It just unimaginable AND un-American that a country is okay with "rebuilidng and safeguarding" a country in the Middle East that we really don't respect on any level and we are not in the streets because a major American city has not been rebuilt....



Today is the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina that destroyed New Orleans. Yes, the city has rallied back but it's really a skeleton of a city with a glorious past on many levels. Really. Like a metaphor from a silly horror flick where random bones form a skeletal frame and muscular mass is added then it tries to lift itself up but in this case, the ever present gale force of a lack of government that lacks an agenda, hardly cares and incompetence o many levels won't allow it to stand upright and walk.

And there are a lot of will's from the people trying to get on [...]

Again, I try and stay away from politics in the US AND politics within the black community avoiding a few years dropping of my time on earth.....

BUT the personal is the political thus, like raindrops on a rainy day; some things just can't avoid getting wet:)

And Michael Vick has been on my mind and can' t even think straight when I think about his arrogance, bravado and now the poor put-upon, misunderstood overpaid jock; and the swell of black supporters with that tiresome illogical blind allegiance to the cruelest MF in popular media.

And yes, one can sidestep the cruelty and debate about the origins of dog fighting, cockfighting, bullfights, etc. but ALL forms of cruelty/oppression are bad to the bone no matter how one chooses to slice and dice it EVEN if the perpetrator is from a [...]

Can the Catwalk Be a Model for Change? Elite Agency's Casting Call In Poorer Suburbs of Paris Reflects Integration Efforts
By MARIE VALLA
July 6, 2007; Page B1

ROSNY-SOUS-BOIS, Paris -- One night in November 2005 in this low-income suburb of Paris, angry teenagers torched a bus and tried to break into a shopping mall. The riot was one of many violent insurrections that month in impoverished areas across France by immigrant youths who were clamoring for more jobs, better schools and an equal social standing in this country.

Earlier this week, Esther Gomis, the 18-year-old daughter of a Senegalese hairdresser, rode the elevator of the same Rosny shopping center with big hopes for her future: She was headed for a casting call by a French unit of Elite Model Management Corp., [...]

(orig. published on Pambazuka News 2007-03-22)

A biannual source of tremendous local pride, the largest cultural event on the continent, and the premiere pan-African film festival worldwide, FESPACO (Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou) , is the destination of African film cinephiles, film and media industry professionals, actors, journalists and film critics, festival programmers, film students and filmmakers. The festival was created in 1969 and always held in Ouagadougou but after a government decree in 1972, FESPACO became an institution. The theme for the 20th edition of the 2007 festival is 'The Actor in the Creation and Promotion of African Films'.

Ouaga, a bustling, moped-saturated, smoldering capitol city is a paradise for lovers of African cinema. The [...]

This is painful….
I really respect and like Oprah…

But the South African school venture  IS troubling and why does it have to be so over the top and only one…I’ve always thought that maybe 6 more very nice, well-equipped, fully-resourced schools could have been built for the cost of that one exceptional school where less than 500 students attend! That’s nuts!

She's endorsed the self-help book, The Secret. The book is a pure juju juice hybrid of deep-dish armchair psychology, champagne bubble spirituality and feel good "Actualization" hooey...

I’ve been fearing that she’s heading towards a “cult of personality” syndrome for some time. She’s SO huge and SO praised and SO rich that she’s about to believe her hype, thus giving herself this goddess status…

Watch out, Oprah, girl! The air get’s really [...]