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“So what the hell are we talking about when we say, “adoptee perspective?” And why am I even thinking about this?”
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“In that sense, this announcement was a formality, or a play for some positive press. What it really does, however, is underscore how well positioned progressive are to play in Barack Obama’s Washington.”
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“I went to see The Love Guru with hackles raised and claws sharpened. I came to bury, not to praise. But 87 IQ-draining minutes of fart jokes, midget jokes, and sight gags [...] later, I came out slightly charmed, humming the Guru Pitka song”
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“An art show currently up at the Arlington Arts Center called “She’s So Articulate,” claims that the art world dominance of Walker’s narrative leaves no room for other black, female narratives.”
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“Many Sunday paper readers will find Rise Up, a Kansas-City-based weekly magazine that purports to “celebrate race and ethnicity and help us better understand our differences, celebrate our commonalities and build a great foundation to bridge the gaps t
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“I’m going to go back,” Lee affirmed, “not just to New Orleans but to other areas affected, because it’s not over. [...] “What the press is not really talking about is the mental state…suicide, self-medication,” he revealed. “It’s horrible.
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“Now singer Michelle Williams has exposed the network on her blog saying BET execs refuse to play her music because it isn’t “urban enough” [...]
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“[Masi Oka] had a few problems with the last season of “Heroes.” For one thing, the kendo enthusiast through the show squandered its feudal Japan setting. “It was such a great era full of big samurai sword fights. We did a 10-second one at the end, and it
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“[Q:] How many comics do you have in your collection? [A]: I can’t count [them all], man. But it has to be over 25,000.” More reason to love Method Man – LDP
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“The feature will lampoon the Middle East, American politics, Arab Americans, Arab-Israeli relations, and “everything that deserves to be shish-kebab-ed!,” Hanania told E&P.”
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“Yobachi’s got all the facts at The Jena Six Blog. The NAACP has finally released a report on their Jena 6 activities and fundraising. As a member, I’m disgusted.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Elton wrote:
Re: Masi Oka Interview
“Seriously! There are alligators and cats and dogs and dinosaurs. It’s going to be awesome!”
HE HAD ME AT “DINOSAURS.”
Posted 22 Jun 2008 at 1:32 pm ¶
Fiqah wrote:
Re: Kara Walker critics – awful, just upsetting. Her work is brilliant, her success is deserved, and the onus is on the art hegemony to not pit artists against one another by abandoning its elitist posturing and EMBRACING ART.
Posted 22 Jun 2008 at 4:10 pm ¶
gothic guera wrote:
there is only one reason I want to see the love guru, and that is John Oliver. I’m not sure if it worth wasting $7 for something I may regret.
Posted 22 Jun 2008 at 5:55 pm ¶
marge twain wrote:
Nice Masi Oka interview. I like that he takes it upon himself to do translaations in his character’s voice. I can’t believe he’s 33.
Even that positive review of The Love Guru makes it sound wretched. I don’t think my expectations go that low. Is Mike Myers attempting to fill a diversity quotient? In that case I’d like less diversity, please.
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 2:14 am ¶
Mary wrote:
Masi Oka rocks, he seems like one of the most down-to-earth celebrities you could find. And the answer about his costars’ skeevy relationship was very, er, diplomatic.
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 9:03 am ¶
Matt wrote:
I followed that Arab Writers’ Group link. Though there are only a few cartoons there (the focus of the link), the article are very odd. This one , ‘Egyptian brokered “truce” undermines peace and strengthens Hamas,’ is the typical position held by American Jews. It’s the sort of position for which Jews get called “pro-Israel” or “Zionist” as coded slurs. It was appealing, even comforting, to see Hanania write that. But then this one on Obama ‘pandering to Jewish Vote,’ contains (together with the moderation that must have led to the other article) a very typical “Jews control America” sort of antisemitism. He writes:
Ummm, hello? Sixty-two percent. The fact that it’s smaller than past Democrats have gotten does not mean that it’s somehow less than 62 percent. White, American Jews are the most pro-Obama whites in the country, yet somehow it becomes a story about Jews withholding their votes. That’s absurd. Not to mention that Clinton didn’t poll so much better among Jews, which shows that it isn’t Jews being against Obama, but Jews being more favorable to McCain (as have been, I think, many Democrats) than to most other Republicans.
In the end, to say that Jews are more powerful in American politics than American Arabs are (which is true, though it ignores the very powerful influence of Arab oil producing states and Bandar Bush), shifts conversation away from actual policy matters. Sometimes that can be important to establish “ground rules,” but here, I think, it only obscures the fact that Hanania is largely in agreement with most American Jews!
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 9:39 am ¶
DEAF FEMINIST PUNK!! wrote:
WHY CAN’T PEOPLE BE PROUD FOR ONCE that there’s a successful young Black Female artist (Kara Walker), but nope, people wanna be jealous and petty and say nasty things, putting her down.
People always complain that there aren’t enough black artists in the art world, and then when there’s ONE successful artist, peopel still wanna talk shit.
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 10:19 am ¶
Persia wrote:
Masi Oka never stops being adorable. I love that he is apparently a Hiro/Charlie shipper like me.
The NAACP link is tremendously depressing. The overhead costs are high, but the fundraising numbers are ridiculously low– one of my friends raised $1800 in a whip-round for another friend two months ago, with nothing but some emails and a locked LJ community!
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 10:20 am ¶
kiki wrote:
It would seem that Henry Thaggert is using Kara Walker’s fame to bolster his own curatorial ambitions. He creates the straw man that she “owns the black narrative,”(the?) and then posits his show “an attempt to reclaim the narrative” from her. Tilting at windmills. I had this flash of him trying to snatch the scissors out of her hand. Sad.
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 12:09 pm ¶
Wanderinglady wrote:
Charity Navigator, a website that evaluates charities, gave the NAACP one star (out of four). The NAACP also makes Charity Navigator’s list of “10 Highly Paid CEO’s at Low-Rated Charities”. According to the description of this list, “The leaders of these 10 organizations are taking high salaries at the expense of spending dollars on the charity’s programs. Despite receiving more than $250,000 in annual pay, these CEO’s run organizations that devote less than 60% of their budgets to their programs and services. That means that at least 40% of your dollars are going to such costs as fundraising and administration, including the salary of the CEO.” The salary of the NAACP’s CEO is $320,975. The link is here: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=topten.detail&listid=8
Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 2:33 pm ¶