And we’re OFFICIALLY back. The Brooklyn Comedy Company proudly presents the premiere of Season 2 of This Week in Blackness. Host Elon James White is backed with more sarcasm, more blackness and more awesome. Can you handle it? Probably. But we were asking just to be polite.

You know how humans can get born somewhere – a rainforest, or a desert, or a small island in the middle of an ocean, or on a tall mountain – and they learn how to live in that place and they end up producing new humans who also live in that place, or maybe the newer humans move someplace else and adapt to that new environment, maybe learn new customs or a different language or something? Black people are kind of like that.

On the Root, Kenneth J. Cooper asks, “Is anything black about the American West?”

He writes, “You see, too many African Americans – you know who you are – believe real black folks are from the South or the urban North. They’re not from the West, not Oklahoma, not Colorado – where I was born – and certainly not Hawaii, though there are exceptions made for California and L.A. I’ve been hearing it for the 30 years or so I’ve lived on the East Coast.

This narrow-mindedness results in part, I think, from our creative imaginations of the black experience, in fiction and film, almost exclusively in the South or North. Historically, African Americans have been concentrated in the South, but major migrations have taken us not just to the North but to the West. By taking a geocentric view of blackness, we cut ourselves off from parts of our history – and even some of our heroes. With a black Hawaiian in the White House, it’s time to embrace an expansive view of the black experience in its full diversity.”

The black frontier experience needs its day in the sun ASAP. For the fashion we’d see on the street, if nothing else.

Source: The Root

President Barack Obama, in his first appearance as U.S. president in a Muslim nation, waded into some of Turkey’s thorniest issues: the slaughter of Armenians in World War I and the rising power of political Islam in a secular state.

The President told the Turkish parliament: “So let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam.”

Of course Obama is all friendly towards the Muslims. He’s preparing America for a Jihad from the INSIDE. Dur.  Someone needs to tell President Barack that we see through his deception.

Source: Wall Street Journal

So we’ve been on what some may call a sabbatical.

Some may call it slacking.

We here at “This Week in Blackness” call it a re-building. We were getting our ish together preparing to bring you a brand new season of the show and keep it moving with info here on the TWiB site. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. And just to let you know cameras ARE rolling at BcCo Studios, here’s a brand new video that was used to introduce the first ever” This Month in Blackness” LIVE show. We hope you enjoy and stay tuned for Season 2 premiering this month!