...::Not an athlete, not an entertainer-- what's going on here???

We congratulate the Disney Channel for the kid cartoon show "Doc McStuffins." In it, a little Black girl runs a clinic for ailing toys, and she wants to grow up to be a ... doctor. Wow. This is as refreshing an idea as "Sesame Street" was back in the day. I predict that Black parents will eat it up, just as they did "Sesame Street." Even little Black boys are gonna love it. You watch.

Now, how about a cartoon in which a little Black *boy* goes around his neighborhood fixing things-- other kids' bikes, leaky waterhoses, kid arguments, all that. And since he is good at fixing things, he wants to grow up to be... President.

...::Message To Lil Wayne From The Babies

...::Name the 3 most successful "black women" in Hollywood

Martin Lawrence
 

The three most successful "black women" in Hollywood are Eddie
 Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry. What is wrong with this picture?

Tyler Perry

Eddie Murphy

...::The Rose That Grew From Concrete

We all know the urban street corner can be hard, harsh, deadly. 

But have you seen this?? This is some amazing dancing by these four brothers on a street corner in Oakland, CA. And the music is so ... visceral. 

No wonder this video has gotten almost 1,500,000 views on YouTube. Dancers are No Noize (red jacket), Man (Black jacket), BJ (striped shirt), Dreal (white shirt). Directed and edited by Yoram Savion. Music by Erk tha Jerk. 

Out of the harshest of places, in the hardest of times, four young Black men created a thing of beauty. Amazing.

...::Show This To All The Little Girls You Love...

... and if that one is not persuasive, try this one--

...::Media Still Slighting Blacks In The Age Of Obama

Get thee behind me...

There is a Black Face in the White House, but media coverage of the Black community has not significantly improved. So says a new study by the widely-respected Pew Research Center. In fact, the study says, media coverage of Blacks may have gotten worse. Who woulda thought it. Read more here.

You may have their attention, but you don't have their control

...::Race Butts Heads With Technology

The "face-recognition software" in the video below is supposed to make the camera follow you as you move. The software works with a white face, but not a Black face...

How could this have happened? It is possible that the software developers only used white folx as models when they were developing the software-- Bleep! No excuse!! That might explain >how< it happened, but it is no excuse for not including people of all colors as models as the software was developed.

As I have said before, technology, including the Internet, will not bring an end to racism, but can expand it. See the "technology" link below for more.

...::Black CNN Anchor Admits On Live TV He Was Victim Of Pedophile

...::So You Think Break-Dancing Is New...

Wanna see the connection between break-dancing, voguing, tap dance and traditional Afrikan dance? Look here.



Only thing missing is sisters whooping in church...

...::This Time, A Black >Female< Is Accused Of A White Crime

Acid-faced accuser

We all know too too many times when innocent Black males have been accused of horrible crimes knowingly committed by the white accusers themselves. Well, that disease is now spreading. This is the first time that I know of, where a Black female has been accused of such a crime. In Washington state, a white woman threw acid on her own face [above] for some unknown reason, then accused a Black woman of doing it.

Hmmmm. I wonder.... how big is this trend? A trend where whites knowingly accuse innocent Blacks [or non-existent Blacks] of crimes that they themselves commit?

As another blogger wrote, "It worked for Charles Stuart when he gunned down his pregnant wife, shot himself and blamed it on a black mugger; it worked for Susan Smith when she drowned her two kids and blamed it on a black carjacker; and it worked for Ashley Todd when she said a Black supporter of Barack Obama carved a "B" on her cheek." And here is a slide show of even more examples.

And how old is this trend? Don't get me started: We could start back in slavery, where a white man would accuse a slave of raping his daughter, when the rape was actually done by the father himself....

...::Actress Gabourey Sidibe in Elle: Light, Bright and Damn Near White

If somebody tries to tell you that white supremacy does not exist or is only in the past, show them the current Elle magazine

...::Taking Aim At The Black Male Cock...iness

If you have not heard of artist Fahamu Pecou, remember you read of him here first at "In The Mix". inthemixcomment.blogspot.com . Powerful, edgy, disturbing, aesthetically pleasing-- all the things good art should be. Stay tuned for a new body of work from the Fahamu Pecou Art Studio in Atlanta. The new show is called "cock.aim.shoot." The show examines the projection of sex and violence on and from black male bodies... More details coming soon...

...::Strip Her Down, Roy, Let The Gentlemen Look

Back in the day, I used to listen to this 2-minute song on record. It is the story of a woman being sold at auction. So glad to see that this is around on video today. It is still powerful. This is how modern media can be used to tell old stories in new and interesting ways. See what you think--


"Bid 'em In" by Oscar Brown Jr. Video by Neal Sopata.

...::Actor Mel Gibson Uses n-word In Rant To Mother Of His Child

For all you Mel Gibson fans, hear him here...
I even heard a sister suggest that the mom provoked him into using the n-word. Wow. Listen and decide for yourself.

...::Oscar Grant And Street Media

Oscar Grant poster in Oakland CA

Oscar Grant is the young unarmed father who was shot in the back and killed by a transit cop in Oakland CA on New Year's Day 2009. Most of you know about the case. Above is an Associated Press picture from Oakland. Here is the photo caption--

A beauty salon-- with a poster of Oscar Grant in the window-- is locked up in Oakland, California. Several shops put up photos of Grant in their windows in the hope that it would deter rioters [sic] from damaging the businesses.

Two lessons on media in the modern age here--

One, this poster is a good example of how street media can be used. Street media is where individuals or small groups go straight to the streets to influence public opinion. With street media, you don't send press releases to the Big Paper In Town. You don't buy an ad on a local radio station. You create strong images, words and/or sounds, and you take it to the streets.

Two, this is also an example of how street media can be mis-used-- The beauty salon owner is being very crafty-- "If I put this poster up, folks will not likely damage my business after the trial verdict." It is not being used for the purpose intended by the maker of the poster.

...::Whites Genetically Weaker Than Blacks, Study Finds

Conservative Fox News is the last place that I expected to find a report
on the genetic weakness of whites, but here it is

...::Black Woman Is Part Owner of "Black To The Future" Robot

OK, yall, follow me on this--

A company in Vermont has built a human-like robot that tries to hold a normal human conversation with you, and the company is using a Black woman as the model for the robot. Yes, a real living Black woman, Bena Rothblatt, is the model for the robot. The robot has hair and skin tone kinda like Ms. Rothblatt's. And the real living Black woman, Bena Rothblatt, is part owner of the robot. [Are you still with me?]

Is this Black To The Future or what?



Remember, you saw it at my blog, "In The Mix", first. inthemixcomment.blogspot.com.

...::When Beauty Trumps The News

Husan Thompson and Tanesha Terrell are getting ready to pool their talents.

Beautiful woman sunning herself by the pool… handsome dude looks up from newspaper at beautiful woman sunning herself. Not too unusual-- so why is this image in this blog?

We like images that are unexpected, that have an unusual twist, images that suprise us.

So what's the unusual twist here? Look closely at that newspaper… It's The Final Call, the newspaper of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam! It's the last place on Earth where you will find an image of a sister getting her daily dose of Vitamin D from all that sunshine.

Reminds me of these lines from Julian Bond, former board chair of the NAACP--

"Looka that lady shake that thing.
We can't all be Martin Luther King."

So, thanks to all the beautiful people, and thanks to all the great leaders. The world I want must have both!

[Husan and Tanesha are engaged to be married 26.Jun.2010!]

Want more striking images? Click here.

...::Co-Founder Of BET Is "Ashamed" Of The Network

Sheila Johnson is crying all the way to the bank.

Sheila Johnson was right beside hubby Bob Johnson at the creation of Black Entertainment Television back in 1980. After decades of raking in money, after a nasty divorce and the selling of BET, Ms. Johnson looks back in shame.

“I don’t watch it. I suggest to my kids that they don’t watch it… I’m ashamed of it, if you want to know the truth.”

“When we started BET, it was going to be the Ebony magazine on television. We had public affairs programming. We had news… but the problem is that then the video revolution started up… And I remember during those days we would sit up and watch these videos and decide which ones were going on and which ones were not. We got a lot of backlash from recording artists… and we had to start showing them. I didn’t like the way women were being portrayed in these videos.”


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...::You Think The Gulf Oil Spill Is Bad

The rupture of this oil pipeline in Nigeria in 2008 killed more than 100 people. In the Gulf of Mexico tragedy, 11 died.

In Nigeria, "oil companies have acted with such impunity and recklessness that much of the region has been devastated by leaks."

"In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta's network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico..."

The Gulf of Mexico disaster "has made headlines round the world. By contrast, little information has emerged about the damage inflicted on the Niger delta. Yet the destruction there provides us with a far more accurate picture of the price we have to pay for drilling oil today."

More >>> Guardian newspaper of London

“We don’t have an international media to cover us, so nobody cares about it,” said Emman Mbong, a Nigeria official. “Whatever cry we cry is not heard outside of here.”

More >>> New York Times