Mulatto Moments in “Post Racial” America.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Daydream Obama 08
Carry us up to be received
We’re drinking coffee at 6 a.m.
Newspaper’s trying to scare me to death
But I won’t be pulled (polled?) into fear
Tears rise as I daydream
Will Martin’s Dream soon be fulfilled?
Can you feel?
Carry us up to receive
Cos despair as fate is [...]
There’s no other way to say it. I’ve gone over the top. I’m digging into these Mulatto Moments so much that I saw this – Reinventing Gap: The Second Coming of Khaki – on the New York Times homepage and thought it was going to be a story about racial Khaki beige. I [...]
I’ve just written a piece for an anthology on “the Black Body” where I described the posters of The Who, Queen and Led Zeppelin on my childhood walls in Irvine, CA. But today I was thinking of Isaac Hayes and stumbled across this picture and remembered it hanging on my wall at some point. [...]
A few years ago I’d just turned 21 and had this mulatto moment. I share it with you today on my birthday. I recorded this at Kulak’s Woodshed in North Hollywood.
I’d like to encourage synergy with the Obama campaign, especially around the acceptance event in Denver on the 45th anniversary of [...]