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IN REMEMBRANCE OF MARTIN.

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:37:55 -0700

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)

The Assassination

April 4, 1968, I was in the 11th grade, 16 years old, perpetually morose and in what I called "enemy territory" -- attending a fairly affluent, majority White and Jewish sch ...

LeBron James' Vogue Cover: Reprising the Black Man as Gorilla

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:42:18 -0700

LeBron goes ape-sh*t for the camera.

My bet is you've already seen -- or at least heard of -- the current Vogue cover (above) featuring tattooed, muscle-bound b-baller LeBron James. In and of itself, the notion of a Black athlete on the cover of a fashio ...

The Clinton Camp's Sense of Entitlement - Carville Blasts Gov. Bill Richardson Over Endorsement of Barack Obama

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:17:59 -0700

Sen. Barack Obama and New Mexico's Latino governor, Bill Richardson

James Carville, the runner-up in the Annual Inside-the-Beltway Celebrity Skeletor Look-alike Contest (Carville is creepy, but Homeland Security's Michael Chertoff is scarier!), has likened New Me ...

Obama On Race -- Not Quite a Home Run

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:40:03 -0700

Obama in Philly Yesterday

With a couple of exceptions -- hopefully the result of political necessity, and possibly ignorance -- Obama's Philadelphia address is the most lucid, accurate assessment/description of the state of "race" relations in America today I've heard from the ...

Are We Totally Screwed Yet?

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:35:02 -0700

<b>Why is this idiot dancing?</b>

I was watching President Bush talk about the economy yesterday. He was attempting to assure the press and the American public that, despite the meltdown of the mortgage lending industry and the subsequent collapse of housing markets, the implosion of Bear Stearns, the falling value of ...

Senator Clinton, Enough Already!

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:22:43 -0700

Check this out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/us/politics/16delegates.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1205676326-eAyNZo3F5BrqmAUTJJSs9g

According to today's New York Times, there was a meeting at the Washington home of Sen. Clinton this past Thursday with un ...

Ferraro was correct (kind of) -- but that doesn't make her right.

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:32:06 -0700

Frankly, I don't think Ferraro was speaking of Black men generally when she made her infamous comments; I think she was speaking of the fact that Obama is "biracial," that that is what has caught the imagination of some (particularly) White Americans. But once she put her foot in it, she didn't dare say anything more in that regard.

But, frankly, she's got a point there.

That does not, however, make what she said any more acce ...

What Was Julian Bond Thinking?

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:15:31 -0800

Julian Bond recently wrote a letter to Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean expressing his concern about the sanctions it's imposed on Michigan and Florida for holding their primaries out of time. The communication has been widely assailed for its embarrassing spelling errors, but there's a bigger problem here.

First, that letter:

While we recognize and appreciate that the Democratic party has done much over the past decades to overcome the sord ...

One More Reason...

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:15:39 -0800

... Knowles shouldn't play Etta James: she's dumb.
I understand she referred to Tina Turner as "The Queen" at the Grammys.
Aretha's got her jaws all tight about it. I'm not feelin' Re-Re on that, but, then, I didn't earn the title; she did.
Still, anyone with half a brain knows Aretha Franklin is the uncontested Queen when it comes to our music. And while I give Tina Turner props for her unique voice and her overcoming, ...

Beyonce Knowles to Play Etta James? Say It Ain't So!!!!

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:58:37 -0800

Okay. I've read it from two, separate sources now. Beyonce Knowles apparently is slated to play Etta James in the biopic "Cadillac Records."
Somebody's casting agent apparently has been smokin' crack.
This is THE WORST idea. I'm hoping to high heaven it's a groundless rumor.
Beyonce has respectable voice, but she simply does not have the classic R&B pipes of Etta James. When you do a story about someone like Ja ...

Craptastic!

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:28:24 -0700

Ah, those driven, ingenious, industrious Japanese. They've given the world sushi, Toyotas, rentable sleep cubicles, anime -- and now a new take on the porta potty. It's a car poop pot for those too busy to stop and take a proper piss.
"Gives new meaning to "going in the car"
TOKYO (Reuters) - If you're stuck in traffic when Mother Nature calls, Japan's Kaneko Sangyo Co. has developed the ...

Mitt Romney and the Republican Party's Janet Jackson Strategy

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:30:56 -0700

Okay, so now it's official. Mitt Romney, the monied Mormon, Republican, Ken-doll presidential candidate, who recently blew off a wheelchair-bound voter inquiring about Romney's stand on medical marijuana, is not only an insensitive jerk.
He's a nitwit.
What follows is a blog entry by Eric Schulze. It's such an unbelievable post, I'm reproducing it in full here -- along with (of course) my response.
Mitt Need ...

Elementary, my dear Watson.

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:23:18 -0700

Dr. James Watson is a brilliant scientist.
I remember back in 1963 reading excerpts from a thick book in the library at Delaware Trails Elementary School about the discovery of DNA. I was fascinated and committed the terms "ribonucleic acid" and "deoxyribonucleic acid" to memory and never forgot them.
In the many years since, the use of DNA technology in forensics and the discoveries of the Human Genome Project ...

Jena, Louisiana, is everywhere

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:03:02 -0700

I've stayed away from the Jena Six here 'til now. Everybody and they momma is talkin' about it. Everyone seems to be focusing on Jena. When Jim Crow comes after our children in such a blatant and shameless fashion, even black folk who heretofore have been silent and passive in the face of injustice feel compelled to stand up.
And it's about damned time.
The recent headlines remind me of the Louisiana I know.
You see, while I wa ...

The damn dams in Nubia -- blow dem suckas up!

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:16:01 -0700

Has anyone been following the building of that series of dams in Nubia? How Bashir is displacing millions of Nubians to build them? Word is they'll end up producing just as much hydrocarbon pollution as old-fashioned power plants. And there are other concerns as well, that they'll interfere with fish migration/spawning, siltification that will give them a relatively short lifespan, and intefering with the ability of people to fish along the banks of the Nile.&nbs ...

A Job That Really Sucks

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:54:29 -0700

I'm self-employed, and as bosses go, I suck.
The work isn't steady, and when it does come, it comes in torrents. As a result, my sleep habits are erratic, and meals are irregular. In the end, I work ridiculously long hours, often on nightmarish projects that take way too much of my time for the pay I get.
I wish I could give myself a pink slip. I wish I could go country-walkabout-Johnny-Paycheck on my crazy, slave-drivin' b*tch of a boss and tell ...

We Know Who We Are

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:47:22 -0700

Old Movie, Old Friends
I went to a meeting downtown at the District Building (city hall) a few weeks back to meet with Adam Sterling of the Sudan Divestment Taskforce and the legislative aide to the councilmember whose committee is tasked with reporting out divestment legislation for the District of Columbia. Ostensibly, it was a "strategy" meeting, but because passage is a slam-dunk exercise, it was pretty much pro forma and very inf ...

DARFUR, THE NATION OF ISLAM & THE SILENCE OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:18:26 -0700

There is a disinformation campaign being directed at the African-American community on the genocide in Darfur, the aim of which is to keep us ignorant, mis- and disinformed, silent and on the sidelines. The chief purveyors of this steady stream of logorrhea are Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam and his minions. Over the years, Farrakhan has become little more than a shill for the regime of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, completely rejecting ...

DARFUR UPDATE ON THE DC AREA FRONT

Sun, 13 May 2007 01:53:30 -0700

(from my forum on blackplanet.com)
A couple of victories
Two HBCUs finally have divested: Hampton University and Howard University. Ya-aaay! *doin' my happy dance* :D

I can't say I played much of a role, but I did call and badger Howard University pretty mercilessly for several months and stayed in communication ...

This Just In: Pope says, "Dead babies MAY not be stuck in limbo."

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:08:17 -0700

VATICAN CITY (April 21) - Pope Benedict XVI has reversed centuries of traditional Roman Catholic teaching on limbo, approving a Vatican report released Friday that says there were "serious" grounds to hope that children who die without being baptized can go to heaven. -- "Catholic Church Reverses Teaching on Limbo," Nicole Wi ...

Uncle Ben -- from the big house to the boardroom.

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:21:34 -0700

Thanks to Mary-Mary for the tip. :)

Well, it took the brother 61 years of toilin', totin', boilin' and butlerin' in the big house, but he's finally been promoted. Bruthaman -- Ben-baby -- is now chairman of the board!
Check this out. http://www.uncle ...

Don Imus is Gone.

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:58:03 -0700

Imus is finally gone -- finally. No word about his sleazoid sycophant executive producer Bernard McGuirk.
Below, the text of a communication I sent to CBS about noon yesterday, before CBS finally grew some and did the right thing.
CBS's response to the Imus situation was slow and remains unacceptably inadequate. I have absolutely NO intention of watc ...