Neither of us went to the State of the Black Union forum. Hell, I didn’t even watch it. Does that make me a bad Negro? I’ve watched it before on C-SPAN. I don’t know if it’s because I was inundated with “blackness” as a child so I’ve become immune to these sort of things. How…

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I’m doing some fiddling around with the site right now in light of the “under development” sign on the SCAN site. I’m trying to make them look similar, yet different. I also wanted a cleaner look for The Black Snob. So, things are going to be a little out of sorts this weekend, but I’ll…

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Happy Saturday everyone, Thurgood (left) and I wanted to let all the regular readers know that I’ve started a second site were I will cross post my “SCAN” newsletters. (Being a bunch of old prudes, SCAN didn’t really know much about blogging or any of that fancy high tech stuff.) I’m also looking for contributers…

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I don’t want to say this too loudly because I don’t it to come true … But why hasn’t Viacom given Karrine Steffans her own reality show? I mean, she at least has an interesting back story. God only knows what Tiffany “New York” Pollard’s sad tales of pig’s feet, hair weaves gone wrong and…

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CORRECTION: The title of this video was incorrect in the original post. I thought I’d share this video Snob reader by Will Drinker. He produced a short film called “Color Me Blind.” Watching it brought back some not-so-fond, but now funny in hindsight, memories of being asked to sing Ol’ Negro Spirituals to my befuddled…

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The most recent SCAN letter was filled with more typos and run-ons per usual. Mostly due to my impatience and the fact that now, unlike when I was with a newspaper, there is no one to do my proofreading. That and I talk like I write, which is also full of a lot of run-on…

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TO: The Black SnobFROM: The Secret Council of American Negroes (SCAN)SUBJECT: SCAN Celebrity Black-Ops To further evaluate the progress of some of our at-risk, high profile members, the Secret Council of American Negroes dispatched the SCAN Celebrity Black-Ops team to the BET Rip the Runway fashion event, the First Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood…

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