Stuff 33-year-old, quasi-literary, golden-age hip-hop loving, black people think they like

I could never shut down my comments. I just come across too much great stuff. A few choice haiku/tanka/sonnet/freestyles from the threads below:

Here's Patricktherogue doing Big L's Ebonics for the Marines

Here's Bdbd running down his pedigree:

Mid 50s overeducated white guy here, one who likes collards and other greens just fine. My dad did too, especially served with dog bread that he learned to cook growing up in east Texas during very rough times indeed. His father, my grandfather, was for a decent number of years a sharecropper in east Texas, but he was very picky about his greens, he only liked the young tender leaves. He worked land owned by an African American family. The sibling of that family who looked after things had a day job as a Pullman porter, but he'd stop by my grandparent's place from time to time to see how things were going (which often was not well).

In the late 30s my father lit out for the territories and joined the CCC putting in rail track across the Southwest -- he knew that nothing there could be any harder than the work his father would put him to if the stayed home. My father and uncle say that during WW2 (they both served in the South Pacific) it was common for soldiers to engage in "my family was so poor that...." contests, and "my family was so poor that we sharecropped land that belonged to a black man" would trump most anything else.

Ben corrects my grammar:

In the interests of journalistic integrity, I believe that his name is spelled "Al B. Sure!" That's with the exclamation point.

I just don't want anyone to be accused of New Jack bias!

Natty B calls me out:

C'mon TNC,

You're being RICK ROLLED.

This is a total drudge manufactured story.Can you even wait for the campaigns response? It was no secret that those newspapers weren't pro-Obama before their endorsements. Those reporters were only on the plane some of the time. It's the homestrech. His media people are allowed some discretion. I'm sure all sorts of newspapers don't get on the plane.

He was right.

Comments

Joel November 1, 2008 1:21 PM

I'm just a little sad that you missed the Sam Wyche reference:

Wyche hated Oilers Coach Jerry Glanville and had a pretty good feud going with him. So with the Bengals up 45-0 in the fourth quarter, Wyche calls for an onside kick and, go figure, the Oilers weren't expecting it and Cincy recovered. He does opt to sit Boomer, his star QB, and backup Erik Wilhelm end ups up throwing on fourth down near midfield and the Bengals score to go up 52-0. With the lead trimmed to 52-7, Wyche goes for a fake-reverse and a halfback option pass and they pull ahead, 59-7. There was also a fake-field goal attempts in there somewhere and ultimately with 21 seconds left he called timeout for a final field goal, capping the 61-7 blowout.

After the game Wyche's biggest complaint was with a missed-extra point. 62-7 just had a certain Je ne sais quoi to it I suppose.

"They've got their tails tucked between their legs and they're going home, which is just the way it should be," Wyche said in his post-game remarks. "They're the dumbest, most undisciplined, stupid football team we've ever played. We don't like their team. We don't like their people. And when you get a chance to do it, you do it. I wish it was a five-quarter game."

matt November 3, 2008 2:31 AM

I think it hasn't yet been fully appreciated how much the internet is a good thing for race relations in America. On these threads, to take this site as one example, you have Americans ranging from rural white bread to urban black, who would never have had the courage or impetus to speak to one another in real life, engaging in a real and thoughtful discussion about race relations in this country. The comfortable separation of online anonymity provides a forum for a discussion that would otherwise be difficult to have. I say keep it up.