in particular the line of...I need your help. I started putting together a list of the artists,musicians, photographers, filmmakers, actors, who share ourvision for the “non profit”. The working rule that I used is that these are artists who, takeintellectual risks, can use our support and share our vision ofdiverse representations of African Americans in entertainment.(If you can help [...]
Archive for July, 2008
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008A Response to CNN’s " Black in America"
Thursday, July 24th, 2008They need to call it Trife in America. There is nothing that I couldn’t have learned from watching that showthat I wouldn’t have picked up from living with Black people, talking tomy homies, and reading internet message boards. That show should be called, Black Pathology: A Presentationfor White Folks. Seriously. All of us know a [...]
From Gossip Girl to Ghetto Girl: What Messages Are We Sending?
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008From Ghetto Girls to Gossip Girls, just what are our girls reading?I had been thinking about Gossip Girl, as recently read an articlein the New York Times which featured a dissertation by Dr. NaomiJohnson. In her study she analyzed the brands being mentioned in thepages of the three titles, Gossip Girl, The Clique and A-List [...]
The Road Less Traveled
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Guilt and shame are two of the primary tools that we use to controleach other. Think of the last time you had a conflict with another person.How much of the conflict arose from the fact that they were trying to eitherassert control over you, guilt you into doing something or shame you becauseof who you [...]
I Knew I Would Never Be the Same
Sunday, July 20th, 2008I knew that I would never be the same when, while researchingthe Beyond the Down Low post, I read a passage in Keith Boykin’sbook where he describes affirming the rage or questioning the rage. I am rage sensitive. It comes from watching the world around me,as a child, be eaten alive by addiction. In many [...]
Million Minority Movement: Survey Results
Monday, July 14th, 2008Thank you to all who completed the survey, I have seventeen responses so far and would reallylike twenty. Here is a short summary: 41% of you volunteer in your community58% of you don’t Some of the things that we can do in hip hop to change the music is: community outreach with increased focus on [...]
Pregnant and Feeling Like Erykah Badu
Monday, July 14th, 2008While reading the comments on various sites about Erykah’s pregnancy,I couldn’t help but think of a property, double standards and marriage.I thought of property because, it appears to me, that when Black women,do things with their bodies, publicly, that involve the issue of sex or sexuality,one would think that they were public property based on [...]
Game Changer: The Model Minority Movement
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Last week, after going back and forth with Sportaphile about whether Hip Hopor Parents raised the kids I asked him: If I started a website, voter registration, polling, policy advocacy etc, what would be a meaningful way to allow people to facilitate working for social change, in their respective cities, while communicating suggestions challenges and [...]
Thursday Lainks
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Ta-Nehisi is killing them. Stats on Black babies born out of wedlock? He has them. Jesse is messing with Obama? He is on that too. Birkhold is a thorn in our sides with How Hip Hop Became a Corporate Commodity. Want proof? Read this. You ever read someone’s blog and want to be their offline [...]
Try and F*ck a Black Girl
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Last night I walked out of the movie “The Wackness“. This was a disappointment for three reasons. First of all it was a date. Secondly, we planned on watching it for the last two weeks. Thirdly, I had moderate hopes for the movie, as circa 1994 hip hopplayed a prominent role in the film. The [...]
