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Tweet of the Day, 01.10
U St tonight-Homeless guy tried to sell me toothbrushes out of his jacket so he can invest in"one of them food trucks, but for toothbrushes"
@PeoplesDistrict
Danny Harris
Kojo on Tucson, Guns and Volatile Political Discourse
WAMU 88.5
Kojo Nnamdi
I was lucky enough to see WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi when I was at the station this morning; I asked him what he thought of the tragic shooting this weekend in Tucson. His take:
It seems to me that there are two political battles we are trying to fight: one is whether or not we can lower the volatility of our political discourse and the other is whether we can limit access to handguns and weapons of deadly force.
I don’t have a great deal of optimism that either battle can be won. In the short term, the battle to lower the decibel levels of our political discourse may seem to succeed, but in the final analysis, talk radio is a for-profit business and volatility seems to drive the profitability.
In the second instance, gun manufacturers and the NRA seem to have congress in a headlock, to mix metaphors. Hence my lack of optimism.
Tweet of the Day, 01.07
Why do the terrorists always hit the Northeast DC post offices? Can't I just get my mail?
Tweet of the Day, 01.06
I promise, I did not pick this one because I’m a huge fan of Apizza; I picked it because it made me smile.
Tweet of the Day, 01.05
It’s a tie:
Whoever left the reciept in the ATM with a $155,008.58 balance in their checking account made me feel pretty lousy about my situation.
@robpitingolo
Rob Pitingolo
and
completely livid at our nation's Total Apathy towards fact that DC's 600,000 residents are unrepresented in Congress. Statehood = solution.
@DG_rad
David Garber
“Get used to things like racism, hot sauce.”
DCentric
Local hot sauce-goodness from Uncle Brotha.
Now reading: “How to be Black“, from Thought Catalog (thanks, PostBourgie):
Really love or really hate Tyler Perry movies.
Get asked every summer if black people tan.
Get laughed at in elementary, junior, and high school by all your black friends because you “talk white.” Philosophize for years about what it means to “talk white.” Have an identity crisis. Go away to college or boarding school and have your new white friends swear up and down you’re nothing like the way black people are “supposed” to be. What happened to you? Go home with your new white friends during holidays, play the role of Model Black.
Seamlessly slip in and out of Ebonics. Talk to your friends in one voice but as soon as a family member or another black calls, thass when you be done’ took the Ebonics out.
Get used to not seeing other black people on the covers of magazines, in any of the advertisements, or in any of the movies. Cringe when Your Local News shows racist images of black people, such as mug shots, jail shots, and videos of robberies. Get used to people assuming you like rap. Get used to things like racism, hot sauce.
Tweet of the Day, 01.04
I would be a huge fan of this proposal. Blocking intersections is an obnoxious display of selfishness:
De facto commuter tax: station MPD at intersection during rush hour. $200 fine if they "block the box"!!! Grrridlock!
@HstreetDC
Margaret Holwill
Regarding Roots– Literally
Flickr: stevendepolo
Since I avoided the internet for the last few days of 2010, I’m catching up on all my favorite blogs. This post, “‘Good Hair’ on C.P. Time.” from PostBourgie, reminds me that though I intended to, I still haven’t seen the notable Chris Rock documentary about hair:
This seemed to be the reaction that Rock was nudging the audience toward, even as he seemed to assiduously avoid taking an explicit stance. We watch as a principal ingredient in hair relaxer eats through a metal can, before cutting to a little girl of about three or four who has already started getting her hair permed — the opening night audience in Brooklyn gasped loudly and tut-tutted at this — before seeing how the hair used to make expensive weaves sold stateside is literally shorn from the heads of poor people in South Asia as part of a religious ritual…
That last bit about South Asian temple hair is something I end up discussing almost weekly with someone. The offering occurs at Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, in southern India.
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