Someone emailed me the link from a Black beauty pageant and basically said they knew that the day would come when “those names” would be everywhere. Wait just a second Uppity Conservative: America is a complex and intricate tapestry woven from many different fibers; we have various subcultures. While I am a moderate and wouldn’t wear sagging pants [...]
Posts Tagged ‘africa’
Black Beauty, Sagging Pants and Funny Names
Posted in politics, tagged africa, African Americans, Blacks, Obama, rap, sagging pants on August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Senator Isakson in Africa
Posted in African Americans, Georgia, politics, tagged africa, dafur, Isakson, peanuts on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson, a member of the Senate subcommittee on Africa, is visiting the troubled Dafur region of Sudan. I am still surprised that Isakson is one of the most conservative members of the Senate yet serves with a cool listening ear and compassion mindset rather than the vibe of some of his colleagues. [...]
My sister’s email from Africa
Posted in politics, tagged africa, African Americans, church, south africa on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My sister is an engineer with IBM and last week became the first member of my family to step foot on African soil since we arrived in the New World in the hulls of ships. Being a Georgia Tech grad as a proposed to a Black college product like me, she did not know the [...]
Africa, Jill Scott and MLK
Posted in politics, tagged africa, African Americans, bbw, fat, Jill Scott, mlk on April 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Africa and Jill Scott look really good in her new HBO series The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. The relationship between Africans and African Americans can be rocky because many Africans and West Indians view African Americans in a less than favorable light—weak, poor character, crazy, and no morals. To use a term [...]
Mercy and President Bush
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged africa, African Americans, Bush, Obama, toni morrison on December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just finished reading Toni Morrison’s book A Mercy and may I keep it real by saying Nobel Prize or not, I just don’t understand her writing. The book focuses on slavery and indentured servitude in the Americas in the1680s. One good part of the book includes the section “You say you see slaves [...]
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