Katy Perry at the AMA's: American Dream Edition

Right after Katy Perry projectile vomited her full-on geisha fantasy on the 2013 American Music Awards, host Pitbull gushed about the American Music Awards and what it really represented. The American Dream, he said, the AMA's are all about the American Dream.

Because nothing says the American Dream like seeing the Japanese culture shamelessly and irresponsibly exploited on national TV by none other than Katy Perry herself. With the bulbous wigs, exaggerated costuming, and super original bowing, the term cultural appropriation does not even begin to describe this mess.

Guess what, Katy Perry? Nothing was new, clever, or edgy about any of this. Some of us have been subjected to this same kind of stereotyping, this bad joke of the "American Dream" our whole damn lives. Racism is old and tired. Try better next time.

The Pilates Class from Casual Racism HELL

Pilates class... so unassuming. Little did I know what was to come.

There are some of us out there who understand what it’s like to be the subject in a racist situation. But this experience that I endured one summer- attending ongoing sessions of racism that I was paying to be in- was something new and fresh for a racism vet like myself.