I Have No Words…Girl with Tourettes Syndrome Displays Blatant Prejudice

This is a feature I’ve kept up everytime something in the news surfaces that just has NO apparent explanation and just totally stops me in my tracks. One was Pat Buchanan’s explanation that blacks should be thankful for slavery because it brought us to the wonderfulness that is the effing country. **rolls eyes** But this […]

Can Someone Watch CNN’s College Panel on ‘Black in America’ for me

I’m going to be at work tomorrow and I just got word late tonight that CNN is supposed to have a mixed panel of college students to speak on their response to Black in America. They showed a panel of three blacks, two young black women who were seniors at Spelman and I guess presumably […]

In the Midst of Being ‘Black in America’

This CNN special blew up bigger than they expected. I’m quite sure. I don’t know what to really say, I’ve heard both sides of the argument as far as how effective the special was. But, guess what, I haven’t seen it in its entirety. I fully saw the Essence/CNN panel last week, and I thought […]

So Muslim is the New Black? Again I missed the memo

Must have a lot on my mind, three posts in one night. I guess I’ve been missing these memo’s lately, like the one my host mother informed me about–you know the one where “hip hop come out of the prison culture” or that the neighborhood around Howard University is a bad neighborhood. So, per the […]

Philly Debrief Pt. II: Confronting Anti-Intelligence

Yes, there is a theme that has been consistent in what I write, more so in my comments on other people’s blogs. Most times I offer anti-intelligence as the reasoning behind people and their actions. To drive the point home, it’s really their reactions. Those who try their best to engage in critical debate and […]

Unapologetic and Unashamed; TvOne’s Decision to solely air the DNC

I know AverageBro did a story about this and I figured I didn’t need to do a story about it, but today I saw today on CNN Headline News that some guy from Variety, who’s name I seem to be unable to recover from memory or from Google toss out this idea that TvOne’s decision […]

Philly Debrief: Why I’m a Black African American

This is actually a topic I’ve been dying to write, but I figured that it would take some time and that I had a lot to write about it, so bear with me as I gather my thoughts about this particular subject. It was Summer 2006 and I was finishing up at Fisk University my […]

Something You Don’t See Everyday: A White Lawn Jockey

Sooooo….. As I was driving to Creation Fest last week, I saw something I don’t see everyday. Yeah, one of them. And it was white to boot. I have very mixed feelings about lawn jockeys. I did a quick Wikipedia review, and my confusions were echoed there as well. The article was saying that essentially […]

BET Steps it up; Mandela removed from US terrorist list

Well, wait, I was about to do a quick blog announcing the Hip Hop Vs. America that was showing again debating the sexes. It was hosted by Cousin Jeff last time, and they had the reincarnation of Frederick Douglass, Michael Eric Dyson on the show going against T.I. and Nelly and that episode garnered much respect […]

When ‘Hancock’ met That Woman

I’ve never really said it, but I was always a Will Smith fan–at least as far as acting is concerned. I never bought, nor intended to buy one of his albums, even though he did have that one song I remember, Switch, that I thought was good, he always struck me as an actor, not […]

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