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You sound racist

Posted in Issues of Race on Jul 21st, 2008

More real talk for J

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The “N” Word

Posted in Issues of Race on Jul 18th, 2008

Why do white people get upset because they’re not supposed to say Nigger ?
Why is it such a point of contention for some ?
I mean, is it like when you’re a child and your parents tell you to curse ? Or is it a case of white privilege run amok ?
I’m confused. I know I [...]

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Hard Times at Douglas High

Posted in America, Education, Issues of Race, issues of class on Jun 25th, 2008

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Hard Times at Douglas High, an HBO documentary, purports itself to be an expose on President Bush’s failed No Child Left Behind act. The film is more of an indictment on concentrated poverty and castrated school systems who have neither the desire nor the tools to assist [...]

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Obama on missing black fathers

Posted in America, Black History, Food For Thought, Issues of Race, The Black Family on Jun 20th, 2008

I decided to weigh in on this after perusing the blogoshphere and seeing some of my blogging brethren insinuate that Obama called out deadbeat dads, and deadbeat Black dads in particular, for not doing what they’re supposed to do as a way to placate his White constituents and I call shenanigans.
The truth of the matter [...]

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Obama on Father’s Day

Posted in Black History, Food For Thought, Issues of Race, The Black Family on Jun 16th, 2008

Obama on Father’s Day

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Fox News Calls Michelle Obama a Baby Mama

Posted in Issues of Race on Jun 12th, 2008

I spotted this over at Jack and Jill politics and was not surprised but disturbed all the same. Fake News Network has referred to Michelle Obama as a “Baby Mama.”
In what way does their statement reflect any journalistic integrity or human decency ? Why are these clowns allowed to broadcast their particular brand of filth [...]

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An Open Letter to White Women

Posted in America, Food For Thought, Issues of Race on Jun 10th, 2008

Written by Time Wise…a well respected…White Academic. Jennifer..are you out there ?
An Open Letter to Certain White Women Who Are Threatening to Withhold Support from Obama in November
Your Whiteness is Showing
By TIM WISE
This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their commitment to feminism, [...]

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The Permanence of Racism

Posted in Activism, America, Black History, Food For Thought, Issues of Race on Jun 2nd, 2008

I just finished reading “Faces at the Bottom of the Well” by Derrick Bell and the overall theme was that racism in America is permanent and that Blacks will never be recognized as equal participants in the American experiment because America’s founders never intended to include us or any other minority group.
Simple proof of Bell’s [...]

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America isn’t ready to confront Racism

Posted in America, Issues of Race, Whatever is on my mind on May 26th, 2008

My most popular post on this blog deals with Racism and how it crosses lines with sexism. I had comments from some Black women that I know and there was some disagreement on how best to deal with sexism and misogyny in the Black community. My most frequent commenters though, happen to be White Americans [...]

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The Future

Posted in Hip Hop, Identity, Issues of Race, Leaders of The True School, issues of class, students, teaching on May 7th, 2008

*Yo, if this is the future of New York rap, please count me in…son is a beast! His vocab is amazing and his flow makes me think this is what Lil Wayne would sound like if he stopped getting high and actually took out a pen and pad and tried to write coherent, inspiring, original [...]

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