photo: There’s work at the Post Office!
A line from Hollywood Shuffle. It’s a reminder that there’s always a job somewhere else. Maybe not a better job, but perhaps one you can at least be proud of.
Tagged: race
in DC: America I AM
America I AM: The African American Imprint, currently at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, DC blew me away. It’s an amazing must-see collection of artifacts and items.
TGIF: cheers and jeers
Jeers: File this first one in that category for things you want to say but that you should still give an additional 5-10 seconds of thought before so doing. [Warning, some of the tweets and/or Facebook comments linked in this...
race: she said what?!
It’s only because of who it is, that I’m not foaming at the mouth, but I still couldn’t let this go by without comment. Socially conservative talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger done gone and put her foot in her mouth on the air… again.
headline: Obama disses white guys
No… I’m not making that up. It’s the front page of today’s Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC editions of The Examiner. Really!
thought experiment: “Imagine”
No, this post isn’t about the song, but it is related to questions posed by the song. Tim Wise wrote this post a few days ago and it has since gone viral around both Facebook and the Web-at-large. It proposes a thought experiment…
celebrity: presented without comment
Former/Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich: I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all...
video: “WHOA!” moments
I have been waiting for the DVD to be released so I could finally post just 15 seconds of this episode: [flv:lando_whoa.flv 500 376] There have been quite a few articles, blog entries and videos regarding racism and casual racism...
No Brown Liquor?
Co-worker just told me that the waitress at Cantina Marina told her the management doesn’t serve brown liquor because they’d like to avoid the type of customer it attracts. I don’t go there often, but hope that it was just...
weekend wrap-up: Halloween!
The past few years I’ve been going into Halloween with no real plans, but seeing what comes of the evening. I don’t do costumes unless I’ve been invited to a costume party and I really don’t enjoy going out to...