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Why we will regret Julian Assange’s arrest — and why we’ll have more regrets after he’s convicted
Many of you saw your long-term wishes granted: the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London. Payback for Assange’s 2016 slow-motion DNC and Hillary hit, some of you will say. (Oh, and read this, and this. I can’t blame … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 elections, civil liberties, dnc, julian assange, wikileaks
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Bitter gumbo: drunken ultra-White male privilege and the political party that didn’t give a damn in 2014
At this point, it would be a bit cliché for me to say “What if me and my Black azz showed up to the job interview amidst word that I drank myself into unconsciousness when I wasn’t trying to rape … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Race, Uncategorized
Tagged 2014, 2018, brett kavanaugh, donald trump, midterm elections, neil gorsuch, supreme court, trumpland
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Happy Wrecka Stow Day — this post is probably not what you think
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
Remembering Mabel Williams
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
West and Coates should look East
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
Posted in Politics, Race, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged cornel west, Guardian, inequality, Race, Racism, ta-nehisi coates
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Atlanta, inequality, Keisha Lance Bottoms and this strange fascination with an airport
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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Tagged atlanta, atlanta airport, Corruption, Gentrification, Income Inequality, keisha lance bottoms, mary norwood, Mayor, mayor's race, recount, social justice
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Album in the Crosshairs: Saoul — The Juice (Independent Release)
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
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Tagged album cross hairs, album review, Funk, music review, prince, Rock, saoul bumbu, Soul
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Sunday Smack: Rex Tillerson and His Trump Comment
“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
Posted in Politics, Race, Uncategorized
Tagged charlottesville, donald trump, fox news, rex tillerson, sunday smack, trumpland, virginia
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Sunday Smack: Wonder Woman and Images of Power
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
Sunday Smack: Is Steve Bannon the Frantz Fanon of White People?
“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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Tagged david brooks, frantz fanon, new york times, steve bannon, sunday smack
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