links for 2006-11-03

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  1. rafi wrote:

    Why She Real Cool gave up on articles like that one from the Washington Post:
    http://sherealcool.blogspot.com/2006/10/there-there.html

    Similarly, I can’t click on the above link for a story whose excerpt reads

    “The commercial hip hop that began as an authentic outcry from the voiceless masses…”

    Cliche revisionist b.s.

    Try rocking a party for the voiceless masses. I imagine that might be quite difficult.

  2. Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:

    Oh yeah I really enjoyed that post on Why She Real Cool and actually linked to it here awhile back – didn’t realize it was about this article.

    It seems like there’s been a lot of talk lately about feminism/misogyny in hip hop. I’d like to do a roundtable discussion about it on our podcast, Addicted to Race. I have a few folks in mind, but if any of you have suggestions for people who would make good guests to discuss this topic, please let me know! You can either comment here on email us at addictedtorace@gmail.com

  3. Lyonside wrote:

    >why hasn’t anyone brought up the fact that probably the most racist material this election season has seen has been coming out of a conservative black man’s office?…”

    For the same reason that the most virulent homophobes are almost always exposed as having… shall we just say, issues.. with their own sexual identity :)

  4. Lyonside wrote:

    Re: teaching black culture.

    The article had a painful line: when the author was upset because someone called her black and ugly, the parent’s response was “You’re not black to me.”

    OMG – WRONG ANSWER! But if you DID see her as black, she’d be ugly?!? Someone else is black and therefore ugly?!? Where’s a slap to the back of the head when you need it?

    I’m not a TRA, but it’s similar to how many white parents deal with incidents happening to their biological multiracial kids – denial (it wasn’t meant that way), dismissal (just ignore it), and race-blindness ( I don’t see race/color *sorry, couldn’t find another D-word*).

  5. Donna Darko wrote:

    Here are some links I’ve come across lately with possible names for your roundtable.

    http://www.geocities.com/progressive_women/

    http://csrpc.uchicago.edu/fhhc/bios.shtml

    http://www.2006hiphopconvention.org/program.html

    http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/40441

    http://www.alternet.org/story/37815/