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R.I.P. to the Godfather of Go Go
Published on 2012-05-17 15:19:00
We'll miss you Chuck. > read more
D.C. Roundup
Published on 2012-03-22 07:40:00
Mayor Gray Federal Probe. Stewart. WaPo "The federal investigation into Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 election now includes a focus on an alleged get-out-the-vote effort that was not publicly reported and that several campaign workers have called a “shadow campaign,” according to people with knowledge of the probe." Barry in Winter. Suderman. WCP "The greatest politician in the history of the District of Columbia lingers in his silver Jaguar in the parking lot next to Thurgood Marshall Aca [..] > read more
Trayvon Martin
Published on 2012-03-22 06:13:00
The murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman does not bother me because of the racist, moronic actions of Zimmerman that lead to Martin's death. Those actions are tragic, but they represent one moron, Zimmerman, and one boy who was unlucky enough to stumble across his path, Martin. That is terrible, but it happens. Sometimes a person is crazy or racist or stupid and others pay, but that is, at the end of the day, a local issue between two families that should not dem [..] > read more
Whiteness
Published on 2012-03-07 15:46:00
Whuuut?!? Two posts in one week?!?! You must be unemployed again. No, just a little more free than usual. Trust me, it won't last. So I stumbled upon this post regarding Rush Limbaugh and the Crisis in White Conservative Manhood and I found it sort of interesting. Not compelling, mind you, just sort of interesting. It's short on evidence and not particularly revealing, but I think it illustrates an attempt to delve into the issue of whiteness in a moderately critical way that I think the U.S. [..] > read more
Who is this Independent Voter?
Published on 2012-03-06 14:17:00
I've argued before that the independent voter is a myth. As others have pointed out, an independent voter implies that one votes for both republicans and democrats (or neither). But polls and studies assessing the voting patterns of American voters who call themselves independent suggest that "independents" do no such thing. Independent voters vote along partisan lines pretty reliably (they appear to simply be unwilling to classify with one party or another - that's not independent, that's just [..] > read more
N-word = Racist
Published on 2011-12-28 12:50:00
Not sure if I've talked about this before, but when I came to the realization that white people today view the term "racist" as the functional equivalent of the word "nigger", it was something of an Oprah A-ha moment. To many white people today, particularly young white people, being called a racist has the same impact and effect that being called a nigger has on black people. At first, when I talked to friends; saw comments on blogs; and observed white peoples' horror at being labeled racist, [..] > read more
Keep it Nappy
Published on 2011-10-19 14:31:00
Nappy Riddem CD Release Party Saturday October 22, 2011@DC 99p-2 $10Support Local Artists!!! > read more
Brotherhood ii - The Writer's Challenge
Published on 2011-08-02 12:52:00
In re: Brotherhood One of my brothers; part of my family; challenged me to write a positive post about the brotherhood of Omega Psi Phi. This is a difficult request to abide by. It's not hard for me to think of famous Omega men: Charles R. Drew, Michael Jordan, Jesse Jackson, Earl Graves, Langhston Hughes, Bill Cosby. And it's not hard for me to think of positive experiences I've had as a brother: the love of fraternal family; stepshows; women; power; the knowledge that I've endured and survive [..] > read more
The Mask
Published on 2011-07-25 07:54:00
WE wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world d [..] > read more
No Tresspassing
Published on 2011-07-24 06:56:00
via street art utopia > read more
How'd We Get Here?
Published on 2011-07-13 12:38:00
"In January 2001, with the budget balanced and clear sailing ahead, the Congressional Budget Office forecast ever-larger annual surpluses indefinitely. The outlook was so rosy, the CBO said, that Washington would have enough money by the end of the decade to pay off everything it owed. Voices of caution were swept aside in the rush to take advantage of the apparent bounty. Political leaders chose to cut taxes, jack up spending and, for the first time in U.S. history, wage two wars solely with bo [..] > read more
Critical Convergence
Published on 2011-07-05 07:14:00
"The party is not being asked to raise marginal tax rates in a way that might pervert incentives. On the contrary, Republicans are merely being asked to close loopholes and eliminate tax expenditures that are themselves distortionary. This, a > read more
Big Boom July 3rd
Published on 2011-07-02 07:29:00
Tix on sale now for the Big Boom featuring DJ Nu-Mark, See-I, Fort Knox Five and Rex Riddem at UHall!!! $10 18 & Up 9pm – 3AMGet tickets at: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/478 Uhall 1115 U St NW #Big_Up #FortKnoxRecordings > read more
Libertarians ii
Published on 2011-06-21 09:26:00
I wrote a marginally coherent post on Libertarians awhile back during the BP oil spill focusing on what I saw as the fundamental flaw of the philosophy: free markets and free individuals are also free to harm others, so there needs to be so > read more
Who's Afraid of Ai WeiWei?
Published on 2011-06-08 08:08:00
Free Ai WeiWei > read more
One Drop@Tumblr
Published on 2011-05-24 09:35:00
One Drop Rule on Tumblr BK Adams, H St, NE > read more
#Big_Up #D.C.
Published on 2011-05-19 18:18:00
Cool "Disco" Dan also see BORF > read more
Frum Finds Jewish Needle in Haystack
Published on 2011-05-17 08:50:00
h/t Cardsplayer4life @DavidFrum tossed this grenade on twitter today: "Cornel West attacks Obama as "too comfortable" with smart Jews. http://bit.ly/ko69nT" At first glance, Frum's tweet has the perhaps not unintended effect of leavin > read more
McCain Sets Record Straight on Torture
Published on 2011-05-13 15:18:00
Former George W. Bush officials and like-minded Conservatives have wasted no time congratulating themselves for the killing of Osama Bin Laden despite the order, mission, and completion of the deed occurring under the leadership of Presiden > read more
Myth of the Independent Voter ii
Published on 2011-05-04 19:44:00
WaPo reports on a new Pew study suggesting that the Myth of the Independent Voter still holds true. Myth, the 1992 independent voter report, made a persuasive case that most Independents (two-thirds) are partisans who vote party line. In other w > read more
Ha ha!
Published on 2011-05-03 07:20:00
via The Daily Conversation As @Miss_Info noted, Trump got ethered. > read more
Killing Bin Laden
Published on 2011-05-03 07:20:00
h/t Josh Pesavento Maybe, given the nature of this war against Al-Qaeda, the operation resulting in the death of Osama Bin Laden is the closest Americans will get to a VE Day. Still, I'm ambivalent about celebrating death. I understand. We've > read more
Idgits
Published on 2011-04-27 08:38:00
So now that President Obama has released the birth certificate that his antagonists brayed about for the last two years (and I'm still not sure why the shorter birth certificate he released long ago is insufficient for these clowns), will Trump, > read more
#Rhode_Island_Ave
Published on 2011-04-20 22:48:00
#Albus_Cavus#Mural > read more
#The_Worst_Idea_In_Washington
Published on 2011-04-04 08:03:00
@ezraklein #Balanced_Budget_Amendment "Every single Senate Republican has endorsed a constitutional amendment that would’ve made Ronald Reagan’s fiscal policy unconstitutional" "That’s how far to the right the modern GOP has swung." > read more
Why?
Published on 2011-04-02 07:18:00
#SanFrancisco > read more
Brotherhood
Published on 2011-03-31 10:20:00
I became a brother of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, a Que Dog, in the spring of 1994. It seemed like a good idea when I was a rowdy 19 year old boy. Sean McLean, one of the kids I'd gone to high school with; a few years older; had pledged. His family an > read more
Looting in Japan
Published on 2011-03-18 09:05:00
On Wednesday, Slate's Chris Beam provided several reasons why there have been few reports of looting in Japan in the wake of the triple threat earthquake, tsunami, and radiation from a nuclear power plant. Reasons including: honesty with incen > read more
Going Going, Back Back, to Cali Cali
Published on 2011-03-07 07:52:00
*click* San Francisco, Mission District > read more
GOP Union Busting
Published on 2011-03-02 21:24:00
Reactionary as unions can be, they do put some floor under the wages of ordinary people. In the private sector, those wages actually declined in the 2000s. They now bid fair to do the same in the public sector in the 2010s. If not unions, what force > read more
Use Me
Published on 2011-02-23 16:37:00
White Culture and Color blindness
Published on 2011-01-31 07:20:00
"Ever have men striven to conceive of their victims as different from the victors, endlessly different, in soul and blood, strength and cunning, race and lineage. It has been left, however, to Europe and to modern days to discover the eternal world-w > read more
On Clown Leadership
Published on 2011-01-21 08:21:00
h/t dnugg2020 I chose not to attend a historically black clown college, reasoning that attending a self-segregated institute of higher clowning would not prepare me for the real world of clowning that loomed on the horizon. Instead, I attended a pres > read more
Proto-hip-hop: Deconstructing Culture
Published on 2011-01-14 14:33:00
Graffiti - from the Greek graphein, "to write", the ancient practice of scrawling images on walls; associated most closely in current times with hip-hop culture. If, as KRS-1 has proclaimed, graffiti (along with DJing, MCing, Breaking, and Beatboxin > read more
Mike Vick Racial Hysteria
Published on 2010-12-29 13:15:00
I wasn't interested in writing about Vick. I've ranted about it on minusthebars (and I'm essentially going to say the same thing, so if you've already heard this . . .) I don't like to hop on the trending bandwagon all the time, but after Tucker > read more
Fk5 Holiday Dub Mix
Published on 2010-12-24 06:43:00
D dot Art
Published on 2010-12-22 13:38:00
click me > read more
Sidwell Friends: Deeply Rooted in the American Dream
Published on 2010-12-22 12:58:00
Zartman House "Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." - Chuang-tzu In April 1954, The Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation of D.C. public > read more
Twitoetry 1.0
Published on 2010-12-17 12:41:00
Picasso Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler 1910 Don't show how upset you are now at the 12th hour; show it when it matters; BEFORE the vote, not after! y'all was at home when they were marching & you want to get upset about compromise on > read more
Monkey Suite
Published on 2010-12-11 16:47:00
The "We Don't Know Obama" Meme
Published on 2010-12-11 07:36:00
This "we don't know who Obama is" meme is just stupid. What exactly do you think you know about any other president that you don't know about Obama? He's kinda nerdy, grew up in Hawaii, he's pretty even-keeled; he's written a couple of books; he's gi > read more