moving
i'm moving to wordpress. hoping to start blogging on a semi-regular basis again. we'll see.
2006 was a big year for me, but it doesn't feel that way.
Jersey Rain
Time magazine has an opinion piece this week by James C. Dobson about Mary Cheney and her female partner, who are now pregnant with their first child.
"...researchers have determined that boys are not born with an understanding of 'maleness.' They have to learn it, ideally from their fathers."
i was going to post this poem last week, but it seems even more apropos today.
who's gonna make all
that beautiful blk/rhetoric
mean something.
like
I mean
who's gonna take
words
blk/beautiful
and make more of it
than blk/capitalism.
u dig?
i mean
like who's gonna
take all the young/long/haired/
natural/brothers and sisters
and let them
grow till
all that is
imp't is them
selves
moving in straight/
revolutionary/lines/toward the enemy
(and we know who that is)
like. man.
who's gonna give our young
blk people new heros[. . . .]
( instead of quick/fucks
in the hall/way of
white/america's
mind)
like. this. is an S.0.S.
me. calling. . . .
calling. . . .
some/one.
pleasereplysoon.~sonia sanchez
i saw a brief snippet of fox news last night (no, i don't regularly watch fox news).
i subscribe to my college newspaper via email. even tho i graduated several years ago (nearly five, wow) it's a nice way to keep in touch with what is going on there.
Applicants must submit two essays, one describing the applicant's ancestry and one describing "what it means to you to be a Caucasian-American today."
"While I can see the controversy over scholarships toward specific ethnic groups, we need to keep in mind its intention," she said. "The [group-specific] scholarship is there to increase the interest of students in that group to continue their education and reach the equality that we all strive for."
Richards described himself as going into "a rage" over the two audience members who interrupted his act Friday at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. Richards responded to the black hecklers with repeated use of the "n word" and profanities.
"I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this," Richards said, his tone becoming angry and frustrated as he defended himself.