From the monthly archives:

June 2007

On Images of Savages, Part Three

28 June 2007

Don’t tell me — the horse is almost dead, and there’s no sense in flogging it much more. I know. The thing is, while you may think that I’ve made my point about race and related subjects (several times over), there’s still one more contribution I’d like to make.
I’d like to catalogue the images [...]

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Acknowledgement of Inspiration

24 June 2007

Blogs are funny things. They inspire writing, but they don’t always encourage the acknowledgement of other inspiration. Unlike academic writing, they are easy to dash off, seductive almost, not always conducive to the recognition of sources. Oh, they allow us to link to other blogs and websites. That’s easy. But [...]

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Race, prejudice, and other things

22 June 2007

Over on Weblog Bahamas, Rick Lowe has joined the dialogue in a formal way. He’s posted an essay of his that was published in The Bahama Journal some 10 years ago for consideration. I suggest you go read it, and remember there are always many sides to the same story. He provides [...]

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On Images of Savages, Part Two

21 June 2007

The thing about writing about race and related stuff, it seems, is that it stimulates considerable discussion. I’m not at all sure that everybody who wants to say something has said it; but the number of comments I’ve received to my face and on the blogs where my essays appear suggest that there’s a [...]

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R.I.P. Barbara Yaralli, 1929?-2007

20 June 2007

I don’t remember how old she was. She was around the age of my father’s brother, Paul, who was born in 1929, which would make Barbara Yaralli around 77 or 78. She died yesterday at 5:30 p.m. in the States — either in Indiana or Illinois, whichever daughter she was living nearby.
I first [...]

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Announcing Jaxon Elijah Bethel

17 June 2007

Born June 16, 2007, to Eddie and Tasha Bethel in Montreal, Canada.

Yay-hay!

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It’s Friday

15 June 2007

and I’m dressing down, in more ways than one.
Enjoy this theme till the next time it breaks.

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On Images of Savages, Part One

13 June 2007

Recently I’ve been exploring the idea of race. It’s not because I want to cause trouble. It’s because I believe I don’t have much choice. Despite the happy-talk about there not being any real problem any more, ours is a society plagued by self-loathing. As “blacks”, we hate ourselves for [...]

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R.I.P. Ousmane Sembène

12 June 2007

Sembène, the Senegalese filmmaker and novelist, died after a long illness on Sunday past.
Here’s more on his passing:
Ousmane Sembene, the Senegalese filmmaker and writer who was a crucial figure in the African postcolonial cultural awakening, has died at his home in Dakar, Senegal. His family, which announced his death Sunday, said Sembene had been ill [...]

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Life, in its madness

8 June 2007

rears its head again.
Last week I was in Cat Island for the Rake ‘n’ Scrape Festival. No, there is no web site for it. The weekend was good stuff — more from the point of view of Cat Island than of the Festival, which was a let-down for all concerned. The Festival [...]

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