by kspence | Nov 20, 2012 | Black People Mythology, Black Politics, Politics, Resistance |
I had the opportunity to present at Facing Race this past weekend. Junot Diaz, card-carrying literary genius, delivered the keynote. DIaz was funny, insightful, acerbic, raw, real. After the lecture he had a book signing line that appeared to be wrapped around the...
by kspence | Oct 3, 2012 | Black Leadership, Black People Mythology, Black Politics, Black Popular Culture, Knocking the Hustle |
On August 22, 2011, the Martin Luther King Memorial opened to the public. The first African American to be honored with a memorial on the Mall, and only the fourth non-President, King’s memorial took decades of planning and fundraising. It stands, or perhaps better...
by admin | Apr 19, 2007 | Black People Mythology, Hip-hop, Political Ideology |
One of my younger fraternity brothers, in the wake of the Imus scandal, made the following Whitlockian move: In realtity, what ever parts of our culture become mainstream will affect their preceptions of us and their interactions. How we treat each other sets...
by admin | Jan 24, 2007 | Black People Mythology, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Politics, Racial Politics |
In a conversation relating to one of my previous posts, my man Spedy mentioned the bankruptcy bill. Shouldn’t people learn to pay for their mistakes? If people can’t learn to be efficient with their money instead of spending it on XBox 360s and the...
by admin | Nov 26, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Black People Mythology, Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me
There’s an interesting discussion with two parts over at P6 about cooperative economics. The belief that black businesses will somehow lift black people from our place on the bottom rungs is driven by a mythical belief in the power of capitalism. If trickle-down...
by admin | Nov 4, 2006 | Black People Mythology, Neoliberalism |
There’s a meme that’s been going around black communities at least as long as black people have been organizing against white supremacy, blaming black failure on self-hatred. If we were to just “unify.” If we were able to somehow figure out how...
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