1. Why don’t we just run out of the grocery store with all of ourgroceries instead of standing in those long assed lines, houngary?
2. What are you reading?
3. Do you have healthcare?
4. Why granola cost so much?
5. Will Jay Z still rap about selling crack when he [...]
Archive for August, 2009
20 Questions Mercury in Retrograde Edition
Monday, August 31st, 2009Twenty Question ’s Monday
Monday, August 24th, 2009Via Post Secret
1. How you feel?
2. When was the last time you were caught reading something you had no business?
3. Why am I just now watching the Chappelle show?
4. Why have I made headway with my anger by replacing vulnerability with anger?
5. Why ya’ll never told me spinach artichoke dip went so [...]
Capitalism is for Suckas: or, How Constructive Capitalism is our Future
Monday, August 17th, 2009Note: This post grew out of two things. One is a post that I wrotelast week on how the Crack Epidemic was in its essence pure capitalismand my personal transformation from a person who wanted to be aninvestment banker to someone who aspires to be a scholar and communityorganizer. The second thing was a [...]
The Term, Woman of Color: Race is Hard
Sunday, August 16th, 2009via Zinc Plate Press
Last week, I was watching a sex scene involvingthree nude men in the film Short Bus and said to my friend,who is white, “Wow, white folks have called us colored but they have avariety of skin tones as well.”
He nodded, and said “Yes, you do have a point” [...]
Twenty Questions Saturdays 8.15.09
Saturday, August 15th, 2009 1. Why they make the Asian dude in The Hangover act likea stereotypical, loud, Black, drag queen?
2. What would Black bloggers write about if there was nomore (institutional) white racism?
3. Why do I find myself nodding in agreement, laughing andthinking about blog post ideas every time I read Michelle Wallace’s blog? [...]
Wanted: Your Short Essays
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009I am currently reading Adrienne Rich’s essay “TeachingOpen Language in Admissions” and I have decidedto run a series of short essays or posts on my educationalexperience.
I have come to the conclusion that I have had a very unique one,and I would like to use this space to share our experiences.
For instance, as a first year [...]
Musing on War Money and Art Money In the University
Monday, August 10th, 2009via Ican
Have public and private universities decided to trade arts educationfor nuclear weapons?
While writing about the white and Black consumption of Black deathin hip hop last May, I came across Chomsky’s argument, that theU.S. is moving towards a “Third” world model.
Meaning that, we are evolving to have two classes of folks in this country,the [...]
Sponsorship and Biases: Musing on The Crack Game and Investment Banking
Monday, August 10th, 2009The crack game, in it’s essence, is pure capitalism.
Profit, over people, at all costs. Eliminate enemies at all costs. Take out the dominant political regime or competition at all costs. Endless accumulation of property and capital, at all costs. Domination through coercion, violence and if necessary legalmeans at all costs.
People, human [...]
Health Care’s Perfect Storm Brewing
Sunday, August 9th, 2009See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com – Email this Cartoon
Frank Rich wrote about President Obama, and the battle over health care here.
The most insightful comments that I saw was this one:
20.
Diana
New York
August 9th, 2009
8:50 am
There’s a perfect storm brewing: a government that (but for a few ethical [...]
Twenty Questions Friday 8.7.09
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 1. Why bank fees make me almost have a coronary?
2. Why am I my fathers child?
3. Even though Manaen tells me, what seems like once a week, why is it so hard to forgive, even if the act is for me, not the transgressor?
4. Why when someone leave, you [...]
