J, Fred, White Jay…..make sure you don’t check out too soon. There’s a bonus scene at the very end.
Misadventures of Awkward Black Black Girl Season Finale (VIEDO)
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Blogging While Black Now Available on Amazon Kindle
That’s right, Blogging While Black is now available on the Kindle! As stated at Amazon.com, “Start reading Blogging While Black on your Kindle in under a minute.”
Blogging While Black is available for $3.99 on the Kindle which includes free wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet. Let me know if you decide to check out the Kindle version.
The Root Promotes Lauren Williams to Deputy Editor
The Wire
The Root, The Washington Post Company’s African American news and commentary site announced the promotion of Associate Editor Lauren Williams to Deputy Editor.
Joel Dreyfuss departed The Root at the end of November 2011 and was succeeded as Managing Editor by Sheryl Huggins Salomon, who had been The Root’s Deputy Editor.
Lauren has been Associate Editor of The Root since the Fall of 2010. Having previously been an editor at AOL Black Voices, Stereohyped, and MenuPages, as well as a reporter at The Daily Press in Virginia, Lauren brings a wealth of experience in journalism, online media, and editorial management to her new role as Deputy Editor. Lauren will be based in The Root’s DC office.
Lauren has a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.A. in Magazine, Newspaper and Online Journalism from the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. She also studied cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, and loves to show off her cooking skills to friends and family — when she can find the time!
Ron Paul Newsletters written in first person with his signature
When news outlets began to report earlier this week about content contained in newsletters supposedly written by Ron Paul, he used the excuse that the letters did not contain a byline, so he wasn’t sure who wrote them.
Those letters reportedly referred to the Martin Luther King Holiday as “Hate Whitey Day,” called Dr. King a ”world-class philanderer,” and criticized President Ronald Reagan for recognizing the leader with a federal holiday.
Yesterday a video of Dr. Paul from 1995 surfaced where he talks about his newsletter, saying it “covered a lot about what was going on in Washington,” as well as monetary policy (check minute 1:40).
In a 1996 interview reported by the Dallas Morning News, Ron Paul did not deny or disavow the racist language in the newsletters. Like saying that “If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be.”
Paul said the comments were taking out of context. ”If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them,” Paul said in ’96.
Now Rueters has a story that links Paul even more closely to the newsletter. In a typed 8 page document that has Congressman Ron Paul as it’s header, the frontrunner in the Iowa caucus seems to talk in first person.
There are lot’s of I’s throughout the newsletter as in “I swore to uphold the constitution or “I publish the Ron Paul Investment Letter and Ron Paul Political Report.” Then at the end is the signature of Ron Paul.
See the 8 page Ron Paul Newsletter at Reuters where
So as the Congressman disavows the content of the newsletter, can he deny that he wrote the content? The rest of the views in the newsletter as it relates to monetary policy are very much consistent with the Ron Paul way. How are we supposed to separate phrases like “The Israeli Lobby, which plays Congress like a cheap harmonica”?
I did not however find the phrase “coming race war in our big cities” as reported by Reuters. I did see a passage that said “I fear there will be welfare riots in big cities,” and we all know that’s code. If anyone finds the “coming race war” language let me know. Maybe it’s in another newsletter.
Upcoming Events Including Christmas Eve at Southwest Center Mall
Please join me at one (or more) of the following events for Blogging While Black.
Christmas Eve Booksigning
Southwest Center Mall
Saturday, December 24, 2011, 2-4:00pm
Champagne and Strawberries Book Release Part II
December 30, 2011
Chocolate Secrets
3926 Oak Lawn Avenue Dallas, TX 75219
Jokae’s African American Book Store & Framing
Saturday, January 7, 2012, 3-5:00pm
The Dallas Institute
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.
New Year Book Jubilee
Saturday, January 28, 2012, 11am-4:00pm
SW Center Mall, Dallas, TX 75237
Boehner tweets that the deal is done before presser
Just a while ago House Speaker John Boehner tweeted that his party would bend on the payroll tax holiday two-month extension that has already been approved by the Senate.
Agreement reached to ensure families’ taxes don’t go up on 1/1 & stop Senate bill provision that’d hurt job creators http://j.mp/uRXzvi
@SpeakerBoehner
This is good for the people and a late but needed move the the Speaker. CNN’s Dana Bash reports that Boehner told his caucus that he had reached a deal with Senate Leader Harry Reid and that was it.
The Speaker made a brief statement at a press conference which didn’t contain the normal bluster and theater we’ve gotten used to. Boehner said “I don’t think it’s any time for celebration…” I’m sure you don’t Mr. Speaker.
My sister Sheila Washington with a copy of Blogging While Black
House Republicans Should Allow Up-Or-Down Vote On Payroll Tax Holiday
If only it were this easy.......
House Republicans pulled a bit of a fast one when they voted for a “motion to reject” the Senate bill which was passed last Saturday extending the payroll tax holiday for two months. They called for a committee with members of the Senate to work on a new tax extension deal.
Why not call a committee prior to the week before Christmas?
Why does it have to always come down the very last second before House Speaker John Boehner wants to get anything done?
Why not vote up-or-down on the bill passed by the Senate, a bill which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell helped put together?
Senate Republicans worked with Senate Democrats to produce a bill they thought would pass the House. The bill is not perfect but few are. The Senate added the provision that would require President Obama to make a decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline Project within 60 days. The provision is not popular with the White House or President Obama’s base, but it’s called compromise, something the House is unwilling to do.
Mr. Speaker I know that you know better than this. I think I see your puppet strings showing, the Tea Party is playing you like Pinocchio.
Ft. Worth’s Eddie Griffin on Blogging While Black
By Eddie Griffin
Shawn at The Dock Bookshop in Ft. Worth
The AfroSpear’s Shawn P Williams, author of Blogging While Black, came to Fort Worth’s Dock Bookshop on a book-signing tour. He was warmly greeted by fellow AfroSpear bloggers, Eddie Griffin and Kyev Tatum (candidate for U.S. District 33).
The theme of Mr. Williams’ new book, as reflected also in his speech to the audience, was about Empowerment- from an African-American community perspective. The author, who rose to national acclaim as a black blogger, extolled the AfroSpear blog group as the launch pad where his online journalism career took off. His Dallas South News blog has been featured on NBC Nightly News and CNN, as well as NPR, BBC, Ebony magazine, The Toronto Star and many other national outlets.
The story of Blogging While Black emerges as a victory for the small, black activist blogger to gain recognition in a corporate communications media world, where African-American interests and issues are routinely ignored. Williams gives us a blow-by-blow, behind-the-scenes, detail account of how a relatively unknown black blogging syndicate broke through the mass media blockade, to become one of the most powerful voices on the Internet circuit, long before the advent of Twitter and Facebook.
I am proud to have been a part of this group that brought the world’s attention to racial disparities and injustices, in cases like the Jena 6 case, Shaquanda Cotton in Paris, Texas and the hundreds of juveniles who were incarcerated in harsh conditions of the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) prisons. Through our collaborative work on juvenile justice, TYC no longer exists, several facilities have been closed, and juvenile prison population has been cut in half. Investigations into other juvenile agencies are ongoing, even as I write:
More recently, Mr. Williams has taken a deep interest in U.S. District 33 politics and the candidacy of Pastor Kyev Tatum. Speaking of the court-redrawn redistricting lines that created the new North Texas minority-controlled U.S. District 33, Shawn calls the creation “huge” because of its 66% African-American/ Latino population.
Williams was propelled into national politics when the political parties began to recognize bloggers as legitimate journalist of a different medium. As the AfroSpear blog group fought to gain media credentials to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, which is described in the book, Shawn Williams tells the intriguing story of how he and other black bloggers finally got into the convention, and the important roll Twitter played in the reporting.
Mr. Williams ends each chapter with a U Can 2 advisement note, designed to empower the reader and acclimating them to the blogosphere. In other words, he encourages others to do the same.
FOOTNOTE: I am proud that Mr. Williams took time to mention me, and other particular AfroSpear members, in this book. I cherish my signed copy, which reads:
To Bro. Griffin- You have been a mentor and an inspiration. I thank you for your leadership. God bless you- Shawn Williams
Tiffani Douglas, Harolyn Hodges and Holly Howe pose with their copy of Blogging While Black
Fortune 50 CEO Income Compared to Average Worker at Company [infographic]
The problem in America is not wealth distribution, it’s income distribution. The income has been distributed from the bottom to the top. Contrary to the false narrative in Congress, taxing this individuals at higher rates does not hurt their ability to create jobs. They should find another argument. This is a real problem.
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