Inside from the Inside

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRO_D5eUOE] Living in Harlem, I’ve been seeing Asian tourists coming uptown for years, and that would little suprise most people. What might get their attention, though, is that many of these sojourners don’t come here just to eat at Sylvia’s, or merely to sit in the back of Abyssinian Baptist Church and hear its choir’s [...]

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The other day I was surfing through some websites reviewing some sites for client work and I came upon the YWCA website for Greenwich, CT.

Now, if you’ve ever been to Greenwich, CT, you’d know that it’s not the most racially or ethnically diverse place in the world. ‘Nuff said?
So, I was shocked amazed interested to see this verbiage at the top, left-hand side of the web page:

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……………“The mind is a terrible thing to develop without supervision.” ……………………………. ~ In Living Color . . Neuroscientists tell me that the mind is the Last Frontier. Astrophysicists cry “Nay! It’s Outer Space!” Oceanographers chuckle quietly in the corner. You can tell it’s an inside joke. You are standing on a precipice overlooking the Grand [...]

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Pamela Colman Smith was a painter whose legacy, at least in part because of her race, has been in danger of being forever lost in obscurity. Although Pamela was born February 16th, 1878 in Middlesex, England, the country where she lived most of her life, she was the daughter of African Americans. She also spent [...]

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Great Oscar Wilde quote on a Catholic New Yorker’s blog today: Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. America, and Americans, cannot undo what has been done.  It is there, it is written, it is recorded, it has already been experienced.  It is still being experienced, right now, in different forms [...]

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Racism and hate mongering comes in many shapes and forms. One recent example is the Neo Nazi fundamentalist that went on a shooting spree at the Holocaust museum. That case was a clear cut black and white story,  but racism often hides behind the mask painted in shades of gray?  It’s as simple as the [...]

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Can you imagine the look on Jon Stewart’s face when he landed a copy of the new National Review? Bizarrely, it depicts Sonia Sotomayor, the catholic, Latina Supreme Court nominee, as a Tibetan Buddhist. In trying to re-construct what must have been the editorial rationale for this cover design, I kept thinking… um… WTF? A while [...]

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Did white women have a rabid response to Asher Roth’s recent April Fool Day’s “remake”, right, of D’Angelo’s 2000 “Untitled (How Does It Feel?)”, left? You know: The kind you’ve seen erupt over and over in Black females since D near-dangled his dingle on MTV. Even more, what’s weirder: That the pallid Roth would choose [...]

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This is what Wells Fargo employees called the African American  targets of their “ghetto loan” program designed to steer these folks into high interest subprime mortgages.  The Sunday NY Times outlines the details of this sleazy practice including the creation of  an ” affinity marketing section” which hired blacks to call on African American churches [...]

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You might not know who Rotimi Adebari is. I sure as heck didn’t.

Between June 2007 and 2008, he was the mayor of Portlaoise, Ireland.

Apparently in Ireland, when you’re the mayor, you keep your “day job”. Being the Mayor is not your jay-oh.

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