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Comment on World Wrestling Entertainment Presents: Slutbucks vs. The Resistance by kjen

kjen — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:21:01 +0000

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Comment on Africa: This Year’s “Entertainment” by huey

huey — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:55:07 +0000

Bravo! You need to read this blog article on camera and send it to YouTube or dailymotion or somewhere. This was right on the money.Aside from gold, cocoa, coltane (that’s the first time I’ve ever heard of that mineral/element/substance) and diamonds, let’s not forget the uranium where USA, the former USSR (on the verge of nuking each other during the Cold War), India, Pakistan, Israel, Iraq (according to W) and even North Korea use to create and shoot off their nuclear WMDs, also come from the African continent.That should be the slogan for slavery reparations: “Africa doesn’t owe the world, the world owes AFRICA!”

Comment on Africa: This Year’s “Entertainment” by Anxious Black Woman

Anxious Black Woman — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:20:11 +0000

“Africa doesn’t owe the world, the world owes AFRICA!” Love it!! We should make T-shirts out of that.

Comment on Africa: This Year’s “Entertainment” by Miss Profe

Miss Profe — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:42:46 +0000

ABW, I appreciated your deconstruction of the Vanity Fair cover, Bono, and the entire Africa relief effort. Your astute analysis highlights a point-of-view that individuals need to recognize, for then only authentic relief for Africa can occur, and not one “made-up” in Hollywood style.

Comment on Africa: This Year’s “Entertainment” by Anxious Black Woman

Anxious Black Woman — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:16:19 +0000

What really gets me, Miss Prof, is that the Africa relief efforts continues a particular positionality from colonialism - the “missionary position” - and I can’t tell you how many times our generation and the generations before us have been called upon to reach into our purses and pockets over images of poor, starving children with big bellies and flies hanging around their eyes. Interestingly, as I type this, I just saw on NBC Nightly News a featured story about young college kids who made their own video to heighten awareness about refugee children in Uganda, which looks like it’s starting a whole movement among our American youth as they raise funds to start schools for these orphans. Don’t get me wrong, I will always rejoice when our youth take up global activism. However, their political consciousness is so in need of deepening to encompass a historical consciousnessness. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same white American youth who are moved to action by images of suffering African children would also bristle if they were told 1)to support slavery reparations, 2)to boycott products they they consume, which are tied to the same wars in countries like Uganda, which led to the suffering of the same children over whom their hearts bleed and which also are waged over the same global economy producing their products, and 3)to challenge the racism and colonialism that they surely have learned while growing up in this world, so that they can better respond to the situation of crises in Africa.

Comment on Africa: This Year’s “Entertainment” by Marina Wickens

Marina Wickens — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:21:25 +0000

beautiful post. you gave voice to the feeling i’ve had about bono (and his ilk of celebrity do-gooders) for awhile that i didn’t have the knowledge to articulate. i think it’s “good” on a very basic level that he brings attention to aids and debt forgiveness, but it definitely does have this tinge of “in my spare time i care about africa, and you can care in your spare time too” - without having to make any kind of long-term commitment to fighting the global/historical processes that you identified in your post. thank you for writing it.

Comment on Africa: This Year’s “Entertainment” by Anxious Black Woman

Anxious Black Woman — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:06:32 +0000

Your welcome.

Comment on Africa: This Year’s “Entertainment” by huey

huey — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:27:19 +0000

ABW, don’t you think that the reason people and other “philanthropists” are quickly to donate money, clothes, etc. (using a dollar as a “band-aid” to mend a gunshot wound) and not commit any deeper to aid the African continent back to prosperity, because being committed to doing it is to unabashedly admit that folks (particularly those of European descent) benefitted from chattel slavery and colonialism and bloodshed over goods like diamonds, which eventually will lead into talking about the subject of the support of slavery reparations?Africa as a whole is in dire need of help, but as long as people keep treating the continent as one big Jerry’s Kid and committing to only sending just loose change and second-hand clothes, the donations will be as futile as “No Child Left Behind,” and FEMA helping post-Katrina New Orleanians over here.And if it actually gets news coverage, I doubt Faux (Fox) News will lead the charge in showing it in an unbiased, (and self-proclaimed) “fair and balanced” POV.

Comment on Africa: This Year’s “Entertainment” by Anxious Black Woman

Anxious Black Woman — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:53:59 +0000

You’re exactly right, Huey. All this talk of Africa is just smoke-and-mirrors, perhaps a grand gesture of white/colonial guilt that was never interested in dismantling global white imperialist power - here or abroad.