I gassed up the Waywayback Machine and took a trip back to 1985...
Remember this Jayum?! Lisa Lisa and that damn Cult Jayum! Yeaboyee!
the year 1985 when...
The City of Philadelphia and city police dropped a bomb on a neighborhood and let it burn. Five children and six adults, members of a small radical collective called MOVE, died; 61 homes in the middle-class neighborhood were destroyed. As the nation watched, Philadelphia became the city that bombed its own people.
Whitney Houston hadn't yet discovered wack crack. This year she was the Female Vocalist of the Year for "Saving All My Love for You"
The Color Purple earned $98,467,863 and was one of the top grossing films of that year along with Rambo Part II, Back to the Future and Cocoon.
We saved the world when Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones called all their friends in to get.on.their.record, "We are the World" which became "something like a phenomenon" across the globe.
Finally Gorbachev became the Soviet leader and
America "got debt"...for the first time since 1914, the United States owed more money to foreigners than it was owed. Thanks Reagan!
Life was grand, huh?
What were you doing in 1985?
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
When a "Queen" eats Green Eggs and Ham...
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Doesn't she/he look like a character from a Dr. Suess book?! Miss Hunaaaay! Hilarious. Enjoy.
Doesn't she/he look like a character from a Dr. Suess book?! Miss Hunaaaay! Hilarious. Enjoy.
On Being Black...and poor, and sad, and depressed and lonely and....in America!
I know I'm a little late but here's my, "On Being Black in America Post"...
I've had several discussions with friends about the CNN special on Being Black in America. Most in some form or fashion were "put off" by the so called "special"...me, I was disappointed to say the least. I mean, it was one long negative statistical stew. After the first night, I really didn't want anymore...I feared if I listened any further I would need to be put on suicide watch. I mean according to CNN I don't have many reasons for going on...I can look forward to no man, no money, more struggles, a community riddled with drugs and poverty, and absent of positive male role models 'cause they are all in jail or just don't give a damn, children who will under perform children in third world countries, blah, blah, blah....too much...too much.
Moreover, most black folks have heard all of that before...many times! Nothing new. Something "special" would have been to offer solutions, highlight opportunities, provide positive topics for some real solution driven dialog. And by the way, is Soledad black? I'm just askin'?
I had enough after that first night of mess. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would have my eyes cocked by now saying, "see they be tryin' to systematically and subliminally feed us this mind poison so we are defeated before we even come out the gate..."
I spent my Thursday night at the Sanaa Art Gallery trying to recover. I think I'm o.k. I think I can put the shoe laces back in my sneakers and put the medicine back in the cabinet. Suicide watch is over...at least until CNN and Soledad decide to do a special on Being Left Handed in America...then who knows.
I've had several discussions with friends about the CNN special on Being Black in America. Most in some form or fashion were "put off" by the so called "special"...me, I was disappointed to say the least. I mean, it was one long negative statistical stew. After the first night, I really didn't want anymore...I feared if I listened any further I would need to be put on suicide watch. I mean according to CNN I don't have many reasons for going on...I can look forward to no man, no money, more struggles, a community riddled with drugs and poverty, and absent of positive male role models 'cause they are all in jail or just don't give a damn, children who will under perform children in third world countries, blah, blah, blah....too much...too much.
Moreover, most black folks have heard all of that before...many times! Nothing new. Something "special" would have been to offer solutions, highlight opportunities, provide positive topics for some real solution driven dialog. And by the way, is Soledad black? I'm just askin'?
I had enough after that first night of mess. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would have my eyes cocked by now saying, "see they be tryin' to systematically and subliminally feed us this mind poison so we are defeated before we even come out the gate..."
I spent my Thursday night at the Sanaa Art Gallery trying to recover. I think I'm o.k. I think I can put the shoe laces back in my sneakers and put the medicine back in the cabinet. Suicide watch is over...at least until CNN and Soledad decide to do a special on Being Left Handed in America...then who knows.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Fly Girl In NY
FlyGirl is so Fly that she has no time to call her most favorite auntie in the whole wide world but she has time to go to NYC! She did, however, have time to send pictures of her fabulous self hangin' in NYC. Can I get that bag? 
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Get.There.Now.
Sanaa Art Gallery
I took BabyGirl and BabyBoy (my love
ly children) to the grand opening of Sanaa Art Gallery. If you live in or near you should get there now! BabyBoy did not want to leave. He enjoyed viewing the art and meeting the artists so much he really did not want to leave. Black art is such a wonderful thing. Here are some of the pictures BabyBoy took of some of his favorite pieces. He was networking all over the place.
I was so proud of him. He's never been the shy type though. When he found out some of the artist were there, he would go right up to them with his 13 year old self and intr
oduce himself, "Hi, I really like your work...I draw too...." He even got to be a part of a group picture with many of the artist there. He was getting professional pointers and encouragement from all the artist he meet.
He has a talent for drawing but he doesn't or didn't take his talent as serious as I have until maybe tonight (and seeing those $3000, $4000, and $5000 price tags on the pieces for sale, didn't hurt either).
The picture up top is a group photo of "the men"...featured and aspiring artists (one of which is my 13 year old). On the left and right are works created by Shambe
I took BabyGirl and BabyBoy (my love
ly children) to the grand opening of Sanaa Art Gallery. If you live in or near you should get there now! BabyBoy did not want to leave. He enjoyed viewing the art and meeting the artists so much he really did not want to leave. Black art is such a wonderful thing. Here are some of the pictures BabyBoy took of some of his favorite pieces. He was networking all over the place.
I was so proud of him. He's never been the shy type though. When he found out some of the artist were there, he would go right up to them with his 13 year old self and intr
oduce himself, "Hi, I really like your work...I draw too...." He even got to be a part of a group picture with many of the artist there. He was getting professional pointers and encouragement from all the artist he meet.He has a talent for drawing but he doesn't or didn't take his talent as serious as I have until maybe tonight (and seeing those $3000, $4000, and $5000 price tags on the pieces for sale, didn't hurt either).
The picture up top is a group photo of "the men"...featured and aspiring artists (one of which is my 13 year old). On the left and right are works created by Shambe
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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