Here’s the thing. I have no idea if I’m supposed to be offended by this video or not. But I don’t care. Cuz I haven’t laughed this damn hard in at least three days. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAHJH9Siq7w] Found on this blog, which I might actually decide to
It’s February. Black History Month is upon us again. *rolls eyes* Huey Freeman (of Boondocks fame) summed it up best when he said: Every Black History Month it’s the same thing – the Underground railroad and George Washington Carver. Like nothing else ever happened to
A couple of weekends ago I was watching CNN’s new show called CNN: Special Investigations Unit. It seems like any other special report they do, but somehow it’s different and special now. Good thing they chose my girl Christiane Amanpour to do the first one,
That link to the Hair Petting Game is making the rounds of the blogs as people collectively go “WTF!! Why isn’t someone smacking them?” The fun thing for me is that there have been at least three discussions where someone brings up the fact that
The 8th Erase Racism Carnival is up. Go read!
Voters in Michigan passed an anti-Affirmative Action law (Proposal 2) last November. According to the bill’s proponents, the purpose was to “prohibit the state from granting preferential treatment based on skin color or gender.” The language that voters saw in the ballot box: The proposed
My nod to MLK day. here are some words from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., both real and fictional. The first is what he really did say (well, write) from a jail in Birmingham over 40 years ago. The second bit on the bottom is
My new idea for getting other people to say interesting things on my blog: Monday Debate. This is where I invite folks to come in, sit a spell, and have a discussion on a contentious topic. The main reason for doing so is to try
White Privilege exists whether you know it, acknowledge it, or understand it. Any attempts to convince me that you, a white person, don’t have White Privilege will result in laughter, mockery, and possibly a beat down. It is a given that, whenever I engage in
There’s a 9/11 story that I heard once and never forgot. It’s anecdotal and may even be completely made up. I’m not sure. I can’t even remember the context in which I heard this story (I vaguely recall it being on television, but that might