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[which_chick]

I have finished watching Boys of Baraka which I was told to do by my mother. While I cannot make my mother (or, if I were an innercity youth as in the movie, my muvver) watch anything I think SHE needs to see, she is still able to compel me to watch things that she thinks would be improving. There is no parity on that front, I gotta say. Anyway, I watched the movie and can field questions on it, should there be a quiz. I don't have a whole lot to add about the movie except that I was amused as hell that the boyz from da hood, dey spoke Bawlmur so fickly dat, wurd, in deh movie, dey be subtitlin' wif words-n-shit all unnerneaf becuz ain no way nobody gwan unnerstand de boyz uhvverwise.

Also: Mail me Charlotte's address and I'll send that (and the environment movie) out on Monday.

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[which-chick.livejournal.com]

On a related note, see the NYT editorial on articulate as it applies to black people: here (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/weekinreview/04clemetson.html?em&ex=1170738000&en=1d04fa6a8e1b9880&ei=5087%0A).

Every time you want to use the word articulate to describe a black person, remember that what you're REALLY saying is sounds white. Do you really want to be heard saying that?

[carv1982.livejournal.com]

This strikes me as a little silly. Can white people honestly be expected to filter all communication with a black person to ensure that nothing offensive is said? In my view, that style of communication would be inherently racist. Walking on eggshells, so to speak, around minorities really just broadens the racial gap. Isn't this the opposite of what every non-racist is trying to achieve?

If being called articulate pisses them off that much, the black men and women in this article have some serious resentment issues they should try to get under control.

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

I think the idea is supposed to be that, if you find yourself thinking of an accomplished politician and intellectual as being noteworthy for their mere articulate-ness (as opposed to, say, eloquence), you were not expecting much of them. And if you only find yourself thinking this way of the black intellectual politicians, then maybe you're not as unracist as you thought.

*shrug* It's probably impossible to become colorblind if one wasn't already. The most people ever seem to accomplish is to correct for it, sometimes over- and sometimes under-.