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TWiB! Season 3 – Ep#4 “Obama’s USA…still can’t talk Race”

Posted by TWiB Series On January - 21 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS


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The Brooklyn Comedy Company Proudly Presents Season 3, Episode 4 of “This Week in Blackness.” On MLK Day, MSNBC had a discussion on race and host Elon James White did not want to miss it. He might have wished he missed it AFTERWARDS, but before hand? Really didn’t want to miss it…

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TWiB! Season 3 Ep#2 “On The Word Negro”

Posted by TWiB Series On January - 21 - 2010 1 COMMENT


The Brooklyn Comedy Company proudly presents the 2nd installment in season 3 of “This Week in Blackness.” Host Elon James White (NewsOne, VH1, NPR) continues the new year with the brand new conversation over the word “Negro.” With Harry Reid dropping it in closed door conversations and it appearing on the 2010 census. Is the word NEGRO back to its full glory? Watch one Negro…er…Black Guys take on it…

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This Week in An Apocalyptic Future: Hunger Soars.

Posted by Syreeta McFadden On December - 3 - 2009 1 COMMENT


Last month, the Department of Agriculture released the latest numbers on hunger in America, reporting that 50 million Americans are now hungry.

This is a staggering development. And for the last month or so, we’ve been told that the Great Recession (ahem, Depression) is over. However, I will not quibble with these facts. The algorithm has rebounded; the Dow is once again above 10,000.

Yet, food prices have been rising pretty consistently over the past couple of years. And while some have expressed serious concerns about food shortages and the cost of affordable food, which certainly puts a strain on struggling households, there are some positive indicators to the contrary. Science, has responded to our every need with it’s latest innovation: soggy pork.

The Telegraph reports:

Researchers in the Netherlands created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that one day people will eat it.

I shit you not.


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Black V. White? Atlanta’s Race for Mayor

Posted by Elon James White On December - 1 - 2009 1 COMMENT


The big political story coming out of Atlanta for virtually EVERY “news” source seems to be the current Mayoral race between Mary Norwood and Kasim Reed.  Is it their controversial policies that are garnering nation wide coverage? Nope. Its the whole Negro V. White Lady thing.

“The race is between City Councilwoman Mary Norwood, who is white, and former state Sen. Kasim Reed, who is black. Norwood won 46% of the vote on Nov. 3rd, but needed 50% to win outright. Reed, who pulled in 36%, split the black vote in a crowded field of other African-American candidates.”

Well we know who voted for the WHITE WOMAN right? Cause if we know anything WE KNOW BROTHA’S BE VOTIN’ FOR THE WHITE LADY! (Elon Dodges imaginary punch from Hillary Clinton.) It’s going to be an interesting battle in Atlanta according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution

“The path to victory for Atlanta’s next mayor is clear, even if the candidates don’t want to say it. It’s about race. … This week’s mayoral election showed that decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. urged that people not be judged by the color of their skin, blacks and whites in his hometown are voting along racial lines.”

Yes, because its THAT simple.  It’s not about the social and political identity for one of the preeminant Black cities in the country, its about a lack of growth as a people.  I’m absolutely for voting for the most qualified(Guess who’s never voted for Sharpton? “This Guy”) but to ignore the the racial issues that create this “discussion” would be foolish.

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