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8 months ago

in Monday Open Thread on Jack and Jill Politics
Just wanted to say you guys have the BEST photos of Barack. Thanks for the inspiration!

9 months ago

in Links to Love (with a couple Random Thoughts Thrown in) on YBPGuide
Glad you enjoyed them. It was a busy, busy week for young, black professionals. :) Just like this one will be so stay tuned...

Thanks for the article drops! Really, really interesting!

9 months ago

in Blacksmythe | Thoughts about Palin in Plaid on Blacksmythe
Love this scene. I usually applied it to low-income blackness and what that means and why it keeps getting tied to a certain kind of lived experience, namely that down for the people = down for the hood = down in the hood. Not in college. Not in Martha's Vineyard. Not owning property. Just getting by = cool. Having a stock portfolio = not cool. Etc. That isn't changing and its undertow is FIERCE and hard to shake off even when you are in college, at Martha's Vineyard, have a stock portfolio or own property.

Applying it to Palin makes sense. Scary. But makes sense.

10 months ago

in DNC Quick Thoughts on YBPGuide
profbw,

Certainly. And I enjoyed your post very much.

So, readers, I want to note here--and will update it in the post as soon as I stop having technical difficulties--that the bloggers who wrote on Michelle Obama were linked to because they gave interesting perspectives that kept her changing image in mind.

They were not, and it was my mistake to give the impression that they were, linked to because they did or did not believe she was being "handled" in the way I am discussing. I was merely attempting to spread link love to those who were giving smart but varied opinions on her speech.

10 months ago

in DNC Quick Thoughts on YBPGuide
Give it a minute to update and I will clarify.

11 months ago

in Oh Really Solange? on YBPGuide
You might be looking too deeply into it.

I also wasn't clear. My mistake.

The song is by Solange. The video I hat tipped Purple Zoe in the post. The video is put together with the song randomly.

I was curious what people thought about the juxtaposition of the images in the video versus the words of (i.e. images evoked by) the song.

So, one could ask if it matters that Solange herself didn't put the song with the video images. Valid question. How much does that influence what can be said about the dissonance between her presumed attitude toward the industry in the song and her activity in the industry in the videos?

Or something like that.

Random thoughts for a random Tuesday.

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