May 2009 « Acts of Faith In Love & Life

Red Lobster & Cheddar Biscuits = Fine Dining?

This was one of the funniest scenes + no profanity = yeah! from The Boondocks. This was the episode from Season One where the grandfather falls for a working girl who sadly returns to the life. The grandchildren are upset that he’s not taking them out.

So when I saw this video at BelleJenkins [...]

Old School Friday

Oh yeah! It’s Friday and it’s time for a little fun. I want you to break out the iced tea, juice, water or alcoholic beverage of choice and kick back cuz it’s the weekend baby!! This week’s meme is: THIS IS DEDICATED TO. So I’m thinking: to all the haters because it’s just been that [...]

California to Ah-nuld: DROP DEAD

Subtitle to this post: Schwarzenegger’s Revenge. California’s about to go Third-World! Why you may be asking? Well some of us haven’t received our unemployment checks for weeks. Others have actually had them BOUNCE. Yup, I don’t think anyone would have anticipated a check from the Federali with no legal tender but it has happened. Despite [...]

Non Conformity As Resistance to Mediocrity

Some would argue there is truly no non-conformity only pockets of rebellion that may lie within each of us. I remember being in my twenties and hearing staunch declarations of how some friends were so “different” from the norm. They wore it like a badge of honor. Yet often these same people were in fact [...]

Karen Bass on the California Special Election

Speaker Bass sounds so reasonable and is so personable. Perhaps if she had been able to talk to more people…nah! Nobody was buying that temporary increase with a decrease in services argument. Yet, I’d still like to see her run for Governor. Here’s what she says the State will do in response to this [...]

Arnie If You Want Real Reform Here’s Where You Start

So the Governator’s second round of ballot measures got the perverbial smack down last night. Every Propostion with the exception of 1F which called for cap on Legislator salaries in an economic downturn. With low voter turn-out California voters sent a very clear message they’re not happy with Schwarzenegger. Why should we be. He rode [...]

A World Without Zora and Malcolm

Yesterday three giants shared a birthday. Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X and my mother! What if they had never been born? Imagine the impact of that and how the dynamics of their existence hadn’t taken shape. We are familiar with Hansberry’s work from A Raisin in the Sun but what of another woman who was ahead [...]

Adam Lambert or Kris Allen As the Next Jeff Buckley?

American Idol is almost over. This is it! I will be so happy once this season is done and the winner declared! I swear if it hadn’t been for the flurry of Tweets about Adam this and Adam that I wouldn’t have bothered watching. Then I got sucked into the Idol vortex, lol! Just “crown” [...]

Deploying A Little Negro Spirit: When Black Female Artists of Substance Are Ignored

This is the fourth conversation in a series where I discuss race, culture, appropriation and the abdication of African-American touchstones due to devaluation of our unique perspective and shame.

Right now as I write this there’s a fight going on between the RIAA, radio broadcasters and the public. Only we don’t realize what’s at [...]

What Was And What Will Be: Where Do We Go From Here?

Last week I asked if Blacks were prepared to step it up a notch or be replaced. So much of our thinking has to do with looking back at events from the past. From freedom post-enslavement period through Civil Rights to now, the rules of engagement have changed. We are now in an era [...]