Friday, September 23, 2011

Brain Food: Must see Doc's

Documentaries every Afro-American must seeWith reality shows like Basketball Wives, and Real Housewives of Atlanta and others like them taking over most African American household television, it is evident that people are feeding their brain the wrong food. Do people even find documentaries entertaining enough to watch and enlighten us about different aspects of our reality as black people? Or is what displayed on the reality shows the perception of being black we want exuded to others and our younger generation. I can see why watching documentaries are only something kids watch in school or unintentionally.Reality tv shows nowaday give others the wrong idea about our values as black Americans, and the things that should be inportant to us. It is also causing people to change there values or to not have any. This alone will keep us from confronting the real issues in out lives. With all the drama, hating, and fighting presented, its almost seems the sacrafices people before us have made, and are making to improve the overall black experience is a joke. Since documentaries are a creative, truthfull way of portraying historical records,I made a list of some that should be seen by all blacks.
Good Hair(2008)
Who Killed Martin Luther King(1989)
Malcolm X: prince of Islam (2006)
A small Act (2010)
When the Levy's Broke
Street Fight(2002)
Hoop Dreams(1994)
Paris is Burning(1990)
Crips and Bloods: made in America(2008)
Tupac and Biggie(2002)
Darfur Now(2007)
Michael Jackson: This is it(2009)

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. Malcolm X


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

New Books

"Modelland" Tyra Banks newly released novel

As we know Tyra Banks is the first African American woman to be featured on the cover of GQ magazine, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuite issue
Read more about Tyra Banks novel!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Our black men are in a crisis!



Tavis Smiley's
book"Too Important to Fail" confronts the high dropout rate among African American boys in our community.On Tuesday September 13,2011 their was a PBS special were he investigated the causes the education problem and what we can do to reverse it. With the help of experts, educators, detention center administrators and, boys in Chicago, L.A, Philly, and Oakland he helps put into focus a problem that faces every black community through out the United States.

Also watch Tavis Smiley address how President Obama is loosing his African American base supporters! Do you think he is?

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2011/09/13/obama-losing-his-african-american-base

Friday, September 16, 2011

Time to stand up!

I am new to blogging, but not to using writing as a way of expressing myself. One thing that's been on my heart lately, is to talk about the black experience through my eyes. I am 27 year old female, raised in Miami, one of the most culturaly diverce cities in Florida. I have always wondered why African-Americans helped build this country, but still are treated unequally. Euro-centrism seemed to have snatch us out of human history, and re-written it based off lies. Throughout history, my kind has been faced with homelessness, no jobs, no hope, drug abuse, and turmoil within our own community. Does my generation chose to ignore the issues concerning our past, and has been continuing to shape our future? We don't have to continue to act like slaves who hate ourselves, and love our oppressor. We have to do better! In a world, that absorb our culure and is still becoming more "black" in style of dress, music, speech, and sexuality, why are we getting pushed aside from the American dream. My frustration has fuelled me to start this blog to refocus people on the situation at hand. I know there are allot of blacks still advocating, but there can never be too many. I just want to help keep the radical black perspective alive. I do believe the only way our voice will be heard is if we use some of the tactics of our forefathers,whether by boycotts, campaign, or protest. Not lay here and take what we are given, and that requires sacrifice. Debate without action is a waist of time. If we do not stand together and demand our piece of the American pie. Law makers feelings are the same as they were in the past, and it is up to us Negros to secure for ourselves a part of the American experience. If we don't do anything about it we will continue to be 21st century slaves.