" I was fascinated by Mitt Romney's honest and thoughtful words in the recent video filmed at a $50,000-a-plate dinner for his donors. And I was sad to hear him say yesterday that he thought he could have expressed himself in a more elegant way. There is nothing more elegant than verse, and so I [...]
Tag: politics
The Beautiful Struggle
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is [...]
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Confusing the Tongues
“every man prays in his own tongue and there is no language that god doesn’t understand.” Duke Ellington
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Culture Jacking
I don't know about this. So I read this article about the history of "African" fabrics and am still thinking (insert Scooby Doo voice here), Huh? Dutch you say? The same Dutch that colonized South Africa? Critics of the side-eye I'm giving to "the "true original" Vlisco will likely argue that the Dutch's main stomping [...]
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Vietnam: The Black Man’s Fight?
Dr. Martin Luther King called the Vietnam Conflict (or War depending on who you ask), a "white man's war" and a "black man's fight." Inasmuch as race is a facet of class (according to me), I might be more inclined to name it the "poor man's fight" with an understanding that "poor" by definition in [...]
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Albert Einstein: Physicist. Genius. Race Man?
It is no secret that J. Edgar Hoover’s F.B.I. kept surreptitious files on individuals and groups considered to be threats to the country’s security—that is, the status quo of have and have-nots. That “security” would be maintained at all costs—lies and murders were not above the measures taken. Among those in the files were African [...]
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Know Samuel Yette? Now You Do.
Samuel F. Yette, 81, a journalist, author and educator who became an influential and sometimes incendiary voice on civil rights, died Jan. 21 at the Morningside House assisted-living facility in Laurel. He had Alzheimer's disease. In a career spanning six decades, Mr. Yette (pronounced "Yet") worked for many news organizations and government agencies and held [...]
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Three Questions for Barack Obama
(reprinted from http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott 21 October 2008) Asking me about my politics or my spirituality is like asking me what color panties I'm wearing. Those are intimate conversations to be had with a very select population. But I was reading a blog by a guy I used to know; he was writing about his skepticism with the election [...]
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