…..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.
I only watched three, and this was my favorite. 🙂 This is clearly a big thing.
….the folks involved in this enterprise.
…..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.
…..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.
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.
….air this already! “Black Panther” is already airing internationally! How can Australia see this before Any Ghetto, USA? LOL!
And, for those traditionalists among us…. 🙂
Well, that was quick! LOL! I just wrote here that The Negro Bowl was over, and now it’s back—kinda. More like a remix, I guess! LOL! 🙂
I think I got the story straight: Tavis is mad that civil rights leaders visited the White House and asked for nothing. 🙂 Not only that, but they told the press that they were happy they asked for nothing—they really wanted to help the President help everybody. 🙂 Am I being fair here?
So now he and his crew (Dyson and West, et. al.) are supposed to rumble with Jealous, Morial and Sharpton in Chicago, in a pared-down Negro Bowl next month? (Here Smiley and Sharpton discuss the issue in the audio segment here. Shockingly, Sharpton is not treating Smiley as if the PBS host is The Emperor of Holding National Black Meetings. 🙂 ) Do I have this right?
So will a Black agenda come out of allathis, or is this just a way to promote books and broadcast outlets (as usual)? And if one comes out, who will give it to Obama? And would he take it?
MARCH 3rd UPDATE: Glen hits the mark as usual. MARCH 16th UPDATE: And so did Michel. And although I agree with Tavis, I LOVED the below:
Under all of the topics I’ve happily listed under “love to hate,” I must admit that Tavis Smiley’s “State of the Black Union” was at the very top. I am more upset than I thought I’d be with Smiley’s announcement a couple of days back that he is not continuing these annual forums. I think Smiley’s reasoning is a bit, um, punkish. Lemee get this straight: because we now have a few more radio talk show hosts and scores of Black blogs, and because Roland Martin has a Sunday chat show on TV One, we don’t need this annual national meeting of Black thinkers? How much of this has to do with trying to prevent any more nationally broadcast Black criticism of Barack Obama, since it did damage to the Tavis brand in the past?
I wonder what will rise up to replace it. Something must. We just can’t have 1,000 blogs and websites. We’ve had a lot of national (public) meetings over the years, but nothing stuck like this (corporate and conservative) one. Of course, if we had a movement, we would be meeting all the time. And doing things. Now Obama’s presidency is a marker to have no movement, and too many people are okay with that. It might just be up to small groups to hold (upside down) the flag.
JANUARY 15th UPDATE: A much better version of what I was trying to say here is here.
And now, this:
The tearjerker point of “The End of Time” for me was Rose telling him it was time for him to go—before she ever met him! Allons-y, indeed! Yes, the two-parter suffered from the usual Russell T. Davies over-the-topness. Really, the whole story was just filling time for the last 20 minutes. And what a 20 minutes it was! Saying goodbye to characters I have known for five years now was/is/will not be easy. Yes, in years to come there will be dozens of novels, audio stories, etc., but it won’t be the same.
I can’t put into words how much I will miss David Tennant in this role. I’m glad he left, though; he will be a big Hollywood star soon, and he has to get out of the TARDIS to do that.
I will watch Matt Smith one day, but not today and not tomorrow. I will miss my soon-to-be cancelled subscription to Doctor Who Magazine. I will miss Rose, Martha, Donna (easily the best companion of the new series, and possibly one of the best ever) et. al. I will miss buying all of those Doctor Who comics starrting Ten(nant). And I will miss spending those weekends sneaking onto youtube to illegally watch my alltime favorite show of the last decade. No, Doctor and Donna, “I didn’t want to go,” either. *SNIFF* 😦
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