PostRacialist
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Columnist Bonnie Erbe of “why isn’t the First Lady kicking ass and taking names already” fame is still complaining. Most recently she shot down professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s argument that Michelle Obama’s domestic and ceremonial role as First Lady was already a revolution for black women considering how we’ve been treated and portrayed historically — which…
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Or The Case Against Integration If you HBCU is dead, dying or in disarray it’s probably because you didn’t go there. You probably didn’t even realize it was yours. It was just that one school in the bad neighborhood where you were all, “My God! Who put Spellman in the middle of the ghetto?” because…
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Last month I teased to what would be my next big series (or first series in a long time), “Unconventional Wisdom,” a project that will look at things that are taken for granted or regarded as cannon in the black community and see if what we believe or what others believe is really valid. In…
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Black office workers in Hempstead, TX (1935)By JD McCallum Funny thing happened once we got a Black man in the White House. Maybe it took one of our own to tell us, “Give the Popeye’s a rest. Turn off the TV. Try taking care of your kids.” Who knows. On the ride around Chicago’s Southside,…
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Scholars, politicians, activists, paperback prophets and ministers vie to be your next savior in the Obama Era, but while you recognize them as false prophets, do you recognize the falsehoods inside you? (More after the jump)
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljYKQsbr5bo&hl=en&fs=1] Don’t watch if you ever plan on watching either “The Departed” or the original Hong Kong masterpiece, “Infernal Affairs.” Also, don’t watch if you can’t take the Dropkick Murphy’s and people getting shot in the head. I love Martin Scorsese New York version of Boston! Don’t know if it matches the Boston version…
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It’s time for another display in Obama Era Hustlenomics. Please discuss these! From New York Daily News (via AOL/Blackvoices): Two city fast-food joints are calling themselves Obama Fried Chicken — and the new names are ruffling some feathers.Eateries in Brooklyn and Manhattan plastered the new president’s last name on their awnings recently.And some passersby are…
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