by admin | Oct 13, 2007 | Democracy, Racial Politics |
A few years back…probably more than a few years now, I asked George about an idea I had. I thought that what the blogosphere lacked was a central place where they could get information on up-to-date research regarding racism in its various forms. Research on...
by admin | Oct 13, 2007 | Hip-hop, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm
The more I see, the more I know I’m going to have to take some French immersion classes to get back up to speed. This video bears repeated watching, because unlike the previous ones I’ve shown there is a lot going on here. Again if you don’t...
by admin | Oct 13, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Public Policy, Urban Politics |
Did you know that we have a problem with too many shipping containers? These days, the United States doesn’t export much, but it imports a lot, and it’s not economical to send the containers back empty, so the shipping containers just keep stacking up. One source said...
by admin | Oct 10, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
One of my favorite students is in France right now and I asked her to send me some French hip-hop. This is what she dropped on me. I wonder if the man in the video is a stand-in for Sarkozy (or a supporter at any rate)? [kml_flashembed...
by admin | Oct 10, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
I wrote a story set in a military installation years ago, based on a vivid dream I had. The details of the story remain fuzzy…and it’s likely that I never completed it. One thing I do remember though was the idea of cameras embedded in tiny mechanical...
by admin | Oct 9, 2007 | Hip-hop, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
More from Mafia K1 Fry from the album La Cerise Sur Le Ghetto (“The Fruit of the Ghetto”). [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/v4U7eie-Zsg” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent”...
by admin | Oct 9, 2007 | Afrofuturism |
Ths is the singularity. The best fictional description of a society dealing with the consequences of the singularity is Accelerando. We’ve been operating under the general auspices of the early twentieth century even as we move deeper and deeper into the 21st....
by admin | Oct 8, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Education, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics |
I do not know if this new justice movement has legs, but I wrote earlier that this is about justice for EVERYONE that simply STARTS with black children. Trickle up politics at its best. In writing about the Shaquanda Cotton case many of us blogged (and Howard Witt...
by admin | Oct 6, 2007 | Education, Sports, Urban Politics |
This story is interesting to me for a couple of different reasons. I went to school in Dearborn. Beginning in the sixties Chaldeans moved into Dearborn from the Middle East to work at Ford. But Dearborn stayed more or less 90% white until the mid to late eighties. A...
by admin | Oct 6, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
This is Mafia K1 Fry. The track is called “Pour Ceux” (“For Those”). The group reminds me a lot of the Wu. Even if you can’t understand French (I can translate on the written page ok, but I can’t translate from hearing it) you...
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