Category Archives: american history
Black Sheroes
And I’m One Year Too Late…..
….to know about this film!
I’m One Year Late…….
…..in celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Daughters of the Dust.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal Talks To “Smiley and West”
Powerful interviews with Stephen Vittoria and with Mumia. I especially liked Mumia’s comments about Black America post-Obama.
“The Dark Knight Returns,” Parts One and Two…….
Why Didn’t Tonto Just Kill The Lone Ranger?
I have to confess that I’ve watched a lot of “The Lone Ranger” in the last month or so, including and especially the two original-cast movies. To justify this, I keep thinking of why Tonto is so helpful. Is it because he gets to beat up white people? Is it because, in my mind, he kills the Lone Ranger in the end when he realizes the white-eyes will take all his people’s land? Would he like that in the 21st century a white boy who is using the one-drop rule to an extreme will be playing him this year? Tonto speaks to me, but not in broken English.
Still Waiting For…….
Congrats To…….
….. “The Spook Who Sat By The Door,” because it made the National Film Registry!
I learned this while watching “Black Orpheus,” which seems appropriate for some reason…..
MY “Person Of The Year”………
…..is Time magazine’s first runner-up. (And look at her lifetime achievement award.) Why pick Obama? Just lazy? A guaranteed way to sell the magazine at the nation’s 7-11s and supermarkets? The bliss white boys at newsweeklies feel being right next to power and documenting its every sneeze before retiring and teaching two days a week for six figures at an Ivy League school? Or an instance of whites attempting to educate other whites about the “new” America. Yawn……
FEBRUARY 5th UPDATE:
