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Larry Smith on The Alternate Reality of Bahamian Squatter Settlements

4 August 2011

This is an issue that needs research, reflection, and discussion, not knee-jerking. Larry Smith starts the ball rolling at Bahama Pundit. … the deeper we delve into the so-called ‘Haitian problem’, the more we come face to face with ourselves. The squatter settlements that give rise to so much public angst are a clear example [...]

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Emancipation, or What’s so awful about being the way God made me?

2 August 2011

Trini Attilah Springer writes about Vybz Kartel’s self-mutilation, all in the name of “freedom”: Like a ghoul out of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video that used to give me nightmares back in the 80s, Kartel haunts my mind, and I try to resist the desire to dance, because I can hear his words and they are [...]

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Gilbert Morris on Blackness & The Presumptions of Ultimate Power

28 November 2010

This is an interesting thesis, to say the least. I want to reject it outright, but I am not sure I can. I can certainly see evidence of what Morris is talking about in the case of our own turn-of-the-century leaders; there is a core lack of confidence in the ability—or is it the right?—of [...]

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Please. Don’t Call Me White.

21 July 2010

It’s become fashionable for youngish Bahamians (people in the mid-30s range or so — people born since Independence, that is) to call individuals whose skins are cork-brown, tawny, biscuit brown, tan, paper bag brown, teabag, beige, coconut bark, gumelemi, tamarind, mango, eggshell, café-au-lait, milky tea, carnation, condensed milk, or thereabouts “white”. To be a “white” [...]

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What White Privilege is All About: “Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black” – Tim Wise

26 April 2010

Just a little wake-up post, to say that yes, I am indeed Back from Belfast, and that yes, I’ll be writing about that after I am finished with the marking that I still have, despite working solidly at it over the past week or so. (It does help when students observe deadlines.) Got to this [...]

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The Gaulin Wife: Making Connections

29 January 2010

This is not the crux of Helen’s post, but I chose it to inspire people to want to read the whole thing. It’s crucial reading. I have to remind myself to continue making connections, and to look for the triumphant in the stories of disaster, to look for the survivance in them, for the ways [...]

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Womanish Words: Teach the Children Well

29 January 2010

Hear, hear, Lynn. It upsets me when I hear the little children I know and love speaking in the the racist/religious/hateful language of the local Bahamian press/the moneyed elite/the generally ignorant. There are probably more than a million orphan children struggling to get through the day today in Haiti. It is natural for children to [...]

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The arrest of, and dropping of charges against, Henry Louis Gates

21 July 2009

If I had been able to, if this blog were not still acting up, I’d’ve been on time posting this story, which caught like wildfire and spread across the web; I’d’ve posted it yesterday. As it is, I’m tempted to raise it in the seminars that I’m attending as part of this faculty meeting at [...]

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Came across this while searching for something else

23 October 2008

And it’s worth another visit, and another. BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS A BLOGSITE FOR THE PRAISING OF ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL AND SUBLIME IN HONOR OF ALL BLACK WOMEN. A BLOGSITE TO SPEAK THE TRUTH OF BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN AMERICA. “ONLY THE BLACK WOMAN CAN SAY “WHEN AND [...]

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“Red”

16 June 2008

Geoffrey Philp reads a poem here, called “Red”. It’s about being in between. As Philp writes: And while this poem does not adhere strictly to the form [the ghazal], it did allow me to play with the word “red,” which at the start of the poem refers to a biracial person or “half-caste.”    

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