Archive for the 'repairing the past' Category
I’m done with the book I mention below and I just have to say — it’s pretty amazing how the casual racism of those days permeated just about everything. I often read the older ebooks (they are free!) and it’s almost like a formula: have a good plot, interesting characters, well-written story, but don’t forget [...]
Tuesday, May 3rd
Posted in repairing the past, stuff
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The dead have been stomping around again (well, as much as they can stomp, what with being a bit insubstantial and all) and causing a hoopla, lately. Luckily, I am the only one who can hear them – and even I don’t exactly hear them so much as I feel their impatience, and worry, and [...]
Tuesday, November 30th
Posted in (in)significant heroes, in with the woo, repairing the past
| Tags: black history, history, slave stories
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Discovery News. Prehistoric people in southern Africa developed a highly skilled way of shaping stones into sharp-edged tools long before Europeans did, suggested a study released Thursday. A technique known as pressure-flaking, which scientists previously thought was invented in Europe some 20,000 years ago, involves using an animal bone or some other object to exert [...]
Thursday, November 11th
Posted in repairing the past, stuff
| Tags: Discovery news, earliest stone tools, South Africa
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“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is [...]
Friday, July 9th
Posted in culture and such, faces, repairing the past, telling our stories
| Tags: black history, Charles "Teenie" Harris, photography, Pittsburgh
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This seriously made me laugh: Don’t speak too soon: I’ve been reading this clown for months now and this is probably the only time he doesn’t soak a discussion about Civil War history with melodrama about slavery. Dog forbid one should clog up discussions of Civil War history with “melodrama” about slavery. No link. I [...]
Friday, July 2nd
Posted in repairing the past, storytellers, stupid people
| Tags: Civil War, Slavery, Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Part of repairing and recapturing the past is first insisting that it exists. So much of what we know, or think we know, is maybe not wrong so much as it is part of that oft told single story. Perhaps, through photos and memories, another part of the story can be told. Disney, in [...]
Tuesday, June 29th
Posted in culture and such, faces, repairing the past
| Tags: black history, Black princess, Disney, Princess and the Frog
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I wish, sometimes, that all I had to do was wander around and search out new things to read. And that I had time to read them all. What About Our Daughters says: STOP WHAT YOU”RE DOING AND APPLY FOR —>PBS Diversity & Innovation Fund Didn’t I tell you to stop what you are doing? [...]
Saturday, June 26th
Posted in hope, repairing the past, storytellers
| Tags: Cherrie Moranga, Gloria Anzaldua, PBS, This Bridge Called My Back
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This is not a philosophical question. Or, not entirely, anyway. And yes, as usual this rumination is really about me, not you (unless you want it to be). No, it’s more the question I’ve been asking myself lately as I sit here looking at the blank screen day after day, realizing I feel I have [...]
Sunday, February 28th
Posted in bellybutton bedazzlement, mostly remembered memories, repairing the past
| Tags: journal, memoirs
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The newspapers spread wide against the wall are so bright it is only a moment later that I notice the small woman framed by them and the old quilts covering the beds, they’d probably bring a fortune today but then they were just old quilts. Who was she? The credits say “Mulatto ex-slave in her [...]
Monday, February 15th
Posted in repairing the past, riffing, somewhere over the rainbow
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The other day I was reading a post over at the Field Negro’s site that primarily dealt with Black conservatives, but also, somewhere in there, talked about the name he uses as his handle and also as his blog’s name – Field Negro. Not surprisingly, there has been a bit of controversy over the name [...]
Tuesday, December 15th
Posted in (in)significant heroes, bone of my bone, first draft, repairing the past
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