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“Who is Black?” with Soledad O’Brien
It seems that anybody who can get a few mixed race people together who look white, black and in between and get them to talk on camera then voila you have a show on CNN about what it means to be black in America or just look not black.
Many of the anecdotes rang true especially for my kids, my sister and my cousin and often for myself. Especially people, usually black people, asking you what are you over and over again. This is due in part because in their minds you don’t look black and they are not really ready to accept you as black.
This also happened in a big way to my sister who has a different mother but same biological father. More later
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- “Who is Black in America?” Soledad O’Brien Tackles Racial Identity on CNN (clutchmagonline.com)
- CNN’s Soledad O’Brien profiles one woman teaching children of color about colorism in her “Who is Black in America?” (startingpoint.blogs.cnn.com)
- Soledad Shares Reactions To ‘Who Is Black In America?’ [Video] (newsone.com)
Academy Awards tonight
The cast of The Help is favored to win. Could this be the first time two black women sweep the best actress in drama awards? Will Brad prevail over his buddy Clooney? Brad Pitt is way over due for a win. I think Hollywood is jealous of him. I dread that Billy Crystal is doing the honors.
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- Why Did Halle Berry Cancel Her Academy Awards Appearance?! (eonline.com)
Nyasha Matonhodze: Black girl to rep Louis Vuitton
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/showbiz/showbiz.aspx?newsid=5183
We know this photo may be diffult to look at but yes, Vuitton has chosen this 16 YO African girl as a rep for its line of luxe luggage.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud: Just Another National We have to feed in prison
The FBI profile, maybe now the airlines will too. Stupid Somali teen who thought he was gonna make something go kaboom was given a fake bomb from the getgo.
The FBI had him in their sights and for all intents and purposes profiled him. He is a national born in Somali. They are racially mixed like the Ethiopians. Somalis from wikipedia and a timeline which shows that clearly European countries took turns occupying the land of the Somali. Is that why they look so much like the Ethiopians? I’ve seen enough Ethiopians that I can spot them in a dark room the look is so distinct.
1889 – Italy sets up a protectorate in central Somalia, later consolidated with territory in the south ceded by the sultan of Zanzibar.
Over a hundred years is plenty of time for these black Africans to produce a hybrid. They are cousin to the black Bantu but don’t look as black as they do. In fact they looked a little different and the white Europeans then preferred them, and the Arabs conferred Islam on them too.
Black Chimp, Black History Month–Makes Sense to Me
Image via Wikipedia
Taking all of the criticism and critical thinking into consideration that has gone into this horrible cartoon foisted on the public through a public venue called the New York Post, it seems that somebody there got it wrong. True the chimp metaphorically could have been any damn body, that’s the point that the critics are making. The cartoonist was in such a randy hurry to get the damn thing out that he “forgot” to label it?
Who buys this garbage rag of a paper? Not sure, maybe they need to boost their ratings.
Why is it not labeled at all? The policeman could have been anywhere in the country including black or brown ghettos. But if black people are chimps then white people are orangutans and how would they like such a cartoon all over the place? A majority race has no qualms with such an event because they control the media and the money. That defuses the bombastic effect such a cartoon would have.
But the biggest joke comes in the form of this “satire” arriving just about the tail end of Black History Month.
Happy Black History month to you. The cartoonist or the editor ought to be shot (in effigy)!
Heloise
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