DISQUS

T-Pain sucks big fat monkey's balls. He's a no talent hack.

Kanye is talented; but not worth my time to bother to listen to. And he's not my voice!

Well, Ralph Nadar should feel good knowing he's in the same company with Ayman al-Zawahri's in how he references Barack Obama.

These jokers can stop it. They know they don't give a damn about Black people in general and especially not Black Americans. There as racist as any cracker.

There's a spider woman???

Died? I never knew she was alive

This woman is simply pathetic. No serious person takes her seriously.

As I noted at another blog "She's not very bright and she knows it, so instead of just speaking naturally; she tries to imitate how she thinks intelligent people speak. She says things the way articulate speaking comes across to her, and as confusing as her speak is to us, is how confusing intelligent speak is to her ears."

lol @ Perry "rather be swimming in the Gulf during Hurricane Ike"

Oh my goodness - I early voted a couple of Saturday's ago, and there was an old Black poll worker there, about 75; and he was telling me about how back in his day they had these machines with a big lever that you had to pull to punch the punch card.

Ha ha ha ha ha, why y'all got 40/50 year old machines up in New York?

LOL, poor old people would be better off not early voting? Well obviously they didn't think so. It's amazing that you would actually have someone discouraging people from voting.

Fred's just mad that with early voting it's hard to supress the vote by making it difficult for people to vote on just one day. When it's all spread out like that over a couple of weeks, rethuglican supression tactics don't work as well.

IW and Cooper are two of my favorite bloggers as well.

I've never even heard of "Heart".

Blondie there's got a nice pair.

A blog can be used to organize, but simply blogging on social or political issues in and of itself is not organizing. The word means what it means, to organize. Typing and hitting send is simply not organizing.

I think when you so loosely and easily equate the two you diminish the necessity of actually putting campaigns together and going out and bringing people together to act. You also give permission to people to feel they can just talk about an issue on the web, and they've done their part, where such will never suffice for addressing our social issues.

The pen has always played an important role, but providing info to the organier and doing the organizing simply are not the same thing. I'm a blogger and know the power their is in blogging and have used it. Nonetheless, I don't conflate simply just blogging about issues, and organizing around those issues. I don't know how much organizing you've engaged in, but I guarantee you it's a whole different animal.

Bloggers brought the Jena 6 story alive. We got the message out there to be picked up by bigger media, bringing it to a fever pitch. But blog post did not call up bus companies in dozens of cities, putting up a post did not coordinate the event, a post is not getting a license for a march, there were no community meetings on the blogs to organize the trips for the march so on and so forth; that actually got people to Jena. If actual organizing had not happened everybody would have known about it, thanks to blogs, and nobody would have been there. That’s the difference in blogging and organizing.

Even within the realm of blogging, there’s a big difference between those who organize patetions, press release, days of blogging, and develop and implement campaigns using bloggs, and those who simply post

Blogs can be important, but simply putting up information is not organizing. Organizing again means what it says, that you actually organize something.

I was as well quite dismayed at Giuliani and Palin’s mocking community organizing. I guess they don't think the various issues that people face, like a whole community of laid of steel workers (which was one of Obama's main organizing functions), or voter registration, community health, combating police brutality, securing civil rights, or fighting community violence are important things - but then again the McCain/Palin Platform demonstrates that. They had no ideals to offers, just the normal rehashed political snide-ness that their team always peddles.

Nonetheless, I must contend with you that blogging is not community organizing. As one who both blogs and does in the field community organizing, they are easily not the same. Throwing some post up on the net, and getting out in the field and actually organizing are a far cry from one another. I wish community organizing was half as easy as blogging, and I put a lot of effort into my blog.

But I either way, I very much feel what you're saying.

I've labeled the meet-less Republican Convention a hero's pep-rally.

LOL, they do have the exact same smile, like they're siblings or something.

LOL, they do have the exact same smile, like they're siblings or something.

After seeing that opening for her show, now I see why it failed. That’s the cheesiest, corniest, thing I’ve ever heard; even too much so for the cheesy world of care-free sit-coms.

That show never had a chance.

Why do you call yourselves the Denver 7 when there are are 9 credentialed Black Bloggers and even 8 they you all list while calling yourselves the Denver 7?

On another note, I'm following y'all at the convention posting some of your stuffer at The Proud Black Voter Blog

Dope, that you got that interveiw; and face to face at that.

I got babyface for my blog once, but it was over the phone. That was my biggest interview todayt - and Eddie George.

The guy from the show 24 who's in all those car insurance commercials talking about acciddent forgiveness.

You’ve been nominated in BlackPerpsective.net’s Best Black Blogs Contest

http://www.blackperspective.net/index.php/ blackperpsectivenets-best-black-blogs-nominees/

I think it's ver y dangerous to only want to hear "news" that agrees with what you already think. Taking in various perspectives is a good thing; you should always be challenging your own thinking.

On the other hand though, heavy handed, intentionally biased drooning that many segments of the media does, doesn't help the public discourse.

Also the insistence on minializing the entire 24 hours news cycle to practically the same 4 stories, when there's much more to be covered is infuriating. So that's the lack of coverage of things I'm concerned about is where I definitely agree with you.

They didn't cover the Sean Bell case on t.v. almost at all last night.

I concur on PBS, watch the news hour at 6pm central if you want to really go inside a story. I also watch the BBC World News on PBS some nights. C-Span is great for live political events. I listen to a lot of NPR on the radio every day.

I'll have to check out this talk show you posted.

Let me restate myself, I meant to say:

I thought he had a great flow, his timing was excellent; and his voice projection and inflection to match the emotion of whatever he was speaking on at the moment was an unmatched gift.

I thought he had a great flow, his time was excellent; and his voice project and inflection to match the emotion of whatever he was speaking on at the moment was an unmatched gift.

Anyway, Pac was a rare poet who painted vivid pictures with words by getting to the heart of the matter. He changed the game to reflect him from his day forward. Folks are trying to sit around and rewrite history now and claim he wasn't all that good; when the fact is that it's evident that every took a little from Pac, and what he brought to game became stapples in rhyming.

It's funny, I just got through watching the spoken word piece right before I came to your blog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD-UpHlB9no

Check it out.

Tina Fey and Tami Pholer were the right two people for both those roles.

Hey, I like the new, lighter look of your blog.

So white people can provide Black Empowerment? I think the premise of your question is a false premise when it suggest that this is so.

In his book 21st Century Africa: A Paradigm Shift, Dr. Wosene Yefru enlightens us that paradigm = epistemology(thought process) + canon(sources recognized as credible information). If either our epistemology or canon are externally derived, rather than internally; we have a false paradigm.

Self-determination requires that a people speak for themselves. Anybody can do any examinations that they want; but they can never speak for us.

Further, from a factual standpoint, the tag line of the site says "cross-syndication of Black Blogs". If it is really a multicultural syndicate of blogs examining Black Studies and issues or what not, then your tag line is just inaccurate, and dare I say even misleading.

If it's supposed to be a page cataloging Black Blogs, then that's what it should be. If not, then you need a prominent disclaimour on there or just a change in the tag line to reflect what the website really is.

www.BlackPerspective.net

Oprah is a Graduate of Tennessee State University. That's where she gets it from :D

Hey, I thought you might also like my post Hip Hop Is Still Number 1: http://www.blackperspective.net/index.php/hip-h...

Also I answered your comment from the other night: http://www.blackperspective.net/index.php/album...

Well, I at least like all the albums on your list. Well, I can't say I like or dislike the black album since I never listened to it; but I liked the singles that were out.

Illmatic is still a lyrical clinic. The score was an amazing compalation of sound and styles, and was a breath of fresh air to the sterile copy cat gangsterism of it's time. That Makeveli joint was a brotha's soul on record, though Me Against The World remains my favorite of his.

Hey, you might like my <a href"http://www.blackperspective.net/index.php/albums-that-changed-your-life-pt3/"Albums That Changed Your Life serires.

Ben, ignore Blair. He/she is a non-thinking denalist who just goes from thread to thread reposting the same cut and past no matter what is highlighted.

You can see that same crap that I already buried here: http://www.blackperspective.net/index.php/megan...

Good synthesis on your part all the way around. Blair refuses to answer for how mere domestic violence or rataliation applies to the other 5 that she wasn't in a relationship with.

Mmmm, we have some over lapping; yetvery divergent film taste.

Love X, it's in my pantheon of 4. I like Forest Gump a lot, but it wouldn't make my top 10. Color purple would; not that high, but I can see that as a number 1 pick.

I still want to see City of God (hmmm, now that it's on my mind, I might rent it tonight). I found the God Farther movies to be dull and terrible. Scarface is alright, but give me Good Fellas for a mobster flick any day. I think Philadelphia is good, but certainly not one of my favorites.


Anyway, in no particular order my film pantheon is X, Coming To America, Boyz N Da Hood & Shaw Shank Redemption.