Still a Nigga in a Suit
I was working on a Power Point presentation yesterday when a reminder popped up on my screen for a virtual meeting. The firm’s vice president (and fellow Black man), Mr. J.Thomas, would be in attendance and the entire research division was invited. I clicked on the reminder and a video feed of a conference room … Read more
Five things black folk should NOT put on the new Facebook
Social media was perhaps the defining element of the first ten years of the twentieth century. Facebook came along in 2004 and changed the game. Quickly displacing older sites like Black Planet [you remember it, you had one in middle school] and MySpace, right now it claims somewhere around 800 million users. That’s 800 million … Read more
[Clever Title Beginning with "If I . . . "]
If I were to write a blog post in response to Gene Marks’s blog post, then I’d be just like hundreds or even thousands of other bloggers out there, including one of my own blog co-authors, fivefifths. As if this topic hadn’t been commented-on to death at this point, we’ve seen new posts almost daily … Read more
I Was a Poor Black Kid
Well, not that poor. We lived in the hood, I saw some people shot and killed on my block and I had to eat spam and cheese sandwiches a lot as a kid but I’ve seen worse. Both of my parents were together and by the time we moved to the suburbs they both had … Read more
Kwanzaa is Coming….
No disrespect to Kwanzaa or Maulana Karenga or the people who created it and celebrate it, but fuck that noise. I’m tired of getting asked if I celebrate Kwanzaa by white folks who think it’s some type of ancient African tradition that reverberates through the Black cultural memory like Mufasa’s voice. I’m tired of having to … Read more
Flag Day
As an introductory matter, I’d bet my soul and yours that you couldn’t tell me off the top of your head when Flag Day is. Go ahead. I’ll wait . . . . .Ok. Times up. It’s June 14th. It commemorates the adoption of the United State Flag on June 14th, 1777. Bet you didn’t … Read more
I Am Not A Slave
Staff meetings are always weird in my office. My consulting team is very diverse, and everybody’s just trying their best to communicate with each other. We all mediate racial, gender, political and generational differences while trying to figure out what holiday event we’re having this year. During the closing minutes of last week’s meeting, we … Read more
Cool Runnings: The Best Movie Ever
There’s a lot of good movies out there. I’ve seen a lot of them. From watching Citizen Kane to Dr. Strangelove to modern stuff like the Matrix and Inception, I estimate that I’ve spent perhaps three quarters of a year of my life watching movies. I really like them. As a writer, there’s something special … Read more
The Rise and Fall of Herman Cain
Look, I love Herman Cain. If not for anything else, than for the multitude of content that he gave us. I actually considered making a Herman Cain category on the blog. It’s that serious. The man is a freaking gold mine. From wondering if we should have some weird mixture of pride and hate towards … Read more
