tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90207256732305239512011-09-11T04:17:00.313-07:00Nation of CowardsDavid Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-87917002813290007432011-08-22T10:35:00.000-07:002011-08-22T11:57:59.123-07:00Barack Obama and the Black Vote: A Complicated Matter
<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt;David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-60945690613277491322010-12-12T05:46:00.000-08:002010-12-12T12:37:30.560-08:00Passing the Mic: Yo, "B" What Were You Thinking?It has perhaps now gone viral. The White House press conference over the weekend that featured Obama passing the mic to Bill Clinton to help him sell his stinker of a deal with the GOP to continue Bush era tax breaks for the wealthy. The idea on its face was not a bad one. Clinton, after all, remains widely popular and resided over one the most economically robust periods in recent memory. David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-49792413759037483062010-12-07T11:06:00.000-08:002010-12-07T11:07:09.173-08:00Left of Black with Marc Lamont HillDavid Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-54842698993001346052010-11-29T19:39:00.000-08:002010-11-29T19:41:23.812-08:00Left of Black: Mark Anthony talks with Joan Morgan and Sophia Quintero about Tyler Perry's adaptation of "For Colored Girls"David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-36404902068433419502010-11-28T04:18:00.000-08:002010-11-28T04:22:49.400-08:00Let's Rescue the Race Debate“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. ... Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs ... There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.”Charles M. BlowThis 100-year-old, David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-11491587050359320462010-11-25T06:43:00.000-08:002010-11-25T06:54:54.373-08:00Strip Searched: Race and the Unasked Question in the Airport Scanner DebateBy George White As we enter the busiest traveling season of the year, one story has remained constant on the Internet and the evening news – the fear of and objections to TSA body scanners and pat-down searches in the nation’s airports.As a civil libertarian, I appreciate the concerns of travelers and their allies. But at this historical moment, I’m unconvinced that civil liberties are the main David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-37218251068611266172010-10-09T12:42:00.000-07:002010-10-09T13:07:58.998-07:00Who Really Speaks for Precious Who Really Speaks For Precious?:Unheard Voices in the Black Feminist DiscussionDavid Ikard, Ph.D.Wednesday, October 13, 20102:30-5:00 pmRichardson Library, Rosati Room 300David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-92031525544646251922010-10-06T18:29:00.000-07:002010-10-06T18:33:48.184-07:00'Left of Black': Episode #3 featuring Salamishah Tillet and David IkardSexual Predators and The Black Church Tue, 10/05/2010 - 08:51In this week's Left of Black webcast, host Mark Anthony Neal discusses sexual predators and the Black church with University of Pennsylvania Professor Salamishah Tillet & Florida State University Professor David Ikard.Professor Tillet is Founder of A Long Walk Home, a non-profit organization that uses art therapy and the visual and David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-57563124324181492212010-09-28T04:49:00.000-07:002010-09-28T05:11:07.149-07:00Can I Get a Witness?: Who's Really Getting Screwed in the Black ChurchSeveral years back a close black clergy friend of mine was having marital problems. He discovered that his wife was having an affair and was struggling to reconcile the relationship.In need of spiritual counsel, he sought out the advice of several of his clergy colleagues. To a man, he was advised to seek out the “sexual comfort” of his flock. Take the edge off, so to speak, and even the scoreDavid Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-27165544522477219172010-09-04T03:43:00.000-07:002010-09-04T03:51:21.441-07:00THE POWER OF NAMING: GLENN BECK AND HIS “RALLY” <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal.dotm 0 0 1 645 3682 FSU 30 7 4521 12.0 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-24864351073112886692010-07-16T14:47:00.000-07:002010-08-03T05:20:48.098-07:00Time to stop the (tea) PartyIt is hardly a secret in or beyond black communities, that the majority of black folks are conservative—if not ultraconservative—when it comes to morality, parenting, work ethic, homosexuality, gender roles and the like. Indeed, any black person that resides on the far left of the political spectrum—as I do—can bear witness to this reality. (I, for one, have the scars to prove it)The plain andDavid Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-994850301832737912010-05-28T07:52:00.000-07:002010-07-16T15:00:05.645-07:00The Miseducation of Texas School Kids
by Afi-Odelia Scruggs
See, a bunch of guys needed something to do in 1865 and 1866, right after the Civil War. It wasn't like they could go back to their plantations; Northerners had seen to that. So these good ole boys amused themselves by dressing up in sheets and riding through the countryside pulling pranks. Just good, clean hijinks, until they discovered their antics terrorized David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-5412844302557535132010-05-23T18:42:00.000-07:002010-05-24T09:18:12.095-07:00Banning Ethnic Studies: Why Stanley Fish's Take is Out of Bounds<!--StartFragment--> Sometimes just making yourself at home is revolutionary"--Slumberland, Paul Beatty If you received the kind of secondary public education that I had, you would have believed that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, all Martin Luther King wanted in terms of human rights was for his children to drink from the same water fountains as the white kids, and that the socioeconomic David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-70253671831282739372010-05-17T14:16:00.000-07:002010-05-17T15:34:23.882-07:00Still a Nation of Cowards“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards."Eric HolderWasn't that long ago that Attorney General Eric Holder sparked a media blitz for declaring in a race speech during black history month (and shortly after being confirmed as the nation's firstDavid Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-79215830317767780482010-03-10T16:54:00.000-08:002010-03-10T17:51:37.562-08:00Domestic Violence and Black Uplift Don't Mix: Expecting More From Tyler Perry
by Jenise Hudson
<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal.dotm 0 0 1 1795 10232 FSU 85 20 12565 12.0 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-74009843090953430852010-03-03T17:48:00.000-08:002010-03-10T20:46:44.696-08:00"You Your Best Thing": The Other Side to the Black Abortion Debate"You Your Best Thing," Paul D relays to a grief stricken and traumatized Sethe at the end of Toni Morrison's most touted novel Beloved. The physical embodiment of black women's self-sacrifice( she kills her daughter to protect her from experiencing slavery), Sethe responds incredulously--"Me?Me?"--as if the very idea that she held value beyond her role as a caregiver and nurturer for someone David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-85857753335082141962010-02-08T06:51:00.000-08:002010-02-10T07:01:44.885-08:00Ishmael Reed on the Movie "Precious": He's Absolutely Right and Dead WrongIn case you haven't received the memo, noted satirist Ishmael Reed is not terribly fond of the Oscar Nominated movie "Precious" based on the novel PUSH by Sapphire. My guess is that most folks became aware of this reality when Reed lampooned the movie in an op-ed article “Fade to White” in the New York Times recently.But the truth is (and I'll return to the op-ed piece in a moment), Reed has David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-62171398506169486562010-01-04T13:28:00.000-08:002010-01-06T06:14:30.323-08:00Why We Are Still Cooning in the 21st Century"I don't give a fuck what they think, they got to pay me booooooooooyyyyy! --Katt Williams quoting Flava Flav after his roastIn Katt Williams' recent stand-up dvd, "It's Pimpin' Pimpin,'' he recalls his frustration over the racist script he was paid handsomely to follow as the host of William Drayton's (aka Flava Flav) roast. Though Williams tries to keep the narrative comedic--withhis signatureDavid Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-13397219447777475542009-12-14T16:30:00.001-08:002009-12-14T16:40:35.273-08:00Hip Hop's Double Consciousness by Regina Barnett"I’m the dude playing a dude played by another dude" –Robert Downey, Jr., "Tropic Thunder"I spent my Thanksgiving break trappin’. Yes folks, I had T.I.’s Trap Muzik (2003) on full blast marinating and negotiating ideas about gender politics and identity in rap music. And T.I. was my main subject. Clifford “T.I.” Harris is no newbie to the game, quickly closing in on a nearly ten year stint as David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-41687835067403531332009-12-12T07:03:00.000-08:002009-12-13T16:37:25.534-08:00RACE MATTERS IN THE FT. HOOD SHOOTINGS by George White <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal.dotm 0 0 1 644 3673 FSU 30 7 4510 12.0 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-81336388165908660562009-12-06T09:28:00.000-08:002009-12-06T13:43:49.613-08:00Black Women on the Auction Block: A Black Feminist Response to “The Princess and the Frog” <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal.dotm 0 0 1 1 FSU 1 1 1 12.0 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-84769443503550433092009-11-25T02:03:00.000-08:002009-11-25T05:48:18.876-08:00Why Baby-Girl and I Won't Be Going to See Disney's "The Princess and the Frog"
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<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal.dotm 0 0 1 121 692 FSU 5 1 849 12.0 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-67578909480545140482009-11-11T03:14:00.001-08:002009-11-11T13:49:43.511-08:00When Keeping It (Sur)real Goes Wrong: How Hip Hop Distorts Black Suffering and Why We Should CareIn the most controversial sketch in the first season of “The Dave Chappelle Show” Chappelle plays Clayton Bigsby, a black white supremacist. An underground celebrity and prolific writer within the white supremacy movement, Bigsby is blind and has no idea that he is African American. Orphaned at an early age and before he develops a racial consciousness, Bigsby is taken in by a white orphanage David Ikardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863618313868241559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020725673230523951.post-64842818838679220832009-11-07T12:19:00.000-08:002009-11-23T20:26:17.639-08:00“Watch Your Mouth (Uncle) Tom: How Our Black Pride in the President Works Against Us”
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