The Color Line

For Black Male Intellectuals Who Have Considered Suicide When Black Women Were Too Much

[Editor’s note:  The gross generalizations when using the blanket terms of “black women” or “black men” are not to be understood as engaging the stereotype of “all” and lumping everyone into broad categories.  But for the sake of easy communication in an already lengthy blog post, please adjust your comprehension accordingly.  That is to say, […]

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Uppity Negro Network Newsbriefs: A Bad Week for Black Progressives

Friday, November 5th signaled the end of a rough four days for many blacks here in America. The 2010 Midterm Elections.  The Democrats took a “shellacking” to borrow the term used in Wednesday morning’s hour long press conference given by Barack Obama.  Many governor’s mansions flipped over to the Republicans; the House of Representatives changed […]

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For Colored Persons Who Have Considered Suicide When Being “Black In America” Is Enough: An Uppity Negro Response to CNN’s Black In America III

I know that’s a long title and certainly hyperbolic, but I think it addresses the gutted and eviscerated feeling that I experienced watching CNN’s Soledad O’Brien “Almighty Debt” a Black In America special.  Granted I went into this third installment of the Black In America series with some serious preconceived notions.  Rightly so I believe. […]

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