tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55345852009-11-15T08:01:37.654-08:00believe your luckroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094787738893550172noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534585.post-86069010079129128062009-10-30T18:46:00.000-07:002009-10-30T19:01:14.669-07:00

okay this is how it worksusers put who want to post commercial videos on youtubecan sell add space because popular videos will pull more search queriesuser ad rates can be based on the average pull of a specific commercial video.why doesn't the newspaper do the same?if their readers can view the edition online, won't advertisers pay to reach them?the paper costs, what? 35¢? 50¢?everyone is

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on Steampunk and POC@Racialicious, cocolamala wrote:i like steampunk anime and fiction because of the technology (crank operated flashlights!?) and the idea of bringing modernity to people 1-2 generations earlier. i enjoy the “money shots” in steampunk anime where the huge monstrous “airship” rises above a pokey rural town and townspeople experience the present as both the past and the future

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Is anyone keeping up with the election protests in Iran? Amadinijad says he won, but the many, many protestors in green (who voted for Mousavii) disagree with that…Twitter #iranelection (real time updates, from anonymous strangers !! in Tehran, Iran and supporters around the globe)Andrew Sullivan (round up of news, pics and twitter feed updates)—going slow cause it’s one of only a couple

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what does it look like for both parties to abandon their race / culture?does it mean not bringing up gospel music to my jewish friend when we exchanged mixtapes in 8th grade? not questioning her distaste for soul/ rap/ r n b music but also not discussing how I am rewarded with peer approval for cultivating a taste for rock music?does it mean allowing my then-boyfriend to be blissfully unaware of

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race and gentrificationyes, gentrification occurs when wealthy individuals redevelop a poor neighborhood.in urban areas in the us, this affects minority populations who are disproportionately poor. the dispersal of poor urban communities tends to be the dispersal of minority communities.gentrification is a cause of concern for minority -- urban -- poor communities.

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Asher Rothtweeted that he was at Rutgers with some "nappy headed hos"some of the comments over at byroncrawford.com amounted to:"It has nothing to do with you..." what's weird is, "nappy headed hos" had nothing to do with the Rutgers women's basketball team -- because they weren't "nappy headed" and probably led perfectly respectable social lives..."nappy headed hos" has nothing to do with the

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more conversation at coates site this time about incoherency and the black experience (and why mos def threw assata shakur's name at christopher hitchens in a discussion about Al Quaida) to summarizeWho is Assata Shakur?... Assata Shakur's is Tupac Shakur's aunt.His death was mourned as the loss of a great artist -- i wondered why, despite the depth of his catalogue (even unpublished) -- but his

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so i was wondering why michael steele made such an ass of himself over rush's criticism.bobby jindal sounding like a doll, but in a sunday morning interview he's articulate.this makes me think that michael steele isn't as much of a nebbish as i thought. but why is he (are they) pretending to be idiots?then i thought about how other critics here and here are seriously discussing a truth

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what is going on with Pakistani cricket?i was following the michael steele conversation on Ebonics over at ta-nehisi coates' page, and ran across a (surprisingly sympathetic link) at the American Conservative [i know, weird, right?]. The author of the post signed off with a rather confusing phrase kya bakwas, which led to a Pakistani cricket site.the security situation over there is interfering

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What I Hateis that the shoe thrower appeared in court this week and had to testify frominside a cagehe was also missing a toothupdate: tu 24 febi heard about it twice on the radio and saw it once in the internet that day.i went looking for a link a day later, couldn't find it.common ills has one of the few references I could find today:Ernesto Londono and Zaid Sabah (Washington Post) describe

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i don't like the way that these tragedies have a habit of falling on the cusp of presidential elections. the first time this happened, bush, wide-eyed, sat reading to schoolchildren. he went into hiding.where is he now?his response to huricaine katrina was telling, kanye was right. he doesn't care about black people.or poor people. or us.we didn't blame him. fresh from the clinton bloom. who

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Comment from "Does Class Trump Race?"Posted 13 Feb 2008 at 1:50 pmOne important difference between class and race is that in the U.S, people change their class as they acquire (or lose) economic, intellectual, and social privilege. However, race is immutable.When racial minorities change classes, they do so despite (and sometimes because of) the lingering effects of institutionalized racism.Race

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all I want for christmas is...the Barbie Diamond Castle Glimmer Flying Horse...but the original diamond princess still lives in my heart

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KRABBY PATTIES!!Yum!(my krabby patties are somewhat blurrier than theirs)

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i read an op-ed letter claiming that obama's election had "finally leveled the playing field," but i believe he's using that metaphor too literally. i think it actually means, leveling racial disparities in education, wealth, incarceration rates, healthcare, and political involvement in the united states. the sharp spikes and peaks along these graphs indicate our history's disparate treatment of

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This is about institutionalized racism and how it affects people as a race rather than on an individual basis. I worked in the mortgage department of a bank and lots of loan applications. They're sorted by race (for anti-discrimination purposes, but that's another issue). So, I was able to tell white applicants from black applicants. By and large the white applicants were able to list large

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Hair Today, Gone TomorrowIn elementary school, I remember being envious of my classmates with long straight hair that they parted to one side with clips that looked like tiny leaf springs that opened when you bent them back and forth. The girls whose hair smelled like fruit because they washed it every morning. My cornrows came out once a week, and smelled like the bergamot oil in my hair grease.

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autism activismsilent miaow -- on being an unperson

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Going down in history!A friend of mine got quoted in this New York Times article about black rockers. He's in a band called This Moment in Black History. I heard about how they jumped onstage at SXSW last year in Austin, but didn't know they'd achieved notoriety again. Once you're in the New York Times, your name is etched in the story of this country. Many years from now, some genealogist will

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Ode to ColdsBlow, blow, blow your nosegently if you pleasemerrily, merrily, merrily,life is but a sneeze.

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They say there is no humor in heaven, but here on earth...We've got The Comic Torah, a race neutral retelling of the torah parcelled out through 52 Parshas (I suppose those are weekly readings of the Torah). This week's edition features a black Moses discussing his fate with God in the burning bush. God looks suspiciously like a middle-aged Asian woman. The authors of this comic are Aaron Freeman

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So you wanna start a cult...

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Australian Sign languageWalpiri is an independently developed Aboriginal language that is widely understood and also used by non-deaf members.While many neighbouring language groups such as Arrernte and the Western Desert Language have auxiliary sign languages, Warlpiri Sign Language, along with Warumungu Sign Language, appears to be the most well developed and widely used — it is as complete a

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OW!My God, I strained my back while setting down my backpack this morning (damn property book! it's also my laptop's fault, but I didn't want to curse it ). Tingling radiated all across my shoulderblades, and it aches now when I breathe or yawn. Curses!BF accurately diagnosed my shoulder ache last night as an air hockey strain. Can you believe I got strained doing something that's essentially the

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things I want to do (and have done in the past three days)I just made an ipod snug out of a baby sock (it cost a dollar! and had pattern-more on that later) maybe i'll post pics. i'm not that proud though. make a bumper sticker that says i'm podcasting over FM 87.9, or whatever station the ipod fm transmitter goes out over. (actually I got one from radio shack, but amazon has what I need for

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