Drums in the Global Village

CORRECTIONS and COMMENTS:

Of course I meant “Mandela” at 29:00 and “Project 2025” at 1:56:34! LOLOLOL!!!

Here’s the link to the John Ridley article I mention at 32:36: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a162/esq1206blackessay-108/.

Here’s the Michael Eric Dyson article about Cornel West I mention at 1:19:12: https://tayiabr.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/the-ghost-of-cornel-west-michael-eric-dyson/

And my book review of David Garrow on Obama (42:30; starting at 57:47) is here: https://atlantablackstar.com/2017/06/04/barack-obama-purposely-learned-wrong-lessons-malcolm-x-martin-luther-king/ ; and here’s the middle section that Atlanta Black Star cut out: https://drumsintheglobalvillage.com/2017/06/04/my-atlanta-black-star-review-of-david-garrows-looong-biography-of-barack-obama/

The Democratic activist group I couldn’t remember at 1:42:27 was Organizing for America/Organizing for Action. It was the first term, not the campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizing_for_America

When I started writing this blog, there was no #MCU, the newly revived #DoctorWho was a sick (2026 slang) show, #BlackPanther #TChalla was just a #Marvel comicbook character few people had heard of outside of the #comicbookstore, you could still pay some bills freelancing for a print magazine, #TavisSmiley was relevant and, finally, #YouTube was brand-new and commercial-free (!)

and

this thing called #blogging (now known as #macroblogging) was considered the new rocket taking off, yet another promise of media democratization, marketed as the proletariat-ish vehicle for a new J-generation that would challenge the increasingly de-massifying media elite. Yeah, we know how that turned out. 🙂

And social media (which used to be called #microblogging and, before that, Web 2.0) was just catching on! (I know YouTube is considered social media, but back then I was thinking about #MySpace.) Did you know that Web 3.0 is the engine for #AI?

Because #BabyBoomers were still actively running the Earth, I was still in denial back then that I had aged out of being young. I was still optimistic that the Boomers would all retire and my #GenX/ #hiphopgeneration would not only be running stuff, but on our own terms. I had yet to author a book and I was extremely angry about that. I was using a PC that wasn’t mine.

I was broke then and I’m broke now 🙂 , currently using a laptop that is not mine.

#ToddStevenBurroughs will return for #AvengersDoomsday 🙂

THANKS, Saswat!!!!