Something Old, Something New

After a crap night's sleep (Was last night around 12:30am a holiday? Please enlighten me, because my neighbor's entire family was going in and out of the backyard, slamming the screen door and talking loudly around that time), I was jolted into perverse glee over hearing the phrase "house negro" on the radio this morning. There's one you don't hear every day! Well, unless you know Ian. I was thrilled to find that someone finally had the nerve to throw the "Amos & Andy", "Stepin Fetchit" gauntlet. It was only a matter of time, right? As the true racists come out into the light, this was gonna surface, no question. To my dismay and simultaneous non-surprise the comment came from Al-Qaeda. The non-surprise is that they had something inflammatory to say about the US. The dismay came from the fact that those "Sand Niggers" had to pull that particular card. What I mean by that is it makes me sad when minorities throw that stuff at each other. I gotta give them props for culling the reference from Malcom X, but come on! Do we have to start a new administration from those words? Someone should tell Al-Q that they don't want black folk hatin' on them. We are VERY protective of our homeys and Obama is our boy. Until he screws up. Then he'll be an "Uncle Tom".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7737710.stm

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Gotta give a shout out to Wanda Sykes, who did a very brave thing this week. She publically announced that she is gay and that she married her lover in October. There are not many prominent black people out of the closet. Perhaps something good is coming of the passing of Prop 8. Hey, have to take the positives where you can find them...

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=6284348&page=1