Comments for This Week in Blackness

Comment on #AfterBLACK 19 | #REDTAILS by Aaron Booker

Aaron Booker — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:43:00 +0000

In WW2 alot of officer made high rank at relatively young ages. The character that Terrence Howard was based on was 32 when he led the 332nd Squadron. There is much in your review I disagree with but I just wanted to point that one out. I think people that criticize the movie simply from the style or dialogue miss the bigger point of the story. It wasnt that the 332nd was a spectacular unit. It was that the overall of perception of black soldiers was that they were inadequate fighters. They had to work twice as hard as their white counterparts just to prove their equality as fighters. To harp on dialogue, or music, or the love story subplot you do a disservice to acts the Tuskegee Airmen did accomplish. On a sidenote anyone expecting a history lesson from a movie is a jack-a**.What I hope is people will be interested enough to go find out on their own the history of the Tuskegee Airmen…

Comment on Darkness II Demo available; Seriously Rated M by Patient C

Patient C — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:16:00 +0000

Excellent! I played the demo for the first The Darkness and left it feeling… tepid.

Comment on #AfterBLACK 19 | #REDTAILS by Alford Whitaker

Alford Whitaker — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:28:00 +0000

http://www.girlonguy.net/girl_on_guy_with_aisha_tyler/Entries/2012/1/10_girl_on_guy_29__toure.html

This is the interview and the quote starts 78:43. What he is talking about is the feeling that black people have towards dark skin black people. He is raising the issue that dark skin people are not see as beautiful and dark skin is a disadvantage. He isnt saying dark skin people are less than but this issue is in our community.

Comment on @BlackingItUp #202 | IN 2012 by msladydeborah

msladydeborah — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:32:00 +0000

I see the book ban as the inability of officials to accept what is true about America’s role as a major player in exploiting countries and their indigenous people. Only the sincerely stupid would actually believe that this ban is going to prevent people from telling the truth about America’s role in the world’s story. I find it interesting that within their color blind hysteria they think that this is the way to make things different than what is true.

Comment on @BlackingItUp #202 | IN 2012 by msladydeborah

msladydeborah — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:25:00 +0000

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2012/01/tucson-schools-bans-books-chicano-and-native-american-authors This is a link to one of the articles that I used to post about this situation on my blog site.

Comment on @BlackingItUp #202 | IN 2012 by Jacquelyn Jordan

Jacquelyn Jordan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:21:00 +0000

http://lezgetreal.com/2012/01/tucson-bans-books-by-minority-writers/

Comment on @BlackingItUp #202 | IN 2012 by Yonnie

Yonnie — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:23:00 +0000

Where were they taking books out of students’ hands? Can I get a link?

Comment on A meditation on change by Leesa Brown

Leesa Brown — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:21:00 +0000

Things have changed, but we still have a long way to go. We’re definitely not a “post-racial society” by any means. I hope the movement is forward, and not backwards, but that will depend in large part on who votes, and who sits home. For my part, I will NEVER sit home. I’ll vote if I have to crawl to get to the polls, because it matters. It really, truly matters. Thanks for the article.

Comment on The GOP loves Black People by Elon James White

Elon James White — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:53:00 +0000

Well lets just be honest here–they didn’t really CARE about any of that. And with all the dog whistling that went on you can see why…

Comment on The GOP loves Black People by Lisa Votino-Tarrant

Lisa Votino-Tarrant — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:28:00 +0000

Am I the only one that thought that the republicans having a debate in South Carolina on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was an EPIC failure on behalf of the party? I am pretty sure the clips above will be played 30 years from now to judge the republican party’s progress on civil rights.