Last week I was having a conversation with someone about Katrina and how despite our having a Black President many people are still unable to return to New Orleans. The Obama administration has plans to offer mobile homes to some of those still displaced that are to be sans the chemicals that have made many [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] Will we be eulogizing the death of the “Negro” as we once knew ourselves? Every day a little bit of our heritage is being tossed on the garbage heap and mocked at as some of us walk – no run – away from our “Blackness”. We think we’re freeing ourselves from a life of [...] So I hear American Vogue has had three Black women on their cover this year. One was Michelle Obama, one was Beyonce and the other was an actual model, Liya Kebede. Well….big whoop. Liya shared the cover with a bunch of white models (Jourdan Dunn is in the foldout), one’s the biggest singer in the business [...] There was a line in an episode of Sex and the City where Carrie laments to her friends that she had to get on her “Sassy” horse. Now I assumed she was making a reference to the trailblazing yet defunct magazine edited by Jane Pratt for teen girls. That’s the good kind of sass. [...] After he sacrificed his very life for the creation of this nation some bozos with latent race issues want to make light of our history. So I’ve been hearing rhetoric on the so-called Christian networks – and right-wing radio/tv – about how the Obama administration is engaging in socialism by spending “our” money doing “God [...] Happy Monday! You might be thinking, gah there she goes again with the heavy hitting (depressing) stories about racism and I haven’t even had my coffee yet. Oh well….grab a muffin and dig in! The writers at the very excellent blog Racialicious began using that term to describe amongst other things, “ideas, speech, and action meant [...] Yet he claims to “like the guy”. Yeah….whatever. I’m all for legit critique of the President and have done so repeatedly. I am also opposed to group think as well, but comparing Bush’s popularity after 9/11 and Obama’s popularity after Bush destroyed the country is NOT THE SAME THING. One was based on fear, xenophobia [...] I’m continuing the essay I began with yesterday’s post. In picking up on the concern writer Stephen Talty expresses for how his bi-racial son will navigate his heritage he says the following: Raising Asher has made me more thoughtful about these things, and more driven too. But it has also made me harder in [...]  |
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