By request – Debunking Acceptable Blackness through the second coming of the Rev. Wright drama…
May 1, 2008 by Angry Black Bitch · 1 Comment
May Buddha Bless Shark Fu..she is so eloquent and if only we all could be as eloquent as she is~Dusty
This bitch is stressed the fuck out with work-based things.
Fuck a duck, where’s a large bar of chocolate when you need one?
Shit.
Anyhoo, a certain Peterr sent this bitch an e-mail asking for my take on the second coming of the Rev. Wright drama and was specifically interested in whether this has anything to do with Acceptable Blackness.
Well Peterr, this bitch thinks it does.
Shall we?
A bitch has blogged about Acceptable Blackness before and how the concept pisses me the fuck off. Basically, acceptable blackness is the grown up version of the bullshit some white students used to toss at this bitch when we were in Junior High and they were feeling threatened by the black students being bused in from the city.
“Why can’t they be black like you, Shark-Fu? They sound so mad and I don’t understand them and they dress weird and blah blah followed by blah.”
I realized rather quickly that my fellow students mistook my “proper” speech and my adoration of preppified pastel fashion (shit, it was a phase…mercy) as some other kind of less threatening and more acceptable blackness.
But they were wrong.
Sphere: Related ContentShades of America
April 29, 2008 by Jet · 7 Comments
A couple of observations about race are rumbling through my brain today.First, one thing the credible Obama candidacy has done is free African Americans
from a lot of political baggage. Obama’s “yes we can” is as much about discarding a defeatist mindset in blacks as in the country as a whole. It’s no longer viable to see this candidacy as symbolic. The man is going to win, or this country is going to see cheating on a public scale we may never recover from.
As he continues to campaign effectively, across all demographics, his blackness is becoming both more and less important. More important to people whose withering options leave them few weapons except fanning hate, and less important to people who see the message and not the color. There are folks from all races in each group, but I think we are actually at a point in our development as a national community that there are more who are responding to the message than need the hate to continue.
As a nation, we can. It’s a powerful thing.
Sphere: Related ContentIf you even dream about schooling me you’d better wake up and apologize…
April 17, 2008 by Angry Black Bitch · 3 Comments
Dear trifling knave,
In response to your e-mail claiming that I should “acknowledge the truth” of BET founder Bob Johnson’s comments defending Gerry Ferrarro’s comments that Senator Obama’s political success is a result of his blackness, this bitch has a question…have you lost your motherfucking mind?
Seriously, if a bitch didn’t fear for your sanity my ass would publish your fucking e-mail with your e-mail address (c’mon dude, who the hell e-mails an AngryBlackBitch from their work e-mail address…really?) and bring the flock of bitchitude down upon you!
Lawd, give me strength.
For the record, Robert Johnson has been wrong for so long that the dictionary ought to define right as the opposite of whatever comes out of his mouth.
And I’m not some cult member who needs a black prophet to tell my ass what’s what, motherfucker.
This luck of blackness shit has been spun dry, son.
Sphere: Related ContentObama’s address today, in it’s entirety.
March 18, 2008 by Dusty · 2 Comments
The transcript can be read here. I missed his speech on race and America..if you did too, watch it now.
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I’m worried too, Ms. Steinem…
January 8, 2008 by Angry Black Bitch · 1 Comment
This spot-fucking-on post is from The Angry Black Bitch. I was going to write one up..put she covers it all-Dusty
This isn’t an easy post to write. I am a proud black feminist who holds a deep respect for feminist leaders and has done a lot of inner work to come to terms with feminism’s history with race and class.
Yeah, this is not an easy post to write…but a sistah’s got to do what a sistah’s got to do.
Gloria Steinem has an Op-Ed in the New York Times titled Women Are Never Front-Runners. I read the Op-Ed and I feel compelled to address it here.
I highly recommend that you read the piece before you go on reading this post.
After reading Steinem’s Op-Ed I felt invisible…as if black and woman can’t exist in the same body. I felt undocumented…as if the history of blacks and the history of women have nothing to do with the history of black women.
When I read “Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women (with the possible exception of obedient family members in the latter).” I felt both attacked and ignored at the same time.
I think of the women and men in my family who were not extended the protected vote until 1965. I wince at the lack of acknowledgment for the black women of Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery who had to march with their brothers in the 1960s to attain the vote because the suffrage movement abandoned them in a Southern strategy to get the vote in 1920.
And there it is again…that invisibility; like a brutal weight that I am so bloody tired of carrying.
Sphere: Related ContentTodays look into the future, and its not pretty..
January 5, 2008 by Dusty · 5 Comments
My mentor and sometimes boss, Dark Wraith has created this wonderful graphic that you see now. I wanted to write a post so that I could put it up here, but
was not able to come up with one that I didn’t think would be good enough and yet keep me out of Gitmo or the mental ward at the local hospital. Plus, I am medicated heavily due to the bad weather and my three blown discs..so I am using a grand post that Phydeaux wrote awhile back which is a scary but totally-could-happen thought. He wrote this back in July of this year. Here is part of it for your perusal:
Sphere: Related ContentIt’s All too Possible
********BREAKING NEWS*******
16:42 19 January 2009
Washington, DC
REUTERSDue to the increased racial tensions following the disputed election of Barack Obama in the recent Presidential election, I George W. Bush, do hereby invoke the National Continuation Policy (NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51 / HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20)
NYT talks race and Obama..
December 29, 2007 by Dusty · 6 Comments
I have been waiting for someone in the MSM to play the race card. Many have danced around the subject, but finally the NYT lays the “R” word out there.
They take him to task for not talking about race. I have read blogs that have done the same. I am of the pov that we all want the best life possible, regardless of race. We all want the war to end, regardless of race. None of us, regardless of race wants to choose between gas for our cars and medication for our health, just as an example. We all want a good job and to make the best life possible for ourselves and our families.
From the NYT writeup:
Sphere: Related ContentHis style is more conciliatory than confrontational, more technocrat than preacher. Compared with many older politicians, he tends to speak about race indirectly or implicitly, when he speaks about it at all.
