Langston Hughes, one of my favorite poets from the Harlem Renaissance, wrote a poem called The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Wanna hear it? Here it goes: I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the [...]
Here’s another jewel from the Hunterfly Road Publishing vault. This one also made it into the book, “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist”, as part of chapter 3. I’ve included this post in the series because of the comments it generated, particularly those discussing the relationship between black men and women here in [...]
Just a quick hit about my live interview tomorrow night at 10pm on Live w/Katie Adler. Haven’t done any interviews since last year but with the soon to be released second book, I’ll probably be doing a few more in the days to come, as well as a number of readings, so hold tight for [...]
The following conversation took place in a café in Yokohama…actually almost the SAME conversation has taken place about 7 times over the past week, but finally decided to post about it. This is between myself and a Japanese private student. Student: Americans like baseball number one… Me: I dunno…probably that, or American football, or basketball…or maybe soccer. Student: Oh [...]
The following two videos are about the Hip-Hop scene in Japan. The first is from a presentation done at UCLA of the results of research done by a student of Japanese Hip-Hop by the name of Dexter Thomas on Racism and Right-Wing ideology in Japanese Hip-Hop. The second video is a similar presentation but with [...]
…and highly controversial apparently. I don’t know why…I think it’s adorable. Compared to some of the things I hear my students are doing, this is tame as a poodle. They should have waited for the Sakura and did it beneath a blossoming cherry blossom tree. Now that would have been perfect. Loco [...]
I do something really sadomasochistic to myself. What I do is, I punish myself for not doing what my mind and body knows it ought to do, which is quit smoking. How do I do it you wanna know? What is this sick, twisted S&M thing I do to myself? No whips, no chains, or [...]
I thought this was long gone… When I changed banners and my web address back in 201o, I had all the old links forwarded to the new self-hosted blog. After that, I realized that I could no longer see the old manifestation of LIY. Somehow, though, this single page is still floating around out there. Not sure [...]
First a couple of videos people have shot showing this phenomenon. Now, this: SMH I like the fact that she finds it problematic to assume racism whenever the empty seat is encountered. People who have read my book and blog know that I concur. However, I don’t think pulling a number like [...]
Once upon a time, in my lifetime, Blacks and Yellows, the Blank Panthers and the Yellow Peril, understood something; something that united them, that galvanized them to a unified struggle, to achieve progress or die trying. They’d established that despite any overemphasized cosmetic differences, any cultural or racial but ultimately superficial obstacles, they had a [...]
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