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The Last Word On………
The Movement and/versus Obama. I agree with Mary Frances Berry here; the Movement will return the day after Obama leaves office.
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What can I say? This and this took care of it for me.
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If making $400,000 a day is the end product of a cursed production and a train-wreck-in-the-making, I want to produce one! LOL! 🙂
(By the way, here is the “Spider-Man musical” from my childhood. Ah, the early 1970s…. You opened up the LP and followed the story with comicbook images.)
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Really enjoyed this film. Some critics dogged it for being too traditional, but as someone who grew up with old-timey 1950s and 1960s adventure films, what’s wrong with a film in that spirit? Too bad the remaining books in the series don’t deal with the main cast, so between that and the weak box office, I guess that’s it.
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For fans only.
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Well, she only owns half, but when you don’t have to put up the money…… 🙂 And I guess this had to be said. But I think that in the 21st century, we can be sophisticated enough to thank Oprah for her consistent (albeit often-controversial) contributions to Black CULTURE, and separate that from the products she produces for her audience, i.e., white women. Oprah has never been committed to Black MEDIA, and 25 years is a long time to complain about that.
Understanding Him, Finally (II)
Hmmm….(And I thought the President quoting from Spider-Man was amusing…..)
And even Mumia complimented him!
Ask, Now Tell?
[col. writ. 12/10/10] (c) ’10 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The repeal of the Clinton-era relic, ‘Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell’
has marked the second time that President Barack Obama has
passed a bill that Bill Clinton couldn’t when he was
president.The first, of course, was the Health Care act; the ‘Don’t
Ask – Don’t Tell’ policy repeal was the second.In spite of the wars abroad and the sad state of the U.S.
economy (not to mention the drubbing his party took in the
mid-terms,), Obama has adroitly turned negatives into
positives.The repeal of DADT wasn’t really on the radar until after
the the mid-term elections, perhaps because Democrats didn’t
want to face a wave of hit ads branding them as liberal
activists for supporting repeal. After the losses of
November there was nothing else to lose.But while one powerful Democratic constituency, gays and
lesbians, pulled off an upset, the same couldn’t be said for
another constituency; Hispanics.Although the nation’s fastest growing minority, they didn’t
have the muscle of gays and lesbians, who let the
administration know they were not happy.Now, for want of 5 senatorial votes, the DREAM Act was lost.
It’s quite unlikely that a Republican House will move such
and immigration -friendly bill forward.That said, Obama has proven himself and adept politician,
able to move when seemingly stymied.–(c) ’10 maj
JANUARY 14th UPDATE: Here’s a more positive view, from the predictable place.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Barack Obama Is Luke Skywalker | ||||
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A Belated "Thank You" To Kojo Nnamdi……
Still Not Ready To Watch It Yet………
…….but I did like this summary of “Doctor Who”‘s fifth season, even though I understand very little of it.
Asante Sana, Ronald Walters
I will always remember Ronald Walters as a brother who treated me as seriously as he treated someone from, say, The New York Times. I will also remember that he directly served Black people and (only) wrote 10 books, instead of indirectly serving Black people and writing 20 books.
SEPTEMBER 14 UPDATE: Here is must-listen radio show on Walters.
A Great Story……..
…..told extraordinarily well. Radio used properly.
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton wrote and broadcasted her but off this past week. God Bless Her, and Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika!
Rape And Abuse of African Women? Not In Michelle Obama's "Brand"
From Eve Ensler’s piece in The Guardian:
…….despite the ongoing horrific atrocities that have taken the lives of more than 6 million people and left more than 500,000 women and girls raped and tortured, the international power elite appear to be doing nothing. They have essentially written off the DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo] and its people, even after continued visits and promises.The day is late. It is almost 13 years into this war. The Obama administration, as in most situations these days, refuses to take a real stand. Several months ago I visited the White House to meet a high official to engage the first lady in our efforts to end sexual violence in Congo, believing that her solidarity would galvanise attention and action. I was told, essentially, that femicide was not her “brand”. Mrs Obama, I was told, was focusing on childhood obesity.
It surprised me that a woman with her capabilities lacked ambidextrous skills (or was it simply interest and will that was absent?). Then we have Secretary Clinton, who at least after much pressure visited the DRC almost a year ago, and made promises that actually meant a huge deal to the people. They were excited that the US government might finally prioritise building the political will in the Great Lakes region to end the war there. But, of course, they are still waiting. And then there is the UN. The anaemic and glacial pace and the death-like bureaucracy continue to allow and, in the case of Monuc and the security council, even help facilitate a deathly regional war.
From Amy Goodman’s interview:
AMY GOODMAN: Who did you speak to at the White House?
EVE ENSLER: I don’t want—well, I spoke to Valerie Jarrett, actually. And I was hoping that she would really enlist Michelle Obama in our struggle. And I was hoping that this administration would be enlisted in this struggle. It just seems to me, where women are being raped, where these kind of atrocities are occurring, it is the worst violence in the world towards women right now. And when you allow that kind of violence to proliferate, when you, in the collective unconscious of the world, say it’s OK to rape 500,000 women—8,000 women have already been raped this year. That’s reported rapes. Most women live in the bush, and they can’t report those rapes. When you as a government, when you as a world, when you as an international body, license those kind of rapes, you will see the spread of that everywhere in the world. We saw it in the Kenyan riots. We saw it in the stadium in—was it—no Ghana, in Guinea, where—we’re just seeing this proliferation now as rape as a tool.
Sad. Disgraceful.
Drums in the Global Village 