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Is It In Any Way Ironic…….
…..that Conan is displacing Lopez, moving him to midnight?
No? Oh, because Lopez is a **** and should be lucky to have white people give him a show and a major white lead-in on a kinda-major cable television network so he can make as much money for them as possible?
Oh, okay, just checking. 🙂
Congrats, Mumia………
…..for getting your blog and getting significant (all day?) Pacifica Network coverage on your upcoming 56th birthday. And I’m really happy about this weekend’s C-SPAN “Book TV” event for “Jailhouse Lawyers.” You have not been forgotten in the Age of Obama.
If only you could access any of it. And if only you didn’t need any of it.
So Which Is Your Favorite Tiger-Earl Parody Ad?
I only watched three, and this was my favorite. 🙂 This is clearly a big thing.
I'm Proud To Know…….
….the folks involved in this enterprise.
I Fully Admit That…….
…..as “Captain Planet” homages go 🙂 , I thoroughly enjoyed “Blackest Night.” (I even have a Blue Lantern Corps ring and button.) I would have switched the colors of what represented “life” and “death,” though. 🙂 I would have loved this even more if it had an actual ending, instead of a transition into the next storyline.
My Search For Chocolate Thunder
Really enjoyed this. I was supposed to have been looking for the comic for years. Come to find out the company never made one, so it made this short instead. Good move.
Congratulations To……..
……my nephew, Andrew Burroughs Jr., for having his film be placed on Netflix.
July 6th UPDATE: And here’s a review and an interview with the filmmaker.
Congratulations To…….
…..C-SPAN for putting its entire archive—more than 160,000 hours—online!
“Charlie Rose” recently put all of its interviews online. A growing trend I’m happy about.
Are you paying attention, Mr. Noble? 🙂 We need all 40 years online, not just these samples which will be gone in a month.
Aftermaths (Or, Tavis Smiley, Black Nationalist)
I almost don’t know what to say here. I saw the Negro Cup-of-Soup (it was too downscale to be called a Negro Bowl), and I dunno. Tavis Smiley said we needed a Black agenda, and he wrote one, right? So why did they/we have to meet? Couldn’t they/we have just presented President Obama with a copy of The Covenant and called it a day? I mean, didn’t one of the panelists basically say that Obama was doing some stuff from that list? At least, what he was going to do for all Americans, since that’s his public bag.
(And it’s not like a lot of people didn’t see all this coming. *SIGH*)
It’s funny to me that Smiley, a preacher’s kid from Indiana, is now holding the torch for 21st century Black nationalism. Again, not sure what to do with that. 🙂
On that topic, happy that Smiley is telling the truth about Martin Luther King vs. Obama. And I like that he has the resources (money, PBS platform) to say what needed to be said.
Meanwhile, in post-health-care-victory America, hate media continues to be on the march against the centrist Obama. Who is a proxy—target?—for all people of color. Who will one day (like, tomorrow or the day after) be the racial majority in America. White fright, fright night. So now what? I dunno.
P.S. I don’t think this kind of thing really helps anything but Republicans, since they will use it to create a (false) sense of victim balance.
P.P.S. This sure reads good. I hope it’s true. And my Morgan colleague, Dr. Greg Adamo, called Obama’s student loan law “single-payer for college students.” Again, hope so.
Drums in the Global Village 
