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Michael Jackson and the American Imagination(2)
Just months after our President proved that you can be born black in America and achieve the highest heights, the life of Michael Jackson offers a very different narrative: he is someone whose cultural legacy shaped his success, but did not provide a path to inner peace.
Michael Jackson seemed crushed under a weight of identity: [...]
An Open Letter to Michael Jackson (2003)
I wrote this half a decade ago…. please see the companion piece on “Michael Jackson and the American Imagination.”
Thinking,
Hoping the best for his family,
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You were my first. Back when the other kids were swaying to nursery rhymes, I wanted to rock with you. I had everything I needed — a portable stereo and an album [...]
How to talk to people who preach hate (and why it’s critical)
Some of the most enlightening moments in my life have come from talking to men and women from hate movements, and I’ll tell you why.
What Do We Do? (Now N. Korea Sentenced Journos Lee and Ling to 12 Years Hard Labor)
So: a nuclear equipped nation is spoiling for a fight with the world’s only superpower, a superpower which finds itself overextended militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two journalists are held in breach. Two young women are away from their families and lives, potentially for years, for doing their jobs. What do we do?
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- Sorta kinda Green GOP
- Attack of the anti-American dolls
- Windfall
- In it to win it…
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- Ninth Ward Godot
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- Time’s patsy Klein
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- Snoop weekend
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- The Yahoo yahoos
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- The daughter card
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- Non-existent Center for children who can’t read good
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- Internethead
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- Alternative medicine
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- Colorblind or willfully blind?
- Bono colonialism
- reverb: music from los angeles & beyond
- Albert LeRoy: the trial
- Scalia goes CTU
- reverb: music from los angeles & beyond
- Obama girl
- LA pride
- Nomadic wax
- the gay bomb
- WHIT, Power FM
- reverb: music from los angeles & beyond
- curtains
- summer tubing
- close enough?
- coo-coo-ca-ccino latte
- debate TV
- reverb: music from los angeles & beyond
- Coming out and supporting the troops
- Secret Agent Cyberspace
- “viva cuba libre!”
- mistakes were made!
- Snuggle up with these great movies
- bad science
- the lopez legacy
- oh, natasha!
- hurricane season
- saturday
- buy me love
- aTunes
- lupe
- idiocracy
- shameless-clueless
- Doh!
- Killer of Sheep
- guerra
- the graduate: me
- law and order
- culture not property
- surge report
- notebook: LA may daze
- back to ohio
- icky thump copyright jazz
- Celebrity death match: Jon Stewart style
- I wanna be like Mike
- live bloggerette
- the hubbly and the rat-a-tat
- les bloggers rule
- Babies Dying - in America
- Video semi-extravaganza
- black, proud, and French?
- a cappella Dre
- staying human
- laugh factory, part 2
- backlash
- dozens killed in Virginia Tech shootings
- the no-duh file
- Keep ya head up…
- mos does malcom
- Rove emails Imus (or not)
- beyond vietnam, 2007
- students protest!
- up close and personal, they hope
- the other occupation
- radio’s “Ira Glass”
- manischewitz and tortillas
- dead girl chic
- josh wolf uploads video; is freed
- Coffee Pains
- So Far to the Right, Even Conservatives Hate Them
- A collection of depressing news stories
- A Good Week For Soul Music
- Barack, the Magic Negro
- LA style
- high court fatty
- real world baghdad
- Fox Attacks Black America
- A Black Disney Princess
- metro live
- Islama-Obama-Rama
- RIP jean baudrillard
- confessions of a BET producer
- the Lily Allen critique
- TV’s wifey fetish
- Hip-Hop: Black Sheep and Scapegoat
- Kenneth Eng hates black people
- Go Marty!
- ‘over the counter culture’
- we are family?!?
- Thomas Friedman coming to town
- hi, you live here
- run for your life!
- affirmative reaction
- obama, supporters rally in la
- objection!
- what happened to hip-hop
- wonkette dorkfest
- Obama under attack from…who?
- No Love in the Auto Industry
- give and get some today!
- josh wolf interviewed in jail
- the blackness of barack
- American Music Rules!
- condi raps, ‘trane plays ‘alabama’
- fully articulated
- pushing off
- is nbc for regime change in the u.s.?
- M.I.A. is back…with a vengeance
- Hyphy Just Grows and Grows
- comic news
- ‘we’re in jail, dude’
- Super Bowl History
- mooninite madness!
- black indie, I presume
- It’s not easy being … well, anybody, really
- Keep Your Change, America
- The Mundy Round Up
- Death of a Poet
- Say What?
- how ya feelin’?
- smokin
- prison to classroom
- Jimi pimped out in a bottle?
- hillary clinton wants to know…
- diebold!
- lara logan’s plea from baghdad
- cnn: “Obama not radical muslim”
- Hollywood and the Whitewash of Everything
- Crime, Gangs and Cops 101
- iraq is like…
- combatting gang violence, again
- The Mundy Roundup
- Obama forms exploratory committee
- show U.S. the dignity
- 2 school or not 2 school
- desert beach
- surges, lapdogs, beckham, pizza
- social net sites: today’s teenage parking lot?
- Inside the feeding tube
- right-wing site hates on cool college courses
- iPhone! iPhone! iPhone!
- MLK’s Dream…Remixed
- saddam’s neck
- Meat to Perfection
- the godfather rests
- mr hundred and one
- fiasco in a stocking
- town meeting
- Liber.I.A.
- back to the bush
- electric cyberland
- internet shout-down
- for reel!
- the eggman
- Sex and Supermodels
- clueless!
- automaton for the people
- Oaxaca cont’d
- mobile youth power
- get on the bus, y’all
- Merry Xmas, You Satanic Hippie!
- dateline: moscow, pajamaland
- weird-ugly-sad
- a cartoon world
- Walkin’ the Walk
- I’m not saying that he did it but…
- “Anti-cooning” video is serving beef for dinner
- over there
- Product (RED)
- weird science
- for the fast-forward record
- young americans
- midterm webpower
- zippity do-da
- can’t stop, won’t stop
- prez speech tag clouds
- pop goes the rap reality/the white rapper experience
- nbc shuts up the chicks
- the volunteer state
- web 2.0, reprise
- Boo!
- Happy “Dress-Like-A-Ho” Day!
- nbc 2.0…or not
- antiamerican US law
- new terrorist breeding ground
- Disney It Ain’t
- no freedom for Freedom
- the evolution of oppression and the minstrel show
- rendered
- and they’re off…
- american twinks
- gootube
- Fun and Games in North Korea
- bush’s job
- incestuous amplification
- free speech ain’t cool on college campus
- priests and politicians
- punked
- anti-americanism and the left
- american blackout
- our man in arabia
- WoT review
- hacking diebold
- “if you want an audience, start a fight”
- whadda they know
- conspiracy theories…
- 9/11: the disney version
- our CEO president
- the redistricting game
- revolt against facebook
- uberman olbermann
- it’s the end of the world (wide web) as we know it…
- and the award goes to Mos, in jail!
- spinning Iraq, again and again
- Former FEMA director Mike Brown says Bush told him to lie…
- hurricane harris
- 2008 democrat ticket?
- That Wacky Conan
- got my ban on…
- the water
- prognosis
- Anybody in There?
- mexico way
- 9/11: hollywood vs. real life
- American Apparel Apparently Assholes
- marion jones diaries
- Where’s That Money Going!
- Watada won’t go!
- Fake News and the Feds
- we are utterly alone
- fauxtography
- primaries semi-update
- save 1-800-SUICIDE
- american blackout
- get thee to youth hostel now!