While in Morocco with S., the one question neither of us could escape was "Where are you from?" Our answer was always "the United States." But that answer wasn’t always the most satisfying one for the asker. You see, I am black, but my skin tone is kind of beige. I’m the same shade of [...]
[1 Nov 2008]
This year’s Black Tech Bloggers panel at South by Southwest was a response to the furor caused by Loren Feldman’s “Black Tech Blogger” An Internet Opera, broadcast last summer. I did not watch it then. I tend to get very pissed off and physically affected when folks make broad, offensive generalizations about me and mine [...]
[15 Mar 2008]
\ik-ˈsep-shə-nəl\ • noun: A black person who does not fit or follow the ‘rules’ (stereotypes) of blackness, and therefore becomes an anomaly, a person who is “not like other black people” an exception to the ‘rule’ rather than the rule itself. Note: the Exceptional Negro is remarkably like the average black person and isn’t all [...]
[15 Mar 2008]
Yeah, Joel Johnson of BoingBoing.net was at the South by Southwest “Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?” — a panel I was asked to join at the last minute (but not the very last minute. That honor belongs to Cheryl . ). So Joel wrote about it, and the comments went straight to typical. Which, [...]
[14 Mar 2008]