tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26455149233769387862012-01-31T10:27:54.029-08:00an afropessimist meditation (no)spacechicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-634541349166711862012-01-30T19:19:00.000-08:002012-01-31T10:27:54.107-08:00

i have not been a participant in occupy, but i am tired of hearing people saying things like "occupy, after saturday, you must earn back my trust by becoming nonviolent again" and "occupy has morphed into something foreign from its roots." what did these people think a movement of "the 99 percent" was? what roots does an ostensibly "leaderless" movement have? when have the police ever let occupy

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Thank you, crunktastic of Feminist Crunk Collective for White Women’s Rage: 5 Thoughts on Why Jan Brewer Should Keep Her Fingers to Herself.An associate of mine said that he didn't understand the article's use of both Obama's Jane Brewer moment and his bear-like embrace of Gabriel Gifford. Here is what I said:i think the author is very intelligent and this article is brilliant in spite of itself.

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Go to 07:30 in the above youtube clip and check out the giggly questions DL Hughley posed to Ron Paul in this 2009 interview about his positions, and how, in response to Paul's claim that the North could have just bought the slaves instead of having the Civil War, Hughley just laughs and says, "You make way too much sense. You can't be Republican!" Toward the end of the segment, DL clowns that

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-31073817510545945342011-12-30T08:28:00.001-08:002011-12-30T08:28:59.582-08:00

And now, here it all is. I am able to let myself think as a nigga. Here: in the register of the criminal-economical-intellectual-sexual-political. (My life of praxis and uprising.) And grateful for the life I have because I now know it when I see it. It coulda passed me by, and it has before. I've lost worlds already. But now I notice who my friends are, and I'm grateful to life that I made it

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chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-90382047878158818322011-10-24T11:18:00.000-07:002011-10-24T11:18:06.920-07:00

I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me, literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is. It is an affirmation that sensuality is intelligence, that sensual language is language that makes sense. My response, then, is directed to those who write what I read and to

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-12561405625515261242011-09-25T14:16:00.000-07:002011-09-25T20:19:35.575-07:00

Where do I start? Last week the US government murdered Troy Davis and as I write this the government is showing no signs of collapsing in the near future. As I look for signs that Black folks are about to engage in organized confrontation with a nation state that is determined to render us civically, socially, and physically dead I see none. I wonder have we slipped into a delusional fantasy, a

The Spook Sitting by the Doorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842052253777501324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-27543484261223539202011-09-08T00:26:00.002-07:002011-10-09T15:10:08.316-07:00

"No need to hear your voice when I can talk about you better than you can speak about yourself. No need to hear your voice. Only tell me about your pain. I want to know your story. And then I will tell it back to you in a new way. Tell it back to you in such a way that it has become mine, my own. Re-writing you I write myself anew. I am still author, authority. I am still colonizer the

myrrhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642898853237119393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-52270979965676952362011-08-29T12:00:00.000-07:002011-08-29T12:03:08.118-07:00

A metaphor. I'm posted up in the library for a minute. The white dude who walks through the stacks to see that nobody is eating in the study rooms came walking by. He has caught me once before. I'm not eating anything this time. (Sometimes, you have to eat or you won't be able to study, and, in a study room, that's pointless.) But, meanwhile, the Asian dude in a study room right across the

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-48507817667096161052011-08-19T14:51:00.000-07:002011-10-09T15:05:30.790-07:00

loving, righteous black revolutionary soldiers, too many of us are dying before we really get to fight back. the matrix of an antiblack society has us. it has us doing its genocidal work on ourselves. we are dying of largely preventable diseases like heart disease and diabetes because we are surrounded by unhealthy food that also happens to comfort us in a brutal world. we are losing our minds

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-55052793711114434382011-08-17T12:54:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:14:13.637-07:00

I found the following quote in a recent article by Jonathan Capehart in The Washington Post and it was originally from a recent radio segment by Steve Harvey on The Steve Harvey Morning Show (reproduced above by way of YouTube video). The really important nugget here is "and just plug yourself into the already existing system — which ain’t gonna change just ‘cause you want it to". That is the

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NOTE: This will be the first of a series of postings breaking down some key concepts from Frank Wilderson's important book of black political theory and film, Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (2010, Duke University Press). People who are interested in struggle need to understand the "libidinal economy." Coalition politicos like Al Sharpton like to tell us to

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-70362209530992264772011-08-04T17:57:00.000-07:002011-08-06T01:33:49.062-07:00

doc, well, we're agreed that bloomberg isn't doing reparations and that reparations is a non-starter anyway. in my last email i brought reparations up as a sarcastic figure of speech. you are partially right that anyone could make a valid claim for financial and other reparations based on past suffering, but, more to the point, there is no reparation sizable enough to compensate for the "

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-20276078462384457462011-08-02T15:30:00.001-07:002011-08-02T15:30:33.082-07:00

The primary goal is to assemble a power base void of centralized leadership. This is not to say that there won't be leadership roles and leaders who push the agenda forward. The fundamental nature and structure of such community bodies should always reflect the basic mantra "one person can't stop the flow". This is for several reason only two of which i will explore in this communique. First

GEORGE JACKSON The Real Black Dragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269468629217014155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-25171205680082731802011-08-02T12:30:00.000-07:002011-08-03T00:31:36.715-07:00

Well we have officially entered the age of the Post Modern Kitchenette. For Black people migrating to the North from the South during the Great Black Migration the kitchenette came to symbolize the transition from living under the threat of lynching by peckerwoods with guns to living under the threat of murder by the police in the confinement of a single room apartment. While those poor Black

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I’ve been reading memoirs of African American men from the 1960’s and 70s, Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, Soledad Brother by George Jackson, Bad by James Carr, and thinking about the ways so much of the experiences they describe are the same today. It seems as if time is frozen on the one hand and magical on the other. I don’t me magical in the sense that suddenly out of nowhere

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To SFPD: Fuck the police. --black people everywhere

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-84649516712227785882011-05-18T13:22:00.000-07:002011-05-18T13:23:25.835-07:00

"People kill me talking about niggers is lazy. Niggers is the most hard-working people in the world. Worked three hundred years for free. And didn't take no lunch hour." --Holloway in August Wilson's Two Trains Running

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-24063332480077642812011-05-11T09:19:00.000-07:002011-05-18T09:25:42.782-07:00

"There cannot be relations of power [as opposed to domination] unless subjects are free. If one were completely at the disposition of the other and became his thing, an object on which he can exercise an infinite and unlimited violence, there would not be relations of power. In order to exercise a relation of power, there must be on both sides at least a certain form of liberty." --Michel

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“They were called the Black Panthers for Self-Defense, and that word ‘self-defense’ is all I needed to hear. It’s what the elders kept telling me. Who’ll defend the black man if he won’t defend himself? The hair stood up on my neck when Bunchy read me a line from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison: ‘Live with your head in the lion’s mouth.’ Bunchy said, “Even better, be the fucking lion!’ Geronimo

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[Blackness] is the explicit outcome of a politics and thereby available to historic challenge through collective struggle. But it is not simply a description of a political status either, even an oppressed political status, because it functions as if it were a metaphysical property across the longue durée of the premodern, modern, and now postmodern eras. That is to say, the application of the

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-21367888247870632252011-04-09T22:56:00.000-07:002011-04-11T16:40:06.190-07:00

This is a photo of Rex Jarrett, member of the Multiracial/Biracial Students Association (MBSA) at University of Maryland, College Park, taken from the New York Times web site. That's right. This brother identifies as "multiracial." You shouldn't refer to him as a mere black, like many of us are. Mr. Jarrett lists his identity as "black/German," thereby justifying his membership in MBSA. I can

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-52165289314060721002011-03-29T18:30:00.000-07:002011-04-27T07:11:50.958-07:00

Note: Quote of the Week is something new for us cosmic hoboes. I will post a new one every week unless others post one before me. And please feel free to post a new quote any time, to explain or not explain the quote, to use pictures or not. My hope is that these quotes will help us to focus or refocus on the ideas that inspire, anger, and challenge us. That said, check this out:

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-15745188382579033772011-01-23T15:26:00.000-08:002011-01-23T15:26:15.275-08:00

Just read this. How are empathetic victims constructed? What attributes about them make them less capable of producing empathy? Why do the few media outlets that mention Phylicia Barnes mention that she is/was an honor student with no history of police problems? Would she be less worth searching for or mourning for if she were not those things?

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-46748539266871053112010-09-30T10:48:00.000-07:002010-09-30T10:51:09.087-07:00

Fela came up in conversation recently. I've added links for you to listen to over time; you can find more on youtube. I grew up with Fela on the mind-even when army men would point guns and humiliate us, they could not beat Fela out of us. Fela was in contact with revolutionaries in the US, some of whom were Panthers, and was also performing in the '60s. http://www.fela.net/bio/http://

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chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-36038961916116615402010-09-10T20:14:00.000-07:002010-09-10T21:18:14.023-07:00

Affirmation by Assata Shakur I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine. In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts. And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic of the hands. And in the wisdom of the eyes. I believe in rain and tears. And in the blood of infinity. I

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-19470305873967249082010-09-06T12:02:00.000-07:002010-09-10T10:52:41.850-07:00

A colleague was giving a talk the other day on her dissertation project about black people in World's Fairs. She was giving a PowerPoint presentation in which she mentioned how Walt Disney envisioned Epcot in Orlando, Florida, as a "perpetual World's Fair," in the sense of bringing "the world" to one place. She had pictures of herself posing in the different national culture parts of Epcot--

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-31360958826156094282010-05-10T02:28:00.000-07:002010-05-10T02:28:16.273-07:00

Damn. Should I be showing up on the daily to support the hunger strikers in front of California Hall who are protesting the Arizona law and demanding that University of California take a stance on it and acknowledge the connection it has to who gets laid off from the job? I always forget that I can't just represent myself in a rarefied antiblack environment like academia. I represent probably 25

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-9444248904728403022010-04-18T20:44:00.000-07:002010-04-18T20:44:58.563-07:00

17 April 2010 7:15pm Dear Mr. Davies, I am a regular diner at the Crossroads Cafeteria, and I have always been treated with respect by the staff. At least 3 times a week, I find it a great place to study and eat. I am writing to tell you of an incident--apparently not the first-- that has forever soured me about this cafeteria and Cal Dining. At approximately 1220 today, I was walking to use the

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-3105859102069456912010-03-18T13:35:00.000-07:002010-03-18T13:35:42.865-07:00

This is an email that has been sitting in my Drafts box for months now. I ended up not sending it in response to my friend because I didn't want to damage our friendship. We are in the privileged position in academia to think about blackness as a site of ontological negation, whereas other black people do not do so or cannot afford to do so except in really candid moments. What dynamics does

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-29019346638825803242010-02-14T08:02:00.000-08:002010-02-14T08:02:44.013-08:00

a white woman in alabama a harvard phd bio logist just killed three other phds two of them black was there a "racist motive"? i don'tpretendtoknow i pretendidon'tknow i learn this yesterday where i am now? i have washed ashore a hotel vista where crashing waves against mansion-topped bluffs ease seamlessly with the soaring shrill of mcdonnell-douglas f14 fighter jets an academic wine party

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-30543249961919665962010-01-17T10:29:00.000-08:002010-01-17T11:12:09.590-08:00

"And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. “They were under the heel of the French, uh, you know Napoleon the 3rd and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the Devil. “They said, 'We will serve you if you'll get us free from the French.' “True story. “And so the Devil said, 'Okay, it's a deal.’ “And, uh, they

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chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-87487741911309127882009-08-11T00:03:00.000-07:002009-08-12T09:52:06.467-07:00

The health care debate is raising a number of questions around race and health-- and biopower/necropower. Many of the assumptions underwriting formations of health and social entitlement programs are founded in a kind of social scientific antiblackness with which we are all too familiar. The same antiblack affect underwrites the irrational crack-versus-powder cocaine disparity, the opposition to

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-44030353129034619182009-08-03T23:02:00.001-07:002009-08-03T23:33:20.431-07:00

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=4371874And my reply, posted on the ESPN site:Enjoyed this immensely. Cried. Thanks for sharing. Let's not let the narrative suture us into the safe sense that "It is enough to have good friends and a resilient spirit" individually and that massive social transformation does not need to take place. These kids were already positioned by an unethical

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-12825013190183084632009-07-30T02:20:00.000-07:002009-07-30T02:43:08.631-07:00

Thank you, to the source on this!This is James Baldwin illustrating the concept of the (no)space of the black: that San Francisco is no different from Birmingham for the black. https://diva.sfsu.edu/bundles/187041And just think, this was in the relatively "hopeful" days before crack. Look at how clean the streets of Hunter's Point/Bayview are! And these brothas standing around looking all baaad

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-89232729942670109622009-07-29T16:31:00.000-07:002009-08-03T20:21:19.024-07:00

A recent conversation with a friend highlighted our different aesthetic tastes for two so-called "conscious" rappers. My friend favors Mos Def. I have nooooo problems with Mos Def, but lately, I have favored Dead Prez.Here is a summary of my understanding of my friend's concerns about Dead Prez: They are enunciating so much anger that their artistry is suspect. It doesn't really take as much

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-70655999626642076952009-06-17T23:03:00.000-07:002009-08-11T09:39:26.653-07:00

Percival Everett’s “The Appropriation of Cultures"http://www.wnyc.org/shows/shorts/episodes/2009/02/15Give it a listen.Below are my notes about it.The best thing that I can say about this trickster folk tale is that i received it from somebody black. That makes it resonate with the conditions under which such tales usually have found their way down through the generations in slave quarters and

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-90476288601003537732009-06-03T04:38:00.000-07:002009-07-19T11:22:13.560-07:00

About a year ago (2008), when I was first getting back into the blogging thing, I started a blog called "When Whiteness Attacks," a sort of "reality blog" about the real-life moments in which "white [i.e., nonblack] speech" manifests its primal desires (accumulation and murder) in relation to black bodies and spaces. I only squeezed out a couple of posts before reality crashed in. Maybe it was

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-89743108043929781942009-05-30T09:56:00.001-07:002009-05-30T10:00:24.891-07:00

Here's a link to Lisa Arrastía's article on the shooting of NYPD officer Omar Edwards. It includes some discussion of the 2008 shooting of NYPD officer Christopher Ridley and the entire text of the NY Times article on the shooting.

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Hortense Spillers1) the captive body becomes the source of an irresistible, destructive sensuality; 2) …reduces to a thing, becoming being for the captor; 3) in this absence from a subject position, the captured sexualities provide a physical and biological expression of ‘otherness’; 4) as a category of ‘otherness’, the captive body translates into a potential for pornotroping…slides into a more

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-80089209181092752792009-05-28T04:01:00.000-07:002009-06-02T21:28:08.350-07:00

oops. I should say, "Please pardon the utter absence of scholarly decor in the posing of that question..." although I actually don't really give a damn if you pardon it or not.Just write something. Please.Consider this a kind of CFP (call for postings) on this blog with the prompt being, 'the hell is this shit:The Red House Furniture Store in High Point, North CarolinaIn particular, how are black

chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-24950470533953126272009-05-19T18:37:00.000-07:002010-01-17T09:42:11.133-08:00

A continuation of some thoughts-------------------What is afropessimism? What does an afropessimist look like?A cousin of mine laughed when she first heard me refer to some of the authors I’m reading as “afropessimists.” For her it seemed to evoke thoughts of chain-smoking, sad-eyed black women with short 'fros or black men with goaties (like Orlando Patterson and Joy James, seen ABOVE), dressed

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For a discussion of contributor Myrrh's statement that "there is no space for the afropessimist in the academy," please go to the blog Social Etymologies. SE provides a discussion that links and contrasts afro-pessimist Frank Wilderson's theories on the transformation of time, space, and civil society with that of American studies scholar, David W. Noble.

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So, what's an "afro-pessimist" anyway? Another scholar inducted into another theory movement or wave? Could it be just some thinking or must it be an "ist" or "ism"? I hear echoes here of "post-structuralism," "post-modernism," etc. ( [l] Frank Wilderson, UC Irvine; [r] Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University)This is a response to the post regarding what this blog might offer and discuss. I'm

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"Alexander and his pregnant 19-year-old wife, Renee, celebrated their wedding a week ago. 'Hey HUBBY,' Renee Alexander wrote in white chalk on the sidewalk just steps from where he was gunned down. 'Its ur wife … jus wanna say I will always love you & miss you!'"---------------------------------------------------------This blog is not a meditation on police brutality, or crack cocaine, or US

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posted from the now-defunct blog "When Whiteness Attacks"20 April 2008Last night I watched one of the most insightful and relevant DVDs I can think of. The film is Manderlay (2005). Directed by Lars von Trier, Manderlay is the second part in an intended trilogy of which Dogville was the first part.Here's a preview from IMDB:http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi764739865/This is probably my

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posted from the now-defunct blog "When Whiteness Attacks"11 April 2008I'm an avid NPR listener. Three pieces on today's (11 April 2008) All Things Considered caught my interest: * How Has the Fair Housing Act Fared?A piece by Chicago-based Cheryl Corley, identifying some of the ways that real estate agents circumvent the 40-year-old law using coded (and not-so-coded) language and "linguistic

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