Something to watch as Black America prepares for the Obama parties. The rest of it can be found in these links.
Category Archives: american history
Any Black Man, Even Handcuffed Like Oscar Grant III, Is Always Dangerous, Police Say Always
Michelle Obama Almost White?
Enjoyed this conversation, and this article. Clearly, some of us (think they) are becoming American. Fascinating.
Asante Sana, Eartha Kitt
A True Example
Many, many activist groups and people try to compare themselves to the now-legendary activists of the (1955-1980) Civil Rights Movement. As someone who’s read a couple of CRM books (and who played a minor role in writing one), I thought this “Democracy Now!” segment served as a tutorial for those who want to legitimately make that claim in the 21st century.
A young man by the name of Tim DeChristopher walked past the “symbolic” protests and actually took direct action that:
a) disrupted, stalled or thwarted the status quo, and
b) met his very specific goal
He wasn’t engaged in the symbolic pouring of blood (or red paint) on a bomb or bomber. He wasn’t trying to “draw attention to the issue.” He wasn’t trying to “generate discussion.” He had a specific activist goal, did his research, found a way to act (courageously) and then acted, accepting some real consequences.
Now THAT’s the CRM I read about. 🙂
A New Pan-Arab Hero :)
Yes, Cast My Vote For…………
……the return of the Federal Writers Project. It’s a great idea. There is SO MUCH documentation of the 20th century left to do professionally, and thousands of unemployed journalists, so there ya go.
Let’s call it the (Studs) Terkel–(Zora Neale) Hurston Writers Project, and get busy right away! C’mon, Obama! Hook up America’s literary class! 🙂
"Forgotten" Harlem Writer-Activist Re-Discovered
Asante Sana to the biographer who did some serious work here on a serious activist-writer. I’m very glad this story is now out.
A Free Man
Required viewing. He makes generations look bad, and that’s good. 🙂
