tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290184352024-03-19T08:23:01.707-04:00Wo Nsa Da Ma AWo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-5713538683264906342008-05-31T14:39:00.012-04:002008-05-31T21:55:50.855-04:00Why an Obama presidency is good for American feminism<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Obama is not so much a progressive candidate, as Clinton is a regressive one. And by extension so are the 2nd wave feminists supporting her. It has been disheartening to witness the unwavering, even hardening of support from so many white women for Clinton as her campaign has taken a turn toward </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4193768">open race baiting</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, and racial </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/08/clinton-obama-not-winning_n_100763.html">divide</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> and conquer tactics to muster up votes.</span><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KACQuZVAE3s&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KACQuZVAE3s&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >The moral bankruptcy of this form of feminism has become clear to anyone who is willing to take a critical look and see it.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Steinem, Ferraro, Jong and others aren’t advocating for a radical change in the white and male power structure as much as they are seeking to take over its reigns. What appears to be an irrational fear on the part of these white women that if Clinton doesn’t get the nomination NOW feminism has lost its shot makes total sense if their form of feminism is about finally wielding power like white men do, not creating a radically different power structure in and of itself.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Call it the white (wo)man’s last stand, or so to speak.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >As the <a href="http://www.ces.columbia.edu/pub/Steinmetz_feb03.html">bi-directional influence</a> of globalization becomes clearer and undeniable, in order to compete globally Americans of European descent will have to <a href="http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/class-act-challenging-divide-and-conquer-racism">give up white privilege</a>, or at the very least expand it to an “American privilege” that includes its citizens of color. New centers of power both economic and cultural are taking root among <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0711/p04s01-woam.html">brown</a> and yellow countries in the world, and who better to negotiate with them than America’s own brown and yellow people? </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >The value of a Thatcher-esque presidency, rife with social impact on gender relations for Americans, will be lost on the rest of the globe’s citizens of color who aren’t likely to suffer a kinder, gentler white supremacy when they are <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200510u/nj_schneider_2005-10-25">holding so many of the cards now</a>.<br /><br /></span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Those who wish to see Obama become president right now are angling for America to stay relevant in this new global reality. Those who wish to see Clinton win are angling for whiteness to stay relevant in this new global reality.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >In a post-Obama presidency, any white woman who runs and wins will not easily be able to wield power in a racially supremacist kind of way as all prior 43 presidents have done to varying degrees. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >In a weird kind of way an Obama presidency might force white feminists to give up their (nowadays not so) latent white supremacy if they want a shot at the title down the road. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Technorati Tags: </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hillary+Clinton" rel="tag">Hillary Clinton</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/2nd+wave+feminists" rel="tag">2nd wave feminists</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/white+privilege" rel="tag">white privilege</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span><br /></span><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Enter your email:</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" size="20" type="text"><br /><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /></span><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><span style="font-size:78%;">Power</span><span style="font-size:78%;">ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-32280730570875051122008-05-24T12:27:00.008-04:002008-05-24T13:50:46.828-04:00Why drop out of the race before all the assassins have had their say?<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">It just gets <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rees/hillary-clinton-why-would_b_103332.html">worser</a> and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/05/24/2008-05-24_hillary_clintons_colossal_blunder_simply-2.html">worser</a>. I used to pray for Howard Dean to grow a pair and tell this lady to exit stage right, but I think it is more instructive for the American public to see just how deranged Killery Clinton is. I don't think any amount of mojo from the comeback kid can save her political career now. <a href="http://msa4.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-over-clinton-won%e2%80%99t-be-the-democratic-presidential-or-vp-candidate-and-boomers-will-make-sure%e2%80%9d/">This</a> Boomer blogger seems to think her generation will finally <a href="http://wonsadamaa.blogspot.com/2008/05/open-letter-to-baby-boomers.html">come to its senses</a>. To that I say <a href="http://media.slate.com/podcast/Ringtone_YesWeCan.mp3">YES THEY CAN</a>!<br /></span></span><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/24798368#24798368" frameborder="0" height="339" scrolling="no" width="425"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thanks Keith. I couldn't have said it better. </span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Technorati Tags: </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hillary+Clinton" rel="tag">Hillary Clinton</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Bobby+Kennedy+assassination" rel="tag">Bobby Kennedy assassination</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Baby+Boomers" rel="tag">Baby Boomers</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span><br /></span><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Enter your email:</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" size="20" type="text"><br /><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /></span><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><span style="font-size:78%;">Power</span><span style="font-size:78%;">ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-33652298874814044872008-05-22T21:26:00.006-04:002008-05-23T00:01:50.017-04:00An Open Letter to the Baby Boomers<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Much is being made of the Democratic nomination process between Senators Clinton and Obama as a battle between competing aggrieved groups (women vs. blacks). Given that much of the media is owned and operated by Baby Boomers, it stands to reason that many pundits would opine on the contest in terms of these kind of identity politics. Clearly Obama has been fighting to get out from under this kind of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-chait21-2008may21,0,2243133.story">victimhood masquerading as empowerment</a>, and that's why young people who've grown up in an integrated society where women are expected to occupy the workforce are flocking to him in droves. Clinton is fighting a battle that </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">for Gen-Xers and Millennials </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">has in many respects already been won, and they simply can't relate. And frankly, we've got <a href="http://northsoutheastwest.org/issues/natural-environment-1/">bigger</a> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2169802.ece">fish</a> <a href="http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/features/art23819.html">to</a> <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/19/news/environ.php">fry</a>.<br /><br />Clinton has been trying her best to <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080521.wwcoibbit21/BNStory/usElection2008">bring Obama into her frame</a>, and the media has lately been playing along. On the gender card tip she's thrown <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/opinion/08steinem.html">Gloria Steinem</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/electing-sweetie_b_102081.html">Erica Jong</a> at him. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/22/bill-clinton-obama-played_n_97927.html">Bill</a>, <a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/13/574964.aspx">Bob Johnson</a> and </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqL_sm0J8jc">Geraldine Ferraro</a> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">shuffled from the deck of race cards. And even she has joined the fray with her thinly veiled <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/05/clintons-race-baiting-continues.html">southern strategy-type pronouncements</a>.<br /><br />But yesterday Clinton <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_compares_the_Florida_and_Michigan_fight_to_civil_rights_movement.html">made statements</a> that did worse than wade in the gutter of gender victimizing, race baiting, divisive politics. </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Comparisons, though sometimes <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment">inflammatory</a>, can often be instructive in understanding the gravity of contemporary political realities. But Clinton</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> - sans irony - compared the disenfranchisement of Michigan and Florida voters in the 2008 Democratic nomination contest with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281955%E2%80%931968%29">one of the major U.S. social movements of the 20th century</a>, and in effect denigrated a core life changing juncture in her generation's coming of age in order to pander for votes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe anyone in Florida or Michigan was lynched, <a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/al11.htm">firebombed</a> or <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmjustice4.html">disappeared</a> in fighting for their right to the vote.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Clearly Clinton's moral relativism (read: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6JN7ALF7Y">lying</a>) seems to mean nada to</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> most white women Boomers who are after the crown, principles be damned. I have to wonder about other Boomers out there, though, like Glenn Loury who <a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/10317">support her</a> because it's their generation's "time". Does he still think its acceptable to support this candidate when she would willingly sell out one of their shared formative experiences? And does he and other thinking Boomers really think this kind of behavior would stop once the power was seized? I've got to ask: can you people come to your senses on this woman and these kind of tactics already? Or will this really require <a href="http://dieboomerdie.blogspot.com/">an actuarial solution</a> to be rectified?<br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br />Technorati Tags: </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hillary+Clinton" rel="tag">Hillary Clinton</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/moral+relativism" rel="tag">moral relativism</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Baby+Boomers" rel="tag">Baby Boomers</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Enter your email:</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" size="20" type="text"><br /><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /></span><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><span style="font-size:78%;">Power</span><span style="font-size:78%;">ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-76791380690577026812008-05-22T20:27:00.006-04:002008-05-22T21:24:11.172-04:00In Defense of the Guilty White Liberal<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Finally a white person publicly <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2191906/pagenum/all/#page_start">states the obvious</a>:<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><blockquote>Guilt is good, people! The only people who don't suffer guilt are sociopaths and serial killers. Guilt means you have a conscience. You have self-awareness, you have—in the case of America's history of racism—historical awareness. Just because things have gotten better in the present doesn't mean we can erase racism from our past or ignore its enduring legacy.</blockquote></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">It's a shame that the country had to go <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june08/tvgenerals_04-24.html">damned</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_04/013450.php">near</a> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/85725/">off</a> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/03/brown.fema.emails/">the</a> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297197,00.html">deep</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/business/12credit.html">end</a> for folks to be able to come to their senses.</span></span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br />Technorati Tags: </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/guilty+liberal" rel="tag">guilty liberal</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/2008+presidential+campaign" rel="tag">2008 presidential campaign</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Enter your email:</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" size="20" type="text"><br /><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /></span><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><span style="font-size:78%;">Power</span><span style="font-size:78%;">ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-66560406474880047342008-05-21T21:33:00.003-04:002008-05-21T21:41:51.381-04:00Obama's VP?<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) tackles the race issue from the working class white perspective, making a clear case for the VP slot in an Obama administration...<br /><br /><br /></span></span><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WADpHbzRq88&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WADpHbzRq88&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Technorati Tags: </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jim+Webb" rel="tag">Jim Webb</a></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - 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And what has become clear is that there is <a href="http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v11/f13/rockquemore.html">no longer a consensus</a> on the assumptions that most folks make both privately and publicly about identity and culture, and how they relate to the political sphere. The fact that there are differences in perspective, especially along generational lines as opposed to racial ones, appears to be a strange shock to a lot of folks in the 50+ set. It's as if the Baby Boomers took the Civil Rights Movement as the end in itself, and not the means to the end - which was supposed to be a color-blind, more racially equitable society.<br /><br />Clinton minions who wish to see her secure the nomination at all costs are consistently the worst perpetrators of this strange myopia, <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=2038n414WUw">insulting the generations who grew up in an integrated society</a> because they don't (and can't by definition) subscribe to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics">neurosis</a> of that barrier-busting generation. Senator Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU">spoke</a> directly to this generational divide in regard to the African American community when he tried to give some context to the anger expressed by Reverend Wright in the clips aired <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=UWDzvP_-jGw">ad infinitum on Fox News</a>, et al. The Reverend was not to be outdone by the Clinton crew, and <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/us-election/reverends-rant-wounds-obamas-chances/2008/04/29/1209234861936.html">his fratricidal impulse</a> in defense of his generational worldview nearly derailed the aspiring candidate. A lot of black folks wondered aloud what the hell Wright was thinking. Did the brother have his eyes on the prize or what?<br /><br />For me these are the moments when the long view is instructive. A suave, black gentleman friend of mine aged 72 years young regularly puts these issues of race and identity in perspective for me. A life-long New York city native who grew up in Harlem and now lives in Brooklyn, he remembers when <a href="http://www.yalelawjournal.org/111/1/183_david_menschel.html">sanctimonious Northern cities</a> were (informally) segregated, and shares strategies with me on how he worked his way up the ladder in the architectural world to operate his own design firm. He is not just a student of history, but <span style="font-style: italic;">lived</span> it.<br /><br />Over brunch on Sunday we talked about an issue that is basically taboo in discussions about 20th century black life – namely the tensions between the light skinned (biracials) and dark skinned (blacks) where issues of leadership are concerned. Yes, there were the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/">Marcus Garvey</a>s out there, but on the whole it is biracials who occupied the higher tiers of black society. One need only look as far as <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week838/pics/p_feature_wright.jpg">Reverend Wright</a>, with his even lighter skin and even more European-looking features contrasted to the biracial Obama, to see an example of this. Could the Reverend’s public unhinging have to do with his deep-seated frustrations at not being allowed to play the leadership role that Senator Obama has been occupying in our brave new “postracial” world – as Obama hinted at in his speech on race? Is the Reverend suffering from a jealously heightened by a form of tragic mulatto-ism?<br /><br />During our conversation my friend mentioned an interesting factoid of which I was not aware, that if true, adds a further dimension to the discussion. Apparently, the member of President Truman’s inner circle who convinced him to integrate the military was actually a black man “passing” as white. Passing is a phenomenon generally vilified by black folks; a famous fairly recent example is Henry Louis Gate’s <a href="http://web.princeton.edu/sites/english/NEH/GATES1.HTM">posthumous outing</a> of Creole writer Anatole Broyard, resulting in his daughter Bliss’ memoir <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/books/review/Johnson-t.html?_r=1&fta=y&pagewanted=all"><span style="font-style: italic;">One Drop</span></a>. However, since One Drop rule made it traditionally impossible for the biracial leadership to get <span style="font-weight: bold;">really</span> close to the annals of power it could only be “passing” blacks or sympathetic whites who could turn the ears of powerful men to do the right thing. I’ve wondered if that ever stuck in the craw of biracials like Gates or Wright who might have had the same vision as an Obama, but the times wouldn’t allow them the space to lead beyond the Jim Crow era race categories.<br /><br />Obama is messing with black people's minds as much as white's because he is a biracial that is not out there solely representing the black struggle, as was <a href="http://www.csuohio.edu/history/Langston%20Hughes/Images/hughes_portrait_detail.jpg">the</a> <a href="http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/hastie.gif">case</a> <a href="http://encyclopedia.gwu.edu/gwencyclopedia/index.php/Image:Harris_patricia_rg0005-004.jpg">for</a> <a href="http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/D_IMAGE.105fcd830c3.93.88.fa.7c.4fb70aaa.jpg">the</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/05/22/arts/22cnd-dunh2.html">majority of</a> <a href="http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/hom/exhibits/blkhist/drew.gif">the</a> <a href="http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/powell_adam_clayton2.jpg">Civil</a> <a href="http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/thurgood-marshall-1-1.jpg">Rights</a> <a href="http://www.nathanielturner.com/images/New_Folder2/walterwhite.jpg">leadership</a> <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Romare_Bearden.jpg/300px-Romare_Bearden.jpg">of</a> <a href="http://www.nps.gov/hafe/historyculture/images/dubois285.jpg">the</a> <a href="http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/050311-F-1234P-012.jpg">20th</a> <a href="http://www.watsoninstitute.org/images_news/Bunche.jpg">century</a>. His platform and worldview can be summed up as a rising tide lifts all boats. There is no denying that things are still bad for many black folks and there is a lot of work to be done. However, opportunities for black advancement <span style="font-style: italic;">have</span> improved in the post Civil Rights era -- along with the minds of many white people young and old about the intelligence and leadership capabilities of people of color. If this were not true, Obama would not be winning!<br /><br />It is precisely because Obama is biracial, not just genetically but also culturally and politically, that many white people feel comfortable in his ability to represent the needs and desires of all Americans not just black ones. His <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama/4">biracial appeal to whites</a> is also the reason why black people eventually came out overwhelmingly in support of him; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhEWXn4jKzc">they recognized that he was being taken as a viable presidential candidate</a>, and not just seen by whites as running for the president of black America.<br /><br />One drop rule may have once been <a href="http://backintyme.com/essays/?p=23">agreed to by whites and blacks alike</a> – as a necessary <a href="http://wonsadamaa.blogspot.com/2006/12/act-three-transformation_3223.html">mechanism of economic control for the white elite</a> while also a way for blacks to <a href="http://backintyme.com/essays/?p=19">foment solidarity for the freedom struggle</a>. But in President Obama’s America will it still be necessary or even possible? Will newly biologically white folks (read: passing) need to hide African descent in order to advocate for black advancement when there is a bi-racial president advocating for all people's advancement? When there are blacks, biracials and other people of color (not proportionally representative but getting there, albeit slowly) in leadership positions in government, business, academia and media across the board? And just where does that leave the Reverend Wrights of the world?<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span>Technorati Tags: <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Barack+Obama" rel="tag">Barack Obama</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> - <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hillary+Clinton" rel="tag">Hillary Clinton</a></span><span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> - </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Democratic+nomination" rel="tag">Democratic nomination</a></span><span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> - </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/southern+strategy" rel="tag">southern strategy</a></span><span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> - </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/race+baiting" rel="tag">race baiting</a></span><span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> - </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Reverend+Wright" rel="tag">Reverend Wright</a></span><span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> - </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/One+Drop+rule" rel="tag">One Drop rule</a></span><span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> - </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/passing" rel="tag">passing</a></span><span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> - </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/biracial" rel="tag">biracial</a></span><span><br /></span><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Power</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-45209407187239056432008-05-12T21:02:00.001-04:002008-05-12T21:07:43.250-04:00A Picture Says A Thousand Words<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCcKNOqCLCQ0rxMa2YaWMXFuONT50-4fyq3EdG9CRQS5Wel48Z8gOTOHmhLGVjyr_yp7sun0SRuW0omiQZdnZSCEoxN4I5zV9a9fbmeffzMfqztY82oUEdlfw00FlbGLQbQm5hA/s1600-h/pic10112.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCcKNOqCLCQ0rxMa2YaWMXFuONT50-4fyq3EdG9CRQS5Wel48Z8gOTOHmhLGVjyr_yp7sun0SRuW0omiQZdnZSCEoxN4I5zV9a9fbmeffzMfqztY82oUEdlfw00FlbGLQbQm5hA/s320/pic10112.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199661847132945730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">'Nuff said</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Technorati Tags: </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hillary+Clinton" rel="tag">Hillary Clinton</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/southern+strategy" rel="tag">southern strategy</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Enter your email:</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" size="20" type="text"><br /><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /></span><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><span style="font-size:78%;">Power</span><span style="font-size:78%;">ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-27867315641140475092008-01-18T17:53:00.000-05:002008-01-18T18:31:54.093-05:00Obama the Reagan-lover?<object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tGS7Ku0_JuI&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tGS7Ku0_JuI&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/18/6462/">overblown rhetoric coming from the left wing blogosphere</a> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">(read the comments section) over the above statement </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">would make one think that Obama suddenly switched sides to run as a republican. But a careful look at his comments using logic and reason, instead of hyperbole and distortion, would make it clear that he is not endorsing Reagan's policies per se, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_coalition">his ability to capitalize on an historic political moment</a>. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" >Technorati Tags: </span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Barack+Obama" rel="tag">Barack Obama</a></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Ronald+Regan" rel="tag">Ronald Reagan</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style=";font-size:78%;" >Enter your email:</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" size="20" type="text"><br /><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /></span><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><span style=";font-size:78%;" >Power</span><span style=";font-size:78%;" >ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style=";font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-39251335764879683592008-01-15T14:53:00.000-05:002008-01-18T12:25:27.270-05:00Return of the King<object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HEh8QoFN7OE&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HEh8QoFN7OE&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">I don't know whether to laugh or cry at Aaron McGruder's take on how MLK would respond to today's black community.<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Technorati Tags: </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/The+Boondocks" rel="tag">The Boondocks</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Martin+Luther+King+Jr" rel="tag">Martin Luther King Jr.</a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Power</span><span style="font-size:85%;">ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-23072736740101535132008-01-07T11:34:00.000-05:002008-01-07T11:39:34.110-05:00Michelle Obama for President?<embed src='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/player/wpniplayer_viral_300.swf?vid=010608-4v_title' bgcolor='#FFFFFF' flashVars='allowFullScreen=true&initVideoId=&servicesURL=http://www.brightcove.com&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://www.brightcove.com&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&autoStart=false' base='http://admin.brightcove.com' name='flashObj' width='300' height='240' allowFullScreen='false' allowScriptAccess='always' seamlesstabbing='false' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' swLiveConnect='true' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash'></embed><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Technorati Tags: </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Michelle+Obama" rel="tag">Michelle Obama</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/New+Hampshire+primary" rel="tag">New Hampshire primary</a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Power</span><span style="font-size:85%;">ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-51942459021724122452008-01-05T16:43:00.000-05:002008-01-05T17:35:19.453-05:00It's No Fluke<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOjp1bAbGd04chR6RtfIIXeRHbI-HMnva70sjs5Havx9stkSLSVoqIhiMKvWwlPnl0O3DK8s7-s4CiFFUZgNPgPI5TByvYEm2Fg7zid8RuO_40UNehPiTeJAN8oReur7EhQXdrsQ/s1600-h/100ClubJoAnn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOjp1bAbGd04chR6RtfIIXeRHbI-HMnva70sjs5Havx9stkSLSVoqIhiMKvWwlPnl0O3DK8s7-s4CiFFUZgNPgPI5TByvYEm2Fg7zid8RuO_40UNehPiTeJAN8oReur7EhQXdrsQ/s320/100ClubJoAnn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152113702753060722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Hillary's core demographic roots for the upstart at New Hampshire's 100 Club Dinner</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Political bloggers from the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/4/215838/4408">left</a> and <a href="http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/04/clinton-operation-runs-aground-against-obama-movement-in-milford/">right</a> wrote enthusiastically last night about the response Obama received at the annual Democratic Party pow-wow in Milford, New Hampshire. Apparently, <a href="http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/hillary_booed_at_nh_democratic.html">Clinton was trounced</a> once again by the Obamania that has taken over voters <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17847196">young</a> and old, Democratic, Republican and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/us/politics/06independents.html">Independent</a>. <a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/01/obama-ahead-in.html">Today's polls</a> seem to indicate that he may indeed take New Hampshire next!</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Technorati Tags: </span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Barack+Obama" rel="tag">Barack Obama</a></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/New+Hampshire" rel="tag">New Hampshire</a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/100+Club+Dinner" rel="tag">100 Club Dinner</a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style=";font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-size:85%;" >Power</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" >ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style=";font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-9112472762728652822008-01-04T00:28:00.000-05:002008-01-05T17:30:19.964-05:00Obama, Not Bill (or Hill)<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-he26k_2L79DAS5pYkuLUFuKsPD0k-eGrYRRB5IOj-RurddBKldDcOt25vb-GyzhQYLhNUqiornPZyCTkDVYj96epbxo5twQCvPp8NKY5L-puPOYM-S0FLoTN0iqeveG1J6g7LQ/s1600-h/080103-obama-iowa-9p.rp350x350.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-he26k_2L79DAS5pYkuLUFuKsPD0k-eGrYRRB5IOj-RurddBKldDcOt25vb-GyzhQYLhNUqiornPZyCTkDVYj96epbxo5twQCvPp8NKY5L-puPOYM-S0FLoTN0iqeveG1J6g7LQ/s320/080103-obama-iowa-9p.rp350x350.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151493689864144738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">A victorious Obama at the Iowa Caucus</span></span><br /></div><p class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">As I have been saying to friends for months and months now, which was alluded to by former </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >South Carolina Democratic chairman</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > Dick Harpootlian in <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-01-03-dems-analysis_N.htm">this</a> article, is that blacks, not whites, are the Doubting Thomases where an Obama presidency is concerned.</span></p> <p class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;"><blockquote style="font-family: arial;">His victory in Iowa, "which is as white as vanilla ice cream … will let African-Americans in South Carolina know that he can go the distance." </blockquote></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Wake up black people! Bill Clinton was <a href="http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/02/26/black/">NOT the </a><a href="http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/02/26/black/">first black president</a>. Barrack Obama can be, if you would simply support his candidacy like the <a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/19000.html">95% white</a> state of Iowa did tonight.</span></span></p><p class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Jim Crow is over. </span></span></p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />Technorati Tags: </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Barack+Obama" rel="tag">Barack Obama</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Iowa+caucus" rel="tag">Iowa caucus</a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Power</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-4180205157953092032007-10-01T20:29:00.000-04:002007-12-06T20:45:23.830-05:00Bole2Harlem<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.npr.org/programs/day/features/2007/jan/bole2harlem.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://media.npr.org/programs/day/features/2007/jan/bole2harlem.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.box.net/mp3player/player.swf?playlistURL=http://www.box.net/lite/playlist/2a1xk5n0f1" height="65" width="310"><param name="movie" value="http://www.box.net/mp3player/player.swf?playlistURL=http://www.box.net/lite/playlist/2a1xk5n0f1"><param name="allowScriptAcess" value="sameDomain"><param name="quality" value="best"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="scale" value="noScale"><param name="salign" value="TL"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerMode=embedded"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object> <small style="font-family: arial;"><br />share your files at <a href="http://www.box.net/lite">box.net</a></small><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Technorati Tags: </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/hip+hop" rel="tag">hip hop</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - 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</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/San+Diego+Mayor+Jerry+Brown" rel="tag">San Diego Mayor Jerry Brown</a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Power</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-18649583491446511512007-08-20T23:52:00.000-04:002007-08-21T00:11:38.166-04:00Ease Di Tension<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://calabash.typepad.com/hp_sierra_leones_refugee_all_stars_70214.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 151px;" src="http://calabash.typepad.com/hp_sierra_leones_refugee_all_stars_70214.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />S</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >ierre Leone comes correct with hip hop dancehall group Dry Hai.<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><object style="font-family: arial;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.box.net/mp3player/player.swf?playlistURL=http://www.box.net/lite/playlist/9d4jrako0o" height="65" width="310"><param name="movie" value="http://www.box.net/mp3player/player.swf?playlistURL=http://www.box.net/lite/playlist/9d4jrako0o"><param name="allowScriptAcess" value="sameDomain"><param name="quality" value="best"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="scale" value="noScale"><param name="salign" value="TL"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerMode=embedded"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object><br /><small style="font-family: arial;">share your files at <a href="http://www.box.net/lite">box.net</a></small><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Technorati Tags: </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Dry+Yai" rel="tag">Dry Yai</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Sierra+Leone" rel="tag">Sierra Leone</a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Power</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form><a href="http://www.box.net/signup/invitation/wonsadamaa@gmail.com"><img src="http://www.box.net/img/refer_blue_small.gif" /></a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-61056175037515985572007-07-27T15:59:00.000-04:002007-07-27T16:14:23.312-04:00Prison Thriller<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Complete with <a href="http://www.facade.com/celebrity/photo/Michael_Jackson.jpg">transvestite</a> love interest, this 1,500 strong production of Thriller by the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Philippines proves Jacko is still the king of pop. </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hMnk7lh9M3o"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hMnk7lh9M3o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rT90keJ51bY"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rT90keJ51bY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technorati Tags:</span> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Thriller" rel="tag">Thriller</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Michael+Jackson" rel="tag">Michael Jackson</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/prison" rel="tag">prison</a></span><br /><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Powered by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz</a></span></p><p><br /></p></form><script language="javascript" src="http://www.feedblitz.com/js/typepad-widget.js"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-7495760738699432392007-07-26T15:55:00.000-04:002007-07-26T16:17:57.704-04:00Montessori's School of Hard Knocks<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Hip hop finally joins the fray in attempting to reverse the <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1124525">literacy crisis</a> among young black American boys. Effective or <a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/239/239_between_the_lines_read_a_book.html">tasteless</a>? You be the judge...<br /></span></span><br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="FlowPlayer" data="http://www.foundrymusic.com/modules/customtags/FlowPlayer.swf" height="405" width="450"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="movie" value="http://www.foundrymusic.com/modules/customtags/FlowPlayer.swf"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="flashvars" value="videoFile=http://files.foundrymusic.com/video/07182007_3627.flv"></object><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technorati Tags:</span> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/hip+hop" rel="tag">hip hop</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/literacy" rel="tag">literacy</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/BET" rel="tag">BET</a></span><br /><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Powered by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz</a></span></p><p><br /></p></form><script language="javascript" src="http://www.feedblitz.com/js/typepad-widget.js"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-65847301008460488122007-07-11T21:32:00.000-04:002007-07-11T21:47:17.858-04:00Walk it Out, Fosse<span style="font-family:arial;">Apparently, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fosse">Fosse</a> was hip hop before hip hop was hip hop...</span><br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NIGbhPLZmjY"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NIGbhPLZmjY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technorati Tags:</span> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/hip+hop" rel="tag">hip hop</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Fosse" rel="tag">Fosse</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/UNK" rel="tag">UNK</a></span><br /><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Powered by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz</a></span></p><p><br /></p></form><script language="javascript" src="http://www.feedblitz.com/js/typepad-widget.js"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-20243202844951628852007-07-02T22:19:00.000-04:002007-07-02T22:56:18.536-04:00A Cacophonous Sound for A Cacophonous Age<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.djouls.com/antibalas/images/Antibalas-Security_b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.djouls.com/antibalas/images/Antibalas-Security_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Brooklyn-based Afrobeat collective Antibalas from their Spring 2007 release Security.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.box.net/mp3player/player.swf?playlistURL=http://www.box.net/lite/playlist/i5xmgrs7ed" height="65" width="310"><param name="movie" value="http://www.box.net/mp3player/player.swf?playlistURL=http://www.box.net/lite/playlist/i5xmgrs7ed"><param name="allowScriptAcess" value="sameDomain"><param name="quality" value="best"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="scale" value="noScale"><param name="salign" value="TL"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerMode=embedded"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object><br /><small>share your files at <a href="http://www.box.net/lite">box.net</a></small><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Technorati Tags: </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Antibalas" rel="tag">Antibalas</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > - </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://technorati.com/tag/afrobeat" rel="tag">afrobeat</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Power</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/"><br /></a></span></p></form><a href="http://www.box.net/signup/invitation/wonsadamaa@gmail.com"><img src="http://www.box.net/img/refer_blue_small.gif" /></a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-1625338319176789422007-07-02T20:25:00.000-04:002007-07-27T17:22:13.729-04:00Latifah is to Diana as Angelina is to Pearl?<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Todd Boyd, professor of critical studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, makes the ridiculous claim <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/22/AR2007062202029_2.html">here</a> that Angelina Jolie playing the role of the multi-racial widow of slain journalist Daniel Pearl is akin to Queen Latifah acting the part of Princess Diana. </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/10/11/PH2006101100490.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 336px;" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/10/11/PH2006101100490.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie#Early_life_and_family">Purportedly part Iroquois</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, actress Angelina Jolie (above left) is pictured next to widow Marianne Pearl (above right), who was nicknamed "my mulatta" by husband Pearl. </span></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/startracks/060116/latifah.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 214px;" src="http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/startracks/060116/latifah.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thedebster.com/ladydi.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 205px;" src="http://www.thedebster.com/ladydi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Queen Latifah pictured above her <a href="http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa111102a.htm">doppelganger</a> Lady Di. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technorati Tags:</span> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/one+drop+rule" rel="tag">one drop rule</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Angelina+Jolie" rel="tag">Angelina Jolie</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Marianne+Pearl" rel="tag">Marianne Pearl</a></span><br /><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Powered by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz</a></span></p><p><br /></p></form><script language="javascript" src="http://www.feedblitz.com/js/typepad-widget.js"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-81748530965801125272007-03-06T06:54:00.000-05:002007-12-06T19:59:21.497-05:00Golden Jubilee<object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PBwV7W0UeGM"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PBwV7W0UeGM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">On this day in 1957 independence leader <a href="http://www.africawithin.com/nkrumah/nkrumah.htm">Kwame Nkrumah</a> announced to the people of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana">Ghana</a> - and the world - that their "beloved country is free forever." </span></span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technorati Tags:</span> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Ghana" rel="tag">Ghana</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kwame+Nkrumah" rel="tag">Kwame Nkrumah</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/independence" rel="tag">independence</a></span><br /><br /><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Powered by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz</a></span></p><p><br /></p></form><script language="javascript" src="http://www.feedblitz.com/js/typepad-widget.js"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-65654881301249262102007-02-27T19:47:00.000-05:002007-02-27T20:24:24.556-05:00Southern Gothic<object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/97LamvNAmQo"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/97LamvNAmQo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" >Click on me for video clip</span><br /><div><a href="http://www.mccallumtarry.com/index.php?article_id=59" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mccallumtarry.com/images/exhibitions/nca2005/nca2.jpg" alt="StoryCorps" border="0" height="315" width="420" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technorati Tags:</span> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/black+white+dichotomy" rel="tag">black white dichotomy</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Al+Sharpton" rel="tag">Al Sharpton</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Strom+Thurmond" rel="tag">Strom Thurmond</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/McCallum+Tarry" rel="tag">McCallum Tarry</a></span><br /><br /><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Powered by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz</a></span></p><p><br /></p></form><script language="javascript" src="http://www.feedblitz.com/js/typepad-widget.js"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-31423847905361016682007-02-27T18:49:00.000-05:002007-02-27T19:07:35.638-05:00Port Chester rejects govt-imposed legal segregation<div style="font-family: arial;" class="headergroup"> <h2><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/74303"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></a></h2></div><blockquote style="font-family: arial;"><div class="headergroup"><h2><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/74303">Hispanic Voters Raise Questions in Port Chester</a></span></h2> <h2 class="sub"><span style="font-size:85%;">WNYC Newsroom</span></h2> </div> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">NEW YORK, NY February 27, 2007 — A New York village that's almost half Hispanic, but governed mainly by whites has asked a federal judge to let its politics evolve naturally, instead of canceling elections and imposing a new system to give Hispanics a greater voice.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">An attorney for Port Chester says "an organic and natural system is beginning to take hold" to benefit Hispanics. The attorney says <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">cutting the village into districts to increase Hispanic representation, as the Department of Justice requested, would officially segregate the village</span>. The attorney spoke during closing arguments on the government's request for an injunction against village trustee elections scheduled for March 20th.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Department of Justice claims the village's elections violates the Voting Rights Act.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />When will African Americans begin to question the efficacy of civil-rights era tactics in improving their lives and their status within America - TODAY? What is it that Hispanics get that blacks don't?<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technorati Tags:</span> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/separate+but+equal" rel="tag">separate but equal</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hispanic+voters" rel="tag">Hispanic voters</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Voting+Rights+Act" rel="tag">Voting Rights Act</a></span><br /><br /><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Powered by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">FeedBlitz</a></span></p><p><br /></p></form><script language="javascript" src="http://www.feedblitz.com/js/typepad-widget.js"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29018435.post-46727087565545352562007-02-20T20:30:00.000-05:002007-02-20T20:53:13.401-05:00The Golden Voice of Africa<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhixYyQI4eiOIqWbRHMIXk-yedqnFIEbNi_a-mTekB9WSWS6tlzuFvavkAHj-o8Y3dObsZ99mIU0xDs02I0z8tswfwYpYa02rZ9BHRo4AVXf1TuqIBUUphHQa_kWHfRC9EbcrA_iw/s1600-h/mbemba.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhixYyQI4eiOIqWbRHMIXk-yedqnFIEbNi_a-mTekB9WSWS6tlzuFvavkAHj-o8Y3dObsZ99mIU0xDs02I0z8tswfwYpYa02rZ9BHRo4AVXf1TuqIBUUphHQa_kWHfRC9EbcrA_iw/s320/mbemba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033798980895480082" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Malian singer-song writer Salif Keita arranges layers of rhythm on this track from his fall 2005 album M'Bemba. Known as the Golden Voice of Africa, Keita is unique not only for his voice but also for his lineage. The albino singer is a direct descendant of the <a href="http://www.mandinka.org/">Mandinka</a> warrior king <a href="http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/sundiata.htm">Sundiata Keita</a> who founded the Malian empire in the 13th century.<br /><br /><br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.box.net/mp3player/player.swf?playlistURL=http://www.box.net/lite/playlist/6bfimi4pn5" height="65" width="310"><param name="movie" value="http://www.box.net/mp3player/player.swf?playlistURL=http://www.box.net/lite/playlist/6bfimi4pn5"><param name="allowScriptAcess" value="sameDomain"><param name="quality" value="best"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="scale" value="noScale"><param name="salign" value="TL"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerMode=embedded"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object><br /><small>share your files at <a href="http://www.box.net/lite">box.net</a></small><br /><br /></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technorati Tags:</span> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Salif+Keita" rel="tag">Salif Keita</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/M%27Bemba" rel="tag">M'Bemba</a> - <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Mali" rel="tag">Mali</a></span><br /><br /><form id="feedblitz" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track" name="feedblitz" method="post"><p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Enter your email:</span><br /><input maxlength="255" value="" name="EMAIL" type="text" style="font-size:20;"><br /><input value="" name="FEEDID" type="hidden"><input value="2021350" name="PUBLISHER" type="hidden"><input value="SUBSCRIBE ME!" type="submit"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Power</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >ed by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Feed</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/">Blitz</a></span></p><p><br /></p></form><script language="javascript" src="http://www.feedblitz.com/js/typepad-widget.js"></script><br /><br /><a href="http://www.box.net/signup/invitation/wonsadamaa@gmail.com"><img src="http://www.box.net/img/refer_blue_small.gif" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Wo nsa da mu a, wonni nnya wo -- "If your hands are in the dish, people do not eat everything and leave you nothing."</div>Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06131085251523349048noreply@blogger.com0