Put Your Hat Back On!

I’ll admit that I’ve kind of been baffled by gender roles.
Like, I never understood why I couldn’t hit girls, especially if she hit me first.  I never understood why a man was supposed to walk on the street side with a woman–especially when it seemed Mama Uppity frustratingly was the only woman who seemed to [...]

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Don’t Hate on My Swagger

Raving Black Lunatic wrote a while back about swagger in regards to Barack Obama and this whole idea of him coming off as overconfident, and arrogant and dare I say–uppity.  But, I debated after hearing yesterday’s sermon from Rev. Otis Moss III as to whether or not I wanted to write about swagger, and I [...]

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Should Blacks Take a Lesson From the Chinese?

Okay, now everyone is aware of the “wink” seen ’round the world.  If not then I’m suggesting you may be living under a rock if you haven’t heard about the picture above.  But, if that wasn’t enough, there’s another picture that surfaced from the Spanish women’s basketball team and the Spanish tennis team.
 
And let’s not [...]

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Are We Being Fair to Kwame Kilpatrick?

Actually, it was totally laughable earlier the last seven days. 
On August 8th, Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick officially shamed much of Black America when he got arrested.
The Black blogosphere went crazy and we all started quoting random facts about blacks living in cities, mentioning the Chocolate Cities of Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Gary, Ind., Chicago and New [...]

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An Uppity Negro Award

I was flipping channels after typing up another blog, which has yet to be revealed and is kept in a secret location, I flipped past the Golf Channel–and I saw a black person.  This black person in fact.

 
Actually, what caught my eye was that in the interview he had on a bowtie and suspenders, and as [...]

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I Have No Words…Girl with Tourettes Syndrome Displays Blatant Prejudice

This is a feature I’ve kept up everytime something in the news surfaces that just has NO apparent explanation and just totally stops me in my tracks.  One was Pat Buchanan’s explanation that blacks should be thankful for slavery because it brought us to the wonderfulness that is the effing country.  **rolls eyes**
But this morning, [...]

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Can Someone Watch CNN’s College Panel on ‘Black in America’ for me

I’m going to be at work tomorrow and I just got word late tonight that CNN is supposed to have a mixed panel of college students to speak on their response to Black in America. They showed a panel of three blacks, two young black women who were seniors at Spelman and I guess presumably [...]

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In the Midst of Being ‘Black in America’

This CNN special blew up bigger than they expected.  I’m quite sure.  I don’t know what to really say, I’ve heard both sides of the argument as far as how effective the special was.  But, guess what, I haven’t seen it in its entirety.  I fully saw the Essence/CNN panel last week, and I thought [...]

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So Muslim is the New Black? Again I missed the memo

Must have a lot on my mind, three posts in one night. 
I guess I’ve been missing these memo’s lately, like the one my host mother informed me about–you know the one where “hip hop come out of the prison culture” or that the neighborhood around Howard University is a bad neighborhood.  So, per the “New [...]

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Philly Debrief Pt. II: Confronting Anti-Intelligence

Yes, there is a theme that has been consistent in what I write, more so in my comments on other people’s blogs.  Most times I offer anti-intelligence as the reasoning behind people and their actions.  To drive the point home, it’s really their reactions.  Those who try their best to engage in critical debate and [...]

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