Archives for October 2006
..but Jesus had an Afro
Published on 12 Oct 2006 at 11:50 pm.
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Filed under black culture, spirituality, black image.
“Does is matter what color Jesus Christ was?” This was one of the questions from our Roundtable discussion last week. There were a wide range of responses, but I want to focus on one of the main points. Regardless of Jesus’ “color” or “race” the Bible states very clearly-Jesus had hair of wool. I.E. nappy […]
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Does Diversity Do Damage?
Published on 11 Oct 2006 at 1:01 pm.
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Filed under racism, academia, mainstream culture.
A recently-released study by renowned Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam is causing somewhat of a stir on account of its suggestion that diversity may not be the unvarnished social blessing we sometimes make it out to be. Putnam looked specifically at ethnic diversity in a number of contexts and concluded that the more integrated the […]
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Stop Freaking Out About Hate Speech
Published on 9 Oct 2006 at 2:07 pm.
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Filed under racism, academia.
The story’s nearly identical on every campus: a few knuckle-draggers break into a building, hack an email account, or just find some public space to deface under cover of night, all for the spectacularly cowardly purpose of anonymously expressing their stern disapproval of the Blacks or the Gays or the Jews or the Foreigners. Seattle, […]
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The Roundtable
Published on 7 Oct 2006 at 6:11 pm.
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Filed under positivity, academia, black culture, inter-minority relations.
Every month, my roomate Sundiata and I host an event at our home called The Roundtable. The Roundtable is like Blackademics with home-cooked food. It’s a pot-luck, a house party, a place to network, get to know your community, engage in a dialogue and break bread-kind of like an extended family reunion. We started this […]
Think, Wear, and Be Pink!
Published on 5 Oct 2006 at 11:17 am.
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Filed under men's issues, women's issues/feminism, black culture.
What’s the best thing about October? You guessed it, it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The pink ribbons that you have (hopefully) been seeing more of are the official symbol of support towards awareness and a cure for breast cancer. Women today are no longer victims of cancer but are survivors and as Ford’s campaign proudly […]
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Act like you know me
Published on 4 Oct 2006 at 9:07 am.
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Filed under black culture.
As homecoming at Syracuse University approaches, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend here among students of color. There appears to be a lack of community that I did not experience at my undergraduate institution. One of the manifestations of this lack of a black community is very simple: other black students act like they can’t see […]
got 8 bucks?
Published on 3 Oct 2006 at 2:51 am.
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Filed under positivity, black culture.
Bill Cosby has requested eight dollars from every American to contribute towards a National Slavery Museum-something Cosby and Mayor L. Douglas Wilder have been working on for the past ten years. They’re specifically asking for eight bucks because,
The figure 8, in shape, is both of the shackles, which is the symbol of slavery… If you […]
Queens Reigns Supreme…In Black Median Income
Published on 1 Oct 2006 at 1:46 pm.
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Filed under blackonomics.
Just some food for thought in a recent NY Times article on the average median income of blacks in Queens, NY surpassing that of white residents. What’s particularly interesting in this story, is that the writer attributes a major part of the blacks rise in median income to the business successes of immigrants from the West […]
