Model Minority "Thugs, Feminists and Boom Bap"

It Was Racist

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:36:00 +0000

I was reluctant about today's class going in. . We read Mary Waters Ethnic Options and her book Black Identity. I reviewed Black Identity which focuses on the process of West Indian...

Tyler Perry x Morehouse x Real Black Men

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:03:00 +0000

Speaking to my homie Jonzey the other night, I was trying to convince her to go see Good Hair, she refused. I said you must go to see Sharpton's clear disdain for and anger towards Black ...

The Classroom is a Political Space

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:24:00 +0000

Over the last few weeks, one of the hardest things, for me to navigate has been deciding when to talk and when to shut up. This has been an issue in all of my classes. Yet, it has manifest itself...

Single Ladies, Nasty Bitches and Interracial Hoes

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:40:00 +0000

The sexual contradiction in American culture is both pervasive and powerful. While doing research on Latina teen pregnancy last week, I came across a narrative where a young woman said, "I heard...

The Futility or Perhaps the Profoundness of Whiteness

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:56:00 +0000

I searched for a Black and White image. I found Bobby K. You know I LOVE Bobby. Blackness can only be understood in terms of Whiteness. I came to this conclusion after reading Elsa Barkley...

I Miss Y'all

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:50:00 +0000

Things have been busy. Even if I don't write as much, I still think about you all, about writing, about the essays, the conversations. Being in school has reminded me just how special it is...

Graduate School vs. Law School

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:35:00 +0000

American Gothic by Gordon Parks I have started school. There are three material things that I see as being different from grad school than law school. In law school, I had to read material that...

20 Questions Monday

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:26:00 +0000

1. What would have happened if, instead of resigning Van Jones forced the White House to fire him? 2. Have you seen this 2009 Van Jones/Willie Hortonesque video put out by Meg Whitmans...

20 Questions Mercury in Retrograde Edition

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:54:00 +0000

1. Why don't we just run out of the grocery store with all of our groceries instead of standing in those long assed lines, houngary? 2. What are you reading? 3. Do you have healthcare? 4....

Twenty Question 's Monday

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Via Post Secret 1. How you feel? 2. When was the last time you were caught reading something you had no business? 3. Why am I just now watching the Chappelle show? 4. Why have I made headway...

Capitalism is for Suckas: or, How Constructive Capitalism is our Future

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:11:00 +0000

Note: This post grew out of two things. One is a post that I wrote last week on how the Crack Epidemic was in its essence pure capitalism and my personal transformation from a person who wanted to be...

The Term, Woman of Color: Race is Hard

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:55:00 +0000

via Zinc Plate Press Last week, I was watching a sex scene involving three nude men in the film Short Bus and said to my friend, who is white, "Wow, white folks have called us colored but they...

Twenty Questions Saturdays 8.15.09

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:49:00 +0000

1. Why they make the Asian dude in The Hangover act like a stereotypical, loud, Black, drag queen? 2. What would Black bloggers write about if there was no more (institutional) white racism? 3....

Wanted: Your Short Essays

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:40:00 +0000

I am currently reading Adrienne Rich's essay "Teaching Open Language in Admissions" and I have decided to run a series of short essays or posts on my educational experience. I have come to the...

Musing on War Money and Art Money In the University

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:23:00 +0000

via Ican Have public and private universities decided to trade arts education for nuclear weapons? While writing about the white and Black consumption of Black death in hip hop last May, I came...

Sponsorship and Biases: Musing on The Crack Game and Investment Banking

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:53:00 +0000

The crack game, in it's essence, is pure capitalism. Profit, over people, at all costs. Eliminate enemies at all costs. Take out the dominant political regime or competition at all costs....

Health Care's Perfect Storm Brewing

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:25:00 +0000

See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson - Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com - Email this Cartoon Frank Rich wrote about President Obama, and the battle over health care here. The most insightful...

Twenty Questions Friday 8.7.09

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:02:00 +0000

1. Why bank fees make me almost have a coronary? 2. Why am I my fathers child? 3. Even though Manaen tells me, what seems like once a week, why is it so hard to forgive, even if the act is for...

So Apparently, I am a Man

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:34:00 +0000

The same techniques used by white folks to keep Black men in check, Black men use to keep Black women in check. Last week on Twitter, I was chatting with @shehateme. He mentioned something,...

Writers Block

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:50:00 +0000

What do you all want me to write about? I know I used to ask this on a more frequent basis. I decided to do so today, because......I need help deciding. You see, I spent the weekend in NYC and I...

Twenty Questions Saturdays {I Know, Late Black Girl}

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:10:00 +0000

Life caught up with me yesterday, hence by ability to provide you with the much beloved, 20 Questions Fridays, on a Saturday. 1. Why is it so hard to acknowledge that hip hop has an impact on how...

Super Michael Jackson Brothers

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:42:00 +0000

I haven't played Super Mario in more than 10 if not 15 years, yet I still remembered some of the sequences. Creepy. Remember freezing a game in the morning and coming back home to try and play it...

In 5 Easy Steps

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:21:00 +0000

I let my anger kill a relationship once in '07. I didn't really let the anger kill it, but I wasn't mindful of the ways in which my coping mechanisms were impacting my relationship. This summer, I...

20 Questions Friday {7.24.09}

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:23:00 +0000

Love, Love, Love Shiny Black Girls. 1. Why is it so hard for Black people to understand that CNN, Cornel West and Dyson will always talk about Black poverty because it makes them money? 2. Why...

{Black} Feminism 101: Crib Sheet

m.dotwrites@gmail.com (m.dot) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:40:00 +0000

Note: "I eat the pussy, the pussy I eat." Yup. Those are the lyrics. Yup. Those are children on the stage. Further evidence that BET/Lil Wayne and Drake are a symptom of the problem, not the...