Tastes Like Chicken

8 Feb
2010

Nearly 17,000 chemicals remain corporate secrets – even the EPA doesn’t know what they are

Something About Europe And Black Soccer Players

8 Feb
2010

U.S. soccer player DaMarcus Beasley’s car is firebombed in Scotland

Other…

The Ugly Game
Spain Fights Soccer Racism Against Black Players

Corruption And Child Slavery Are The Norm In Haiti, But…

8 Feb
2010

…keep the cameras exclusively on the White people who allegedly were stealing children.

Haiti protesters denounce aid corruption, hoarding

Chocolate (City) With Cream On Top

8 Feb
2010

New Orleans elects first white mayor since 1978

Help! I’m Trapped Under This Rock, But I Need A Diverse Team To Pull Me Out.

8 Feb
2010

Dear Secretary Clinton:

As you know, the 42 member Congressional Black Caucus met with Rajiv Shah, the Administrator of the U.S. AID yesterday to discuss the crisis in Haiti. I was alarmed and chagrined to learn that none of the approximately dozen staff he brought with him were African American. This is so serious an error in judgement that it warrants his immediate demotion to a subordinate position at AID. It is well known that there has long been an under-representation of minorities in key positions within the State Department. I am confident this Administration will immediately begin addressing this problem.

I look forward to meeting with you on this matter.

Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Member of Congress

I guess Conyers hasn’t taken into consideration that it would be helpful if they could speak French.

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Can’t Make It In America? Right!

6 Feb
2010

“Christine Beatty and Kilpatrick both lied under oath about their extra-marital affair, which included thousands of explicit text messages.”

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“Beatty served 70 days in prison and owes the city of Detroit $100,000 in restitution. She served as Kilpatrick’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2008.

Beatty, 39, reportedly has a new consulting job in Atlanta, where she will live with her two daughters, according to Detroit newspapers.” (more…)

Lied under oath. Served 70 days in prison. Owes the city of Detroit 100 grand. Is a Black woman.
And she still manages to secure a job.

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Imperfect Bodies

6 Feb
2010


The show Project Runway gives us some insight into how some top fashion designers just can’t handle designing for the average woman.

“The women had all suffered from heart issues, and to their faces, the designers were nothing but sugar and cream. But after they left, the contestants’ true feelings emerged. “She’s got a real full figure, I’m going to try to slim her,” said Jesse, looking scared. “Julie needs to look taller,” said Jay. Anna must “break up” her client’s body shape, and JaneJane basically imploded at the thought of having to make a garment for someone other than an emaciated teenager. “These women aren’t 34-25-35. So to make a gala-worthy gown in ten hours is daunting,” she said.

Read more: The Project Runway Designers Have to Work With Real Women

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When Racism Becomes Trivial

5 Feb
2010

NBC Cafeteria Celebrates Black History Month With Fried Chicken Special

Celebrating Black History Month with fried chicken and collard greens?

So what? I’ll eat ‘em.

In fact, most Black folks eat soul food.

How is it that all other ethnic foods can be celebrated freely and openly, but the moment someone mentions “fried chicken”, there’s this 4th grade “ooooooooooOOOOO , you’re gonna get it” that hits the room?

Black folks (and Whites) who feed into this ridiculous paranoia do no favors for the Black race. Why? Because it perpetuates this notion that we are one collective bundle of nerves that need constant tender loving care and a social baby blanket by our side. To have reached the level where it has become taboo to mention and celebrate the foods we eat is just sad and sickening. Political correctness does us no favors here. It just leaves a lot of people hungry for the foods they really want.

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I opened it, read it. It said I was a sucka…

4 Feb
2010

SUCKA

This Black Kid Goes Well With My Purse

4 Feb
2010

And to think it used to be “That Black kid TOOK my purse.”

Children Are Not Bling

The only thing I don’t get about this article is while the writer is chewing out Americans (White Americans) for not considering Black children here in the US first for adoption, she later admits that she was guilty of the same thing not too long ago. In fact, states:

“Unfortunately, Ghana frowns on single women adopting male children so I’ve now made the commitment to pay the $12 dollars a year it takes to keep him in school and to increase his monthly allotment of sandals, lollipops, and bubbles.”

I do agree with her general point about this sudden interest in Black kids from overseas becoming a hot item, but her very same arguments can clearly be used against her.
AND NEWSWEEK PUBLISHED HER!!!!!

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Random Links (2/4/10)

4 Feb
2010

African American Astronauts Seek to Add New Chapter to Black History

Captian Black to the rescue

“theGrio’s 100: History Makers in the Making”

Blogs Becoming A Thing Of The Past?

3 Feb
2010

“A new study published today by Pew Internet finds that teens and young adults are blogging less and using social networking sites more, with the prominent exception of Twitter.” (more…)

This was an interesting read because I, too have noticed that the days of reading long commentaries are numbered. Quick and to the point is becoming the way to go these days.

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