Without commenting on whether my skin color makes me a mark, saying it’s just a matter of being street smart is a little too cute. I grew up on the Upper West Side pre-gentrification; I’ve lived in West Philadelphia and on the South Side of Chicago (safest place I’ve ever lived); and I now live [...]
I’ve gotta get to work, but I’ll drop two anecdotal stories on you:
1. My cousin’s 28-year-old daughter is pregnant and unmarried. But she and the baby’s father are MBA grads, in a committed relationship, raising his son from a previous marriage, and planning to tie the knot when she can once again fit in [...]
Don’t call yourself “ghetto” please! Don’t wear your insecurities on your sleeve! Why were you so deferential to MM? She was all over the place, castigating those who hate THE FAT yet at the same time she is oddly aware of her BMI? Hello? She’s a walking contradiction, and a condescending UWS snob to her [...]
The headline on Yahoo is “Obama urges blacks to take more responsibility for their actions,” which strikes me as oddly like “Black/Jewish tension flares in New York.”
Yeah, blacks should take more responsibility for their actions. So should, y’know, whites, Jews, Asians, Mormons, men, women, the young and the old. So thanks for that urgent report: [...]
Those people guide our youth!!!
I thought the book was a masterpiece … I stayed up all night last night reading it and fist-pumped the air when I hit p. 177. I was too excited to sleep, and then I spent the morning alerting colleagues across the country, literally from southern CA to upstate NY. We are all of us [...]
am heartened to hear that you use hip hop to teach literature/poetry to the students you tutor. It is a shame that hip-hop so often gets dismissed as an art, when it really is the modern equivalent of centuries-old genres of poetry. Ever read any medieval poetry, particularly troubadour poetry? Take Shlomo ibn Gabirol, [...]
I liked Tim Russert, even though I thought his BS gotcha nonsense was thorough idiocy and not helping the debate at all. He was a likable guy- friendly, always smiling. I understand it is a loss for the beltway folks, and he had a lot of really good friends and meant a lot to people, [...]
Black people should not be in bed with the DailyKos. I dont trust those fools one bit. They represent your typical superhip white liberal who probably feels comfortable using racial slurs amongst eachother’cause they are so “edgy”. I mean, they might as well be Pat Buchanan as far as I’m concerned. They just coming from [...]
I heard an interview with a Mugabe supporter on the radio. When asked about farm nationalization, he said it was an unequivocal good. Was it? Clearly not. Mugabe isn’t the only crazy one. He’s a crazy figure head of a crazy segment of his society.
Here’s a little controversy for you: Look at the impact – [...]
