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#TeamBlackness recovers from the racist episode with a few docket items and Elon’s plan to troll his own wedding. Then wackiness ensues right before the end of the show…
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On today’s Blacking It Up….racism. Oh. And the Dutch are cray.
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Today on Blacking It Up: Brain eating amoeba, Maya Angelou is upset at Common’s words, Black women and stereotypes, and an African American Food Pyramid and special guest documentary filmmaker Byron Hurt. All this and more with Team Blackness on Blacking it up.
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Today on Blacking It Up: The War in Iraq ends, lots of trolling going on, more children are homeless, and the cheering with the N-word. All this and more with Team Blackness on Blacking it up.
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Today on Blacking It Up: “Whites Only” movies and pools, Historian drive bys, and Elon releases his response to Forbes… All this and more with Team Blackness on Blacking It Up.
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Today on Blacking It Up: The Plan B debate, victim blaming or valid warnings, and if we were white men who wrote for Forbes we wouldn’t write articles titled “if I were a poor Black kid” The Conversation with the audience is continued on #AfterBlack
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#TeamBlackness returns to Brooklyn and L. Joy is out of sorts. The team talks Romney, Perry and the ridiculousness of Campaign ads…
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L. Joy and Elon are in DC fresh from the #OccupyKStreet rally talk conflicts and other news topics…
On December 7th 2011 various organizations and occupiers took to the streets of the Capital to protest the greed and corruption that has infiltrated our government. The #99inDC stormed K Street and met with (and disappointed some of) the members of the Occupy movement. These are a few pictures I took on that rainy Wednesday (apparently camera phones don’t always work so good in constant down pour) documenting #OccupyKStreet
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Tonight on Blacking It Up: The 99% in DC, militarizing the local police, suppressing the Black vote, and news flash some drunk people have sex at holiday parties. All this and more with Team Blackness on Blacking It Up.
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Today on Blacking It Up: #TeamBlackness attempts to get to their docket and find it problematic due to the apparent occupation of the studio by the 33%. Wackiness ensues…
During the AfterBlack show yesterday, Elon talked about this younger self and said that he could not believe he was so “EMO”. He continued and said from this vantage point he would kick the ever loving shit out of himself. Fair… Many of us can relate and would be stomping on our younger selves like we were all named Ndamukong Suh.
I would like to reframe “EMO” in this case, and call it innocents. It is our innocents that we all look back at and laugh. All the … “How could I have believed that..”, “How could I have done those things”, etc, etc… All of those things, believes, actions were done but by the innocents.
But one of the great things about our innocents is that the purity and sometimes simplicity of our principles, dreams, actions. Often there is a sweetness associated with our innocents and it is present in all that we do. We see the world as it should be instead of how it is. Part of what happens with age is that those two things; how we see the world versus how the world is, the gap between the two lessen. Generally this is Awesome. When you don’t get want you want, you get experience. But there can be side effects that can make us miss our “EMO”, our innocents.
We have a choice, to embrace the jade that our experience can bring or to fight hold on to the sweetness of our innocents and absorb the experiences that life has given us.
That’s my 2cents
MrAyodeji
So, Herman Cain’s out of the GOP race for the nomination.
Let’s be clear. Anyone whose votes are policy driven was not surprised by this. No one with critical thinking skills didn’t see this coming. If anything, it’s more surprising that it took as long as it did. However, there’s a significant portion of the Republican party that actually believe that not only was Cain qualified to be President, but that he’s also been unfairly vilified by the “mainstream media” because he’s a black conservative. What bothers me most about Herman Cain is his overt willingness to play the victim, and the fact that his supporters enable this behavior. He has repeatedly gone on camera, time and time again, portraying himself as some kind of visionary, persecuted by the left because of his AMAZING ideas. And when these ideas are revealed to be poorly thought out and fall considerably short of the hype, it’s everyone’s fault but his own.
Cain supporters like to trot out quotes from other prominent black figures to back up this fervent claim of victimhood, like this one from Cornell West:
“I think he needs to get off the symbolic crack pipe.”
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