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BYP AFTERNOON ROUND-UP: Toure's "The Most Racist Thing That Ever Happened To Me", Weezy Thinks The Tea Party Hates Black People, Nas' B-Day and MORE
Afternoon News Round-UP September 14, 2011 Toure’s latest book “Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness?” is starting a helluva lot of controversy, and I can’t wait to read it. The first chapter is called “The Most Racist Thing That Ever Happened To Me,” and it’s available at TheAltantic.com right now. Do yourself a favor and check it […]
Today in Post-Race History: Nigger x 219
*Someone please cue my righteous indignation music* It seems that we have officially reached the end of days. Birds are falling out of the sky; dead fish are coming in with the tide. News outlets are doing their best not to refer to Jared Loughner’s acts as ones of terrorism, and simply make efforts to […]
The Lies History Tells Part 1: Happy Thanksgiving?
I am starting a three-week series based on the lies that I was told in grade school. It recently occurred to me that a lot of the history that I was taught was not only wrong, but the truth was skewed for very specific purposes. I can remember learning about the Black Panthers in elementary […]