May 2009 « Acts of Faith In Love & Life

You’re So Lame Award of Shame – White Men Howling At the Moon

I swear if I had a dollar for every white man supporting a supremacist agenda that has cried foul, racism, had a pity party and engaged in other mealy-mouth BS over the SCOTUS nominee I’d have quite a few extra in my pocket this week! So let’s clarify that President Obama’s choice of Judge Sonia Sotomayor [...]

Ruminations On Love and Life

Jolly Saturday to Everyone (these photos are from an Oakland neighborhood that grows scary life-size giant plants):

This is a live post, meaning I haven’t pre-written it and scheduled it to appear later. My brain is fried today so I’m just posting photos and various things from the past week or so. (Actually since I started this [...]

Ruminations On Love and Life

Jolly Saturday to Everyone (these photos are from an Oakland neighborhood that grows scary life-size giant plants):

Old School Friday – What Do You Do When You Listen to Everything?

So this week’s meme is “Outside My Box“, but I dabble in all genres of music so this isn’t going to work for me. See not all of us limit ourselves. I have my preferences of course but I do try to listen to everything (except degrading songs of course). So now I’ve got to find [...]

Deploying A Little Negro Spirit: The Responsibility of the (Sometimes) Buying Public

So this was supposed to be the end of my series of cultural abandonment and appropriation but I think it bears continuing even as I expand the way it has been framed thus far.

I’ve had some very good conversations in real life and online from a variety of people (notably a majority of Black women) who are tired of seeing our sisters being dragged through the mud. We want to hold others accountable for spreading the virus but it starts with us. It begins with looking in the mirror at what we support and why we choose it.

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Prop 8 Fight Rages On: What About Trans Women and Men?

Now while the fight for marriage equality for LGBTs doesn’t directly affect me in my daily life it certainly bothers my sensibilities. One of the major arguments about the passage of Prop 8 in California is how it discriminates against a marginalized group. Who has determined the criteria for marginalization? There has also been this somewhat [...]

Poor, Single, Overworked or Other: Are We Our Own Worst Enemies?

Have you ever been on a “diet” and found yourself eating junk food you’d never bought before? Do you claim to be broke but can’t put down the credit card? Do you decry racism that personally touches you but say nothing about the sexism you personally engage in? Is it normal for you to say people [...]

You’re So Lame Award of Shame – Bill Maher

When musician M.I.A. announced on Twitter that she was appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher I was looking forward to the interview. I had been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the interview with Tavis Smiley which occurred in February shortly before she gave birth to her first child. I felt confident that Maher’s skill [...]

Motherhood: 1 – Wife: 0

I call this Palin-itis. Whereby the female gets pregnant, keeps the child but decides there’s no dad required. Per this article in the Orlando Sentinel, a Babytalk Magazine poll shows:
76 percent of the married mothers liked the idea of not fighting with a partner over the best way to raise a child. Other pros to being [...]

Donna Edwards On Support & Accountability

See this is why I just love what (D-MD) Donna Edwards has done while in office. She is a true progressive and always make SENSE!!! It’s as if she wants us to take back the world “liberal” and make it clean again. This is why I mention those in the Republican Party who either aid or [...]