working Cotton Fields [Poetry]

August 7th, 2009 View Comments

Love it or not, accept it or reject it, America as I see it is still divided by race. Luckily I’m fully aware that being black automatically makes me a suspect 10 times a white young male. Well, I’m observing and writing on the racial issues, meanwhile, this has been on my mind and I [...]

The closed blackness: a rhetoric from Micheal Jackson

July 9th, 2009 View Comments

And for my final note on all the Micheal-is-an-icon-media-hyping, here is an interesting piece by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez that sums it all up: Yes, premature death is tragic. Upon that we can (mostly) all agree. What I cannot agree with, however, are the repeated claims that Jackson: was a musical genius; broke down racial barriers; was [...]

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