Posts Tagged ‘Culture’

Canadian Aboriginals need justice, not tributes

The 2010 winter Olympics kicked off in Vancouver, British Columbia with its opening ceremonies on Friday, February 12, 2010. Being perhaps one of the least athletically-minded people on the planet, I wasn’t even aware the ceremonies were happening until comments started flooding my Twitter timeline....

February 16th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

On John Mayer’s ‘Hood Pass’: A moment of clarity

“Clarity” is one of my favorite John Mayer songs, and given the troubling comments in his forthcoming interview with Playboy Magazine, a little clarity is what we all need. Mayer’s broad cross-over appeal has been construed by some as a “hood pass.” Laudably if inelegantly, he rejects such...

February 16th, 2010 | Culture, Pop culture | Read More

Does British Columbia only want White tourists?

In the weeks leading up to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), Tourism British Columbia released a new commercial it spent millions of dollars on in order to promote tourism in the province. The fact that most of the world already knew the 2010 winter Olympics were being held there...

February 15th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

I am truly scared for my Black husband

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. – George Orwell Last year, at a Town hall meeting in New Orleans, a young African-American boy asked President Obama, “Why do people hate you? And...

February 12th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

When racism flag waving becomes a petty sport

Originally posted on Another Country I‘ll admit that I am exhausted with the topic of race. This is not to say that I agree that we have entered into a mythical post-racial society, but the discussion is so rife with poor judgment calls, poor assessments, and bull-horn bullying that I’ve begun to...

February 11th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

The pink elephant in the room: domestic violence in the Black community

Growing up in a home where tempers and rage often led to domestic disputes, I feel personally connected to the anxiety a woman feels when she is maliciously attacked and trapped in a deadly situation. Unfortunately, I have witnessed a hand full of women repeatedly fall prey to their violent and manipulative...

February 11th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

The cost of being single and childfree

It’s apparently more cost efficient to be married than it is to be single. Well, perhaps not in all cases, but there does seem to be benefits that are pretty good and, so far, largely unattainable for single people. Though many have delved into the financial pros and cons of being married versus single,...

February 11th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

The African American

An Open Poem Response to Smokey Robinson Smokey Robinson’s original poem There’s no shame in taking on another new name Because each new identity increases our game Sojourner Truth Frederick Douglass Ntozake, Amiri B. Malcolm X, Martin Luther and Assata, you see? But you don’t understand That...

February 10th, 2010 | Creative Writing, Culture, Featured, The Arts | Read More

“Belinda’s Petition” a perfect primer on the subject of reparations

The timing of my reading Belinda’s Petition: A Concise History of Reparations For The Transatlantic Slave Trade by Dr. Raymond A. Winbush (2009) coinciding with Black History Month was completely random, but obviously fitting. Back in December 2009, I shot an interview with Dr. Winbush for my documentary...

February 8th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

God complex: Indian victimhood and the liberals who love it part 1

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” The Statue Of Liberty. And Native Americans. My dude, Nish Chad, brought up an interesting theory to me. Bringing up interesting thoughts to me is not unusual, mind you, since...

February 3rd, 2010 | Featured | Read More

‘We Are The World’: 25th Anniversary remake

“I know that [Lionel Richie] has been asked like 150-something times to redo ‘We Are the World’ and he said no to everything until this Haiti thing happened. The moment he saw that it happened he was like, OK, ‘We Are the World.’ And to be one of the people they called to have fresh input to...

February 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

Teatro Nopalero: Seeking social change, justice and consciousness through theater

A group of young activist actors bring forth a theatrical approach to deal with social issues at the grassroots level. Phoenix, Arizona, February 1, 2010 – In the context of Arizona’s legislation and crackdown on undocumented immigration, Teatro Nopalero emerges as a developing alternative to...

February 2nd, 2010 | Culture, Featured, The Arts | Read More

Yea…I’m still checking African-American

John McWhorter Just when you think John McWhorter has gained a modicum of sense — or at least clarity — since the election of Barack Obama, you read something like this. McWhorter’s basic argument is that African Americans — the ethnic group of people in the United States who...

January 29th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

EDITORIAL: Obama’s speech addressed several categories of people and communities except race and ethnicity

What a long, strange year it’s been. A year that began with the loud insistence by some that Barack Obama’s election confirmed the United States as an essentially colorblind, post-racial nation went on to present a series of spectacular counterpoints to that claim – flaps over Attorney General...

January 28th, 2010 | Featured, State of the Union | Read More