Mr Savage,
      I am so terribly disappointed by your recent editorial slam against Black voters as well as the general backlash against black voters in the aftermath of the passage of prop 8. We are not the enemy here. Bear in mind too that Black and gay are not mutually exclusive categories. It seems like that point has been forgotten in this ( Read more... )

"Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word. It is "maladjusted." Now we all should seek to live a well-adjusted life in order to avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities. But there are some things within our social order to which I am proud to be maladjusted and to which I call on you to be maladjusted. I ( Read more... )

Just when I was complaining about the blandness of my daily commute, things suddenly picked up. Tuesday, during an otherwise uneventful train ride, I felt a pounding bass beat. Imagine the bass from Missy's "Pass That Dutch." Being nosy like I am, I looked up from my book and turned down the iPod. A cypher broke out in the middle of the train! It ( Read more... )

A little Billie Holliday will set your day off right at any rate.
Gimme a Pigfoot & a Bottle of Beer
     Now at least you know that Billie ate pigs feet.

I love my Black self-my Black skin, my Black ass, my big Black mouth, my thick nappy Black hair. I love the feel of the sun on my Black shoulders. I love Black so much that in my own lexicon I have promoted it to a proper noun. I get a small thrill out of contemplating my naked reflection in the mirror ( Read more... )

This week was the epitome of why I hate living here. I need to go and soon ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm losing it. Maybe I never had it. I'm starting to doubt whether or not I have it in me to raise a boy in a world that in many ways is quite hostile to little brown boys soon to be brown men. It isn't even just brown boys, but that there is this undercurrent among some third wave feminists who feel emboldened to express hostility ( Read more... )

     Saul Williams is coming tomorrow! He is performing on campus tomorrow (to)night and it is FREE. Finally there is a high point in this term that is already so dreary that I am too worn out to write about it. I am saving my steam for a very articulate, very irate letter to The Kids' childcare provider, that I will cc to the agency executive ( Read more... )