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Comment on The Unnatural Politics and Religion of Natural Disasters by James McLoughlin

James McLoughlin — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:02:49 +0000

Have you been to Baton Rouge or New Orleans, I ask because of your use of the Morganza Spillway in the discussion, as it relates to the poor and the 1927 Flood. If there is a place on the Mississippi with a larger share of the powerless poor until you reach East St. Louis I would like to know of it, as Katrina laid bare, poor in New Orleans means you haven’t a car to your name, nor family, or maybe not a single neighbor with one to drive you away. If you look at a map of where all that water went in 1927 it covers a lot of rural Louisiana people up to their necks for months in flood water, the cure for the cure of a no levee policy and levees built to box in the whole system to Canada was spillways like Morganza. When complete, the agreement was that anyone living inside the spillway did so with the knowledge that one day the cure to the cure would open and pass the whole mess right into their lives. 1927 is the end of the 1922 Flood and argument by those in New Orleans who were demanding a spillway be constructed in the floods aftermath, where an ass of a man, General Beach as head of the Army Core of Engineers at a meeting with New Orleans business leaders gave his emphatic No to a spillway by saying that “If it were my property I would blow a hole in the levee!” This did 2 things outright, afterward any cracker with a pop-gun got to his local levee at first sign of high water to guard against the bankers in New Orleans, and the bankers had the statement by Beach as the head of the Core to use against anyone who got in the way. Natural, Nature, if you look at how things are now and look back, most people seem to keep looking at those acts of man as Natural and Nature and simply look the other way.

To religious statements by Pat Robertson and his sidekick, who thankfully can’t join in anymore from the grave, 911 was N.O.W. and gay women’s fault, and days later they both were right there seated inside the National Cathedral on national TV sitting in earshot of Bush, then Katrina was because of a gay festival the week before in New Orleans… Haiti, he must be right as his sickness is still passed on as news worthy.

Comment on The American Blackness of The Great Gatsby by the uppity negro

the uppity negro — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:49:15 +0000

I believe very much it was love it or hate it when it came to the soundtrack production. I chose to love it and embrace it. I think the concept of the musical rebellion embodied by the Jazz Age was the feeling that the director was going for. If classical jazz beats were laid down by Marsalis or Terence Blanchard for that matter, it wouldn’t have been as jarring to the senses, which I think was the whole point. Jazz was new, funky and uncomfortable in 1925 and seemed anachronistic to the refined tastes of East Egg, and hip hop is our modern day equivalent

Comment on The American Blackness of The Great Gatsby by David Cooper

David Cooper — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:49:20 +0000

Actually, the music did not fit the roaring twenties. It was not called “The Jazz Age” for nothing. This was the era of big bands and The Cotton Club. It would have been better if jazz had been used in the sound track. Wynton Marsalis could have laid it out.

Comment on The American Blackness of The Great Gatsby by dowl

dowl — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:50:32 +0000

Hey Uppity, you’ve made me want to see The Great Gatsby redux.

Note: The quotes in this post are too ‘grayed out’ (hard to read); is it correctable on your end? If so, please fix. Thanks.

Comment on The Dysfunctional Psychology of Cartoons by dowl

dowl — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 06:16:25 +0000

Interesting revisit to this post.

Comment on For Black Male Intellectuals Who Have Considered Suicide When Black Women Were Too Much by Christi

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Comment on For Black Male Intellectuals Who Have Considered Suicide When Black Women Were Too Much by V

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:33:09 +0000

There is an overwhelmingly sexist undertone to the following statement from the article, “Black men with a Ph.D. or even with a masters degree don’t want some waterhead female with a high school diploma no more than black women with advanced degrees want a working brother with a high school diploma.” You use the term “waterhead female” to describe a woman without advanced education, but then use the term “brother” to describe a man of the same station. This statement alone negates the validity of this post.

While you admit that the post is primarily anecdotal, you stumble across and through attempts to support your perspective. Additionally, you imply that you are educated and knowledgeable (see “uppity”), yet struggle to write a concise and coherent statement throughout your ramblings.
As I find with many so-called intellectuals, sprinkling a few 10 dollar words into an otherwise poorly written piece does not a well-articulated idea make.

I read your post anticipating a value statement, supported by more than your personal perspective, but finished disappointed and deflated. Please know that our community needs this kind of discourse, but there is a need for more informed writers, sociologists, psychologists and behaviorists to provide proper insight on such topics.

You have opened the door to further discussion, but please be mindful of the subjectivity of your writing when you commence to impose your position on your readership.

Comment on The Dysfunctional Psychology of Cartoons by Smart eBook Shop

Smart eBook Shop — Sat, 25 May 2013 17:27:16 +0000

I perfectly agree with you and didn’t realize this until you threw light on it. Thanks.

Comment on An Original Uppity Negro: Rev. Vernon Johns by dowl

dowl — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:23:01 +0000

President Obama’s entire 31 minute speech at Morehouse is worth the watch

IMO, uppity matters.

Comment on A Character Case Study on “Django Unchained”: Dr. King Schultz by Hank

Hank — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:43:36 +0000

I am half German, my mother was born in Germany and I have been to that country at least a dozen times. I am pretty well aware on the attitudes of Deutsch people so maybe I can help you out with your analysis.

1: With the whole hat thing and him being “ticked”, I have a different opinion on that all together. Some German people have always been pushy with proper etiquette. In fact people are a lot more blatant about it then he was (he was pretty subtle about the way he told him that). Also Dr. King already knows he was on the hot seat for giving a black person a horse, equality, and attempting to give him service at the bar, when the sheriff was going to arrive he didn’t want Django to look so casual since it would look like a challenge. it was a cultural sensitivity thing. Though I don’t disagree with Dr. King still not really giving him perfect equality. In fact all winter long Django killed as much people as King and King only offered him 1/3 of the money. Not saying it was a bad thing but he just wasn’t ENTIRELY selfless.

2: Referring back to Ryan, Dr. King after the bar scene had a song about him. In my opinion I think that the song was a symbolisation of Django’s opinion on King. You see Dr. King just did the coolest thing and humiliated the whole racist town, and the marshals, and killed the racist sheriff in front of everyone because he turned out to be an outlaw with a bounty on his head. So here comes this nice guy who liberates Django, and then defends him during that scene. He was like a knight in shimmering armor to him at that point. So because the song isn’t so detailed about his past, except for the arrival of his character in the movie, I think the song is Django’s personal thoughts of him, and what he knew about him. “his name is king. he had a horse. along the countryside, I saw him ride” “Ohhh I heard him singing ‘I knew you loved someone’”.

3: The beauty of this character is not what you know, but what you don’t know. It is painfully obvious that he has bad blood with slavery and/or a tragic loss of a loved one. Despite being a rather successful and gentlemenly man (even well groomed, which lets face it is rare back in that era), he travels, alone, across the west with no one but his horse. Maybe he HAD a wife who he will never stop loving. Hell she could even have been a black slave. Or for all we know he could be still husband/ family, maybe thats why he wanted to just team with Django for the winter only, ASWELL as own a dentistry business. Bounty hunting could be a part time job. Also why did he get so pissed off and kill Calvin just because he had to gloat his victory with a handshake guaranteeing the “business transaction”? The practical answer could be that the mandingo fighter getting mauled to death disturbed King. He even tried saving the man’s life. But it could be more to it then that. King was very smart in difficult situations, and he knew killing Calvin meant suicide and possibly the death of his companion. I think such impulsiveness was due to his past. But hell I could be over thinking things here Dr. King could’ve just have been to vein to accept loss, especially since he always outsmarted and outgunned all of his victims.