Mulatto Moments in “Post Racial” America.
…and the “baddest genealogy story I’ve ever heard….”
This one cracked me up. I haven’t been paying as much attention to Henry Louis Gates as I might’ve before. But he’s kind of reminding me a bit of Michael Steel with his colloquialisms.
“No matter what laws of segregation, the one thing that DNA shows is that when [...]
I don’t know how these things get started on Facebook, but I got hooked in. Someone started this Doppelgänger week so I thought I’d think about all the arbitrary people I’ve been compared to. Not always physically, but more often than not, yes.
Here’s my post:
A parade of biracial people, black musicians and a surprise.
My Doppelgängers [...]
As in most things media, the headline – “Where’s the Racial Progress Obama Promised?” – distorts the facts. I may be a curmudgeon and think things aren’t great , but when you’re quoting poll numbers that show an increase in the positive numbers, why frame it as a problem? And this is from Liberal friendly [...]
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967 from “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”
Chaos, Community or Solitude?
On the first MLK Day since Barack Obama’s inauguration, I chose solitude to ponder [...]