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Raving Black Lunatic: Heritage and Hatred

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Ranting and raving since 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Monday, September 10, 2012. The license plate read “Heritage Not Hate.". Right on the front of the pick-up truck it made me think. With a Confederate flag as its background it made me wonder: Does that heritage come without hate? Who celebrates the antebellum South? But how do you divorce the heritage from the hatred? Own up to what that time really was about f...

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Raving Black Lunatic: May 2012

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Ranting and raving since 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Obama, The Gays and Blacks. Read a story the other day about how black people are more "hostile" towards gay folks than any other racial group in America. That statement sort of surprised me. Why would black people be held to higher standard simply because they have suffered so much? It's not that difficult to find a consensus if everyone...

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Raving Black Lunatic: Black President Re-cap

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Ranting and raving since 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Thursday, August 23, 2012. If you haven't already you should really check out Ta-nehisi Coates latest piece in the Atlantic. About President Obama. It touches on many of the topics we've discussed here at the blog over the years, and raises what some black folks see as the central debate about Obama's presidency. Was it worth it? August 25, 2012 at 4:04 PM.

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Raving Black Lunatic: March 2012

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Ranting and raving since 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Things White People Say. This is a list made in response to how some folks have handled Trayvon Martin's death. I present:. Fifteen things white people say when they would rather say "Fuck Whining Niggers". 1 You know Arabs owned slaves right? 2 Black people did too. 3 If he wasn't guilty, why did he run? Links to this post. Human being...

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Raving Black Lunatic: July 2011

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Ranting and raving since 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Thursday, July 28, 2011. Real life is always stranger than fiction. I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people. Whose car we takin'? That was Ben Aflleck's character, Dougie MacRay, trying to get his boy to accompany him on a beat down in the movie,. Volunteered to drive the car. I know t...

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Raving Black Lunatic: June 2011

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Ranting and raving since 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Thursday, June 30, 2011. So the President is "kind of a dick.". Tell us how you really feel Mark. I guess Mark Halperin was more surprised than most. After reading about what led up to the comment, I can see that it was, in fact, an attempt to be funny that got beamed out to a public audience that was never supposed to see it. It wasn't a case of a random w...

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Raving Black Lunatic: December 2011

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Ranting and raving since 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Wednesday, December 21, 2011. I have just read multiple stories about random racism. This is a normal routine for me. Stories about racist police, racist landlords and racist business people all float across my computer screen every weekday and I consume them and consider them. It's what helps me pass the time, and has taught me something valuable. I mean that ...

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Raving Black Lunatic: May 2011

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Ranting and raving since 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Friday, May 20, 2011. Powerful, powerful post. Check it out. Daddy Dialectic: A Day at the Park. Links to this post. Monday, May 16, 2011. Movies, Schools and Homes. If white people don't see themselves in movies, they don't want to go. So says Salon. I guess it's not so simple. For example, white flight is typically used to describe the way white homeowners fl...

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Raving Black Lunatic: August 2012

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Ranting and raving since 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Thursday, August 23, 2012. If you haven't already you should really check out Ta-nehisi Coates latest piece in the Atlantic. About President Obama. It touches on many of the topics we've discussed here at the blog over the years, and raises what some black folks see as the central debate about Obama's presidency. Was it worth it? Links to this post. First on th...