I have nothing whatsoever to say about any of these things that has not already been said. 1. It goes without saying that violence against women, like violence against anyone, is vile unless in defense. My feelings about a man inflicting violence on a woman are the same as a woman inflicting violence on a […]
Month: January 2011
(guest post) Lenora B. Fulani Calls Out Black Leadership
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan must pass the baton on to the new generation of Black leadership.
Nikki Giovanni, Bicycles: Love Poems. and Reflections on Geoffrey Hill
I often have an issue with a lot of political or revolutionary poetry, unless it’s really good, then I tolerate it or if it’s really good I praise it. Two overtly political poets, on opposite ends of the spectrum, are Nikki Giovanni and Geoffrey Hill Nikki Giovanni, Bicycles: Love Poems. I found Nikki Giovanni’s Bicycles: […]
Links for 1/5/2011
Hmm. guess South Africa’s not the only country in which government ministers get rape crazy… [Then again, it’s entirely possible there is more to this than meets the eye, Moshe (nee Musa) is an Iranian Sephardi Jew, amongst an Israeli political establishment that is heavily Ashkenazi and historically openly racist towards Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, […]