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Jun
28
On Images of Savages, Part Three
June 28, 2007 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Jun
24
Acknowledgement of Inspiration
June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Jun
22
Race, prejudice, and other things
June 22, 2007 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Jun
21
On Images of Savages, Part Two
June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Jun
20
R.I.P. Barbara Yaralli, 1929?-2007
June 20, 2007 | 3 Comments
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 [...]
Jun
17
Announcing Jaxon Elijah Bethel
June 17, 2007 | 1 Comment
Born June 16, 2007, to Eddie and Tasha Bethel in Montreal, Canada.
Yay-hay!
Jun
15
It’s Friday
June 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment
and I’m dressing down, in more ways than one.
Enjoy this theme till the next time it breaks.
Jun
13
On Images of Savages, Part One
June 13, 2007 | 10 Comments
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 being [...]
Jun
12
R.I.P. Ousmane Sembène
June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Jun
8
Life, in its madness
June 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]