and I remembered that cold temperatures were my people’s ally. When I was a kid in St. Petersburg, my mom, like many Russian mothers, poured buckets of cold water on me and my sister after baths. It was part of a cultural belief that controlled exposure to cold temperatures would boost your immunity and make you more resilient \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> the same reason people take their children swimming in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ruptly.tv/en/videos/20170129-037-Russia-Mothers-and-children-plunge-into-near-frozen-Lake-Baikal-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frozen waters of Siberia’s Lake Baikal\u003c/a>. In Russian it’s called “zakalivaniye organizma,” or hardening of the body. 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"content": "\u003cp>As companies all over the world cut ties with Ye (formerly Kanye West) this month, statements against the rapper’s litany of antisemitic assertions have been decisive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous,” said Adidas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot support any content that amplifies his platform,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kanye-ye-west-documentary-mrc-shelved-1235247299/\">MRC announced\u003c/a>, as the film and TV company shelved its already-completed Ye documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13920819'] Fashion house Balenciaga, talent agency CAA and \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2022/10/21/vogue-has-no-intention-of-working-with-kanye-west-again/\">\u003cem>Vogue\u003c/em>’s Anna Wintour\u003c/a> all cut ties with Ye without much fanfare, but organizations not even working with the rapper took their own stands. “We can’t support hate speech, bigotry or anti-Semitism,” talent agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/caa-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-as-hollywood-boycott-calls-grow-1235247333/\">UTA emailed to its staff\u003c/a>. “Please support the boycott of Kanye West.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for nothing. Ye’s recent antisemitic statements have been both shocking and relentless. There was his Oct. 4 declaration that he was going “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.” There was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.xxlmag.com/kanye-west-war-diddy-texts/\">text exchange Ye himself leaked\u003c/a>, in which he told Sean Combs: “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.” And there was the Fox News appearance where Ye stated (among many other terrible, terrible things): “I’d prefer my kids knew Hanukkah than Kwanzaa — at least it would come with some financial engineering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest bout of hate speech is the culmination of years during which Ye has made incendiary and harmful comments — none of which prompted the kind of professional consequences he’s now facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adidas, Balenciaga and CAA all stuck by Ye in 2018 after he suggested that \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-lrudlmxu/\">slavery was “a choice”\u003c/a> on TMZ. The companies didn’t react later that year when Ye ended an episode of \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/30/17920676/kanye-west-snl-performance-donald-trump\">a rant\u003c/a> that included him saying, “Blacks weren’t always Democrats. It’s like a plan they did to take the fathers out the homes and promote welfare. Does anybody know about that? That’s the Democratic plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ye’s business arrangements were not impacted in 2016 after he specified that he would be hiring “multiracial women only” for Yeezy Season 4 — a choice that inspired accusations of colorism. Nor were they impacted in 2020 when, speaking at a rally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kanye-west-political-rally-abortion-kim-kardashian-north-2020-7\">Ye said that Harriett Tubman “never actually freed the slaves”\u003c/a> but instead sent them to “go work for other white people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Ye appeared at Paris Fashion Week wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt earlier this month, Adidas did put his contracts under review. But it took \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920788/ye-adidas-boycott-kanye-west-antisemitism\">a mountain of online pressure\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/letter/adl-letter-adidas-executives-regarding-kanye-west\">an open letter from the Anti-Defamation League\u003c/a> to spur Adidas into more decisive action. (“At this point, what more do you need to review?” ADL CEO Jan Runau asked.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908594'] Even with the rash of companies cutting ties with Ye now, the impetus appears to be rooted almost entirely in opposition to his antisemitism. The fact that earlier this month Ye also suggested that George Floyd was killed by fentanyl — and not the police officer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Derek_Chauvin\">convicted of his murder, Derek Chauvin\u003c/a> — has been far less of a focus. (“If you look,” Ye told the \u003cem>Drink Champs\u003c/em> podcast, “the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920562/the-family-of-george-floyd-plans-to-file-a-250-million-lawsuit-against-ye\">Floyd’s family plans to sue\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Drink Champs\u003c/em> has since denounced Ye’s comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not been lost on the Black community that Ye’s many statements denigrating Black people have never prompted the kind of corporate pushback that his antisemitic comments have. Discussions around it dominated Twitter on Tuesday. “Wish being anti-Black held this much weight,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scottiebeam/status/1584892766290841600\">Scottie Beam noted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/scottiebeam/status/1584892766290841600\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MrErnestOwens/status/1584726943508799489\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/oranicuhh/status/1584616304153366528\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth wondering why Ye’s longstanding history of misogynistic behavior was never a deal-breaker for his business associates. Ye’s casual sexism started over a decade ago with his repeated attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/28206/how-amber-rose-became-an-unlikely-feminist-icon\">publicly humiliate Amber Rose\u003c/a>. He has been open about the joy he gleans from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908594/julia-fox-kanye-west-ye-fashion-kim-kardashian-paris\">exercising control over his romantic partners’ wardrobes\u003c/a>. (And, thanks to Kardashian-based reality television, we’ve seen the scathing insults he sends when these women don’t comply.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ye has made not one but two videos in which he fetishizes lifeless female bodies. 2010’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oinTbQxETo\">Monster\u003c/a>” was first, with its dead models hanging from the ceiling and dead models lying next to him in bed. (It never got an official release.) Then came 2016’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7FCgw_GlWc\">Famous\u003c/a>,” a video that depicted real, non-consenting humans (including Taylor Swift and Amber Rose) as naked and unconscious in bed with Ye and Kim Kardashian. Kardashian was in a face-down position, shielding her modesty. Swift and Rose were not given the same consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Ye decided to proudly (and loudly) \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-marilyn-manson-donda-1292671/\">collaborate with Marilyn Manson\u003c/a>, right after the rocker was accused of a litany of sexual and physical abuses by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910124/phoenix-rising-evan-rachel-wood-marilyn-manson-abuse-hbo-documentary\">Evan Rachel Wood and a dozen other women\u003c/a>. Ye’s decision to do this was a middle finger to abuse survivors everywhere, and he openly enjoyed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_49104'] Then there’s Ye’s frightening treatment of his now-ex-wife, which he has openly broadcast, entirely unafraid of potential consequences either to him as a parent, or to his divorce proceedings. Nobody dropped Ye after he released a song letting Kardashian know that her “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzu9PKB8bLY\">security gon’ need security\u003c/a>” — shortly after buying the house opposite hers. Nobody dropped Ye when he made \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy7sci2az88\">a video depicting the murder and beheading of Kardashian’s new boyfriend\u003c/a>, Pete Davidson, whom he also publicly and repeatedly threatened. And nobody batted an eyelash when \u003ca href=\"https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/4468852/kanye-west-admits-punching-autograph-hunter/\">Ye punched an autograph hunter\u003c/a> and blamed it on the stress of his divorce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Ye’s newfound obsession with baseless conspiracies about the Jewish community is undoubtedly dangerous, this is not the first group of people Ye has used his platform to endanger. Ye has been skating past this kind of bad behavior, unscathed, for so many years now, is it any wonder he thought he could say antisemitic things and not get dropped by Adidas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adidas, Balenciaga, CAA et al. can feign shock and disgust now, but it has been clear for a very long time who Ye is and what he thinks of the rest of the world. That he suffered no serious financial consequences until this month is part of the reason why his behavior has devolved to this level.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Then there’s Ye’s frightening treatment of his now-ex-wife, which he has openly broadcast, entirely unafraid of potential consequences either to him as a parent, or to his divorce proceedings. Nobody dropped Ye after he released a song letting Kardashian know that her “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzu9PKB8bLY\">security gon’ need security\u003c/a>” — shortly after buying the house opposite hers. Nobody dropped Ye when he made \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy7sci2az88\">a video depicting the murder and beheading of Kardashian’s new boyfriend\u003c/a>, Pete Davidson, whom he also publicly and repeatedly threatened. And nobody batted an eyelash when \u003ca href=\"https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/4468852/kanye-west-admits-punching-autograph-hunter/\">Ye punched an autograph hunter\u003c/a> and blamed it on the stress of his divorce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Ye’s newfound obsession with baseless conspiracies about the Jewish community is undoubtedly dangerous, this is not the first group of people Ye has used his platform to endanger. Ye has been skating past this kind of bad behavior, unscathed, for so many years now, is it any wonder he thought he could say antisemitic things and not get dropped by Adidas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>t’s been nearly a month since Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, leaving the entire island without power. Two weeks after the hurricane, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/about-101000-still-without-power-puerto-rico-two-weeks-after-hurricane-fiona-2022-10-05/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 100,000 residents still had no electricity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Fiona, one of this season’s most powerful storms, made landfall almost exactly five years after Hurricane Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria, the 2017 storm that caused nearly \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/hurricane-maria-deaths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3,000 excess deaths\u003c/a>, also brought about a visit from then-U.S. President Donald Trump — during which he nonchalantly \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEe7_zgZbuI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tossed paper towels\u003c/a> to those in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This gesture was emblematic of the response many people felt the U.S. territory received from the government as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It raises the question: what’s the proper response when natural disasters are coupled with manmade oppression, not just in Puerto Rico, but across the United States? What form does justice take in a place that’s been under-resourced, disenfranchised and suffering from the lingering impacts of colonization? How can you truly rebuild after a disaster without addressing preexisting problems?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/6months_3.19-0091.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the 'We Still Here' cast in Washington D.C.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/6months_3.19-0091.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/6months_3.19-0091-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the ‘We Still Here’ cast in Washington D.C.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ay Area-based filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi says he has a clear understanding of what justice \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not throwing paper towels at people like the ex-president did, and it’s not throwing water bottles out of helicopters like FEMA and the military did,” Jacobs-Fantauzzi tells me during a phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending time in the Puerto Rican town of Comerío in the wake of Hurricane Maria five years ago, he’s come to understand that the key to moving toward justice involves people power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s letting everybody get involved in the recovery process,” says Jacobs-Fantauzzi. “Bringing your skills, your talents — really a bottom-up process where it’s centered in love, centered in community and being able to dream of the future you want to create together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs-Fantauzzi is the director of the documentary film \u003ca href=\"https://www.westillherepr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>We Still Here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which follows a group of young people working together in Comerío to restore their hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film shows people stepping in when the government isn’t present. Pitching in to build houses and community spaces, and sharing joy with one another. But the multilayered story didn’t start off as a film at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs-Fantauzzi originally left the Bay Area to bring donations to the island back in 2017. “Then the next thing you know, we’re in Comerío, we’re giving out solar electric lights and food, and sending people home,” says Jacobs-Fantauzzi. “And then we realized they don’t have a roof over their head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue t-shirt and necklace stands with folded arms, wearing a hat, against a blue background of sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area-based filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, the director of ‘We Still Here.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacobs-Fantauzzi and his team started off shooting videos to raise awareness of the situation and the need for resources. Young folks in the community gravitated to the cameras, so Jacobs-Fantauzzi, along with his brother Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi (former Berkeley mayoral candidate and co-founder of Clenched Fist Productions), began teaching workshops. “And then maybe four months later, we look at all the footage we have, and decide to do a film together,” says Jacobs-Fantauzzi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started with a 10-minute reel, then a 30-minute version before reaching an hour-long iteration. They showed their work around the community. People were brought to tears of gratitude as they watched reflections of themselves via a mobile solar-powered projector and speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs-Fantauzzi emphasizes that the film was a collaborative process. He’s the director, his brother is the producer, but this film is a partnership with the community; specifically the young leaders featured. It’s a process he refers to as “participatory action filmmaking” or “just storytelling,” and says it allows for amplification of a community’s story, as opposed to traditional methods of “mining or extracting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The method also allows the film’s people to grow and develop naturally before your eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the film, Mariangelie Ortiz, who at the time was 24 years old, emerges as a vocal leader. At one point, Ortiz leans on song and dance for a moment of joy in the midst of the hard work. In another scene, Ortiz is in the halls of congress in Washington D.C., chanting alongside Puerto Ricans from throughout the diaspora, demanding that their people be recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mariangelie Ortiz and a young person from the community posing with paint brushes during the hurricane recovery effort.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariangelie Ortiz and a young person from the community posing with paint brushes during the hurricane recovery effort. \u003ccite>(Via www.westillherepr.com )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>longside Mariangelie Ortiz, a young man named Jerriel “Yeyo” Cátala, and a cast of community activists, the concept of art itself is a main asset to this story. It’s a hell of a notion, given the situation at hand. Why art at a time like this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of despair, in the middle of love, in the middle of your greatest joy, I think art is what you go to to express how you’re feeling and who you are,” says Jacobs-Fantauzzi. “It’s so important to let the positive, the anger, the negative, the beauty out, and not keep it bundled up inside. And art is that expression for so many of us — the way we’re able to let those emotions out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, it’s the art and the joy, combined with the raw beauty of Puerto Rico, that shines in this film. Beyond that is the larger concept of just storytelling, as well as the application of the just recovery method — a process by which those most impacted have a say in how the community moves forward. It’s a method than can be applied anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in California, for example, economic inequality is rampant, the cost of goods are through the roof, far too many of us are unhoused and earthquakes are a constant threat. I shudder at the idea that we may one day have to deal with similar circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One step in the right direction? Giving space to those who’ve been impacted the most to tell their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As a part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/13th-annual-fist-up-film-festival-at-la-pena-tickets-424341104667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13th Annual Fist Up Film Festival,\u003c/a> ‘We Still Here’ screens at the New Parkway Theatre in Oakland on Sunday, Oct. 16, at 2pm. 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Two weeks after the hurricane, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/about-101000-still-without-power-puerto-rico-two-weeks-after-hurricane-fiona-2022-10-05/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 100,000 residents still had no electricity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Fiona, one of this season’s most powerful storms, made landfall almost exactly five years after Hurricane Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria, the 2017 storm that caused nearly \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/hurricane-maria-deaths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3,000 excess deaths\u003c/a>, also brought about a visit from then-U.S. President Donald Trump — during which he nonchalantly \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEe7_zgZbuI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tossed paper towels\u003c/a> to those in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This gesture was emblematic of the response many people felt the U.S. territory received from the government as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It raises the question: what’s the proper response when natural disasters are coupled with manmade oppression, not just in Puerto Rico, but across the United States? What form does justice take in a place that’s been under-resourced, disenfranchised and suffering from the lingering impacts of colonization? How can you truly rebuild after a disaster without addressing preexisting problems?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/6months_3.19-0091.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the 'We Still Here' cast in Washington D.C.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/6months_3.19-0091.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/6months_3.19-0091-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the ‘We Still Here’ cast in Washington D.C.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ay Area-based filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi says he has a clear understanding of what justice \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not throwing paper towels at people like the ex-president did, and it’s not throwing water bottles out of helicopters like FEMA and the military did,” Jacobs-Fantauzzi tells me during a phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending time in the Puerto Rican town of Comerío in the wake of Hurricane Maria five years ago, he’s come to understand that the key to moving toward justice involves people power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s letting everybody get involved in the recovery process,” says Jacobs-Fantauzzi. “Bringing your skills, your talents — really a bottom-up process where it’s centered in love, centered in community and being able to dream of the future you want to create together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs-Fantauzzi is the director of the documentary film \u003ca href=\"https://www.westillherepr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>We Still Here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which follows a group of young people working together in Comerío to restore their hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film shows people stepping in when the government isn’t present. Pitching in to build houses and community spaces, and sharing joy with one another. But the multilayered story didn’t start off as a film at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs-Fantauzzi originally left the Bay Area to bring donations to the island back in 2017. “Then the next thing you know, we’re in Comerío, we’re giving out solar electric lights and food, and sending people home,” says Jacobs-Fantauzzi. “And then we realized they don’t have a roof over their head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue t-shirt and necklace stands with folded arms, wearing a hat, against a blue background of sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/director_EliJacobsFantauzzi2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area-based filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, the director of ‘We Still Here.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacobs-Fantauzzi and his team started off shooting videos to raise awareness of the situation and the need for resources. Young folks in the community gravitated to the cameras, so Jacobs-Fantauzzi, along with his brother Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi (former Berkeley mayoral candidate and co-founder of Clenched Fist Productions), began teaching workshops. “And then maybe four months later, we look at all the footage we have, and decide to do a film together,” says Jacobs-Fantauzzi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started with a 10-minute reel, then a 30-minute version before reaching an hour-long iteration. They showed their work around the community. People were brought to tears of gratitude as they watched reflections of themselves via a mobile solar-powered projector and speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs-Fantauzzi emphasizes that the film was a collaborative process. He’s the director, his brother is the producer, but this film is a partnership with the community; specifically the young leaders featured. It’s a process he refers to as “participatory action filmmaking” or “just storytelling,” and says it allows for amplification of a community’s story, as opposed to traditional methods of “mining or extracting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The method also allows the film’s people to grow and develop naturally before your eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the film, Mariangelie Ortiz, who at the time was 24 years old, emerges as a vocal leader. At one point, Ortiz leans on song and dance for a moment of joy in the midst of the hard work. In another scene, Ortiz is in the halls of congress in Washington D.C., chanting alongside Puerto Ricans from throughout the diaspora, demanding that their people be recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mariangelie Ortiz and a young person from the community posing with paint brushes during the hurricane recovery effort.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/E17_0923.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariangelie Ortiz and a young person from the community posing with paint brushes during the hurricane recovery effort. \u003ccite>(Via www.westillherepr.com )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>longside Mariangelie Ortiz, a young man named Jerriel “Yeyo” Cátala, and a cast of community activists, the concept of art itself is a main asset to this story. It’s a hell of a notion, given the situation at hand. Why art at a time like this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of despair, in the middle of love, in the middle of your greatest joy, I think art is what you go to to express how you’re feeling and who you are,” says Jacobs-Fantauzzi. “It’s so important to let the positive, the anger, the negative, the beauty out, and not keep it bundled up inside. And art is that expression for so many of us — the way we’re able to let those emotions out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, it’s the art and the joy, combined with the raw beauty of Puerto Rico, that shines in this film. Beyond that is the larger concept of just storytelling, as well as the application of the just recovery method — a process by which those most impacted have a say in how the community moves forward. It’s a method than can be applied anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in California, for example, economic inequality is rampant, the cost of goods are through the roof, far too many of us are unhoused and earthquakes are a constant threat. I shudder at the idea that we may one day have to deal with similar circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One step in the right direction? Giving space to those who’ve been impacted the most to tell their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As a part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/13th-annual-fist-up-film-festival-at-la-pena-tickets-424341104667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13th Annual Fist Up Film Festival,\u003c/a> ‘We Still Here’ screens at the New Parkway Theatre in Oakland on Sunday, Oct. 16, at 2pm. 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"content": "\u003cp>The U.K. found itself at a standstill throughout most of Monday, as Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral took place at Westminster Abbey in London. And there was a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of hullaballoo surrounding the event that won’t make a lot of sense to Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The public \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-62949220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">standing in a 10-mile line for up to 24 hours\u003c/a>, just to spend mere seconds next to the queen’s coffin, lying in state\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hospitals \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/health/u-k-hospitals-canceling-non-urgent-appointments-due-to-the-queens-funeral-being-declared-a-holiday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">canceling many “non-urgent” procedures\u003c/a> (including caesarean sections!) because of the funeral\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Therapists—notoriously difficult to access within the U.K.’s public health system—postponing desperately awaited appointments for weeks at a time\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The adoration granted to one of the queen’s ponies because, according to \u003cem>The Sun\u003c/em>, she “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19854954/brits-tears-queens-favourite-pony-emma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifted her leg as if in an attempt to curtsy as the Queen’s cortege passed\u003c/a>“\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/13/jokes-about-the-queens-death-cut-from-uk-version-of-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Last Week Tonight with John Oliver\u003c/em> being censored on U.K. television\u003c/a> for sarcastically referring to Elizabeth’s passing as “a shocking death of a 96-year-old woman from natural causes”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Television channels forgoing the broadcast of commercials on Monday in favor of a silent black screen\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13919285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/20220919_111530-800x614.jpg\" alt='A black screen with white text says: As a mark of respect to Her Majesty The Queen, we are not showing commercials across the Channel 4 network today. Programmes will continue shortly.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/20220919_111530-800x614.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/20220919_111530-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/20220919_111530-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/20220919_111530-768x590.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/20220919_111530.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What British television viewers saw instead of commercial breaks the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. \u003ccite>(Rania Adwan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most confounding aspects, however, is the way Meghan Markle has been put under a microscope by the press and public alike all week, despite not putting a foot wrong. The scrutiny is especially astounding when one considers how quietly Prince Andrew has been reintegrated into royal procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908090']In case you need a refresher, Meghan Markle’s controversies include speaking out about racism within the royal ranks, suing a prominent British newspaper for invasion of privacy (and winning), and moving back to America with her husband for the sake of her mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prince Andrew, on the other hand, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908090/prince-andrew-sexual-abuse-trial-virginia-giuffre-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-queen-elizabeth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stripped of his titles and removed from public duties\u003c/a> as he battled a sexual assault case brought by Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre has alleged for years that she was the victim of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and forced to have sex with Prince Andrew at the age of 17. (Both Maxwell and Prince Andrew settled with Giuffre out of court; Andrew is reported to have avoided a trial by \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6149123/prince-andrew-settlement-virginia-giuffre-royal-finances/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paying her an estimated $16 million\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, this week, as Andrew stepped back into the public eye, it’s Markle who has inspired the most scrutiny and criticism in the days leading up to the funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For much of the U.K. media, coverage has been primarily concerned with presenting the remaining royal family members as putting on a united front out of respect for the queen. This means that both television and print media has actively avoided discussing Prince Andrew’s legal and reputational woes—except to report the arrest of a Scot who dared to heckle Andrew during a funereal procession in Edinburgh. (The 22-year-old was charged with breaching the peace after shouting, “Andrew! You’re a sick old man.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13893693']Something more insidious is at play in the tabloids, however. Search the \u003cem>Daily Mail\u003c/em>‘s website for stories about Prince Andrew, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?sel=site&searchPhrase=prince+andrew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">general funeral coverage\u003c/a> pops up. Conduct the same search for Meghan Markle and, alongside that same funeral coverage, a wealth of other articles seek to paint her in a very specific (negative) light. There’s analysis of \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11227181/Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-sit-second-row-Queens-funeral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Markle crying at the funeral\u003c/a>, while Princess Kate is presented as “the picture of poise.” There are several stories about Markle and Harry being “uninvited” to a Buckingham Palace state reception. Worst of all, there are a series of articles bending over backwards to report other people’s criticisms of Markle. This serves as a clever way to paint Markle in a bad light without the \u003cem>Daily Mail\u003c/em>‘s writers being directly responsible for the nasty things being said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This methodology has, in the last week, prompted the paper to publish articles with the following headlines:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“Australian senator brands Meghan Markle a ‘horrible human’ with a ‘terrible influence on Prince Harry’ and declares they are ‘awful, revolting people’ in an extraordinarily scathing live TV rant”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“Meghan’s new favorite magazine ‘The Cut’ launches vicious attack on father-in-law King Charles for being a ‘big, fussy baby and a jerk to his staff’ as he mourns loss of beloved mother, Queen Elizabeth II”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“‘They say the cause of death was Meghan Markle’s podcast’: Bill Maher takes a jab at Meghan’s Archetypes podcast”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>No such secondhand coverage has been published on Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, things for Markle were even worse. While Prince Andrew failed to make it into the top trending topics during his return to the spotlight, #GoHomeMeghanMarkle dominated the website on Sept. 12. The hashtag started after Markle accompanied Prince Harry, Prince William and Princess Kate to greet mourners in London. Had Markle not accompanied her husband in this task, she would likely have been accused of discarding the feelings of the British public and disrespecting the queen. Showing up and doing her duty unfortunately did not mean she fared any better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of the gathered crowds (especially younger people) greeted Markle warmly that day, those that didn’t were praised online for giving her the cold shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/heg_emon/status/1568899377175085056\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/furbabygirl/status/1568689504583819264\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Edinbur53539054/status/1568668323004694530\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Markle must have known in advance that she would be in a no-win situation as soon as she set foot on British soil. And she has sailed through the scrutiny with as much dignity as any human could possibly muster under the circumstances. What has been forgotten this week is that Markle and Harry were careful during their Oprah tell-all to paint Queen Elizabeth II in a very positive light. Also forgotten? The fact that they named their daughter after Elizabeth’s childhood nickname, Lilibet. It matters not. The damage in the U.K. is done and as far as the royal supporters there are concerned, Meghan Markle is and always will be a pariah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13866072']Though stateside the presumed cause of all this is racism, the real reasons behind the ostracizing of Markle are more complex. The color of her skin is undoubtedly a factor for some, yes—but so is her nationality. (Lest we forget that the last senior royal that married an American was \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced to live in exile after abdicating the throne\u003c/a> in order to do so.) It’s OK for members of the British royal family to marry so-called “commoners.” But the commoners who marry in usually do so having been groomed to understand and revere every aspect of royal life. Markle had no such life-long training, and the royalists of Britain know (and resent) it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth of the matter is that the U.K. public is willing to live with royal overlords only so long as the people at the top of that hierarchy are willing to keep their mouths shut and play the game. Part of that game—as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13866072/the-bullying-of-meghan-markle-continues-a-long-tradition-for-royal-wives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">every woman who’s ever married into the Windsor family\u003c/a> could tell you—is putting up with bullying from both the press and the public. Middleton, the new Princess of Wales, for example, endured a decade of mockery. She silently withstood that hardship and humiliation and is now talked about only in the most glowing of terms. She put her time in and she was rewarded. When Markle was unwilling to put up with such treatment—a hazing of sorts—her fate was sealed.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Something more insidious is at play in the tabloids, however. Search the \u003cem>Daily Mail\u003c/em>‘s website for stories about Prince Andrew, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?sel=site&searchPhrase=prince+andrew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">general funeral coverage\u003c/a> pops up. Conduct the same search for Meghan Markle and, alongside that same funeral coverage, a wealth of other articles seek to paint her in a very specific (negative) light. There’s analysis of \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11227181/Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-sit-second-row-Queens-funeral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Markle crying at the funeral\u003c/a>, while Princess Kate is presented as “the picture of poise.” There are several stories about Markle and Harry being “uninvited” to a Buckingham Palace state reception. Worst of all, there are a series of articles bending over backwards to report other people’s criticisms of Markle. This serves as a clever way to paint Markle in a bad light without the \u003cem>Daily Mail\u003c/em>‘s writers being directly responsible for the nasty things being said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This methodology has, in the last week, prompted the paper to publish articles with the following headlines:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“Australian senator brands Meghan Markle a ‘horrible human’ with a ‘terrible influence on Prince Harry’ and declares they are ‘awful, revolting people’ in an extraordinarily scathing live TV rant”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“Meghan’s new favorite magazine ‘The Cut’ launches vicious attack on father-in-law King Charles for being a ‘big, fussy baby and a jerk to his staff’ as he mourns loss of beloved mother, Queen Elizabeth II”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“‘They say the cause of death was Meghan Markle’s podcast’: Bill Maher takes a jab at Meghan’s Archetypes podcast”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>No such secondhand coverage has been published on Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, things for Markle were even worse. While Prince Andrew failed to make it into the top trending topics during his return to the spotlight, #GoHomeMeghanMarkle dominated the website on Sept. 12. The hashtag started after Markle accompanied Prince Harry, Prince William and Princess Kate to greet mourners in London. Had Markle not accompanied her husband in this task, she would likely have been accused of discarding the feelings of the British public and disrespecting the queen. Showing up and doing her duty unfortunately did not mean she fared any better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of the gathered crowds (especially younger people) greeted Markle warmly that day, those that didn’t were praised online for giving her the cold shoulder.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Markle must have known in advance that she would be in a no-win situation as soon as she set foot on British soil. And she has sailed through the scrutiny with as much dignity as any human could possibly muster under the circumstances. What has been forgotten this week is that Markle and Harry were careful during their Oprah tell-all to paint Queen Elizabeth II in a very positive light. Also forgotten? The fact that they named their daughter after Elizabeth’s childhood nickname, Lilibet. It matters not. The damage in the U.K. is done and as far as the royal supporters there are concerned, Meghan Markle is and always will be a pariah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It reads like a list of outtakes from \u003cem>The Wolf of Wall Street\u003c/em>. Drug-fueled all-night parties. Sex workers hired to entertain men at staff gatherings. Underage teens blacked out on booze and drugs. Older men refusing to keep their hands to themselves. Unsolicited explicit photos sent to women by male colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these aren’t the actions of a bunch of coked-out day traders in the greed-fueled ’80s. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22187093-jane-doe-amended-complaint-fallon-sanz-morgan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They’re incidents listed in a lawsuit filed against NBC Universal\u003c/a>, Horatio Sanz, Jimmy Fallon, Tracy Morgan and Lorne Michaels. And they’re purported to have happened on and around the \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> set between 2000 and 2002—a period widely perceived to be the gold standard for women on \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>. If proven true, they will serve as a pertinent reminder that simply hiring more women is often not enough to rid workplaces of sexism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891422']The complainant is one Jane Doe, who says she had her first direct contact with the \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> cast when she was just 15 years old, starting with Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz. Doe says she quickly became a regular at \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> tapings, afterparties and what the cast and crew referred to at the time as after-afterparties—hedonistic, no holds barred all-nighters. She claims she talked openly about her age to most major cast members as well as to Lorne Michaels, but that she was openly permitted to drink and do drugs in their presence. Doe says other teenage girls were allowed at the parties and treated similarly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main focus of Doe’s accusations has, by and large, been Sanz. Doe first filed a lawsuit against Sanz last August, but updated it this past week to include Michaels, Fallon and Morgan. Doe says she was groomed and assaulted by Sanz with the full knowledge of some of the \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> cast of the time, as well as numerous NBC employees. The document includes photos of Doe posing with various cast members, and riding in a limo with Sanz. \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/nbc-responds-to-latest-sexual-assault-claims-against-snl-horatio-sanz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Both Sanz and NBC have issued statements strongly denying Doe’s allegations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the 44 pages of Doe’s allegations are to be believed, \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> fostered a toxic and misogynistic culture behind the scenes, even as an extraordinarily popular group of women led its cast. At the time Doe says she was involved with Sanz, the public perception was that things had changed on the show. \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/saturday-night-live-the-girls-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2012, t\u003cem>he New Yorker\u003c/em> described the period\u003c/a> as “when a group of ambitious female cast members transformed \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>—a notorious boys’ club since its first season, in 1975—into a space where female comedians could collaborate and thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most sobering and disturbing aspects of the lawsuit is how it paints these beloved female cast members as either complicit or unwilling to speak up. Of course, ultimately, the responsibility for incidents of grooming and sexual assault lies with those that commit them—but it’s worth examining who turns a blind eye and why. Especially when Doe says that she and her teenage girlfriends were welcomed into \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>‘s raucous parties by a variety of cast members, including Rachel Dratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/GettyImages-51669979-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"A group of five laughing women gesture and goof around on the red carpet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of ‘Saturday Night Live’ in the early 2000s was dominated by strong women who helped the show shrug off its reputation for being a boys’ club. 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Gasteyer, the suit says, was visibly horrified and “looked like she was shaking with fright.” Maya Rudolph is described as looking “disgusted.” And while Will Ferrell also looked “unhappy,” the only two people who tried to directly intervene were apparently two NBC employees who are said to have approached Sanz and said, “Are you fucking serious?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13870036']Overall, the lawsuit describes a top-down culture where both the hedonistic history of the show and Lorne Michaels himself established a tone on set that left badly behaved men unaccountable, and talented women feeling expendable. One part of the complaint even notes: “Over the years, Michaels has famously surrounded himself with a bevy of young, blonde, conventionally attractive female assistants, widely known as ‘the Lornettes.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s in Doe’s lawsuit is what happens when cultures are built on a solid foundation of male entitlement and female marginalization. It’s what happens when a boys club sets the standards of behavior, and everyone else is forced to adapt or get the hell out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also notes just how many of the women of \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> have hit their limit and done the latter. One section states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Female cast members over the years have described their experiences in extremely negative terms. For example, Jane Curtin (“World War I”); Julia Sweeney (“Just thinking of [the Lornettes] makes me so happy I quit”); Janeane Garofalo (“The most miserable experience of my life”); Nora Dunn (“Traumatic”); Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Very sexist, very sexist”); Anne Beatts (“The only entrée to that boys club [for women] was basically by fucking somebody in the club”); and Ana Gasteyer (“When I first came to [\u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>], women were so—it was so presumed that you were going to crash and burn and be destroyed and chewed up and eaten up by the show that I had nowhere to go but hope.”)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It’s easy for us now, in a post-#MeToo age, to read the lawsuit’s allegations and question just what the hell the women of \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> were thinking. 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"content": "\u003cp>Stephen Curry has been known to cook defenders. Since entering the league in 2009 as the number seven pick for the Golden State Warriors, the undersized guard has been serving NBA defenses his signature dish: treys a-la-carte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O.K. Maybe I’m forcing that food angle a bit. But there’s a reason he’s garnered international respect as “The Chef.” And for those of us who’ve been around for his legacy, it’s been delicious to experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13914214,arts_13914585']At the start of 2021—last season—the Warriors began their campaign as non-favorites. Their starting five? James Wiseman, a newbie center who had played a total of seven NBA games; a forward in Kelly Oubre Jr. who began the year with a horrendous 3-point shooting percentage (\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-kelly-oubre-historically-bad-3-point-shooting-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literally the worst to ever start a professional basketball season\u003c/a>); a freshly acquired \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-kelly-oubre-historically-bad-3-point-shooting-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Wiggins, who was deemed a bust\u003c/a>; a recovering Draymond Green who hadn’t played much due to lingering ailments; and Steph Wardell Curry, the former two-time MVP who had also missed significant playing time from prolonged wrist and ankle injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one will remember a game like Jan. 4, 2021, when a depleted Golden State roster faced off against the Sacramento Kings. By halftime, Steph had racked up 23 points, four assists, and three rebounds in 19 minutes—including a sick alley-oop to the rookie, Wiseman. With a victory, the Dubs reached a winning record for the first time since 2019, when they finished with a franchise-low mark of 15 wins and 50 losses. But with Curry back on the team, players like Mark Mulder and Brad Wanamaker (you’ve probably forgotten about them already) were suddenly able to somehow win games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual, Dub Nation’s hopes hinged on a miracle recipe that only Steph himself could whip up to get the team back in contention. And he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914953\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball players in group photo holding up championship rings\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors celebrate after receiving their 2017–2018 Championship rings. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to superstars lifting up their franchises, it’s part of a gig we’ve seen before. LeBron has done it. Kobe did it. Jordan certainly did it. Magic Johnson. Larry Bird. You name them, they’ve done it. But why is it that some critics still believe Curry is incapable of being among these top chefs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any longtime Warriors fan knows how much Curry has already done to reach this point—and the fact that he has done it multiple times, across a span of 13 years, is nothing short of otherworldly. He’s been doing it since 2009 at Oracle, when he notched \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDBaDqrWBEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his first career triple double\u003c/a>. And in 2012, when he led a six-seed Dubs to the Western Conference Semifinals for the first time since 1976. And he continued to do it from 2015 until 2019, when the Warriors went on to become one of the most dominant franchises in NBA history, racking up three championships, the all-time most regular season wins, and five NBA Finals appearances in just as many years—all under his guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, when he introduced a sous chef by the name of Kevin Durant in 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://heavy.com/sports/golden-state-warriors/kevin-durant-step-curry-twitter-drama/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it ruined the flavors\u003c/a>. It was unforgivable for many, and suddenly, Curry became seen as incapable of running his own kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914954\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200.jpg\" alt='Curry seen from back with arms outstretched and both hands in \"OK\" signs' width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry celebrates a basket during the fourth quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game Five of the 2022 NBA Finals at Chase Center on June 13, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s time to forget all that noise and fully recognize Curry for what he is: the most distinguished, seasoned athlete of his generation. From a lifetime of watching this ball club, I’m telling you that Steph single-handedly (or single-splashedly?) transformed the aura around the franchise in a way that only the game’s GOATs have ever been capable of doing. Before Steph, the Warriors hadn’t delivered anything except Ls and a second round playoff appearance—and that was once, when Baron Davis led an incredibly charged “We Believe” unit in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being dismissed in the draft, Steph gave us hope by proceeding to dismantle defenses with his scrawny stature and sniping his way into sports history, elevating the Warriors to heights not even Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry or Chris Mullin could achieve. Curry fed us that belief. Not KD. Not Steve Kerr. Not my Aquarian brother, Klay Thompson. Not any reason or excuse you can conjure about opposing teams’ injuries, luck or privilege that get mindlessly tossed around to divert attention from Curry’s epic achievements. It has simply been Steph—the original Splash Brother, and the Bay Area’s most improbable Chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, \u003ca href=\"https://howtheyplay.com/team-sports/Why-Steph-Curry-Is-Overrated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he has been slandered as “overrated”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://theundefeated.com/features/why-is-steph-curry-still-dissed-so-much-he-doesnt-fit-the-stereotype-of-nba-greatness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissed for “lacking the prototypical superhero stature.”\u003c/a> I’ve heard everything about Steph’s hairstyle, his height, his skin tone, \u003ca href=\"https://thespun.com/more/top-stories/steph-curry-parents-divorce-dell-sonya-boyfriend-girlfriend-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his parents’ relationship\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Boston-bar-feuds-with-Currys-17244552.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even his wife Ayesha’s cooking\u003c/a> (known for her actual cooking skills as an owner of the San Francisco restaurant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.michaelmina.net/restaurants/international-smoke-locations/san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Smoke\u003c/a>)—irrelevant factors that are used to nitpick at him in ways I’ve never seen directed so obsessively towards any other male athlete. There’s a level of alpha toxicity that permeates those attacks, as if somehow being a humble, smiley, worry-free man makes him incapable of greatness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200.jpg\" alt='Curry with towel over head and both arms up in \"huh?\" gesture' width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry reacts after teammate Draymond Green shot a free throw during the second quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game Five of the 2022 NBA Finals at Chase Center on June 13, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ll admit, Curry isn’t the perfect player. He has struggled in major games at times. He doesn’t show that same “Mamba Mentality” to destroy another person’s soul like Kobe once did; he can’t bulldoze his way through the lane to overpower his defenders like LeBron; and he’s as far as can be from having the pitbullish defense and murderous anger of Jordan. But what those guys didn’t have—besides Steph’s unbelievable shooting ability—was Curry’s finesse. He not only makes the flow of a game fun and playfully light to watch, but gets teammates involved without ever forcing them into submission or fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ultra levels of doubt that have always followed Steph—from Davidson, North Carolina, to Oakland and San Francisco, California—he still manages to drop 43-point culinary gems against number-one-ranked defenses like the Boston Celtics in Game Four of a decisive series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, yes, Curry deserves his flowers because for too long he has been disrespected by salty pundits as a mere product of better players and coaching systems around him. But no one is bailing him out this time, and he doesn’t need it. The Chef himself is cooking yet another round of NBA defenders on his way to an exclamatory—and untouchable—chance at a fourth championship. Win or lose, we’re lucky to have a seat at his table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itDmpH_QCQQ\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any longtime Warriors fan knows how much Curry has already done to reach this point—and the fact that he has done it multiple times, across a span of 13 years, is nothing short of otherworldly. He’s been doing it since 2009 at Oracle, when he notched \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDBaDqrWBEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his first career triple double\u003c/a>. And in 2012, when he led a six-seed Dubs to the Western Conference Semifinals for the first time since 1976. And he continued to do it from 2015 until 2019, when the Warriors went on to become one of the most dominant franchises in NBA history, racking up three championships, the all-time most regular season wins, and five NBA Finals appearances in just as many years—all under his guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, when he introduced a sous chef by the name of Kevin Durant in 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://heavy.com/sports/golden-state-warriors/kevin-durant-step-curry-twitter-drama/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it ruined the flavors\u003c/a>. It was unforgivable for many, and suddenly, Curry became seen as incapable of running his own kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914954\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200.jpg\" alt='Curry seen from back with arms outstretched and both hands in \"OK\" signs' width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry celebrates a basket during the fourth quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game Five of the 2022 NBA Finals at Chase Center on June 13, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s time to forget all that noise and fully recognize Curry for what he is: the most distinguished, seasoned athlete of his generation. From a lifetime of watching this ball club, I’m telling you that Steph single-handedly (or single-splashedly?) transformed the aura around the franchise in a way that only the game’s GOATs have ever been capable of doing. Before Steph, the Warriors hadn’t delivered anything except Ls and a second round playoff appearance—and that was once, when Baron Davis led an incredibly charged “We Believe” unit in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being dismissed in the draft, Steph gave us hope by proceeding to dismantle defenses with his scrawny stature and sniping his way into sports history, elevating the Warriors to heights not even Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry or Chris Mullin could achieve. Curry fed us that belief. Not KD. Not Steve Kerr. Not my Aquarian brother, Klay Thompson. Not any reason or excuse you can conjure about opposing teams’ injuries, luck or privilege that get mindlessly tossed around to divert attention from Curry’s epic achievements. It has simply been Steph—the original Splash Brother, and the Bay Area’s most improbable Chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, \u003ca href=\"https://howtheyplay.com/team-sports/Why-Steph-Curry-Is-Overrated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he has been slandered as “overrated”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://theundefeated.com/features/why-is-steph-curry-still-dissed-so-much-he-doesnt-fit-the-stereotype-of-nba-greatness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissed for “lacking the prototypical superhero stature.”\u003c/a> I’ve heard everything about Steph’s hairstyle, his height, his skin tone, \u003ca href=\"https://thespun.com/more/top-stories/steph-curry-parents-divorce-dell-sonya-boyfriend-girlfriend-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his parents’ relationship\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Boston-bar-feuds-with-Currys-17244552.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even his wife Ayesha’s cooking\u003c/a> (known for her actual cooking skills as an owner of the San Francisco restaurant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.michaelmina.net/restaurants/international-smoke-locations/san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Smoke\u003c/a>)—irrelevant factors that are used to nitpick at him in ways I’ve never seen directed so obsessively towards any other male athlete. There’s a level of alpha toxicity that permeates those attacks, as if somehow being a humble, smiley, worry-free man makes him incapable of greatness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200.jpg\" alt='Curry with towel over head and both arms up in \"huh?\" gesture' width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry reacts after teammate Draymond Green shot a free throw during the second quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game Five of the 2022 NBA Finals at Chase Center on June 13, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ll admit, Curry isn’t the perfect player. He has struggled in major games at times. He doesn’t show that same “Mamba Mentality” to destroy another person’s soul like Kobe once did; he can’t bulldoze his way through the lane to overpower his defenders like LeBron; and he’s as far as can be from having the pitbullish defense and murderous anger of Jordan. But what those guys didn’t have—besides Steph’s unbelievable shooting ability—was Curry’s finesse. He not only makes the flow of a game fun and playfully light to watch, but gets teammates involved without ever forcing them into submission or fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ultra levels of doubt that have always followed Steph—from Davidson, North Carolina, to Oakland and San Francisco, California—he still manages to drop 43-point culinary gems against number-one-ranked defenses like the Boston Celtics in Game Four of a decisive series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, yes, Curry deserves his flowers because for too long he has been disrespected by salty pundits as a mere product of better players and coaching systems around him. But no one is bailing him out this time, and he doesn’t need it. The Chef himself is cooking yet another round of NBA defenders on his way to an exclamatory—and untouchable—chance at a fourth championship. Win or lose, we’re lucky to have a seat at his table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been clear for some time now that cancel culture—for famous people at least—doesn’t exist. Clear that abusers can act with impunity, be exposed by the people who survived their behavior, weather a brief storm, then carry on with their lives as if almost nothing happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_98603']It was clear in 2014 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-billcosby/sold-out-cosby-show-goes-ahead-amid-sex-assault-claims-idINKCN0J51Y220141122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Cosby continued to perform sold-out shows\u003c/a> after the first wave of sexual assault allegations against him emerged. It was clear when Johnny Depp supporters grew more vocal \u003cem>after\u003c/em> a U.K. court found the actor responsible for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889064/johnny-depps-uk-libel-case-failed-and-his-us-one-is-likely-doomed-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sustained and multiple assaults\u003c/a>” against Amber Heard. And it was definitely clear when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/98603/as-woody-allen-falls-where-is-roman-polanskis-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roman Polanski\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892800/allen-v-farrow-is-the-most-damning-indictment-of-woody-allen-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Woody Allen\u003c/a>, decades after multiple accusations from underage girls became public, continued to receive accolades and standing ovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone else got a standing ovation recently: Ryan Adams. The singer-songwriter was \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/music/news/ryan-adams-new-team-concerts-move-past-allegations-1235284292/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">applauded for five straight minutes\u003c/a> by an adoring audience at Carnegie Hall in May. It was his first show since a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/arts/music/ryan-adams-women-sex.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> detailed claims by seven women of sexual misconduct. His accusers—who described a pattern of emotional manipulation, coercion, and offers of professional help that were contingent on personal intimacy—included Phoebe Bridgers and Adams’ ex-wife, Mandy Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams’ “crisis-PR specialist” Howard Bragman told \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> on June 3: “We want to show that he has a real team behind him that believes in him and supports him, and that he’s putting a life together. We want people to notice, and if they want to move forward with him, here’s where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What America has learned over and over again since #MeToo hit the mainstream in 2017 is that there will never be a shortage of people who support celebrities after they’ve been accused of monstrous things. If you have acted in movies or made music that people love; if you are handsome or can make people laugh; if you are charming in enough interviews over a long enough period of time, America will forgive you for just about anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: Louis C.K. Almost five years after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/10/563316860/louis-c-k-admits-to-sexual-harassment-of-multiple-female-comedians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitting to indecent exposure and masturbation\u003c/a> in front of multiple unwilling women, the comedian just won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. The lauded \u003cem>Sincerely Louis C.K\u003c/em> album includes extensive commentary about his inappropriate behavior that minimizes the distress of the women involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13911520']“I like jerking off,” he jokes at one point. “I don’t like being alone, that’s all I can tell you. I get lonely. It’s just sad. I like company. I like to share. I’m good at it, too. If you’re good at juggling, you wouldn’t do it alone in the dark. You’d gather folks and amaze them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams and C.K. are far from the only disgraced celebrities getting back on their feet this year, after brief withdrawals from public life prompted by credible allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other pertinent examples include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Kevin Spacey, who announced an upcoming starring role in \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13542474/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>1242—Gateway to the West\u003c/em>\u003c/a> directly after being charged in the U.K. with four counts of sexual assault against three men\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Danny Masterson, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/danny-mastersons-sexual-assault-trial-everything-to-know/booted-from-the-ranch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accused of multiple sexual assaults\u003c/a> (and of using fellow Scientologists to harass his accusers) has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2525576/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new movie with Richard Dreyfuss\u003c/a> in the can, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3774090/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another on the horizon\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as New York governor last summer after allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/a-cuomo-comeback-hollywood-metoo-fail/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually harassing 11 women\u003c/a>, has\u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/andrew-cuomos-comeback-is-going-somewhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> started making public speeches again\u003c/a>, possibly ramping up to a political campaign\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jeffrey Tambor, who was accused by co-workers of sexual harassment and aggression in 2017, has a new movie—\u003ca href=\"https://www.drunkymovie.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Adventures of Drunky\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—in post-production\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jeremy Piven has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11278608/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new movie coming out this year\u003c/a>, despite three women accusing him of sexual misconduct in 2018. (This one is not terribly surprising—Piven already has a successful \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-u-livin-j-piven-podcast/id1573997895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast\u003c/a> and several prominent \u003ca href=\"https://luxurycigarclub.com/collections/the-jeremy-piven-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">business ventures\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In April, Charlie Rose posted an interview with Warren Buffett to his website as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/04/14/charlie-rose-attempts-metoo-comeback-5-years-after-cbs-firing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comeback attempt\u003c/a>, following multiple accusations of sexual harassment that got him fired from CBS and PBS in 2017\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Months after 12 women came forward to accuse Marilyn Manson of physical and sexual abuse—and just three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Rachel Wood detailed her experiences with him in an HBO documentary\u003c/a>—#MarilynMansonIsInnocent is the most common hashtag associated with the singer on Twitter\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Remember the sense of empowerment women enjoyed in 2017 and 2018? Remember the widely held idea at the time that bad men would finally pay for what they had done? Remember the liberation of talking openly about harassment endured and assaults survived, without shame or hesitation? The time Amber Heard did just that, without even naming her alleged abuser, before being found guilty of defamation for it? Let’s take a pause and remember those feelings. Let’s take a pause and mourn how far in the rearview it feels in 2022. And then, let’s try and get that sense of purpose back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13865685']It’s not just statutes of limitation and systemic sexism keeping abuse survivors from receiving proper justice at this point. It’s audiences. Audiences that will look the other way as long as the song is good enough, or the joke is funny enough, or the artist is handsome enough. Audiences that continue to prioritize the comfort and success of men over the pain and suffering of women. (And given that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/21/587671849/a-new-survey-finds-eighty-percent-of-women-have-experienced-sexual-harassment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">81% of women have experienced sexual harassment\u003c/a>, and 1 in 5 have experienced attempted or completed rape, it’s not a small amount of suffering.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have long been a fan of Ryan Adams. I own many of his records and have seen him perform too many times to count. When I told fellow Adams fans in my life why I would no longer support him, one responded by covering her ears and asking me not to spoil it. She will continue, she tells me, to attend his concerts. What he allegedly did to those women is not, she tells me, her problem. Except it is. It’s all of our problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we show up for these men, it tells survivors—all survivors everywhere—that what happened to them doesn’t matter. It tells them that the songs we like, the movies we love, and the jokes that make us laugh are more important than survivors’ pain. And they’re not—regardless of the “comebacks” you may see this year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I like jerking off,” he jokes at one point. “I don’t like being alone, that’s all I can tell you. I get lonely. It’s just sad. I like company. I like to share. I’m good at it, too. If you’re good at juggling, you wouldn’t do it alone in the dark. You’d gather folks and amaze them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams and C.K. are far from the only disgraced celebrities getting back on their feet this year, after brief withdrawals from public life prompted by credible allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other pertinent examples include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Kevin Spacey, who announced an upcoming starring role in \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13542474/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>1242—Gateway to the West\u003c/em>\u003c/a> directly after being charged in the U.K. with four counts of sexual assault against three men\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Danny Masterson, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/danny-mastersons-sexual-assault-trial-everything-to-know/booted-from-the-ranch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accused of multiple sexual assaults\u003c/a> (and of using fellow Scientologists to harass his accusers) has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2525576/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new movie with Richard Dreyfuss\u003c/a> in the can, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3774090/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another on the horizon\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as New York governor last summer after allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/a-cuomo-comeback-hollywood-metoo-fail/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually harassing 11 women\u003c/a>, has\u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/andrew-cuomos-comeback-is-going-somewhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> started making public speeches again\u003c/a>, possibly ramping up to a political campaign\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jeffrey Tambor, who was accused by co-workers of sexual harassment and aggression in 2017, has a new movie—\u003ca href=\"https://www.drunkymovie.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Adventures of Drunky\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—in post-production\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jeremy Piven has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11278608/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new movie coming out this year\u003c/a>, despite three women accusing him of sexual misconduct in 2018. (This one is not terribly surprising—Piven already has a successful \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-u-livin-j-piven-podcast/id1573997895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast\u003c/a> and several prominent \u003ca href=\"https://luxurycigarclub.com/collections/the-jeremy-piven-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">business ventures\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In April, Charlie Rose posted an interview with Warren Buffett to his website as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/04/14/charlie-rose-attempts-metoo-comeback-5-years-after-cbs-firing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comeback attempt\u003c/a>, following multiple accusations of sexual harassment that got him fired from CBS and PBS in 2017\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Months after 12 women came forward to accuse Marilyn Manson of physical and sexual abuse—and just three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Rachel Wood detailed her experiences with him in an HBO documentary\u003c/a>—#MarilynMansonIsInnocent is the most common hashtag associated with the singer on Twitter\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Remember the sense of empowerment women enjoyed in 2017 and 2018? Remember the widely held idea at the time that bad men would finally pay for what they had done? Remember the liberation of talking openly about harassment endured and assaults survived, without shame or hesitation? The time Amber Heard did just that, without even naming her alleged abuser, before being found guilty of defamation for it? Let’s take a pause and remember those feelings. Let’s take a pause and mourn how far in the rearview it feels in 2022. And then, let’s try and get that sense of purpose back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s not just statutes of limitation and systemic sexism keeping abuse survivors from receiving proper justice at this point. It’s audiences. Audiences that will look the other way as long as the song is good enough, or the joke is funny enough, or the artist is handsome enough. Audiences that continue to prioritize the comfort and success of men over the pain and suffering of women. (And given that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/21/587671849/a-new-survey-finds-eighty-percent-of-women-have-experienced-sexual-harassment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">81% of women have experienced sexual harassment\u003c/a>, and 1 in 5 have experienced attempted or completed rape, it’s not a small amount of suffering.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have long been a fan of Ryan Adams. I own many of his records and have seen him perform too many times to count. When I told fellow Adams fans in my life why I would no longer support him, one responded by covering her ears and asking me not to spoil it. She will continue, she tells me, to attend his concerts. What he allegedly did to those women is not, she tells me, her problem. Except it is. It’s all of our problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The verdict is in, and it’s strangely fitting: Everybody lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, a jury came to the conclusion that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had defamed each other after a livestreamed trial that was as long as it was disturbing. In the end, the jury awarded Depp $10.35 million of the $50 million he sought from his ex-wife over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ive-seen-how-institutions-protect-men-accused-of-abuse-heres-what-we-can-do/2018/12/18/71fd876a-02ed-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> op-ed\u003c/a> in which she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” They awarded Heard $2 million of the $100 million she sought when she counter-sued him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the difference in amounts, the person who lost the most in this trial is Amber Heard. Heard, whose life has been on hold for the last four years while her ex-husband doggedly pursued her and dragged her through courts on both sides of the Atlantic. Heard, who has been painted online as a conniving villain despite a British High Court judge concluding in 2020 that she “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889064/johnny-depps-uk-libel-case-failed-and-his-us-one-is-likely-doomed-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was the victim of sustained and multiple assaults by Mr. Depp\u003c/a>.” Heard, who survived an obviously excruciating marriage, only to become the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1104925752/amber-heard-says-social-media-was-a-factor-for-her-defamation-trial-jury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excruciating public ridicule\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Heard listens in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse, May 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s clear that Depp’s regular reliance on alcohol and drugs made their situation at home hellish. Heard, unfortunately, did not react to that difficult set of circumstances in the way the world expects (or wants) to see from a woman experiencing abuse. She didn’t cower. Instead, she lost her temper, she mocked him, and (as she admitted in one infamous recording) she hit him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Heard’s biggest crime of all, probably, was repeatedly lying about donating her $7 million divorce settlement. (She donated $1.3 million, but not all of that came directly from her.) Because of that lie, an assumption took hold that Depp couldn’t possibly have assaulted Heard in the ways she described. (And make no mistake, her testimony about those alleged assaults has often been \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amber-heard-johnny-depp-bottle-scars-b2080069.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harrowing\u003c/a>.) Apparently, in the court of public opinion, if you lie about one thing, you must be lying about everything—even credible abuse claims backed by a mountain of \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/ex-amber-heard-bff-says-she-saw-abuse-inflicted-by-depp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/johnny-depp-violent-texts-paul-bettany-amber-heard-trial-1699979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s begging for total global humiliation,” Depp wrote about Heard in one furious 2016 text. “She’s gonna get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97650']It took him six years, but there can be no doubt that Depp, with the help of his fans and his privilege, has now thoroughly succeeded in that revenge mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Depp back to swanning around the world, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2022/05/johnny-depp-jeff-beck-performance-england-1235035309/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">playing guitar for supportive rock stars\u003c/a>, it’s important to look beyond the two flawed characters at the center of this awful case. Because the most damage sustained in all of this isn’t to Heard or to Depp—it was to the survivors of domestic abuse and intimate partner violence who’ve been watching in horror for the last six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That damage has been inflicted on multiple fronts throughout this trial, and relentlessly so. It was inflicted inside the courtroom, when we saw Heard’s dating history and friendships with men picked apart, as if those relationships were grounds to doubt the likelihood she’d been assaulted. (It felt reminiscent of the recent past when rape survivors were still routinely asked about their sexual histories.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online and outside the courtroom, Heard was subjected to mockery, abuse and hatred by people whose support for her more famous husband was persistently aggressive. She was talked about as if she were the one pursuing him in court, not the other way around. And fellow \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8R3EXXlKxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrities have piled on\u003c/a> too. When Chris Rock said “\u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/film/news/chris-rock-depp-heard-trial-believe-women-amber-1235268125/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Believe all women except Amber Heard\u003c/a>” a couple weeks ago, far too many people laughed along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903795/britney-spears-conservatorship-documentaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Framing Britney Spears\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902631/women-reclaim-the-narrative-of-the-clinton-sex-scandal-in-impeachment-american-crime-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Impeachment: American Crime Story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908915/pam-tommy-are-sympathetic-figures-in-an-infamous-culture-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pam & Tommy\u003c/em>\u003c/a> all suggested America no longer eviscerated famous women in public for cheap laughs, the response to this trial has unequivocally proven otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worst of all, the decision against Heard will serve to silence abuse survivors. Because—and it’s important to remind ourselves of this—Amber Heard did not name Johnny Depp in the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> article that prompted Depp’s lawsuit. Dots could be connected because of the couple’s high-profile marriage, and the 2016 restraining order she filed against him for abusing her while under the influence. But she did not name him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only will this knowledge prevent other survivors from speaking publicly or writing about their abuse, it puts in particular jeopardy any and all famous activists who’ve led their relationships in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13910124']Consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Rachel Wood\u003c/a>, who campaigned successfully to extend the statute of limitations for domestic violence in California. Part of what made her such a compelling witness was the harrowing testimony she gave about the intimate partner violence she suffered at the hands of an anonymous former boyfriend. (The world now knows him to be Marilyn Manson—a figure that came up in the Depp v. Heard trial due to his close friendship with Depp.) Would Wood give that testimony now, before cameras and on the record, knowing the verdict that just landed on Heard? If people can’t speak out about their experiences with abuse while granting their abusers anonymity, when can they speak at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everything about this trial has been a keen reminder of the Bad Old Days. The days when a woman had to be a stoic and saintly image of victimhood in order to be believed. The days when a man’s appalling private behavior could be ignored by the masses because he was a beloved public figure. The days when it was acceptable to demonize and bully a woman because she said things about a famous man that the world would rather not hear. The days when bystanders pointing any of these things out online would earn them a swift and proverbial beatdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914330\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Heard supporter Daniel Lee, 26, is flipped off by a Johnny Depp supporter outside court during the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard civil trial at Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Cliff Owen/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This whole trial has been a depressing and demoralizing mess. It is a confirmation that we still live in a place where, when it comes to a complicated he-said-she-said, the winner will always be the one with the most power, the most fans, the most money to buy the best lawyers, and the biggest reserves of good old fashioned misogyny to deploy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Heard and Johnny Depp both lost today. But it’s America that’s losing the most.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The verdict is in, and it’s strangely fitting: Everybody lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, a jury came to the conclusion that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had defamed each other after a livestreamed trial that was as long as it was disturbing. In the end, the jury awarded Depp $10.35 million of the $50 million he sought from his ex-wife over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ive-seen-how-institutions-protect-men-accused-of-abuse-heres-what-we-can-do/2018/12/18/71fd876a-02ed-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> op-ed\u003c/a> in which she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” They awarded Heard $2 million of the $100 million she sought when she counter-sued him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the difference in amounts, the person who lost the most in this trial is Amber Heard. Heard, whose life has been on hold for the last four years while her ex-husband doggedly pursued her and dragged her through courts on both sides of the Atlantic. Heard, who has been painted online as a conniving villain despite a British High Court judge concluding in 2020 that she “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889064/johnny-depps-uk-libel-case-failed-and-his-us-one-is-likely-doomed-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was the victim of sustained and multiple assaults by Mr. Depp\u003c/a>.” Heard, who survived an obviously excruciating marriage, only to become the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1104925752/amber-heard-says-social-media-was-a-factor-for-her-defamation-trial-jury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excruciating public ridicule\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Heard listens in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse, May 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s clear that Depp’s regular reliance on alcohol and drugs made their situation at home hellish. Heard, unfortunately, did not react to that difficult set of circumstances in the way the world expects (or wants) to see from a woman experiencing abuse. She didn’t cower. Instead, she lost her temper, she mocked him, and (as she admitted in one infamous recording) she hit him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Heard’s biggest crime of all, probably, was repeatedly lying about donating her $7 million divorce settlement. (She donated $1.3 million, but not all of that came directly from her.) Because of that lie, an assumption took hold that Depp couldn’t possibly have assaulted Heard in the ways she described. (And make no mistake, her testimony about those alleged assaults has often been \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amber-heard-johnny-depp-bottle-scars-b2080069.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harrowing\u003c/a>.) Apparently, in the court of public opinion, if you lie about one thing, you must be lying about everything—even credible abuse claims backed by a mountain of \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/ex-amber-heard-bff-says-she-saw-abuse-inflicted-by-depp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/johnny-depp-violent-texts-paul-bettany-amber-heard-trial-1699979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s begging for total global humiliation,” Depp wrote about Heard in one furious 2016 text. “She’s gonna get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It took him six years, but there can be no doubt that Depp, with the help of his fans and his privilege, has now thoroughly succeeded in that revenge mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Depp back to swanning around the world, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2022/05/johnny-depp-jeff-beck-performance-england-1235035309/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">playing guitar for supportive rock stars\u003c/a>, it’s important to look beyond the two flawed characters at the center of this awful case. Because the most damage sustained in all of this isn’t to Heard or to Depp—it was to the survivors of domestic abuse and intimate partner violence who’ve been watching in horror for the last six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That damage has been inflicted on multiple fronts throughout this trial, and relentlessly so. It was inflicted inside the courtroom, when we saw Heard’s dating history and friendships with men picked apart, as if those relationships were grounds to doubt the likelihood she’d been assaulted. (It felt reminiscent of the recent past when rape survivors were still routinely asked about their sexual histories.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online and outside the courtroom, Heard was subjected to mockery, abuse and hatred by people whose support for her more famous husband was persistently aggressive. She was talked about as if she were the one pursuing him in court, not the other way around. And fellow \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8R3EXXlKxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrities have piled on\u003c/a> too. When Chris Rock said “\u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/film/news/chris-rock-depp-heard-trial-believe-women-amber-1235268125/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Believe all women except Amber Heard\u003c/a>” a couple weeks ago, far too many people laughed along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903795/britney-spears-conservatorship-documentaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Framing Britney Spears\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902631/women-reclaim-the-narrative-of-the-clinton-sex-scandal-in-impeachment-american-crime-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Impeachment: American Crime Story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908915/pam-tommy-are-sympathetic-figures-in-an-infamous-culture-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pam & Tommy\u003c/em>\u003c/a> all suggested America no longer eviscerated famous women in public for cheap laughs, the response to this trial has unequivocally proven otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worst of all, the decision against Heard will serve to silence abuse survivors. Because—and it’s important to remind ourselves of this—Amber Heard did not name Johnny Depp in the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> article that prompted Depp’s lawsuit. Dots could be connected because of the couple’s high-profile marriage, and the 2016 restraining order she filed against him for abusing her while under the influence. But she did not name him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only will this knowledge prevent other survivors from speaking publicly or writing about their abuse, it puts in particular jeopardy any and all famous activists who’ve led their relationships in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Rachel Wood\u003c/a>, who campaigned successfully to extend the statute of limitations for domestic violence in California. Part of what made her such a compelling witness was the harrowing testimony she gave about the intimate partner violence she suffered at the hands of an anonymous former boyfriend. (The world now knows him to be Marilyn Manson—a figure that came up in the Depp v. Heard trial due to his close friendship with Depp.) Would Wood give that testimony now, before cameras and on the record, knowing the verdict that just landed on Heard? If people can’t speak out about their experiences with abuse while granting their abusers anonymity, when can they speak at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everything about this trial has been a keen reminder of the Bad Old Days. The days when a woman had to be a stoic and saintly image of victimhood in order to be believed. The days when a man’s appalling private behavior could be ignored by the masses because he was a beloved public figure. The days when it was acceptable to demonize and bully a woman because she said things about a famous man that the world would rather not hear. The days when bystanders pointing any of these things out online would earn them a swift and proverbial beatdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914330\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Heard supporter Daniel Lee, 26, is flipped off by a Johnny Depp supporter outside court during the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard civil trial at Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Cliff Owen/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This whole trial has been a depressing and demoralizing mess. It is a confirmation that we still live in a place where, when it comes to a complicated he-said-she-said, the winner will always be the one with the most power, the most fans, the most money to buy the best lawyers, and the biggest reserves of good old fashioned misogyny to deploy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There is no right way to grieve the violent, bloody killing of 19 elementary school children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a functioning human, then in the past day you’ve probably swung from shock, to sadness, to frustration and anger—and then back again. You’re not alone. Those of us at KQED Arts & Culture have been navigating the same storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How are \u003cem>you\u003c/em> doing? If you just need a place to vent, cry, lament, or try to make sense of the senseless, \u003ca href=\"mailto:gmeline@kqed.org?subject=Processing%20the%20Texas%20Shooting\">send us an email and let us know how you’re doing\u003c/a>. We promise one of us will get back to you, human to human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, we’ve been processing the news out of Texas, and its all-too-familiar news cycle—and finding sources of support, comfort, and determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Resources for Grief\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#help\">How to Help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1317456533.jpg\" alt=\"Sad Girl Hiding Face\" width=\"591\" height=\"591\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13913994\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1317456533.jpg 591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1317456533-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shutting Down and Feeling Drained\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I have to admit, I shut down. Like, completely. I had to stop working, I took a late afternoon nap, and I had a dream that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was in his car next to me, on the phone, rebutting demands to advance gun control legislation with facts that were patently untrue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dream felt real, because, well, it essentially is. Our nightmare of mass shootings is not going to stop until Capitol Hill takes action; until \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bessbell/status/1529290355669028864\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NRA-backed senators\u003c/a> put human life above money; until we stop hearing “cast your vote in November” and start hearing about the lawmakers that we’ve already voted for doing their job, and protecting our kids. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I woke up from my dream and put on Archie Shepp’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLf8CINFnEM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Damn If I Know\u003c/a>,” a searing cry from a jazz master who turned 85 yesterday and got the worst birthday present imaginable, 19 children, bodies mangled in the classroom, dead, dead, dead. When my daughter came home from elementary school, my job as a dad was to hug her with all the love in the world. But I am so, so tired of this, and believe me, I was almost too drained to even greet her at the door.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline, Senior Editor\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13909111']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Utilizing Anger as a Productive Fuel\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I’ve written guides for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13886630/how-to-stop-doomscrolling-and-start-using-the-internet-mindfully\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">avoiding doomscrolling\u003c/a> and practicing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876619/self-care-tips-to-get-you-through-the-new-coronavirus-normal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">self-care through tragedy\u003c/a>. But after two years of COVID, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101050970/2022-school-shootings-so-far\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">27 school shootings in the United States this year alone\u003c/a>, I find it cruel and perverse that we repeatedly need to learn to cope with escalating, inhumane violence. I’m tired of elected officials offering thoughts and prayers or encouraging us to vote. \u003ci>Please actually do something.\u003c/i> Getting out to the ballot box isn’t enough—this situation calls for direct action, in order to make this human rights crisis impossible for those in power to ignore. It also calls for an entire examination of our political system and the powerful influence of special-interest groups like the NRA. If you’re full of pent-up rage, channel it into action. Make protest signs, call your legislators, get creative. Rage can be productive fuel for change.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya, Associate Editor\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sharing a Shroud of Grief\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I spent last night going to a show in August Hall with a dear friend who lost her husband suddenly two years ago. She’s still in that stage of grief where it hangs on her like a dark shroud, even when she’s not talking about it. I recognize the shroud, because it took me five years to emerge from under my own after my husband died in 2013. My friend and I didn’t talk about Uvalde’s elementary school slaughter. Instead, we held each other close, told each other we loved each other, and went home early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I went to sleep, I read the details. I looked closely at the teachers’ smiles, and the children’s faces brimming with promise. I tried to imagine the unimaginable—the agony of the parents. That first day is like an out-of-body experience. Coroners and police must be spoken to, forms must be signed, family and friends must be informed, funeral homes must be called. And then you must go back to your deafeningly silent home, and begin the process of learning to live with a metaphorical shroud where your person used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deep grief leaves you feeling cut off from everyone else. But the truth is that too many people are living under the same shroud. In 2020, 19,384 Americans were shot to death by other Americans. And 4,300 of them were children and teenagers. Picture five sold-out shows at August Hall, each populated exclusively by young people. Now picture absolutely no one coming home from any of them. That’s the reality America’s youth is currently living, year over year over year, and America’s chaperones are doing absolutely nothing about it.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra, Staff Writer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13893843']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Demanding Immediate Legislation from Lawmakers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I first heard the news on Slack when the victims were thought to be just two children. I didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to pause work and doomscroll through the imminent Twitter storm. Before letting the news hit me, before even knowing what the news was, I scrambled to gather resources to add to the conversation. I did this almost on autopilot—this has happened many times before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These included archival stories we’re all too familiar with from these recurring atrocities. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11790663/18-songs-we-listen-to-in-times-of-tumult\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Songs We Listen to in Times of Tumult and Distress\u003c/a>.” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893843/9-helpful-things-to-know-about-grief-that-nobody-warns-you-about\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">9 Helpful Things To Know About Grief That Nobody Warns You About\u003c/a>.” Insightful, poignant resources that I hope will help others. But I haven’t yet let them help me. Personally, I’m not ready to talk about grief. I’m ready for immediate action to curb this horrific and ceaseless domestic terrorism. If those in power don’t effectuate gun reform and pull out all stops to cease the murders of children, Black families, Asian churchgoers and other innocent lives, then I never want to hear a politician lament their “thoughts and prayers” again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to \u003ca href=\"https://archive.thinkprogress.org/corporations-nra-f0d8074f2ca7/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">boycott companies who support the NRA\u003c/a>; I want to advocate against gun lobbyists, corrupt lawmakers and the military-industrial complex that promotes military-grade gun ownership and enables more lives to be taken. At a time when the imminent repeal of reproductive rights is threatening lives, and gun rights continue to take them, we need to ask what freedom truly means, and then fight for it.\u003cem>—Justin Ebrahemi, Digital Engagement Manager\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1217439400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13913993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1217439400.jpg 724w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1217439400-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Becoming Numb to Constant Catastrophe\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Columbine happened on my birthday. I was in school with other high school students, gossiping, passing notes in class, when out of nowhere, an assembly was called to explain what happened. There were tears everywhere, guidance counselors, teachers holding students, and parents picking up their kids early to hold them close. That was almost 25 years ago. Nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s actually not true—massacres like this are far more common now. I have young nieces and nephews for whom a school shooting, or an open slaughter of people at grocery stores, movie theaters or even churches is not shocking. We grieve and mourn because we are helpless. We hear the same condolences and apologies from those who could prevent these killings but don’t. We compartmentalize because tragedies like this happen weekly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most terrifying part for me is that I can have tears in my eyes for the sadness I feel, and then a few minutes later I’ll continue on as normal. I am becoming numb to the constant sense of catastrophe. You are not alone in your confusion of how to process what’s happening. You are not alone if you feel everything, and recoil in the fetal position. You are not alone if you feel nothing, and go about your day scrolling through posts and articles numb and without reaction. Simply put: you are not alone.\u003cem>—Ria Garewal, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resolving In Our Sadness To Take Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I lost a son to illness nearly 30 years ago. When it’s your child, you don’t stop grieving; you grow with it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when something like the Uvalde school massacre happens, when 19 young lives are erased, snuffed out, as in so many school massacres before, I cannot access my grief. And while I ache for the families, knowing, as I do, just some of what they are going through, I can only rage against a society that will not act to stop this killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our sadness, we must all do something. Even if in the immediate term, it’s only an email or text to your senators (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.270towin.com/elected-officials/contact-us-senators\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">all 50 senators\u003c/a>) demanding a vote on legislation stalled in the Senate requiring background checks for gun purchases. Let them know you won’t be numbed into submission. 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We want to try all the foods and give all the hugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet [cue sound of deflating balloon], as the Bay Area hits \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-officials-recommend-masks-17171290.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its fifth COVID-19 surge\u003c/a>, a blend of anxiety, fatigue and grief have tempered all this excitement. Even though California’s economy reopened last summer, independent artists are nowhere near a full recovery. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912324/mask-requirements-touring-musicians-covid-tsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">without a social safety net\u003c/a>, artists have to fend for themselves in this unpredictable climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because artists possess the gift of making something out of nothing, examples of their ingenuity abound in all corners of the Bay Area. This week in \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/ourcreativefutures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Our Creative Futures\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, you’ll read about mutual aid networks, new economic models and volunteer efforts to keep the arts thriving and sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='center']The artists in our communities are pressing on, sometimes at great personal cost. We shouldn’t take that for granted, and nurture them, support them and celebrate them.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With few public health measures against COVID-19 still in place, artists have to make difficult tradeoffs. You inevitably risk spread when your profession involves packing strangers into rooms. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Content Warning\u003c/strong>: This article contains multiple uncensored uses, including a recording, of derogatory phrases which some may find highly offensive.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, we arrived at San Francisco’s Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on 4/20, excited to document the return of the stoner celebration. Among the crowd were primarily young, Black and Brown people enjoying themselves—far more than you typically see in one space in modern-day San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We—Julian, the reporter, and Amaya, the photojournalist—were looking forward to collaborating on a photo essay that centered Black and Brown entrepreneurs and artists. We wanted to help foster a sense of pride, and capture how folks who look like us have shaped California’s cannabis industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, as Black journalists, we experienced an angry harangue from a white man named Mike Barnes involving aggressive use of the n-word. In a follow-up conversation, he used it many more times, and doubled down on his right to say it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes is a fixture in press coverage of Bay Area cannabis events, and appears to openly court media attention. We’ve decided to give it to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man in a marijuana-themed suit and hat, covered in leaves, points his finger at a young Black reporter during an interview.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED reporter Julian Sorapuru (right) interviews Mike Barnes at Hippie Hill at 4/20. Shortly after the interview began, Barnes aggressively used a racial slur. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Yes, With a Hard ‘R’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Hippie Hill on April 20, we see someone who we think would make an interesting addition to our story. He carries himself with the energy of a total character, dressed in a gaudy, black suit and bucket hat adorned all over with green marijuana leaves. It was hard to miss this large, middle-aged white man, so we identify ourselves as journalists and stop him for an interview. He agrees, and introduces himself as “Big Mike.” Neither of us expect what happened next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Amaya snaps some photos of him and we kick off the interview, Big Mike begins boasting about how many times he’s been in the media: \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/stoners-celebrate-420-weed-pot-cannabis-824550/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolling Stone\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, KTVU, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/San-Francisco-s-420-celebration-lights-up-17110328.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>\u003c/em>—he’s something of a minor celebrity in the Bay Area cannabis scene. He says he’s a weed grower just there to have a good time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty standard answer so far. Then he suddenly launches into a story about an interaction he had with Mike Tyson while the former boxer and cannabis entrepreneur spoke on stage earlier in the day. He gets visibly angry as he describes how, in his version of events, Tyson swatted away the handfuls of weed Big Mike decided to throw at him while he spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Fuck you, nigger,’ and turned around and walked away,” Big Mike says aggressively. “You don’t want my weed? You want the whole bag?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear Mike Barnes’ interview in full below:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003caudio controls=\"controls\">\u003csource src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/MikeBarnes.mp3\">\u003c/source>\u003c/audio>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, I’m stunned into silence. My eyes go wide and I size him up. He’s a big dude: about 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds. Now I’m thinking about our safety. Centuries of generational trauma tell me that when a white man uses the n-word with that much vitriol, it’s either time to fight or get the hell out. Hearing that word could have meant life or death for our ancestors. It still can. But my journalism training tells me to let the source finish his statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he does: “Let’s just say I’m not a Mike Tyson fan anymore,” Big Mike says. I half-expect to hear an apology or a joke, but he keeps doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on disparaging Tyson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally I get out. “Have a good day, man,” I say, maintaining an air of professionalism and respect towards an interviewee who showed neither to us. I walk away and end the recording as he continues with his rant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did a white man dressed in a weed suit he ordered from Amazon really just say the n-word with a hard “R” without any provocation at a 4/20 festival? The absurdity of the incident made me feel like I was in an episode of \u003ci>Atlanta\u003c/i>. This is an event that’s supposed to be all about good vibes and relaxation, not hatred and bitterness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaya laughs the way you do when you’re trying to hold back tears. “He can’t be serious,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, he absolutely \u003cem>was\u003c/em> serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes poses for a portrait at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Who Is Mike Barnes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Big Mike’s real name is Mike Barnes. He is a 52 year-old resident of the Berkeley area. He’s a former Army airborne combat engineer, he says, who previously ran a dispensary called the Hayward Patients Resource Center, which is now defunct. Today, he is self-employed, earning a living by doing “handyman things” and growing marijuana for “a small group of private individuals for medical reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes has a habit of popping up at cannabis-related events. Photos of him in his eye-catching suit at previous iterations of the 4/20 festival have appeared in the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-may-start-permitting-cannabis-sales-consumption-at-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/news/cannabis/4-20-in-golden-gate-park-is-officially-cancelled/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/i> and \u003ca href=\"https://ksltv.com/412196/brands-roll-stoner-holiday-pot-legalization-grows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSL TV\u003c/a>. Barnes was photographed for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Smokeless-medicinal-pot-has-its-advocates-2661126.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle article\u003c/a> as far back as 2005 (in a shirt that read: “The DEA took my medical marijuana away!… and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13913116']Barnes was photographed and quoted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/01/01/crowds-gather-6-celebrate-first-sales-recreational-cannabis-berkeley?doing_wp_cron=1652725845.1196229457855224609375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> and \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2018/01/01/first-sales-of-recreational-marijuana-in-berkeley-usher-in-whole-new-era/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Cal\u003c/a>\u003c/i> at the ribbon-cutting for Berkeley’s first legal recreational marijuana sale at the Berkeley Patients Group dispensary. His photo also appeared in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article114091003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Sacramento Bee\u003c/i> opinion article\u003c/a> on Proposition 64, which legalized the use of recreational cannabis in California. In the photo, Barnes is pictured smoking inside of his “420 Limo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We decided it was important to hold Barnes accountable for his words, so we called him on May 6 to inform him of our intention to publish the interview, and to see what he had to say for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, make the spelling N-I-G-G-A if you do it,” he says. “It’s like, people say nigga all the time, and it’s acceptable if you’re a Black man, but if you’re a white man, and you say nigga, then it’s completely racist, which is just, you know, completely hypocritical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began rattling off other racial slurs against Latino, Asian and Black people, arguing that they only refer to the “lowlives” of each ethnic group and, in his eyes, are therefore OK to use. In the same breath, he asked us not to publish his quote, even though he gave it to us knowing full well that this was an on-record interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I meant it in a disrespectful way towards [Tyson] specifically, nobody else,” Barnes says. “So if anybody else takes offense at it, well, fuck them. I wasn’t talking to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up on a bag of marijuana, a large joint, held by a man in a marijuana-themed outfit \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes holds a bag of marijuana at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco, Calif. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Deeply Disturbed,’ Says Friend and Dispensary Owner\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes is a white man gaining clout, attention, and potentially income from a drug that has been used to criminalize Black people for decades. (Barnes told us that he’s been raided by law enforcement four times, but never charged with a crime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen white people profit the most from the corporatization of cannabis in recent years while people of color continuously get left behind. The Associated Press reports that the cannabis industry was worth \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-race-and-ethnicity-8e047483fc6e83e2e5f6dc971cb4aa73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$33 billion in sales in 2021\u003c/a>. Of all cannabis business owners in the United States, 81% are white, while just a little over 4% are Black, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://mjbizdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Women-and-Minorities-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 survey from Marijuana Business Daily\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13849783']Not to mention that hundreds of thousands of Black and brown people are still sitting in jail for marijuana offenses. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/marijuanareport_03232021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2020 report by the American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>, the national Black population is still nearly four times more likely than the white population to be arrested for marijuana possession, even after weed became legal in several states. These arrests have detrimental impacts, running along intersections of class and income, for communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etienne Fontan, co-owner and vice president of Berkeley Patients Group, whom Barnes called “a friend of mine” who he has known for “a long time,” wrote in a statement to KQED, “I, along with the team at Berkeley Patients Group, do not tolerate racism or hate speech and this is the first we are learning of any accusations relating to Mr. Barnes’ use of such language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply disturbed to learn that Mr. Barnes, who apparently attended public events held by BPG several years ago, expressed such views,” Fontan continued. “Such rhetoric and actions in no way reflect my or my company’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Mike Barnes’ and Mike Tyson’s stage interaction below, filmed by Rich America Production Co. & Jamal Trulove:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Md4o4CUltHA\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mike Tyson and Harmful Stereotypes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes using the n-word to describe Mike Tyson is especially unsettling, considering that Tyson has often been portrayed in popular media as a Black Brute, a caricature of Black men that portrays them as dangerous, animalistic, sexually aggressive and unintelligent. This framing was especially prominent in the ’80s and ’90s, when Tyson was at the height of his boxing powers. (Representatives for Mike Tyson did not respond to requests for comment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the event in San Francisco, the media has covered Tyson for his “angry” interactions with fans, the first of which occurred April 21 aboard Tyson’s flight departing from San Francisco. A fellow passenger \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/21/mike-tyson-punches-passenger-airplane-tmz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly harassed Tyson\u003c/a>, according to reports, which led the former boxer to punch the man multiple times. (Authorities declined to file charges against Tyson for the incident.) On May 3, a fan in Las Vegas \u003ca href=\"https://www.al.com/sports/2022/05/mike-tyson-has-another-angry-interaction-with-fan-when-woman-appears-to-try-to-pick-his-nose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempted to stick their finger up Tyson’s nose\u003c/a>, which prompted an annoyed reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ behavior—throwing things at Tyson while he is on stage attempting to give a speech—is in this same category of fans going too far. Many people, it seems, feel entitled to violate Tyson’s personal space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson is not perfect. He has done some reprehensible things. But to portray him as a brute is a reductionist and racist point of view of a complicated man. Regardless of one’s image or status, no one deserves to be called a racist slur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13913381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man holds a bag of marijuana and a large joint, dressed in a marijuana-themed suit and bucket hat covered in leaves.\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes poses for a portrait in a gaudy marijuana-themed costume at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The So-Called ‘Progressive’ Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ comments should not only make us interrogate one dimensional views of Mike Tyson, but it should also make us think critically about how we view race relations in the Bay Area. Often, the Bay is hailed as a racially enlightened, progressive haven where everyone is respectful of each other’s identities, culture and humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a Black person in this country, living in a “progressive” place does not mean a reprieve from the smothering presence of racism; it just means your suffocation happens in the shadows. Our experience encountering anti-Black hate speech is not an isolated one. We just happen to have it on tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This incident is about more than just one word said by one man on one day. It’s a case study; a harsh, slap-to-the-face reminder that anti-Black racism is alive and very well, even in San Francisco. Barnes weaponized the power he holds as a white man in this country to disarm and dehumanize both Tyson and ourselves—a microcosm of the racial power dynamic inherent in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11905492']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking the Power Back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Black people must get through each day with a cloud over our heads, knowing that as our proximity to whiteness increases, so does the likelihood that we may be the victim of racism. Power coupled with ignorance is a terrible combination. It’s why everyone should strive to better understand the ways in which the n-word has been and continues to be weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That word from the mouth of a white person is a reminder of the ideology used against our ancestors to justify the inhumane atrocities of chattel slavery. It was the word shouted in hate by white mobs as they lynched Black people without due process of law. It was the word ordinary Black folks heard through ringing ears as they were brutalized by police simply for demanding their right to vote. It was the word \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/buffalo-shooting-suspect-had-n-word-written-on-gun-2022-5\">painted onto the barrel of the Buffalo shooter’s gun\u003c/a>. A white person saying the n-word is a reminder of the things that have been denied to us; the ways we have been treated as subhuman; how we have been forced to make a way out of no way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in that grand tradition of those who came before us, we are attempting to create something proactive out of a negative experience. Hopefully we are not presumptive by saying that we speak in the interests of not only ourselves, but for many other Black people who don’t have the opportunity to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ actions should serve as a cautionary tale to anyone who feels emboldened to use that word in such a hateful way. For all of our sakes, hold your tongue—or be ready to face the consequences if you don’t.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Content Warning\u003c/strong>: This article contains multiple uncensored uses, including a recording, of derogatory phrases which some may find highly offensive.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, we arrived at San Francisco’s Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on 4/20, excited to document the return of the stoner celebration. Among the crowd were primarily young, Black and Brown people enjoying themselves—far more than you typically see in one space in modern-day San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We—Julian, the reporter, and Amaya, the photojournalist—were looking forward to collaborating on a photo essay that centered Black and Brown entrepreneurs and artists. We wanted to help foster a sense of pride, and capture how folks who look like us have shaped California’s cannabis industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, as Black journalists, we experienced an angry harangue from a white man named Mike Barnes involving aggressive use of the n-word. In a follow-up conversation, he used it many more times, and doubled down on his right to say it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes is a fixture in press coverage of Bay Area cannabis events, and appears to openly court media attention. We’ve decided to give it to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man in a marijuana-themed suit and hat, covered in leaves, points his finger at a young Black reporter during an interview.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED reporter Julian Sorapuru (right) interviews Mike Barnes at Hippie Hill at 4/20. Shortly after the interview began, Barnes aggressively used a racial slur. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Yes, With a Hard ‘R’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Hippie Hill on April 20, we see someone who we think would make an interesting addition to our story. He carries himself with the energy of a total character, dressed in a gaudy, black suit and bucket hat adorned all over with green marijuana leaves. It was hard to miss this large, middle-aged white man, so we identify ourselves as journalists and stop him for an interview. He agrees, and introduces himself as “Big Mike.” Neither of us expect what happened next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Amaya snaps some photos of him and we kick off the interview, Big Mike begins boasting about how many times he’s been in the media: \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/stoners-celebrate-420-weed-pot-cannabis-824550/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolling Stone\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, KTVU, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/San-Francisco-s-420-celebration-lights-up-17110328.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>\u003c/em>—he’s something of a minor celebrity in the Bay Area cannabis scene. He says he’s a weed grower just there to have a good time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty standard answer so far. Then he suddenly launches into a story about an interaction he had with Mike Tyson while the former boxer and cannabis entrepreneur spoke on stage earlier in the day. He gets visibly angry as he describes how, in his version of events, Tyson swatted away the handfuls of weed Big Mike decided to throw at him while he spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Fuck you, nigger,’ and turned around and walked away,” Big Mike says aggressively. “You don’t want my weed? You want the whole bag?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear Mike Barnes’ interview in full below:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003caudio controls=\"controls\">\u003csource src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/MikeBarnes.mp3\">\u003c/source>\u003c/audio>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, I’m stunned into silence. My eyes go wide and I size him up. He’s a big dude: about 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds. Now I’m thinking about our safety. Centuries of generational trauma tell me that when a white man uses the n-word with that much vitriol, it’s either time to fight or get the hell out. Hearing that word could have meant life or death for our ancestors. It still can. But my journalism training tells me to let the source finish his statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he does: “Let’s just say I’m not a Mike Tyson fan anymore,” Big Mike says. I half-expect to hear an apology or a joke, but he keeps doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on disparaging Tyson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally I get out. “Have a good day, man,” I say, maintaining an air of professionalism and respect towards an interviewee who showed neither to us. I walk away and end the recording as he continues with his rant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did a white man dressed in a weed suit he ordered from Amazon really just say the n-word with a hard “R” without any provocation at a 4/20 festival? The absurdity of the incident made me feel like I was in an episode of \u003ci>Atlanta\u003c/i>. This is an event that’s supposed to be all about good vibes and relaxation, not hatred and bitterness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaya laughs the way you do when you’re trying to hold back tears. “He can’t be serious,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, he absolutely \u003cem>was\u003c/em> serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-12.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes poses for a portrait at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Who Is Mike Barnes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Big Mike’s real name is Mike Barnes. He is a 52 year-old resident of the Berkeley area. He’s a former Army airborne combat engineer, he says, who previously ran a dispensary called the Hayward Patients Resource Center, which is now defunct. Today, he is self-employed, earning a living by doing “handyman things” and growing marijuana for “a small group of private individuals for medical reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes has a habit of popping up at cannabis-related events. Photos of him in his eye-catching suit at previous iterations of the 4/20 festival have appeared in the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-may-start-permitting-cannabis-sales-consumption-at-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/news/cannabis/4-20-in-golden-gate-park-is-officially-cancelled/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/i> and \u003ca href=\"https://ksltv.com/412196/brands-roll-stoner-holiday-pot-legalization-grows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSL TV\u003c/a>. Barnes was photographed for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Smokeless-medicinal-pot-has-its-advocates-2661126.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle article\u003c/a> as far back as 2005 (in a shirt that read: “The DEA took my medical marijuana away!… and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Barnes was photographed and quoted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/01/01/crowds-gather-6-celebrate-first-sales-recreational-cannabis-berkeley?doing_wp_cron=1652725845.1196229457855224609375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> and \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2018/01/01/first-sales-of-recreational-marijuana-in-berkeley-usher-in-whole-new-era/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Cal\u003c/a>\u003c/i> at the ribbon-cutting for Berkeley’s first legal recreational marijuana sale at the Berkeley Patients Group dispensary. His photo also appeared in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article114091003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Sacramento Bee\u003c/i> opinion article\u003c/a> on Proposition 64, which legalized the use of recreational cannabis in California. In the photo, Barnes is pictured smoking inside of his “420 Limo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We decided it was important to hold Barnes accountable for his words, so we called him on May 6 to inform him of our intention to publish the interview, and to see what he had to say for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, make the spelling N-I-G-G-A if you do it,” he says. “It’s like, people say nigga all the time, and it’s acceptable if you’re a Black man, but if you’re a white man, and you say nigga, then it’s completely racist, which is just, you know, completely hypocritical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began rattling off other racial slurs against Latino, Asian and Black people, arguing that they only refer to the “lowlives” of each ethnic group and, in his eyes, are therefore OK to use. In the same breath, he asked us not to publish his quote, even though he gave it to us knowing full well that this was an on-record interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I meant it in a disrespectful way towards [Tyson] specifically, nobody else,” Barnes says. “So if anybody else takes offense at it, well, fuck them. I wasn’t talking to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up on a bag of marijuana, a large joint, held by a man in a marijuana-themed outfit \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-04.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes holds a bag of marijuana at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco, Calif. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Deeply Disturbed,’ Says Friend and Dispensary Owner\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes is a white man gaining clout, attention, and potentially income from a drug that has been used to criminalize Black people for decades. (Barnes told us that he’s been raided by law enforcement four times, but never charged with a crime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen white people profit the most from the corporatization of cannabis in recent years while people of color continuously get left behind. The Associated Press reports that the cannabis industry was worth \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-race-and-ethnicity-8e047483fc6e83e2e5f6dc971cb4aa73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$33 billion in sales in 2021\u003c/a>. Of all cannabis business owners in the United States, 81% are white, while just a little over 4% are Black, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://mjbizdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Women-and-Minorities-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 survey from Marijuana Business Daily\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Not to mention that hundreds of thousands of Black and brown people are still sitting in jail for marijuana offenses. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/marijuanareport_03232021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2020 report by the American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>, the national Black population is still nearly four times more likely than the white population to be arrested for marijuana possession, even after weed became legal in several states. These arrests have detrimental impacts, running along intersections of class and income, for communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etienne Fontan, co-owner and vice president of Berkeley Patients Group, whom Barnes called “a friend of mine” who he has known for “a long time,” wrote in a statement to KQED, “I, along with the team at Berkeley Patients Group, do not tolerate racism or hate speech and this is the first we are learning of any accusations relating to Mr. Barnes’ use of such language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply disturbed to learn that Mr. Barnes, who apparently attended public events held by BPG several years ago, expressed such views,” Fontan continued. “Such rhetoric and actions in no way reflect my or my company’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Mike Barnes’ and Mike Tyson’s stage interaction below, filmed by Rich America Production Co. & Jamal Trulove:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Md4o4CUltHA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Md4o4CUltHA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>Mike Tyson and Harmful Stereotypes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes using the n-word to describe Mike Tyson is especially unsettling, considering that Tyson has often been portrayed in popular media as a Black Brute, a caricature of Black men that portrays them as dangerous, animalistic, sexually aggressive and unintelligent. This framing was especially prominent in the ’80s and ’90s, when Tyson was at the height of his boxing powers. (Representatives for Mike Tyson did not respond to requests for comment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the event in San Francisco, the media has covered Tyson for his “angry” interactions with fans, the first of which occurred April 21 aboard Tyson’s flight departing from San Francisco. A fellow passenger \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/21/mike-tyson-punches-passenger-airplane-tmz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly harassed Tyson\u003c/a>, according to reports, which led the former boxer to punch the man multiple times. (Authorities declined to file charges against Tyson for the incident.) On May 3, a fan in Las Vegas \u003ca href=\"https://www.al.com/sports/2022/05/mike-tyson-has-another-angry-interaction-with-fan-when-woman-appears-to-try-to-pick-his-nose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempted to stick their finger up Tyson’s nose\u003c/a>, which prompted an annoyed reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ behavior—throwing things at Tyson while he is on stage attempting to give a speech—is in this same category of fans going too far. Many people, it seems, feel entitled to violate Tyson’s personal space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson is not perfect. He has done some reprehensible things. But to portray him as a brute is a reductionist and racist point of view of a complicated man. Regardless of one’s image or status, no one deserves to be called a racist slur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13913381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man holds a bag of marijuana and a large joint, dressed in a marijuana-themed suit and bucket hat covered in leaves.\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/20220420_MikeBarnes-10.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Barnes poses for a portrait in a gaudy marijuana-themed costume at the 420 Hippie Hill event on Apr. 20, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The So-Called ‘Progressive’ Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ comments should not only make us interrogate one dimensional views of Mike Tyson, but it should also make us think critically about how we view race relations in the Bay Area. Often, the Bay is hailed as a racially enlightened, progressive haven where everyone is respectful of each other’s identities, culture and humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a Black person in this country, living in a “progressive” place does not mean a reprieve from the smothering presence of racism; it just means your suffocation happens in the shadows. Our experience encountering anti-Black hate speech is not an isolated one. We just happen to have it on tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This incident is about more than just one word said by one man on one day. It’s a case study; a harsh, slap-to-the-face reminder that anti-Black racism is alive and very well, even in San Francisco. Barnes weaponized the power he holds as a white man in this country to disarm and dehumanize both Tyson and ourselves—a microcosm of the racial power dynamic inherent in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking the Power Back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Black people must get through each day with a cloud over our heads, knowing that as our proximity to whiteness increases, so does the likelihood that we may be the victim of racism. Power coupled with ignorance is a terrible combination. It’s why everyone should strive to better understand the ways in which the n-word has been and continues to be weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That word from the mouth of a white person is a reminder of the ideology used against our ancestors to justify the inhumane atrocities of chattel slavery. It was the word shouted in hate by white mobs as they lynched Black people without due process of law. It was the word ordinary Black folks heard through ringing ears as they were brutalized by police simply for demanding their right to vote. It was the word \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/buffalo-shooting-suspect-had-n-word-written-on-gun-2022-5\">painted onto the barrel of the Buffalo shooter’s gun\u003c/a>. A white person saying the n-word is a reminder of the things that have been denied to us; the ways we have been treated as subhuman; how we have been forced to make a way out of no way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in that grand tradition of those who came before us, we are attempting to create something proactive out of a negative experience. Hopefully we are not presumptive by saying that we speak in the interests of not only ourselves, but for many other Black people who don’t have the opportunity to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>ith Kendrick Lamar about to drop his fifth studio album, \u003ci>Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers\u003c/i>, it’s the perfect time to argue about his most significant song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the half decade since Kendrick dropped \u003cem>Damn\u003c/em>, fans have been left to revisit old tracks repeatedly during his hiatus. Which is fitting, because one of Kendrick Lamar’s greatest gifts is going back and revisiting—or rather, revising—his earlier music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K-dot is a master of retelling the same story again and again, but on a larger level each time. If you listen closely, the arc of his musical output shows that refining and retelling your story, over and over, is an important aspect of growth, both as an artist and a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The king MC from Compton has done it with his “The Heart” series, often using that title as a jumpoff to spaz and let loose on the issues he’s dealing with at the time of recording. He dropped the fifth entry in this series this past Sunday just days before his full album release, as he’s done in the past. (In the video, he uses deepfake technology to morph into the likeness of Kobe, Nipsey and more.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/uAPUkgeiFVY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also revisited, or remixed, “She Needs Me,” “P&P,” and “Vanity Slaves,” among others. Which in art, especially in hip-hop, isn’t new, revolutionary, deep, or profound. Old art gets remixed everyday, B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the act of revising and revisiting, expanding and expounding on a piece of art—it’s seen more often in other mediums. Poets famously revisit concepts, as do comedians. Thelonious Monk reportedly wrote the jazz standard “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2000/11/20/1114262/npr-100-i-round-midnight-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Round Midnight\u003c/a>” as a teen, and played thousands of renditions of it his whole life. Issa Rae created her idea of an awkward Black girl first as \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/nIVa9lxkbus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a YouTube series\u003c/a>, and from that came \u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Misadventures-of-Awkward-Black-Girl/Issa-Rae/9781476749099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bestselling memoir\u003c/a>, the hit show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/40693/how-issa-raes-insecure-is-leading-a-quiet-revolution-in-television\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insecure\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick, too, has managed to work and rework one specific concept, and we’ve watched it grow from a couple of lines, to a song, to a concept album and signature aspect of his artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So let’s be clear: I’m here to tell you why the track “Average Joe,” from Kendrick Lamar’s 2010 \u003cem>Overly Dedicated\u003c/em> \u003cem>EP\u003c/em>, is his most important song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black man holds an analog camera in the photo pit of a large arena event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kendrick Lamar attends the 2018 BET Experience Concert at L.A. Live on June 22, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Ser Baffo/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>o, it’s not his highest charting song (“Humble”), nor his most famous (“Alright”). It’s not the one that gets the party turnt (“Michael Jordan”). I’m not taking away from his collaborations with Bono or Beyoncé, and definitely not the voice of Tupac Shakur (“Mortal Man”) or the song that President Obama said was the best song of 2015 (“How Much a Dollar Cost”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenny’s catalog boasts songs with Travis and Drake that have been played so many times it’d be torture to hear them again. The Black Hippy tracks are dope, and despite his impending departure from their shared record label, Top Dawg Entertainment, I hope we get more collaborations from him and Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q. (Hell, even if we just get \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Z-48u_uWMHY?t=130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that song from the opening of the “Alright” video\u003c/a>, I’d be happy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick’s career is decorated with honors and accolades, from executive-producing the \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> soundtrack to performing at this year’s Dr. Dre-led Super Bowl halftime performance. I mean, the guy won a freaking Pulitzer for \u003cem>DAMN\u003c/em>—a Pulitzer for \u003cem>spitting rhymes\u003c/em>—did we even know that was possible?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13865026']And even in failure, like losing a Grammy to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gawker.com/macklemore-is-a-ho-bag-1509862810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some white guy from Seattle\u003c/a>, Kendrick won our hearts—and proved why the act of reworking your craft is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the novel-like album \u003cem>Good Kid, M.A.A.D City\u003c/em>, Kendrick is a bystander exploring the dichotomy of good and evil in his community, using clever lyrics recited over drums that punch like Kimbo Slice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes his transformation as an outside observer on the track “m.A.A.D City”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains blown out\u003cbr>\nAt the same burger stand where (redacted) hangs out\u003cbr>\nNow, this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it\u003cbr>\nBut ever since that day, I was lookin’ at him different\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, later in the song, he gets pulled into this world of sinister behavior:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>My pops said I needed a job, I thought I believed him\u003cbr>\nSecurity guard for a month and ended up leavin’\u003cbr>\nIn fact, I got fired, ’cause I was inspired by all of my friends\u003cbr>\nTo stage a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick, a neutral narrator who gets influenced by his associates, has been this guy for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjKlzdnoBGg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his self-titled song “Kendrick Lamar,” a 2012 track where he drops the moniker K-Dot to go by his given name, he says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I’m just a good kid from Compton that want to rap\u003cbr>\nWeighing my options, pick up a Bible or a strap?\u003cbr>\nI never killed a man, never sold any crack\u003cbr>\nAll I ever did was try to keep my city on the map\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s these four bars, above, that underscore a philosophy further explored in 2012’s \u003cem>Good Kid m.A.A.D City\u003c/em>, and brought to visual life in \u003ca href=\"https://i.discogs.com/IisP10nUmJmiyxaAtenOChe3Ng5Q56YzMneN6GopVQQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzNjkw/NDItMTU4NjA5MTUx/OC03NzYyLmpwZWc.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the cover art for his \u003cem>Section 80\u003c/em> mixtape\u003c/a>. But before the idea shows up in album form, it’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHV0HxQQGw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Average Joe\u003c/a>” where Mr. Duckworth explains the same concept in the earliest, most vivid colors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick opens the song by saying “The hardest thing for me to do / Is to get you to know me within 16 bars.” He then does just that, illustrating his position of being gang-adjacent, a good kid who’s just trying to rap but is still getting caught up in the life:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_10886808']\u003cem>Everyone I knew was either Crip or Piru\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Cousins in elementary, relatives in high school\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>With that being said, each one of their rivals\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Was aiming something at my head, I needed survival\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Got jumped, got jacked, shot at, shot back\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>And I don’t even push a line, I’m just tryna push these rhymes\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>In the midst of staying neutral and discreet\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>My momma said you’re judged by the company you keep\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nutshell, this is Kendrick’s story; the premise of his entire career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why they fuck with me,” goes the chorus, twice, before Kendrick says, “I’m no gangster, no killer, I’m just your average Joe (know that) / But one thing you should consider, I’m the realest you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boom. That’s it. He’s an authentic person who’s telling his story, and growing as he does. He hones this theme through poetically energetic slick storytelling, a mix of Iceberg Slim, Gil Scott-Heron, DMX and Rass Kass, but yeah: Kendrick’s formula really is that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11057865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11057865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kendrick.Meline.jpg\" alt=\"Kendrick Lamar performs at Outside Lands, Aug. 8, 2015. 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The first song I ever heard from him was “Heaven or Hell,” a track about the drastic dichotomies in life. Again, the same theme of good and evil, and him standing as an honest observer in the midst of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now on the verge of releasing \u003cem>Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,\u003c/em> the Gemini MC is bracing us for more stories about the polarizing aspects of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at his catalog, there’s a lesson on the importance of revising, reworking and retelling our stories of growth. No, I’m not saying you too can be Kendrick Lamar—there’s only one big-eared Pulitzer Prize winning lyricist from Hub City. But we can all work and rework ourselves, and our stories. Word to Average Joe.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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