“You Smell Like Dinner”…and Sweet White Womanhood: True Blood S4 E2 Roundtable

"Therein lies Sookie’s dilemma–submit to ownership and be 'protected' or risk the consequences of being 'untrue.'"




"Ah True Blood. We hate that we love you. This week’s roundtable – featuring Amber Jones, Alea Adigweme, Jordan St.John, myself and Kendra Pettis – had quite a bit to say on the usual suspects. Laffyette’s growing Orientalism and our mistrust of Jesus; more speculation about Tara’s boo thang; a few cackles about poor, paranoid Arlene (who, may in fact be right); and the evolving Jessica-Hoyt saga. But what shocked us all is how much time we spent talking about Sookie – who has recently realized her privileged status is in danger after her year long absence." Read Here

GREAT READ.

Stranded: The stateless Haitians

"For many Haitians fleeing dictators and poverty at home and looking for work in the cane fields, the Dominican Republic has long been a refuge. However, possibly a million Haitians or people of Haitian ancestry are now being affected by the adoption of a new law concerning citizenship in the Dominican Republic. Many descendants of Haitian workers living in the Dominican Republic could face deportation to Haiti or be forced to live outside the law, with no legal status in the country.

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Sonia Pierre, a Dominican human rights activist, says the changes in Dominican citizenship laws have made hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent, in effect, stateless. She points to a landmark international court decision in 2005 calling on the Dominican government to end its discrimination against this population. But the government did the opposite - it hardened its policies and began retroactively withdrawing citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent.

Claiming that it is only trying to "clean up" its civil registry rolls, the government now systematically refuses to issue identity documents to Dominicans of Haitian descent. Officials often deny these documents because someone has a Haitian-sounding last name or "looks" Haitian.

Sonia Pierre's organisation, the Movement of Dominican-Haitian Women (MUDHA), has documented thousands of cases where the government is systematically denying rights to Dominicans of Haitian ancestry. Those affected come from all walks of life - schoolteachers, lawyers, community organisers, doctors, entertainers, caregivers, students, and military officers. Now these people are in danger of becoming stateless in the country of their birth and residency." Read More

Black & White & Red All Over (1997)

I have no idea why my mother and aunt allowed me to watch this movie with them, but that openness is the type of stuff that I am grateful for.



"No, the six black friends hanging out together in a Boston apartment over a Thanksgiving weekend, watching television, drinking beer and smoking "blunts", are not waiting for Godot, although it sometimes feels that way. The characters in their 20's who inhabit ''Black and White and Red All Over'' are caught up in a wave of black-on-black violence that is receiving sporadic coverage on a local television station. Exactly how they are connected to these events is revealed only in bits and pieces as the story unfolds. Even by the end of the movie, much is still unexplained.

Set in the near future, the film, directed and written by DeMane Davis, Harry McCoy and Khari Streeter, has the style of a semi-improvised docudrama. Drenched in a mood of ominous claustrophobia, it evokes a black urban society so caught up in lethal turf wars that at times the apartment seems like a bunker. Most of the crucial events in the drama take place offscreen.


The movie has flashes of grim humor. One scene is photographed from the point of view of a "blunt" that the characters are passing around. When they talk back to the continuously playing television, their banter about the programming, particularly on the Black Entertainment Network, has a bitterly funny edge." Read More

Black?

Dellusions of Grandeur. The funny part is the 1st girl's whole style is "black". I blame the parents tho.

Peace to the ones at the end tho.

Oh You Comfy Huh?

"Somewhere under all those papers on that table is a reserved sign flipped over on it’s face. That’s right, these folks just waltzed right up into the reserved area and straight Deebo’d a table. Then I looked across the room and witnessed a late-middle aged White woman sit down at the birthday cake table. The cake said Happy Birthday on it and took up damn near half the table for fucks sake. Then a White guy walked past the wine selection in white socks and sandals.



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This evidence would suggest that a good number of White people are simply… comfortable." Read More

Oscar nominations an all-white affair

"Setting aside the more obscure, technical categories, when it comes to the best picture award along with the major nominations for acting, writing and directing, there are, ahem, zero people of colour in the Oscar race this year.

There are so few significant African-American characters in any of the 10 films nominated for best picture that comedian Aziz Ansari did a bit about it at the Producers Guild Awards Saturday night, wondering why there couldn't have been at least one black kid checking his Facebook account in The Social Network, adding that things were so white that in 127 Hours, when James Franco's hiker character cuts off his arm, it doesn't even turn black.

It's hard not to notice how few minorities had any visible roles in this year's most lauded films. The Social Network offers us a virtually lily-white Harvard; The Fighter is set in an oh-so-white, blue-collar Boston neighbourhood; The King's Speech depicts an all-white, upper-crust, 1930s-era London; Toy Story 3, like most Pixar films, is set in a fantasy suburbia without any obvious references to minorities; and True Grit takes us back to the Old West, where the only black faces I can remember seeing are that of a manservant and a stable boy.

And if you're wondering about lead actor nominee Javier Bardem, he's from Spain." Read More

Billion Dollar Fence...ew well.

" Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday canceled the controversial virtual fence along the U.S. border with Mexico, citing technical problems, cost overruns and schedule delays since its inception in 2005.

The Secure Border Initiative-network, a high-tech surveillance system to reduce border smuggling, so far has cost taxpayers almost $1 billion for two regions in Arizona, covering just 53 miles overall on the 2,000-mile border, according to a homeland security report." Read More

Currently Reading...

i dont think i've ever done this before, but why not...

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia



"Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels. The book remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 187 weeks" - Wikipedia

so far this book has been a pleasure, but i've just reached "India". Ill keep you posted as i continue.



From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews



"Ralph Windsor, sets forth in fascinating detail the history, from earliest recorded times, of the black races of the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Windsor's discussion of Islamic civilization and the movement of the black Hebrews to all parts of Africa is edifying and absorbing." - africanbookstore.net

a friend of mine let me borrow this book. I've very excited because this particular book was always around during my childhood, but I never read it. Honestly, I still haven't cracked it open yet, but I plan to do so this week :) Thanx Friend.



Behold A Pale Horse



ummmm im not sure i should even mention that im reading this but...fuck it. and google it. that's it.



Mulatto America: At the Crossroads of Black and White Culture: A Social History



"While the volume examines the impact of light-skinned entertainers such as Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge, as well as sexy, silky-voiced crooners Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke and other black notables who used the blending of black and white to their own advantage, Mulatto America also documents the adaptation of black culture by whites a social appropriation that has given rise to modern icons like Eminem. Talty, a journalist who has written for The New York Times Magazine and the Chicago Review, delivers an intelligent and accessible analysis of race in this country with Mulatto America." - bookpage.com

I randomly bought this book today at the CPCC bookstore. The name intrigued me, so I bought it. I'll keep you posted.

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Mac Miller - Don't Mind If I Do

y are the white rappers the ones making the real hip hop lately???

very pleasant.

Your Black is Beautiful

"What is beauty? who determines what attractive looks like? these are questions that have plagued society (primarily women) for ages. For as long as I could remember being considered beautiful held almost as much importance as breathing. Some may say that is an exaggeration but given all the things women do to be considered beautiful I would say that it’s an understatement. Women of all racial backgrounds go to the most ridiculous lengths to meet a standard of beauty that is virtually unattainable. Growing up being pretty was at the forefront of everything, the pretty girls got all the attention the pretty girls appeared to have the most fun…this has not changed and if anything it has gotten worse. Every race has their own standard beauty, physical qualities that some races treasure others discard as natural deformities that have to be fixed." - READ MORE

What Ninja???

o_0...

the one in the hat cute tho lol

Iiiii Likkkke BIG...

my home girl Tiff showed me this the other day and i thot it was awesomeness.

of course its just another marketing scheme, but thats the world we live in. and at least we are considered worth trying to swindle *kanye shrug*

anyways, too all u Big Booty Judy's, this ones for u ;) *smacks ur ass and says "ur welcome"*

Black or biracial? Census forces a choice for some...

"There were 784,764 U.S. residents who described their race as white and black in the last census. But that number didn't include Laura Martin, whose father is black and mother is white.

'I've always just checked black on my form," said Martin, a 29-year-old university employee in Las Vegas. She grew up surrounded by black family and friends, listening to black music and active in black causes — "So I'm black.'" Read More

Yellow Fever! The Definitive History of Asian Men Dating Outside Their Race

"Yellow Fever! The Definitive History of Asian Men Dating Outside Their Race
3:01 pm | Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
It’s no secret that everybody lusts after Asian women—just visit the streets of any major city, or Nic Cage’s crib, or this very web site (here, here, or here, for starters). So yellow fever is nothing new, but the miscegenasian has historically been one-sided: non-Asian men looking to fulfill their fetishes of submissive, exotic geisha-types. Get in where you fit in, fetishizers—but whither the Asian man? Unfortunately, the only sexual stereotype of our yellow brethren is decidedly negative (word to Ken Jeong’s nude scene in The Hangover), and there are only a handful (pause) of famous Asian men in America that might turn slant-eyeds from zeroes to heroes." Read More