Okay, all the hatin' over the BET Awards show is really getting silly. Don't like BET? Then work on changing the culture FIRST. If you can change the culture, you will decrease demand for what you feel misrepresents Black folks. Do it the other way around, and more "BETs" will pop up. Need an example? Some of y'all may remember back in the day when local churches would stage protests in front of local porn shops. Did they manage to get a few of them shut down? Sure did. But how did the porn industry respond to meet demand? They moved ...
I think many of us knew that it would not take long for folks to suddenly act as if they have been ardent Michael Jackson supporters for years. Jackson was hammered repeatedly by critics for allegedly being ashamed of being Black due to all the plastic surgery and the mysterious lightening of his skin. Black folks slammed him on this and White folks were given full and complete license to also question his racial identity and joke about it. Then I remember what Jamie Foxx said the other day at the BET Awards show: "Michael Jackson was a black ...
I think a lot of us saw that coming from a mile away. From AdAge.com RushmoreDrive.com, the first black search engine, recently shut down only a year after its launch. This raised the question about whether there is a market for a black version of Google. Rushmore Drive was the brainchild of Barry Diller's IAC, which just reported a "first-quarter net loss of $28.4 million compared to a profit of $52.8 million in the same quarter a year ago." Too bad. Rushmore's failure is not only another negative statistic from the fallout of the economic downturn, but also from questionable planning. (more...) Kevin Walker, ...
From townhall.com "Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he’s declined to comment. University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a “perv dad for fun.” The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted ...
Ever since the uprising in Iran over their recent elections, Americans have been somewhat mixed over if President Obama should move beyond his rather light and empty rhetoric over the situation. Some have insisted that the cry for democracy in Iran is none of our business and that the US should stop "meddling" in the affairs of another country, like Bush did. Apparently Somalia wasn't included in that memo. U.S. Has Sent 40 Tons of Munitions to Aid Somali Government washingtonpost.com The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past ...
We as Americans are always making choices that suit our own personal needs. Yet we have a government that is constantly wanting to be our bossy big brother telling us that he knows what's best for us. This is clearly seen in the food sector.
Back in '06, the government leaned on food establishments and recommended them to cut down food portions. Customers responded.
“We had competitors who shrank portion sizes, and ...More
Okay, all the hatin' over the BET Awards show is really getting silly. Don't like BET? Then work on changing the culture FIRST. If you can change the culture, you will decrease demand for what you feel misrepresents Black folks. Do it the other way around, and more "BETs" will pop up.
Need an example? Some of y'all may remember back in the day when local churches would stage protests ...More
I think many of us knew that it would not take long for folks to suddenly act as if they have been ardent Michael Jackson supporters for years. Jackson was hammered repeatedly by critics for allegedly being ashamed of being Black due to all the plastic surgery and the mysterious lightening of his skin. Black folks slammed him on this and White folks were given full and complete license ...More
There has been a lot of pomp since the election of Barack Obama that we were going to see "volunteerism" and "giving back" reach unprecedented levels. Obama made volunteerism a centerpiece in his campaign and since being elected has kicked off a website (serve.gov) that points potential volunteers to opportunities where they can serve their government. The First Lady just kicked off a summer initiative in San Francisco to encourage ...More
I think a lot of us saw that coming from a mile away.
From AdAge.com
RushmoreDrive.com, the first black search engine, recently shut down only a year after its launch. This raised the question about whether there is a market for a black version of Google.
Rushmore Drive was the brainchild of Barry Diller's IAC, which just reported a "first-quarter net loss of $28.4 million compared to a profit of $52.8 million ...More
"According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in an analysis performed by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, African immigrants here were more likely to be college educated than any other immigrant group. Not only that, but African immigrants are also more highly educated than any other native-born ethnic group including white Americans. (Gasp) The 48.9% of all African immigrants that have earned a college degree is slightly ...More
And here is your sad example.
Women seeking: A man like Barack Obama
Have you found your Barack? President is new code for Prince Charming
NEW YORK - Monica Weeks has met many men, but at age 51 she says she still hasn't found her "Barack."
Among Weeks and her friends, President Barack Obama's name has become shorthand for a black man with integrity, character and spirituality, one who loves and values his wife ...More
From townhall.com
"Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he’s declined to comment.
University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat ...More
Ever since the uprising in Iran over their recent elections, Americans have been somewhat mixed over if President Obama should move beyond his rather light and empty rhetoric over the situation. Some have insisted that the cry for democracy in Iran is none of our business and that the US should stop "meddling" in the affairs of another country, like Bush did.
Apparently Somalia wasn't included in that memo.
U.S. Has Sent ...More
The stimulus spend-a-thon was nothing more than one big PR stunt to convince folks that the government can single-handedly create jobs where their was no market demand. Foolishly, too many people stood in line for this kool-aide to top all other kool-aides only to find out it was nothing more than flavorless, colored sink water.
Black Contractors Say Stimulus Isn't Providing Jobs
chicagopublicradio.org
A nine-mile stretch of the Bishop Ford Freeway is ...More
