The Negro Intellectual

I feel we have been led to believe that gracing th...

2010-01-05T17:58:51.684-08:00

I feel we have been led to believe that gracing the cover of various magazines means that we have made it, we are now of a certain prestige. I think we, as a people need, to re-define our meaning of pretigious. If we do not start looking for that honor within ourselves we will continue to allow others to dictate what is and what is not worthy to be honored. Even if that means taking a picture that is of a blatant resemblance to an ape.

Well said my friend.

2010-01-03T09:50:19.528-08:00

Well said my friend.

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2009-12-17T20:55:14.837-08:00

I want to comment about it on my blog but every day something new comes out. It is the strangest story I have ever seen.

"Tiger can deal with this as he chooses to. His fi...

2009-12-17T09:27:02.665-08:00

"Tiger can deal with this as he chooses to. His first obligation is to his family and his family alone. He owes us nothing." <-- Agreed, plain and simple!

I am leaving this in hopes that Vernon reads these...

2009-12-17T00:37:00.127-08:00

I am leaving this in hopes that Vernon reads these comments...
This is Scott K. I graduated highschool with Vernon and Brian. I just came across the eulogy for Brian and was curious as to the circumstances of Brian's passing. I wasn't great friends with him, but he was a phenominal individual. Vernon, if you read this and it's not too private of a matter, please email me at nerosfiddle79@yahoo.com. Thank you and my sincerest condolences.

I disagree with this entire review basically becau...

2009-12-13T19:58:38.128-08:00

I disagree with this entire review basically because Chris Rock didn't make these women say this. I've had black women say directly to me that I'm preppy because I refuse to wear someone else's hair in my head. My own grandmother had me pulled out of preschool to get a perm. Black women who do not like this movie are mad because Chris Rock exposed the truth. If you don't like it, do something about it. Stop wearing weaves, wigs, and stop pushing kids to do the same. Why should he have a full movie about a barbershop when the purpose was about black WOMEN and BLACK WOMEN's hair. That's not even a logical conclusion. I was frustrated that he didn't talk about natural hair, but Chris Rock did this movie because of a comment his daughter made. I feel like some folks were so lost in how he didn't talk about natural hair and completely missed the point of the movie. Even in the end, he encouraged women to accept their own hair. How do you go against someone who says be happy with you and consistently says black men don't care about hair? Seriously, he's trying to get BLACK women to go past their hair to their brains. And that's not something we can blame on Chris Rock. Madame C.J. Walker was one of the biggest instigators in perming hair. Regardless of who started it, that doesn't do anything to detract from the movie. If anything he can say we were brainwashed SINCE the days of Madame C.J. Walker and help his point even more.

Glad to see you back at it! Another lucid post...T...

2009-12-12T22:30:56.231-08:00

Glad to see you back at it! Another lucid post...The way we avid consumers of the infotainment telesector are allowing ourselves to be spoon-fed garbage, as you put it, is turning us into fat and lazy Americans. We need to go on a diet and get some exercise.

I cannot believe how the MSM is handling this stor...

2009-12-12T14:31:18.877-08:00

I cannot believe how the MSM is handling this story. You would think Tiger committed mass murder.

But you are right we are seeing just how "post-racial" America really is in their treatment of our President and now Tiger. If he were white this story would have disappeared faster than a gay man at a Fred Phelps family reunion.

My only beef with black womens hair obsession is I...

2009-12-04T14:56:06.214-08:00

My only beef with black womens hair obsession is I've heard it used as an excuse not to do any physical activity or they might sweat it out. I've heard that excuse too manytimes

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2009-11-30T16:21:37.248-08:00

You just dont get it, his daughters sparked this conversation, based on a ignorant statement regarding hair texture. As a father instilling self esteem upon his daughters, he decided to evaluate this issue. Sisters are still wrestling with this issue, which is another holdover from slavery!

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Still don't know if I want to see this one yet.

2009-11-24T19:48:11.549-08:00

Still don't know if I want to see this one yet.

Not to sure about this one... I saw a few advertis...

2009-11-10T02:08:51.437-08:00

Not to sure about this one... I saw a few advertisements about it but I get a strange feeling theres an underlying purpose for this in which u listed a few.

Brother you are quite right. Your question about ...

2009-10-13T16:01:48.272-07:00

Brother you are quite right. Your question about "what we have to keep in mind" is more than insightful and causes me to think. You mentioned, "president of a democracy or leader of an empire?" Sadly enough I think it is both.

America has the uncanny ability to act as both unifier and divider. We have had imperial efforts also marked by democratic zeal which often times masks larger diplomatic agendas that are rooted in maintaining a predictable, sustainable, and safe market for our goods.

However, those days are quickly fading as our share of the global market decreases or at the very least is compressed by the entrance of once third world nations entering the "free market" in a competitive capacity.

More importantly, as we shift from a producer nation to a consumer one such issues as education and healthcare become all the more important not because we should be doing and expecting better, but we are fighting against entities that DO NOT want them to get better. It's akin to trying to run for president of the United States and your "war chest" only has $10K. You won't make it out of your home state let alone a primary, no matter how good your ideas may be. You have to translate your politics into dollars to compete politically, which is a crying shame.

Check out the rise of privatized prisons and also how much money insurance companies and pharmaceutical empires are investing into making sure that not just the public option isn't passed, but that no semblance of healthcare reform is enacted. It's not good for business to have people who are educated and healthy making sound socio-economic and political decisions.

Capitalism profits off the creation and exacerbation of inequality...PERIOD. There must be some sort of mechanism to help people when things get bad, not make them rich, but providing for them the opportunity to "get back on their feet" (as cliche' as that sounds).

At the end of the day it is the people that suffer. They can get caught up in "birther"/"tea-party" nonsense, etc., but WE ALL will suffer from the cancer of greed that is unregulated and under-supervised capitalism. Any ethnic, racial, gender, sexual preference, or pseudo class debate just causes confusion and prevents any political progress that will help the citizenry who are not part of the one percent who control the majority of wealth in this nation.

It is the same formula that allowed the captains of industry to wreck havoc on America during the Gilded Age.

For many in the global community, marked by the words of the Nobel committee today demonstrate that that Obama provides for them hope.

So is America still the bully pulpit for politics and unilateral strikes against those who do not like us? It has since the end of Spanish-American War and we'll see at the end of President Obama's first term how things have changed, if at all.

My personal take is that we cannot underestimate the influence of the private sector/business. They are not worried about the human capital in any republic, they are concerned with only the bottom line...PROFIT.

The sooner we as Americans understand that the better off things will be for us. The ideology that "what is good for GM is good for America" is part of a legacy not of opportunity and shared concern, but one of exploitation and death.

I struggle as to what does Obama really signal to ...

2009-10-13T06:26:42.675-07:00

I struggle as to what does Obama really signal to us as being the leader of major westernized nation. While it is a big deal that someone with his skin color is in the position that he is in, I question what position that really is: is it president of a democracy or the leader of an empire?

We've more than seen evidence since Obama has been in office that he wasn't quite the altruistic revolutionary that many of us thought. I had conceded that feeling after the Jeremiah Wright incident and just trumped him up as yet another left-leaning politician, but putting the emphasis on politician. I think that's what we have to keep in mind: he's a politician and damned good one at that.

Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, however, was evidence that the rest of the world doesn't necessarily see him as such. They see him as some hope-bearer. Its easy to hope, humanity wants to hope, I just hope that this isn't some false hope. But you're right, Obama campaigned on "Yes WE Can" and not "Yes I Can" and so many of us have forgotten that.

Yeah, Maxwell came to Jacksonville, FL this summer...

2009-10-09T18:46:29.722-07:00

Yeah, Maxwell came to Jacksonville, FL this summer with a sold out concert and he shut it down ALL the way.

And I'm convinced, there's nothing like a Hammond organ. You can search the whole world and nothing like the dulcet mid-tones coming from the Leslie speaker; nothing will growl like it or scream like it when you want to and give the sound of the over drive--nothing else.

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2009-10-09T15:25:21.017-07:00

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One of my long standing dreams was to attend Maxwe...

2009-10-09T11:40:08.902-07:00

One of my long standing dreams was to attend Maxwell concerts live. . I know all the words of his songs by heart …well he is performing this year. Next weekend I’m going to visit my sister and we will attend Maxwell concert; I've just compared tickets prices at Ticketsreview.com
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I definitely agree frat. You should've had the pre...

2009-10-09T10:21:04.379-07:00

I definitely agree frat. You should've had the press release in the Post. Hands down.

Boy they should have had you write a press release...

2009-10-09T06:44:36.353-07:00

Boy they should have had you write a press release. If the concert is not sold out it would have been by the time people got done reading. Keep it up Bruh.

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2009-10-08T20:30:51.437-07:00

I want to go!

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Pittsburgh’s G-20 story: Take an expressway from t...

2009-10-01T09:45:29.647-07:00

Pittsburgh’s G-20 story: Take an expressway from town and disappear into desolate ‘hoods and encounter the civilization of menace. Pittsburgh, a dual city! The glass wonder of PPG Place and/or the G-20 Summit is a faded memory. Here in the ‘hood lives lie abandoned as far as the eye can see.

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That is: For the most part, African-American Pittsburgh seems to be invisible, not only to the public relations hucksters who tout Pittsburgh’s successes, but we are equally invisible to the protesters.

Certainly, black Pittsburgh is as proud as anybody in that the black President we worked so hard to elect has selected Pittsburgh as the host of the G-20 Summit. We even enjoy the re-invention of Pittsburgh from a dirty, smoky steel-churning history to the bright, clean, green financial success that the business leaders and politicians boast about so loudly. Nobody is more proud of the Super Bowl winning African-American coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin. But none of that feel-good stuff erases the pain of the stubbornly high unemployment among African American young adults and the staggering dropout rate for young black males from the public school system.

Pittsburgh’s G-20 story: Take an expressway from t...

2009-09-30T05:47:35.529-07:00