A story from my Dad's childhood, I originally meant to mention in my MLK post from earlier todayMy Dad told me that when he was a kid and he went to the movies, if the whites only section wasn't filled, he and his friends would leave the colored section and go and watch the movie down there. He snuck down someplace he wasn't supposed to be ( Read more... )

Every year on this day I link to the singular thing that I am most proud of writing in my time here on LJ, On Discussing the Issue of Race/Racism. I encourage you to read it not simply because much of Dr. King's legacy is on how we approach the topic of race, but as we tend to have this discussion about the subject today, I think it helps put ( Read more... )

What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
-MLK

Every year I make a MLK day observance in my LJ, usually in the form ( Read more... )

Good Morning one and all. How are you guys today ( Read more... )

Good Morning everybody. How are you this fine SUPER FRIDAY ( Read more... )

40 years of diversity makes Sesame Street a unique destination

Beyond being in sync with the racial realities of young children who have not yet been corrupted by their parents' color-bound politics, Sesame Street modeled the kind of racial idealism we should continually strive for. In Sesame Street's diverse neighborhood, characters always asked ( Read more... )

Been there.

Felt this.

Wasn't allowed to buy the t-shirt.

*Thanks ginamariewade.

This guy: A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

The key point of his commentary that I think everyone needs to hear/read... It's not the KKKers and Nazis, the blatant, in-your-face, forms of oppressive, humiliation, and denigration ( Read more... )

- The KNIGHT LIFE -

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A history of African-American-Targeted Advertising

Arsenio Hall (who like me was born on 2/12) used to have a joke about this subject in his stand up act.

To paraphrase...McDonald's commercials ( Read more... )