My fascination with 60′s era politcs stems back from a class in high school titled American history from 1960 to the Present. Thank you Mr. Lee.? Heady stuff for a 16 year old. Ta-Nehisi recommended that I read Nixonland as a way to wrap my head around how the modern Republican party became the party [...]
Archive for July, 2010
#Nixonland: Selection of New Model Minority Book Club
Saturday, July 31st, 2010On Dating a Giver
Monday, July 12th, 2010^^^ #NomNomNominaction For Josephine & For T.dot. Oooh, Uh Ohhh Dropped your knot, scooped it up put in my sock… ~e. badu I turned around and I realized that I am dating a giver. Someone who never lets my IPA get too low,? who makes sure the waitress brings my water with no ice, who [...]
White Husbands and Black Maids: from Drylongso
Sunday, July 11th, 2010Gimmie a Break on You Tube, for a refresher on Black maids I read Drylongso by John Gwaltney while working on The Crack Project. Drylongso is an ethnography of? Black people in North Eastern cities in the late seventies. Ironically, The Graduate (the man for whom I played number two a few years back//that was [...]
Amadou. Sean. Lovell. Oscar. Aiyana
Saturday, July 10th, 2010Photo Courtesy of Thomas Hawk @ Now Public (Young African American man, hand cuffed in police car, January 2009 after Oscar Grant Murder Protest in Oakland, I wish I knew his name.) Amadou. Sean. Lovell. Oscar. Aiyana. Oftentimes, when it comes to personal violence and race and structural violence and race, I turn to other [...]
The Job of Black Writers
Saturday, July 10th, 2010Me + Baldwin @ a beach in Long Island, Summer ’08. I Love Baldwin and it seems that every summer I return to his collection of essays published by the Library of America. What is the job of Black writers? The work? Baldwin addresses this in the essay “Notes for a Hypothetical Novel.” I like [...]
Black Men x Love x Domination
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Carry Out the Four Modernisations of the Fatherland (2007) by Kehinde Wiley I have been thinking a lot Love + Domination + Black men. Two weeks ago, I had a fever and couldn’t sleep so I was up dumb early, and I decided to re-read bell hook’s “The Will to Change” and I found that [...]
How Adrienne Rich Helped Me Forgive My Ex.
Monday, July 5th, 2010My ex contacted me a month ago. For many of my long time readers, ya’ll know that I had a torrid affair with Filthy. When you are? a#blackgirlfromthefuture and you ride with your partner, thirteen hours, while being sick, to meet and kick it with his family who is White, that’s Love on both ends. [...]
