In pop culture, music, television and Hollywood, the standard size fora woman is size 4 and 130 pounds, max. Venus, Serena and Jenniferdefy this norm. They are brown skinned Black women who are notsize four’s and they do not have blond hair. These women aren’tBeyonce, Halle or Rhianna. Venus and Serena’s position in the American [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Thick Women Rock: Venus & Serena Williams and Jennifer Hudson
Monday, September 29th, 2008Faith and Biggie : A Review of Keep the Faith
Sunday, September 28th, 2008I read Faith’s memoir, Keep the Faith, by Faith Evanswith Aliya S. King, this weekend. I was surprised by the tone,it was honest, readable and ultimately made you want to like her. She starts off the book giving the first couple chapters to her childhoodand familial background and then goes into her relationship withBiggie and [...]
On Waiting Around for A Man
Monday, September 22nd, 2008A few weeks back I was speaking with Tracey Rose about how as women,we will drop what we are doing, a paper or a project, to kick it with a man.I understand that a distraction is a distraction, and sometimes you desireone because you just don’t want to be working on what you have in [...]
Welfare for {White Male} Billionaires: $700 Billion Dollar Bailout, The Mugshots
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Click to enlarge. I was reading the Sunday Times and came across this photo spread. Classic material. 700 Billion dollar material.
Welfare for {White Male} Billionaires: $700 Billion Dollar Bailout
Saturday, September 20th, 2008What in the hell on Gods green earth is going on? A $700 BILLION dollar bailout with our tax dollars.With our pay 28% of your paycheck in taxes tax dollars. Who is going to pay for this? Steven Pearlstein writes in the Washington Post about theloss of wealth that we are facing, What we are [...]
Hip Hop Isn’t Political
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Hip Hop isn’t political. A Hip Hop show isn’t political. An albumisn’t political. At best, a rap song is similar to what I do here on this blog, which is provide social commentary. Ludacris’s song is not political action. Kanye saying George Bush doesn’t care about Black peopleis not a politcal action.Puffy talking about the [...]
Some Children Are Disposable
Monday, September 15th, 2008Because what is happening on the streets of Harlem to blackboys and girls is also happening on all America’s streets toeverybody. It’s a terrible delusion to think that any part of thisrepublic can be safe so long as 20,000,000 members of it aremenaced as they are. Th reality that I am trying to get at [...]
How Did You Find It?
Monday, September 15th, 2008How did you find this blog? The internet anthropologist in me wants to know. On the internet we wind up on sites often throughcircuitous means. I am putting together a piece and knowing how you found theblog would really do me a solid. How did I decide to blog? Reading Hashim’s Hip Hop Blogs.I guess [...]
Why Can’t the Obama’s Send Their Kids to Public School?
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Apparently the Obama’s send their daughters to a private school in Chicago. I find it tre interesting that we are questioning whether? his daughters should go to private or public school and what it says about Senator Obama as a leader when we don’t question the decisions?of our elected leaders,? school teachers and administrators?to send?not [...]
What Stops You from Acting?
Monday, September 8th, 2008You can imagine how amped up I was when I noticed that the 100 Visionary widget jumped $40 this weekend. While I was amped up about it?this summer, my essays have taken over as my? dominant focus in the?last few weeks or so.?I admit that this is largely connected to the fact that ?three weeks [...]
