The man was 97 years old, had been in CCC and the military in WW II. He started a business and was the first Black (Continue Reading)
The man was 97 years old, had been in CCC and the military in WW II. He started a business and was the first Black (Continue Reading)
When you develop a grand theory, you like to find supporting evidence. The trick is to avoid looking ONLY at items that support your (Continue Reading)
Ta-N3hisi Coates has a new article in the Atlantic about Trump’s presidency being a negation of Obama’s. Just a glance at Greg Sargent’s resume of (Continue Reading)
At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Y0EgnLznA you can see a good example of the sort of worship service typically called holiness. The video recalls to me many, many evenings (Continue Reading)
Here you see the combination of music and dancing in huge crowds, dancing with abandon and a lot of sexuality and some fighting, that scares (Continue Reading)
I just watched a show on the Smithsonian Museum of African-American culture and as I watched the Obamas rap along with the rappers and Michelle (Continue Reading)
A new category eclipsing my commentary on the presidential campaign. As I sit 5 hours a night and 4 or more on the weekends watching (Continue Reading)
Full circle Saturday my wife went to hear her cousin speak in a church. She hadn’t been in that church in 53 years; it was (Continue Reading)
I really need to stay away from the comments section of the blogs and columns I read. OTOH, many comments show perceptiveness and a good (Continue Reading)
This video captures the spirit of the Pentecostal worship service I was exposed to. Notice, too, how many Whites in the congregation know how to (Continue Reading)
Jim has raised the possibility that perhaps my wife is consumed by issues of race. If you got to know her, you might see her (Continue Reading)
Life magazine, back when it was in very large format, printed an article on Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th President of the U.S. Included was a (Continue Reading)
A terminological issue arises whenever we talk about the American culture. What so often happens is that what I call the Norwegian culture gets put (Continue Reading)
OBSERVATION: The Nigerian doctor my wife sees was telling her that people treat her one way until she opens her mouth and they realize she (Continue Reading)
I just watched the Kelly File on Fox News from——————-. One would think I would put this under politics but it deals so directly with (Continue Reading)
Where does this immense fear of Black people come from? In the whole history of slavery in the thirteen colonies and the U.S., the slave (Continue Reading)
Many years ago my marriage was not only unusual, it was considered by many to be beyond the pale. In fact, eighteen states had laws (Continue Reading)
I’m watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw-tHBLMr4U&list=RDhcutiSjsUpc#t=3 So many things about it makes me recommend it to anyone seeking to understand the heart of African culture and its manifestations (Continue Reading)
Another insight into African cultural survivals vs universals: stilt walking. Stilt walking is practiced in many cultures but it is esp common in Africa, incl. (Continue Reading)
One night many years ago I was dumb-founded to hear Martin Sheen discussing his movie, The Believers, not in dramatic terms but in religious terms, (Continue Reading)
Do you remember how I said my wife had been raised in such deep African-American culture that when I’d play some ancient old blues that (Continue Reading)
Recently in Unbroken I read about dignity and posted on it. Today in church it hit me that that was what so much of the (Continue Reading)
Did you know that one of the Haitian Vodou loa, gods, is a U.S. Marine? Apparently, a Captain Daybas became interested in Vodou, became an (Continue Reading)