Stagnance: Addendum
Posted on November 12, 2008 - Filed Under
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WikipediaFurther and final note on the sliver of America voting redder than ever:
Half of McCain voters believe Obama is or was Muslim, with 31.7% saying “He used to be Muslim and still has too many connections to Islam.”
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Stagnance unto Death
Posted on November 11, 2008 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentA few fascinating data points on the Times’s demographic comparison of counties that went deeper red vs counties that went deeper blue in 2008 vs 2004. (Please click on the Voter Shift Multimedia Graphic for a frame of reference.)
Not surprising that the strip of deeper red is in the white rural south, but a [...]
It’s Ok to Get Angry
Posted on January 8, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe luxury of living in a deeply blue state whose primaries are held on Super Tuesday is that I can easily moderate the intake of political news and am left blissfully unaware of the product of Mitt’s obscene spending. The downside is that, where the inundated masses in New Hampshire can be forced into [...]
Read More..>>student paper covers racial issues, school system panics
Posted on April 13, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAhhh…the crucible that is high school journalism. Benson (Omaha) High School’s student newspaper ran an apparently thoughtful and well-received issue about the so-called n-word (that would be ‘nigger’ for those scoring at home). OPS assures the community that “Appropriate action will ensue upon the completion of the investigation.” Uh, okay.
Other fun facts from the [...]
another easter come and gone
Posted on April 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentanother BYOBW missed. one of these years, I will remember, go, and let gravity do its best.
Read More..>>Hype: Under the Boards
Posted on January 24, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentSo a friend is about to go to press (U of Nebraska to be precise) with his racial analysis of the NBA. Here’s an excerpt:
Regardless of one’s familiarity with hip-hop, the 2Pac-Biggie saga made it unequivocally clear that hip-hop existed on two planes: on the one hand, it was a cultural and commercial powerhouse that [...]
What I Want For Christmas
Posted on December 4, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAmazon’s plot synopsis of A Time for Burning:
In the mid-1960s, 1200 White people attend Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. Nearby, Negro Lutherans worship at Hope Lutheran Church. Reverend Bill Youngdahl, Augustana’s pastor, proposes that ten couples visit ten Negro families from Hope. It’s a controversial idea; within weeks, Youngdahl resigns. The camera observes: Augustana [...]
File under: No Shit, Sherlock
Posted on September 5, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIn an article about the Nebraska state trooper, Robert Henderson, who was fired (and later reinstated) for being a member of the Ku Klux Klan:
According to a copy of Caffera’s ruling, the case had its origins in 2003, when Henderson’s wife left him for a Hispanic man. Henderson is white.
NebrasKKKa Highway Patrol
Posted on August 25, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentNebraska wants to fire a Highway Patrolman because he’s a member of the KKK. Enter the lawyers.
Although it isn’t illegal to be a member of a KKK group, having a trooper belong to a white supremacist group could create questions in the minds of the public, as well as create dissention among other troopers, Tuma [...]
Tienes comfort?
Posted on June 7, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentA few years ago, I visited Chile with my family after graduating from college. After landing in Santiago and paying my $50 Reciprocal Visa Fee, literally the first words out of my mouth were “¿Donde esta el baño”, putting my four years of high-school Spanish to good use. It didn’t take me long to also [...]
Read More..>>Ghostface Writa
Posted on May 11, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWho wants up to $8,000? Ghost Writer Needed for Black Fiction:
Serious Ghost Writer Needed
Ghost Writer needed to do a Black Middle Class novel.
Frankly stated, the writer must be able to write in the voice of an African American female. Your race dosen’t matter, but your skill sets do! You must be a reader of Black [...]
Omaha Beefs
Posted on January 16, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIt’s long been a joke that Omaha and the rest of Nebraska’s greatest export has been brainpower. I don’t know if I’m the exception that proves the rule, or the rule that proves the exception, or possibly both/neither as I’ve never understood what that phrase means exactly (possibly proving the rule). Either way, Omaha mayor [...]
Read More..>>No Joy In Mudville
Posted on January 16, 2006 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsMajor League Baseball, suck it.
Major League Baseball has claimed that intellectual property law makes it illegal for fantasy league operators to “commercially exploit the identities and statistical profiles” of big league players.
I guess only MLB can do the exploiting since they paid $50 million for the stats. As recently as 2003, the powers that be [...]
We’re just all screwed
Posted on December 16, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWha-huh? Confused western intellectuals?
But these familiar generalities - Enlightenment versus Religion, Democracy versus Fascism - have always been facile, and are now being exploded by the ordeal of another prominent writer of Muslim ancestry, Orhan Pamuk, who goes on trial in Turkey today.
Mr. Pamuk is accused of a committing a crime by mentioning, in an [...]
Let this be my solemn vow
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI’m not sure how google-bombing works exactly. But as I sang in elementary school Christmas programs, “let it begin with me”: douchebag
Read More..>>Boots on the radio
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI see the internet stream is scheduled for today, though I’m not sure what time. All I needed to read was BMK fave Boots of The Coup will be taking part. More details here. I’ll be listening to the archive in a day or two.
Read More..>>What About The Fighting Irish?
Posted on August 5, 2005 - Filed Under
| Comments OffThe NCAA is banning the use of "hostile or abusive" Native American mascots & symbols from championship tournaments. Some examples given in the AP article are the Florida State Seminoles & Illinois Fighting Illini. Some schools such as North Carolina-Pembroke Braves are given an exemption because of historically enrolling higher percentages of Native American students, [...]
Read More..>>Views on Indigenous People
Posted on June 24, 2005 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsPardon the radio silence on the WTV front - I’d been working on a now-scrapped-in-its-current form post covering Experience, Memory, Authority and Dogma with Fathers and Crows & WTV in mind. Unfortunately, it spiraled into an incoherent mess. Perhaps I will post serialized thoughts regarding these topics. But I offer you these in the meantime…Commentary [...]
Read More..>>Jack Johnson / Jazz / Ken Burns
Posted on January 19, 2005 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFrom a reaction to Ken Burns’ documentary of Jack Johnson, Unforgiveable Blackness:
it was those very same musicians who ken burn’s was criticized for leaving out of his last big documentary, jazz. those who agreed with burns’ history of jazz–his largely white, middle class pbs audience; wynton marsalis and the jazz lincoln center folks, aka middle [...]