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Happy Wrecka Stow Day — this post is probably not what you think

Posted on April 21, 2018 by

About the title of this piece — we’ll deal with that in a moment. I own records — and still buy them — but I don’t celebrate Record Store Day. Record stores — particularly when taking into account what they’ve … Continue reading →

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Remembering Mabel Williams

Posted on March 11, 2018 by

So that’s when the police came up and they jumped out of the car. And they were saying they were going to take him to jail. And I said, “Do you have a warrant?” And they said — they backed … Continue reading →

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West and Coates should look East

Posted on December 18, 2017 by

Can we not acknowledge that there are deep disagreements among us with our very lives and destinies at stake? — Dr. Cornel West in Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle, Guardian, Dec. 17, 2017 Quoting … Continue reading →

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Atlanta, inequality, Keisha Lance Bottoms and this strange fascination with an airport

Posted on December 7, 2017 by

Atlanta’s mayoral race is one of those stories I should have rapped about a long time ago. Just never got around to it. I couldn’t predict Keisha Lance Bottoms’ victory but I also didn’t think Vincent Fort — my choice … Continue reading →

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Album in the Crosshairs: Saoul — The Juice (Independent Release)

Posted on September 7, 2017 by

I dig songwriter-musician Saoul Bumbu’s latest album, The Juice, for a reason similar to why I have a problem with much of modern Pop music recordings: the songs — even the ones performed by highly competent musicians — sound like … Continue reading →

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Sunday Smack: Rex Tillerson and His Trump Comment

Posted on August 27, 2017 by

“The President speaks for himself, Chris.” This week’s Sunday Smack focuses on US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s remark today on Fox News about how President Donald Trump “speaks for himself” when sharing views of the recent racial violence in … Continue reading →

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Sunday Smack: Wonder Woman and Images of Power

Posted on June 4, 2017 by

This tweet by @megsauce about the new Wonder Woman movie is destroying the Internet right now: “No wonder white men are obscenely confident all the time. I saw one woman hero movie and I’m ready to fight a thousand dudes … Continue reading →

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Sunday Smack: Is Steve Bannon the Frantz Fanon of White People?

Posted on April 2, 2017 by

“The Strange Persistence of Guilt” piece by New York Times writer David Brooks — where he equates President Donald Trump’s chief strategist and Alt-Right icon Steve Bannon with Martiniquan psychologist, writer, philosopher and radical Frantz Fanon — is the inspiration … Continue reading →

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz and healthcare — won’t help Democrats find salvation

Posted on March 21, 2017 by

Partisan politics makes many politicians look like strung-out lovers — feeling an inexplicably dumb compulsion to support the lamebrain propositions of their political parties and appearing even dumber when publicly doubling down their support, even when confronted with facts that … Continue reading →

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Clinton Global Initiative Shutdown — Post-Election Reminder for Party Cleansing

Posted on January 22, 2017 by

The latest news about the Clinton Global Initiative formally filing its intent with New York State to shut down and lay-off 22 employees reminds me of what I said in my last piece — the Party of No Guts will have to exorcise the … Continue reading →

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