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Re Roe: a couple of things…….

  06/25/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Go to geography or historico-geographic patterns as I suggest we start with in the Magnum Opus: Trigger states: all southern except South Dakota.About to trigger (Continue Reading)

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Bring your bullhorn to Trader Joe’s

  01/14/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Anti-maskers showed up at a Trader Joe’s to demand entry sans mask. The manager said no. They argued, saying they were there just to shop, (Continue Reading)

Complete nonsense, Culture

Listen To Donny Deutsch!

  12/08/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

On Morning Joe on Dec. 7, 2020, Donny Deutsch made an extremely clear statement. Joe passed over it because I believe he still has trouble (Continue Reading)

Culture, Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next edition

Let Me Tell You How Brilliant Isabel Wilkerson Is…..

  12/07/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

For years I have been bugged by the way people cast blame for a systemic problem on one individualized person or institution. On the listservs, (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Culture

Buried culture

  11/23/2020       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

When I attended a human relations camp (Anytown) in the 70s as an advisor, I found that “culture night” consisted of sorting the various ethnic (Continue Reading)

Culture

How can I show you?

  10/31/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Very often, statements of conditions are challenged. For instance, the Atlantic had an article titled How America Outlawed Adolescence. Without finishing the article, my thoughts (Continue Reading)

Culture, What I'm Reading Now

The Truth of Cultural Exposure

  08/06/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In my household right now we have 4 levels of cultural exposure. My wife was raised in a Black Pentecostal church, came from a small (Continue Reading)

Culture, Music of the African Diaspora

Discomfiting reaction to a documentary.

  07/10/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Tremaine Lee took us on a trip through the Confederate South in his documentary and afterwards Carolyn Randall Williams commented on the documentary. At many (Continue Reading)

Culture

You’re OK until they see your house

  07/10/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A woman on Tremaine Lee’s show about his trip through the Confederate South told of how her father was lynched. The local newspaper just put (Continue Reading)

Culture

Were they funny or was it just us?

  07/10/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Once in a while, an old comic line from the 50s hits my brain: Why-y-y-y-y Not?? What the hell was so funny about that? Yet (Continue Reading)

Culture

Reactions to Protest

  07/07/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

At this time of apparently endless protest against not only police brutality, the spark, but against an entire unjust, uneven, unequal system of racial oppression, (Continue Reading)

Culture, Pat's World View

Culture gets passed on, like it or not

  07/05/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In these pages I often stress the persistence of African cultural traits in the New World. Those traits came from Africans brought here during the (Continue Reading)

Culture, Pat's World View, Uncategorized

BBQ

  06/29/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This quote from the Zocalo Public Square:The final key factor that tied barbecue to Independence Day celebrations in the South was the key role of (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Culture

How a Colonial Perspective Works

  05/08/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Musicology in the West has relegated popular music to the non-serious realm. Therefore, African scholars, branded and sanctioned by metropolitan universities and departments of musicology, (Continue Reading)

Culture, Music of the African Diaspora

Anthropological pitfalls

  03/31/2020       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Trying to understand another culture is an amazing adventure. I have never lived in another culture other than my adjustment to African-American culture coming from (Continue Reading)

Culture, What I'm Reading Now

cowbell as cultural memory

  03/28/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Reading Sam Floyd, my suspicions rise over terms like “cultural memory.” I recall a disturbing conversation with a Prof. Woods, chairperson of the art department (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Culture, Music of the African Diaspora

Dukes of Hazard Redux

  09/18/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Comedians make jokes about Red Necks. Black comedians make jokes about Black people and White comedians do so very carefully. As ethnic groups integrate into (Continue Reading)

Culture, Running commentary

So you think you’re not prejudiced?

  04/10/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Being married to a Black woman for 55 years about often gains me a pass on racial prejudice as a White man. Wrong. Just today (Continue Reading)

Basics, Culture

Further notes on how words’ meanings affect thinking

  03/20/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A while back I wrote: “Again I heard a speaker use the term “urban” as a synonym for Black in the ethnic sense. Earlier, the (Continue Reading)

Culture, Linguistics

Why it’s a good idea to have diversity in your work force

  01/28/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Many years ago I heard a report on the radio of a rookie baseball player socking his manager. It was reported that the team was (Continue Reading)

Culture

The Tony Brown story

  08/18/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In the Magnum Opus I told the story of the Black Republican event where Tony Brown of Tony Brown’s Journal was speaking. Steak and chicken (Continue Reading)

Culture

butt-shaking

  08/15/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Some time back I posted a url of a gospel group of West African women shaking their behinds. That was in response to a very (Continue Reading)

Culture

A good example of conflict in cultural styles

  08/15/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyPo5Mwoq0&feature=related This is a Christian group singing a Christian song. You know how a lot of Christians in the U.S. would view the butt-shaking that (Continue Reading)

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