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TWiB! Season 2 Ep#2 – “BET doesn’t Care about Black People”

If you were paying any attention to our Live Blog you realize that we here at "TWiB!" We'rent exactly in love with the 2009 BET Awards. Well, if anything can get Elon off his ass to shoot another episode it would HAVE to be this. The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present episode 2 of season 2 of "This Week in Blackness." Enjoy.

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BET Awards 09 – LIVE BLOG TONIGHT

Thats right folks.

We don't really have a choice here do we? TWiB! is in fact about Black people and this is the BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION awards right? Think of it as "Black Star Power" meeting "Black Snark Power." Tonight Bassey Ikpi (HBO's Def Poetry Jam) & TWiB!'s on Elon James White (VH1, Huffington Post) will be throwing down what you're probably thinking but too polite to say. 7:45pm. watch it HERE - http://thisweekinblackness.com/betawards09/

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A Message from The Average Black Person

To Whom It May Concern:

Greetings. My name is Elon James White. I'm Black.

I write this letter on behalf of alot of people that fall into the category of Average Black People. (Yes, I capitalize it, as if it were a title.) I do not claim to represent them because that would be absurd. I really, truly don't. I don't even represent my circle of friends. At any point in time one of my Black buddies will, in fact, tell me to go to hell when speaking on concepts of race, politics, or religion.

I do, however, qualify as an Average Black Person. I am neither a part of the Black intelligentsia, nor do I fall into the category of your garden-variety street Negro. A lot of folks see Black people in one of these two categories. Normally, let's be honest, it's the latter.

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This Week In Blackness: “Thats Whats Wrong with Black People”

As Featured in The Huffington Post:

If you happen to have perused the latest Rolling Stone you might have come across an interesting comment by celebrated Black academic Dr. Cornell West:

That's not my calling. Yeah, brother, you find me in a crack house before you find me in the White House. I'll go into the crack house before I ever go that far inside.

Dr. West was answering a question about whether he would ever accept a position in the Obama adminstration's White House. On the surface this might seem like the rebel response. No, he won't join the institution that is holding down Black people across the land. He is a free thinker who will not be bound by a country who still doesn't take the plight of all of its citizens seriously.

Or you could see this for what it is. Sheer lunacy.



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“Interracial Couples & Professional Blacks? TV implies too many” Says White dude.

Michael Russnow, a blogger at the Huffington Post wrote a piece titled : Racial Advancement on TV: Is the Progress Depicted Well-Intentioned Fantasy? where he points out a few things that just seem SILLY on TV right now...
b For example, almost every prime-time television show features romantic inter-racial relationships, most notably between its Caucasian and African-American continuing characters. While there are certainly more such situations in our current life than in former decades, is it as prevalent as depicted? As commonplace so as not to be noticed or rarely discussed?

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This Week in slow news Mondays: Googling Negros.

Those of us who use Google like our grandparents used lard in their food know that Google images is an invaluable tool to stalk...er...find pictures of people, places and things. There's nothing in the world that I haven't seen! If I hear of something and don't currently have a mental image of it, BOOM. Google that 'ish.I assume that's how aliens will learn about us. Google images. But have you ever done a google image search on Black People? If not? Don't worry. We were bored this morning. >>>more

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This Week in things we really want to say to famous People: Jadakiss

So if you happen to be near , pass by him in the street, or just might be within ear shot, could you just yell this to him?

"Hey! You're not that good!"

Thank you. That is all. I don't know about you folks but I'm tired of hearing Jada rap about how great he is and how he's not getting the attention he deserves. Blah, blah, blah. Top 5, yeah, sure, Okay. Seriously. Rap and shut the hell up. Theres atleast 6 or 7 cuts on his new album about him being great but no one caring and he's okay with that. Yes. SOOOO okay that he feels a need to keep rapping about it. For christ's sake, he wrote a letter to B.I.G. complaining about it. I don't think he gives a rats ass about it sir. Why don't you stop doing that weird laugh you do on records and just focus on putting out music. Perhaps, just perhaps you should let everyone else say you're that awesome and stop saying it yourself.

Ugh.

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Today in Blackness: MHL on Smiley, Dyson, and other annoying folks.

Friend of TWiB! Melissa Harris-Lacewell has an article currently on CNN.com talking about Black journalist and Academia representatives and their annoying chatter about Obama (My words, not hers).

Black people were not duped by some slick, media-generated candidate. African-Americans were co-authors of the Obama campaign. Through social networks, YouTube videos, political blogs and new-media echo chambers, black people were equal partners in shaping the candidate and his campaign. There was no need for the entrenched pundit class to tell black voters what to think or how to behave; they figured it out for themselves.

Oh Ms. Harris-Lacewell. Your smack downs are a joy.

Here's my thing with Dyson, Smiley and their ilk. My genuine question to them is what the hell do they think they're doing? I don't think I'd be so annoyed if I felt that this was a genuine attempt to create a better world for Blacks. It feels self serving. It feels as if they really want to stand at the top of the Black hiearchy and explain whats happening.

Guess what? We know.

Dyson's recent video speaking of how Black people are being played smacks of arrogance. You are just soooo much more brilliant than the rest of us so you have to break this down for us. You're of such a higher class that you understand and have to explain because we can't analyze? We can't understand whats happening? The demands for implicitly racial answers for problems seems as if you're trying create a divide. You guys are waaaaay to educated to keep saying things like this.

Seriously. STFU.

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