Life has a way of revealing itself to you. Saturday Birkhold was cautioning me about thinking about Black peopleand violence in a pathological way. I was reading a book by Jawanza Kunjufuand he remarked that Kunjufu is one of those people who is SURPRISEDwhen a young Black person is in a CAR and it ain’t [...]
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Pathological Nigg*s Part I
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Tags: Barry Michael Cooper, Meredith May, Pathological N*ggas, SFgate
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Pathological Nigg*s Part II.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007“Ain’t No UZI’s made in Harlem”. There is nothing quite like a moment of clarity. The second reason why Birkhold’s statement was importantis that it helped me look at another article with a clearer set of eyes. For the past couple of days I have been e-mailing with Barry Michael Cooper, the screen writer of [...]
Tags: Bary Michael Cooper, Meredith May, New Jack City, Oakland Murders
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Pathological Nigg*s Part III
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007“You Gotta Rob to Get Rich in the Reagan Era” Now that I had crystallized the notion of post migration,pre-crack Black folks, I wondered what work did Blackpeople do in the Bay when they migrated from the south? What work did the men DO before crack invaded? And I found my answer. During and post [...]
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