The fried-rice-and-chicken-wing-theory of Blackness gets too much shine at times. We’ll dig deeper into that point later. I want to continue my thoughts from earlier today about Bruno Mars and cultural appropriation by asking a silly question: what is Blackness? Also, what credentialed person or process gets to determine someone else’s Blackness? No, this isn’t […]
Read More Bruno Mars and cultural appropriation, part 2: the bakeTo the folks who continue to drone that performer Bruno Mars is guilty of cultural appropriation — leave him Alone. Yeah, I always thought Bruno Mars played Cruise Ship Funk — the safe stuff that’s deodorized to a sucralose state of Middle-American acceptamce where listens invoke Peoria-grandma-approved happy faces, trying hard to keep a beat. […]
Read More Bruno Mars and cultural appropriation, part 1: the shakeSo 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 up and they saw me with the shotgun. And, so, I said, “If you don’t […]
Read More Remembering Mabel WilliamsOkay — it’s time to deal with the National Rifle Association’s Dana Loesch and her days-ago quote that still has people arguing. Many in legacy media love mass shootings. You guys love it. She then creatively teased the race card … Now I’m not saying that you love the tragedy. […]
Read More That day the NRA pulled the (Black) race card — and everyone lost itI want to rap about the latest National Rifle Association’s disingenuous stroke of rhetorical jiu-jitsu brilliance, as exhibited by their spokesperson Dana Loesch, but I think it’s a good idea to share a prerequisite piece about the late Monroe, North Carolina NAACP branch president, Robert F. Williams. Besides, today is Williams’ birthday. I’m not surprised […]
Read More NAACP’s “Feared but forgotten” Robert F. Williams — a Negro with a gunWhereas “He’s going to explode” Could never be uttered by concerned callers to the FBI about my underprivileged Black azz without a small brigade of suits, flanked by HRT, rolling up to my front door Whereas I, with privileges unchanged, can’t publish a YouTube video of my hypothetical chants about how much I want to […]
Read More A Proclamation for Nikolas Cruz Day and His Terroristic White PrivilegeFile under #Trifling. HuffPost reports that the alt-right — in the form of a group named Down with Disney — plans to destroy Marvel Black superhero movie Black Panther’s Rotten Tomatoes critics score, possibly through the bots used by the same group to attack The Last Jedi film. While we’re only talking about a movie […]
Read More Alt-right still mad that Black Panther movie isn’t all-WhiteHere’s a statistic from last week’s Quinnipiac poll (pdf here) about President Donald Trump’s mental stability that didn’t make the mainstream media landing pages: 70 percent of surveyed African American voters have a favorable opinion of 2016 presidential candidate and current U.S. Senator, Bernie Sanders. The poll also showed a flash hypothetical read for 2020: […]
Read More Trump’s mental state, Bernie Sanders and the souls of Black folksIs this pink pussyhat on top of Harlem’s Harriet Tubman statue a symptom of the famed New York City neighborhood’s gentrification from black and brown to white? Or is it a visual turn of phrase for how this year’s Women’s March on the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s tenure in office — and more […]
Read More Sunday Smack: what about Harriet Tubman’s pussyhat?Even my non-weed-smoking perspective was left foggy by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind the Cole memo, enabling states to restore a high priority to law enforcement actions against marijuana sales and use. And then it only took a few seconds to dehaze his strategy. I spent way more time gathering artifacts to […]
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