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Ask Nia is The Black Snob’s weekly advice column. Here Nia Orms (and her multiple personalities) take on the problems that plague your lives. This week Nia(s) helps out a reader trying to move a friendship to a relationship. More after the jump.
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“One of the ways that I think that the civil rights movement . . . weakened itself was by enforcing a single way of being black — being authentically black,” Obama said. “And, as a consequence, there were a whole bunch of young black people — and I fell prey to this for a time…
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Chris Chambers gives his preview of Black In America 2: weak, bleak or meek. In the end, the word for it he finds is “safe.” Here’s a smidge of what he had to say. “Safe” has many connotations. Familiarity, universality, steady and expository communication. It also means routine, typical, unchallenging. Banal. The usual thing, made
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Nancy or Meghan? Meghan or Nancy? One is old. One is young. One has power. One has media dah-ling printed on her forehead. One is a brand name. One is a self-made woman. One I like. One pisses me off to no end. Guess which is which after the jump.
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Q-Tip gets a book deal, Al Roker gets a new show, Michael Steele is an embarrassment to himself and himself alone and the Free Republic’s Web site has a little hate speech problem when it comes to their Michelle Obama Monkey Sounds comments. The result is that too many of us have accepted racism as
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Republican Senator and John McCain BFF Lindsey Graham predicted that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would get more than 50 votes in her confirmation barring a “complete meltdown” by the candidate. This, to me, sez the opposition has … absolutely nothing. If the most they can hope for is for Sotomayor to turn to into
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Black and other minority broadcasters begging for a bailout (but strangely … no Cathy Hughes): It’s the recession and everyone’s broke, but in the media world, no one is more financially-challenged than minority-owned broadcasters (save maybe minority-owned newspapers). A group of broadcasters have now reached out to Fed Chairman Timothy Geithner looking for a financial
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