Presidential Inauguration 2008: a Conversation with the RNC (probably)

I swear this conversation happened sometime in early 2008 in a Republican Party leader meeting: Let’s complain about everythingggggg the president wants to do and make people disagree with him so his popularity goes down.  Let’s do this on every issue he proposes to fix, even if it’s an issue we agree with him on.  …

SEI Registration is open.

The Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management (SEI) is now taking registrations for this year’s workshop. SEI has a curriculum that will cover various topics including ones that may benefit a future digital librarian. From their website here is a list of some of the topics covered: Intellectual Property Rights Digital Imaging …

Azealia Banks: Mad, Black, and Right

Originally posted on Black Millennials:
By Andre G The media’s misrepresentation of Azealia Banks represents yet another example of outspoken Blackness being purposely misinterpreted by white supremacist propaganda. From Tupac Shakur to Kanye West, so many wildly talented Black artists have garnered an inordinate amount of negative attention for speaking their truths. More troubling is…

Book Reading Stereotypes

African-American Literature: You assume I have read it because I am an fixated Black person, but I haven’t read all of Alex Haley’s Roots, or all of Alice Walkers novels, I’ve never even read Zane. Just don’t assume.  Short Rant finished. 

Tired of all these Autism and ADHD brats!

Originally posted on Pensive Aspie:
When I was a kid they didn’t call it “Behavioral Disorders.”  They called it “Being a little brat!”  This is just ONE of many memes I have seen on my social networks. They are shared by my friends and family. I would like to think that is just the ignorant/uneducated…

“Anglo-American Jurisprudence Tradition”: What That Really Means to a Minority American

“We do not do Justice in American streets, though” said Missouri LT. Governor Peter Kinder on August 19, 2014 on MSNBC. That is the point, dude. Justice was not done in the street and the justice system did not protect the rights of everyone involved. Where was Mike Brown’s “Anglo-American” justice?   If a cop …