InkogNegro 1.5

When Keeping it Real Goes Right.

I expect better from my Black Intellectuals.

Back when Glenn Loury was a conservative…I disagreed with him, but I engaged him.

But THIS?  This kinda logic…or lack thereof is kinda insulting.

April 21, 2008 Posted by inkognegro | Barack Obama, Bloggingheads.tv, Glenn Loury, Hillary Clinton | | 1 Comment

This couldn’t wait until after vacation…

So,  about that experience.

Umpteen million repeats of Pastor Wright…and we can’t get a LITTLE of this?

March 24, 2008 Posted by inkognegro | Hillary Clinton, Jeremiah Wright | | No Comments

Since I’ve been posting Preachers talking about Barack Obama

After posting a few Pastor Manning videos, My visits have been insane. I thought it only fair to show you lookie lous what it would be like if one of the great Pastors of our day sound like on the topic.

I have heard a LOTTA preachers in my day.

Dr. Jeremiah Wright is as good as it gets.

(brought to you by Fox News) (I see you Roger Ailes)

March 14, 2008 Posted by inkognegro | Hillary Clinton, James David Manning, Jeremiah Wright, Obama | | 1 Comment

Real Talk in the Middle of the Night #2: White is not a default setting

I try to be an easy going pragmatic brother, but dammit if I am not going to have to start the revolution all by myself.

If you have a white friend, kindly explain to them that white is not the default setting.

*pauses*

I am left handed, and I live in a right handed world.  I accept that things are going to be uncomfortable (screwing things in, writing on a chalk board or using magic markers). Ultimately, I adjust to it.

I am a Black man, and I live in a nation in which many white folk operate as though white (White, Protestant, Heterosexual, English-speaking and Patriarchal, for those keeping full track) is the default setting and  everyone else must adjust.

Nope.

Not gonna be able to swallow that.

Geraldine Ferraro, (and the Clinton Campaign by extension)  is clinging to the default setting, a setting she admits was waved temporarily in order to provide a certain noteworthy stature to a futile campaign being waged against a popular incumbent.

The MSM has allowed perpetrated a deeply flawed meme regarding 35 years of Clinton experience versus the a speech given by Barack Obama in 2002.

AYFKM?

There should be a laugh track everytime she says 35 years of experience.

On its face, Senator Clinton has a unique resume that represents an intelligent and accomplished professional woman with one foot in corporate law and one foot in public policy.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS?

Meanwhile people sniff at Obama’s career as a community activist and Illinois State Senator.

Just awful.

But THIS, boys and girls, is what Black folk deal with.  THIS is why we are so “hostile” and “sensitive”.

See, now I am too irritated to even finish.

March 14, 2008 Posted by inkognegro | Barack Obama, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Race, Real Talk | | 2 Comments

Am I the only one who hears a dog-whistle @ 3 in the Morning?

I don’t like the look of this spot at all.

What is it about sleeping babies @ 3AM and a ringing phone in the White House that makes the two at all relevant.

I mean, really now, it was 8:45 am when the first plane hit the towers.

And let us not even discuss what Bill Clinton was doing during a few of HIS White House Phone calls (withdrawn, he said snarkily).

I am missing out on what it is that makes us think that somehow the world is only going to go to hell in the middle of the night.

Which means…There is something else going on.

Allow me to translate, as it revealed itself to me at first blush.

“Do you trust that Black man with the funny name to protect your precious babies at 3AM? Because you know that’s when Black men like to come and rob your house.”

Heck, why stop there, Go ahead and get Uncle Ruckus involved:

Yeah, NSFW (its a BOONDOCKS clip, c’mon now)

UPDATE: Oh….THIS didn’t take Long.

and neither did this:

March 1, 2008 Posted by inkognegro | Boondocks, Campaign 2008, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Obama | | No Comments

Hey, NBC. Barack Obama is on TV everyday for a year and this is the BEST YOU CAN DO?

So, in the midst of the Biggest Presidential Primary season ever and the most compelling Presidential Candidate since Robert Kennedy…NBC offers THIS as a parody?

So, a Black man is on the verge of history, and THIS is the best you can do???

YMBFKM.

I mean, the AP is dropping stories about Obama’s Patriotism? the ASSOCIATED PRESS??? Yeah….talk about a free pass.
I reckon that I should let y’all slide for being on strike and stuff. But this was just plain lazy. Time is running out, Folks, Pretty soon it will be Summer, and you will be back in reruns.

Perhaps now is a good time to play Rent a negro or something. Obama ain’t going nowhere, Fred Armisen ain’t gonna get it done. Not.Even.Close.

And don’t even get me started on THIS SHIT HERE…

Yanno, Tina, you’re cute in a plain white girl with a neat sense of humor kind of way.

But Bitch is not the new black. Bitch isn’t even the new pink. Bitch is the once and future Female dog.

Once upon a time, you couldn’t say Bitch in public.

I still don’t.

Suddenly now you think you can rehabilitate and positive up Bitch, like Black folk (some) did the word Nigger.

Um, sorry, Tina.

Black Women Tried that. Then they realized that just because YOU make it a positive word, Men will still use it as a pejorative and beat you upside the metaphorical head with it.

One day, Black men will realize the same thing about the word Nigger(-a,-az,-uh) but that is another subject for another time.

Anyhoo…good luck with that tacit endorsement. Too bad you’re about two weeks late.

February 26, 2008 Posted by inkognegro | Fred Armisen, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Tina Fey | | No Comments