That's what the I'm talking about. All you Morris Chestnut chocolate boy wonders. All you Denzel Washington mocha macks. All you Mekhi Phifer/Omar Epps/Michael K. Williams/Derek Luke/Pete Rock mofos, I got two words for you--Time's. Up.
I had a high-yellow friend who always used to say that light-skinned brothers are gonna make a comeback. Just wait, he'd say, the halcyon days of Al B. Sure will return. I never realized how prophetic he was.
(I suspect the whole "discretion is the better art of valor" thing applies to a white person intervening on this thread, but the pun is hard to resist).
]]>I just don't want anyone to be accused of New Jack bias!
]]>Coates, these sorts of gems are why I keep on coming back.
Make me LMAO, why don't ya?
]]>In my family, which is mixed like nobody's business, we all drink coffee the color of our skin. We go through a lot of half-and-half.
]]>So Barr is going to be president? clearly Barr beats Obama
http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/bob_barrnegro.php
]]>Easy now. The only reason I'm scratching my head is because of the psoriasis. (Actually we just got rid of our Volvo in favor of a Toyota minvan.)
]]>The Negro Community has a message for you:
]]>Hell, as an olive-skinned white girl, I found this shit beyond hilarious.
]]>I am always partial to a yummy dark chocolate bar. Yes Lawd :-)
]]>As a light-skinned woman, I suffered a similar fate in college because I went to Howard where brothas took embracing their blackness literally. But Hollywood on the otherhand, rarely shows dark women that kinda love.
]]>long dreadlocs get em every time.
see: lenny kravitz..gary dourdan...and ignore the faux locs on vin diesel in "chronicles of riddick". that was just wrong.
Reminiscing on that song about good and bad hair from School Daze....
As for me, don't need no Sportin' Waves. I just hit my hair with some Fructis shine and I'm good to go. C'mon, check out your sweet daddy's konk, that aint no konk.... LOL!
]]>And even now you can't go anywhere without ladies screaming about Boris, John Legend, Common, etc etc. Barack is just going to tilt the scales even more in their favor.
But for the intramural hip-hop battle referenced above, the line that ended the cipher - for me - came from Play: "Kid spelled backward, descibes ya best." He was the better dancer, too.
Btw, Shani-O: you might be the first black woman I've heard say Barack ain't cute.
]]>can you stop with this "sheeeeeeeeeeeeet".
I just spent ten minutes googling various names you used and I still feel more lost than Barry O'Bama at an Alaskan moose hunt.
Please, remember white folks read this blog. Have pity on us. Include a dictionary with citations. A "blictionary" so to speak.
]]>As for the rest of this, the White Women Born During the Eisenhower Administration Community says: huh?
... just like we were s'posed ta.
]]>Ummm, I think I love you, whoever you are ...
]]>And I think Barack is totally dreamy, in a Nonthreatening Boys Magazine kinda way.
]]>From Spike Lee's School Daze:
Wanna Be's (mulattos): You're just a jig-a-boo, tryin' to find somethin' to do!
Jig-A-Boo's (dark skinned): Well, you're a wanna-be, wanna be better than me!
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BTW, Steve Sailer just published a book on Obama. This is from a recent blog post by Sailer, speculating on Obama's test scores:
Now, here's my guess about how Obama did on the verbal half of the SAT and on the LSAT:
He aced them.
I bet that's Obama's SAT score secret: standardized testing, that politically incorrect bogeyman, worked perfectly for him.
Some kind of entrance exam got him into Punahou prep school from Nowheresville in Indonesia, then a high verbal SAT score propelled this dope-smoking Hawaiian slacker with mediocre grades first to Occidental, then to Columbia. The LSAT took him to Harvard Law, where he finally buckled down and earned grades in line with his scores. (I have no guess as to how he did on the SAT Math test -- members of his family were good at math, so he might be too. He just seldom talks numbers. As one commenters say, Perhaps he is good with numbers and he knows his budget numbers don't add up.)
Sure, affirmative action helped make up for his nothing-special grades in high school and undergrad college, but test scores are what showed the world his potential. That's what got him in to the cool schools' affirmative action slots ahead of the hardworking true African-American kids with 1050 SAT scores who were valedictorians of their all-black high schools.]]>
Of course, he can't come out and say that, in own his experience, standardized testing is reasonably accurate and that all this Bell Curve stuff makes sense. Think of what poor Michelle, who is still publicly tormented by her mediocre test scores, would do to him!
This is so many levels of non-PC wrong Ta-Nehisi, but it's funny. I was thinking about how some might seriously be thinking along those lines but you had to go and write it.
I guess my black American community isn't quite post-color ;)
]]>It is all.your.fault.
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