in particular the line of...People Buy What Makes Them Feel Comfortable.Thats what your boy Birkhold said a coupla weeks agoand that quote stays marinating on my mind. I thought about this while I was on BART yesterday andI heard a young lady talking about spending $2-300on her hair. Now don’t get it twisted. Pun intended.Black women INVEST in they [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Black Consumerism 101
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Coming Home is Weird.
Thursday, August 9th, 2007I went to my old prep school yesterday, and it was such anemotional experience. ‘ Largely because it demonstrated to me how strong I was whenI left the Bay to go to undergrad in New York. In visiting there, it became clear how much of my optimism and confidence of stomped on by l-school. My [...]
Nothing Like A Crisis to Test a Relationship.
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Its been a week since I have been gone and I tell you, you CANLEARN A LOT ABOUT a relationship when it is tested. Can you believe that a few men actually had the audacity to saythat THEY DID NOT LIKE HOW I LEFT. My rationale was, if I ain’t call you, then you either [...]
What do Osama Bin Laden and Drug Dealers have in Common?
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Popular thought dictates that if you kill either one, 10 more replacements will sprout up. This is immediately what came to mind while reading the “letter to the editor” that I have placed below.Initially this article was written, and apparently after reading it , Mark Poland, felt compelled to add his $2 foodstamps. Lock ‘em [...]
Corey Booker has Murder Problem on his Hands.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Blood is flowing. Oakland. New Orleans. Philly. Newark. NEWARK, Aug. 6 ? As a weekend of bloodshed gave way to a day of mourning, the sleep deprivation and public battering were beginning to take a toll on Mayor Cory A. Booker, his face a curtain of sadness and fatigue. A group of protesters on the [...]
Black Editor, Chauncey Bailey, Murdered by Black Muslim
Saturday, August 4th, 2007When an out of the ordinary murder happens in Oakland, my mind automatically begins to wonder. When I learned that Chauncey Bailey, Editor of the Oakland Post was killed, execution style with a shot gun in downtown Oakland on his way to work on last Wednesday, I immediately thought that it was, his Lovers Husband [...]
Bonds,Vick, Jordan and the Media.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Something interesting happens with US when a Black Athletestirs up some controversy. Ideas regarding race that we would normally keep to ourselvesare discussed on the train, at work at the water cooler and withour friends. Regardless as to whether it is a prudent idea at the time. GET CAKE AND SHUT UPThere is an implicit [...]
Women Who Like Hip Hop Are Idiots. Pt. I.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007While Idiots may be a strong term,suffice it is to say that it is a challenge tobe a card carrying feminst that sings the wordsto “It Ain’t No Fun” at the club. At the end of the day, it leaves us witha WHOLE LOTTA reconciling to do. Last March, TMR and I worked on a [...]
Feminist’s and Hip Hop Don’t Mix. Part II.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007M.dot: I have two questions.When thinking about rappers who participate in the exploitation of the Black body (hiring video vixens to dance half naked in their videos, the use of b*tch and ho as a general word to describe women, etc), what’s the source of these overt displays of hate and sexual availability towards the [...]
Welcome Home.
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Home. While packing yesterday, I lamented some of the the thingsthat I got rid of. Man. Im giving my life away. Then I marinated on it a lil bit, and thought to myself,I ain’t getting rid of my life,just some sh*t I collected along the way. It may sound all ZEN now, but that sh*t [...]
