Hello to All--
Thank you for joining me for Show #15. I was pleased with the response to the last show. Not that I was the apple of everyone's eye, but least people are thinking. It's always a difficult decision to take on people and institutions that have always been a part of your community, locally or nationally. But, of course, I've always been the one to say that "the emperor has no clothes on." I hope that the Congressional Black Caucus will recogonize that the course of professional aggrandizement and self promotion can not and will not help Black America--but of course it hasn't been about that for a very long time. The annual love fest-cum-fashion show, commonly known as--yes, I meant "commonly" that way--"Caucus Weekend" has been a sham for so long, it doesn't even recognize itself. If there is a REAL agenda for Black America that comes out of that meeting every fall, it's been MIA for so many year now that not even Jack Bauer in 48 could track it down.
To you folks that thought me disrespectful of black preachers and the black church--get over it. Maybe you're too afraid to ask where your dollars are going--apparently, to lot'o life size posters and cut outs. Perhaps when you're ready to buy a home in the next millennium, when housing prices drop below 700K for a 1 bedroom/half bath, you can ask, "Pastor, can you spare a dime?"
If anyone is wondering about my all out girly issues at the end of the show--you know, the make up and hair bit at the end--don't panic. Just something a bit light, it's summer after all and ABWs everywhere have these issues. When I designed the logo for the show last year, I immediately started calling it the "angry hair" logo (you know, black women and hair issue--inseparable). I didn't realize then how that sentiment would come full circle and who the messenger would be (you have to listen to find out). So here's to summer, being hot, sweat, bad nappy hair, good nappy hair, loose, swayin' in the breeze linen drapped over swayin' in the breeze hips of all shapes and sizes. Let the sounds of Corey Harris waft through your space, take a long drink from a very tall, very cold glass of iced tea and STAY COOL!
Show #15
-- Listener mail
-- The ABW Commentary--Graduations. Whose pomp(ous) and what circumstance?
-- See Barack Run? TIME's Joe Klein says he Isn't Not
-- White Guilt, When? Where? What world does George F. Will of Newsweek live in? The world according to Shelby Steele of course!
--The Gangs of New Orleans. New Orleans moved and they found it again. Let the murder, meyhem, death and dismemberment begin. And you better keep your mouth shut. Yahoo, y'all!
-- Stepping Over the Line. A brief story of immigration from the other side of the fence.
-- The Strange Genius of Oprah from The New Republic
-- All the fluff that's fit to print. The big cover up, why women of color can't find good cosmetics from the Villiage Voice
-- My confused and angry wash and go hair
-- Corey Harris doesn't have to ask for directions from Mississippi to Mali
Just as a reminder, only the show topics are downloaded with the podcast. Any other ABW musings and astute observations are posted on her website which is unbelievably free of links and ads (which may be a unfortunate testment to her website's popularity, but that's an issue for another time.)
See ya next time, Sunny.
