NNQueen
06-30-2004, 12:57 PM
Brief snippets from the newsletter, "Negrophile":
"Until he sees a strategy that will energize black voters." --John Kerry
Noting that Bill Clinton was sometimes called America's first black President, Kerry said earlier this year, "I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second." Responds a senior Clinton Administration official who is black: "That ain't gonna happen. He's not going to out-Clinton Clinton, and if he tried, he would look phony."
"A history of the African American tank battalion"
The irony of coming home to segregation after liberating Nazi concentration camps has been listed as one of the inspirations for the civil rights movement. Long-overdue recognition of the 761st began in 1978 with the Presidential Unit Citation for Extraordinary Heroism awarded by President Jimmy Carter. What could you add to the record?
'It's hard telling your mother that you don't want to look like her when you're 50.'
Long before Janet Jackson revealed a little too much of her body, Tanisha Rollins was obsessed with having one just like it. After watching the singer strut in a 1993 video, Rollins embarked on a quest for washboard abs. For the next decade she stuck to a rigorous regimen. But her abs pretty much stayed the same. Then a friend skipped all the hard work and got a tummy tuck. "I was just like, 'What magazines have you been reading?!' says Rollins, 29, an administrative assistant in Dayton, Ohio. She thought nipping and tucking was only for "rich white people and Michael Jackson," not African-American women like her, making $30,000 a year.
'This is about the kids of recent arrivals beating out the black indigenous middle-class kids.'
At the most recent reunion of Harvard University's black alumni, there was lots of pleased talk about the increase in the number of black students at Harvard. While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard's undergraduates are black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law professor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Harvard's African and African-American studies department, pointed out that the majority of them — perhaps as many as two-thirds — are West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples.
'The black community in this state is as savvy as any other.'
"You can no longer barbecue a pig the weekend before the election and think you're going to turn out the African-American vote."
"We clean up just fine with a little soap"
The nation's largest advertiser, the Procter & Gamble Company, is moving ahead with plans made a year ago to give far higher priority to advertising aimed at black consumers through an innovative, multimillion-dollar agreement with Tom Joyner, a leading personality in urban radio.
'You'd think the end of slavery would be a holiday for all Americans.'
Tomorrow morning, Joe Kings of Portland, Me., will be up at dawn to get the fire going. Every year on the third Saturday in June, Mr. Kings's barbecued ribs, corn and spicy red beans draw hundreds of Maine residents — most of them white — to his celebration of a Texas holiday once celebrated only by blacks: Juneteenth.
'But whatever you do, be a master of something.'
"We owe everything to n------, Ralph. We wouldn't have our jobs if it wasn't for n------. The only reason we have these fancy mainstream media jobs now is because poor, ghetto black folks rioted after Martin was murdered. The inner cities were on fire, and it was too **** hot for white reporters to go in the 'hood and find out what was going on. So they gave notebooks and pens to the black janitors and told them to go find out what was going on. We owe our jobs to the ghetto folks who were mad as hell, refused to take it anymore and started tossing around Molotov Cocktails. Poor blacks do all the dirty work and middle class blacks reap the benefits. All the real freedom fighters die early, go to jail and never get to enjoy the freedom they won."
Welcome Cosby contrarianism 'neath the Gateway Arch.
[...] But the truth is that education and economic indicators show that African-Americans are doing better than they've ever done, largely because of the gains made by those low-income blacks, according to data from "Black Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook."
And in some cases, the poorest African Americans do a better job than upscale African-Americans in outperforming their white counterparts, the book says.
'We like to say we reverted, not converted.'
When he's out of town and worships in an unfamiliar synagogue, Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr. tends to draw stares.
An African-American Jew, Funnye wears a skullcap and reads psalms in Hebrew while draped in a prayer shawl. At the end of the service, he says, some worshiper inevitably asks in amazement, "Are you Jewish?"
"No, I was walking by and I found this stuff outside," he likes to answer. "And I wanted to come in and see how it worked."
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Read the entire issue here. It's filled with interesting information about Black folk:
http://www.negrophile.com/
Queenie :spinstar:
"Until he sees a strategy that will energize black voters." --John Kerry
Noting that Bill Clinton was sometimes called America's first black President, Kerry said earlier this year, "I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second." Responds a senior Clinton Administration official who is black: "That ain't gonna happen. He's not going to out-Clinton Clinton, and if he tried, he would look phony."
"A history of the African American tank battalion"
The irony of coming home to segregation after liberating Nazi concentration camps has been listed as one of the inspirations for the civil rights movement. Long-overdue recognition of the 761st began in 1978 with the Presidential Unit Citation for Extraordinary Heroism awarded by President Jimmy Carter. What could you add to the record?
'It's hard telling your mother that you don't want to look like her when you're 50.'
Long before Janet Jackson revealed a little too much of her body, Tanisha Rollins was obsessed with having one just like it. After watching the singer strut in a 1993 video, Rollins embarked on a quest for washboard abs. For the next decade she stuck to a rigorous regimen. But her abs pretty much stayed the same. Then a friend skipped all the hard work and got a tummy tuck. "I was just like, 'What magazines have you been reading?!' says Rollins, 29, an administrative assistant in Dayton, Ohio. She thought nipping and tucking was only for "rich white people and Michael Jackson," not African-American women like her, making $30,000 a year.
'This is about the kids of recent arrivals beating out the black indigenous middle-class kids.'
At the most recent reunion of Harvard University's black alumni, there was lots of pleased talk about the increase in the number of black students at Harvard. While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard's undergraduates are black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law professor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Harvard's African and African-American studies department, pointed out that the majority of them — perhaps as many as two-thirds — are West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples.
'The black community in this state is as savvy as any other.'
"You can no longer barbecue a pig the weekend before the election and think you're going to turn out the African-American vote."
"We clean up just fine with a little soap"
The nation's largest advertiser, the Procter & Gamble Company, is moving ahead with plans made a year ago to give far higher priority to advertising aimed at black consumers through an innovative, multimillion-dollar agreement with Tom Joyner, a leading personality in urban radio.
'You'd think the end of slavery would be a holiday for all Americans.'
Tomorrow morning, Joe Kings of Portland, Me., will be up at dawn to get the fire going. Every year on the third Saturday in June, Mr. Kings's barbecued ribs, corn and spicy red beans draw hundreds of Maine residents — most of them white — to his celebration of a Texas holiday once celebrated only by blacks: Juneteenth.
'But whatever you do, be a master of something.'
"We owe everything to n------, Ralph. We wouldn't have our jobs if it wasn't for n------. The only reason we have these fancy mainstream media jobs now is because poor, ghetto black folks rioted after Martin was murdered. The inner cities were on fire, and it was too **** hot for white reporters to go in the 'hood and find out what was going on. So they gave notebooks and pens to the black janitors and told them to go find out what was going on. We owe our jobs to the ghetto folks who were mad as hell, refused to take it anymore and started tossing around Molotov Cocktails. Poor blacks do all the dirty work and middle class blacks reap the benefits. All the real freedom fighters die early, go to jail and never get to enjoy the freedom they won."
Welcome Cosby contrarianism 'neath the Gateway Arch.
[...] But the truth is that education and economic indicators show that African-Americans are doing better than they've ever done, largely because of the gains made by those low-income blacks, according to data from "Black Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook."
And in some cases, the poorest African Americans do a better job than upscale African-Americans in outperforming their white counterparts, the book says.
'We like to say we reverted, not converted.'
When he's out of town and worships in an unfamiliar synagogue, Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr. tends to draw stares.
An African-American Jew, Funnye wears a skullcap and reads psalms in Hebrew while draped in a prayer shawl. At the end of the service, he says, some worshiper inevitably asks in amazement, "Are you Jewish?"
"No, I was walking by and I found this stuff outside," he likes to answer. "And I wanted to come in and see how it worked."
________________________________________
Read the entire issue here. It's filled with interesting information about Black folk:
http://www.negrophile.com/
Queenie :spinstar: