Me and Dig Dug in August ’05. I had no idea at the time, but my whole world was about to shake. I woke up this morning with this thought, the title of the post,in my head, probably because it ties into so many other thingsthat I have been thinking about, as usual. Thinking. Thinking [...]
Archive for June, 2009
The Children of Alcoholics Either Marry One or Become One
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Douch Bags, Wife Beaters and Vagina Music
Sunday, June 28th, 2009I was reading the Bitch Blog this morning when, I cameacross a post on Vagina Music by Andi Zeisler. I instantly suspected that Vagina music was derisive term because vagina’s are used in popular language to describethings that we hate, because we are socialized to hate women. Our use of language reflects our reality. As [...]
The End of Journalism, the Beginning of the Future
Friday, June 26th, 2009A couple of weeks ago on Twitter, Toure went back and forth withseveral people, one of which was Aliya S. King, on the future or the end of journalism. Given the dismissiveness of Toure’s tone, I was remindedof calling Derrick Bell a couple of years ago, as I was fightingbeing dismissed from law school. Yes, [...]
Girls and Math
Friday, June 26th, 2009Last month I spent 30 minutes of a 50 minute tutoring session trying to teach a 12 year old year the common denominator. Often times, as a tutor, it is hard to teach a young personwhat you take for granted for knowing, almost intuitively. But somewhere in the distant past, someone hung in therewith me, [...]
Chris Brown x Rihanna Fenty x Perez Hilton
Thursday, June 25th, 2009A couple days ago, Chris Brown pleaded guilty forbeating Rihanna Fenty last February. He looks like OJ in that picture. By pleading guilty to felony assault if he so much assneezes the wrong way, he is going straight to jail. This was a strategic move. In the court of popular opinion, it silences those who [...]
Reverse Racism, Slavery Apologies and Identity Politics: Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!
Monday, June 22nd, 2009On May 29th Rush Limbaugh called President Obamaand Sonia Sotomayor a “reverse racist.” On June 18th the Senate Passed a resolution offeringan apology for slavery. What do all of these things have in common? Race, powerand the possessive investment in whiteness. The way in which the online and mainstream media lamentedand analyzed “the appearance” of [...]
Quirky Black Girl Manifesta
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Clockwise: Zora Neal Hurston, Betty Davis, ZZ Packer, Alice Walker Many online spaces traffic in trashing Black women, so I was excited when I came across Quirky Black Girls. The sites purpose and intent made all the more sense,when I learned that it was created by Moya B., the Spelmanite who, along with others, criticized [...]
We Are The Leaders We Need: 100 Visionaries [UPDATE]
Monday, June 15th, 2009For my long time readers, you know that Court Bear and I have been working on a non profit, 100 Visionaries, that came out of the “Who Raises the Kids, the Momma’s or the Rappers” discussion on this blog.
6.14.09 Iranian Revolution, Coup or Protest? Time Will Reveal
Sunday, June 14th, 2009via Andrew Sullivan
Jay Z, Dyson and Me
Thursday, June 11th, 2009For Hip Hop News & Entertainment at DimeWars.Com Jim Jones on Jay Z @ 1:18 seconds I was on Twitter last week when the New Jay Z song, Death of Autotune broke. But peep, I didn’t listen to it until Sunday.
