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Re: @BlackingItUp #254 – RACE V. CLASS

portia911 — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:46:14 -0000

listening to your discussion on class biases and perceptions it occurred to me that as a middle aged Brit my perception is very different than my American cousins. In Britain,growing up, the expression working poor was non-existent, if you had a job you were not poor, you were working class or Blue-collar.
In real terms I currently would be classified here as one of the working poor, my paycheck tells me this as I live from paycheck to paycheck , but my head refuses to accept this.
I live in a poor neighborhood in San Jose CA but my husband and I live reasonably comfortably , I have stuff and very few needs, we can't afford health care but i still don't consider myself poor.
My own class bias kicked in listening to you and L Joy because I was thinking "I'm not poor " I have read Dickens and Shakespeare, I enjoy Jazz and Classical music, and then kicked myself because I was equating "poor" with ignorance, I was appalled at myself and I ,like you Elon , need to address my biases and the way I approach people I interact with everyday.

Re: @BlackingItUp #249 | WRITE BLACK

Nicholas Johnson — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:38:57 -0000

I can seem to listen to 249, whenever i click on the link I keep getting 248: Cake Cake Cake

Re: @BlackingItUp #249 | WRITE BLACK

Teresa Gaines — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:42:59 -0000

This is the same post from the day before. It states #249 but shows #248

Re: @BlackingItUp #238 | WHERES THE BLOOD

facebook-726170419 — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:58:39 -0000

I appreciate the program but the AH's have to go. Commas are not vocalized, nor are the spaces between sentences.

Re: @BlackingItUp #238 | WHERES THE BLOOD

a_diva4life — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:28:32 -0000

that one lady's response was way too long. you can not dismiss a person's statement as idiotic but take small pieces of it as truth. unless...

Re: @BlackingItUp #236 | LESS PAIN AND SUFFERING

nicholas johnson — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:00:11 -0000

why is this audio skipping? You all keep getting cut off mid sentence and moving to another moment

Re: @BlackingItUp #234 | #millionhoodies

Adam Schramm — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 01:27:59 -0000

Thank you so much for the show on the MH march! It was not only fascinating to hear your perspective on the march but to then realize that of the 25 podcasts I listen to each week, many daily and almost all very far-Left, NOT ONE of them mentioned Occupy's involvement as intrusive nor gave a black perspective that was in any way critical of the march itself. The entire fucking Left should be ashamed of its complete lack of attention to what was obviously a pretty widely-held view of many of the participants.

Re: Don’t You People Have Jobs?

ameonna — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:23:18 -0000

I just feel like it's dangerous to go out there and counterprotest in person, so I have to do it online. Thanks for the encouragement. :)

Re: Don’t You People Have Jobs?

Patient C — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:14:11 -0000

Thank you for sharing this.

Re: #SELMA2012 #TWIBU | @NewsOneOfficial Coverage

Elon James White — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:54:12 -0000

I couldn't help it... ;-)

Re: #SELMA2012 #TWIBU | @NewsOneOfficial Coverage

Wa2 — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:38:08 -0000

Singer and.... ACTOR??? Tyrese.. lol shade

Re: #SELMA2012 #TWIBU | @NewsOneOfficial Coverage

Patient C — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:53:29 -0000

Thank you for going and bringing this back. I saw very little besides mentions of the whole week except on Politics Nation.

Re: Darkness II Demo available; Seriously Rated M

Lenka Mohapi — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:39:55 -0000

So we don't nerd at all now? Hard, soft or otherwise?

Re: @BlackingItUp #222 | PRIVILEGE

Ramona Drew — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:12:23 -0000

dude yo listen nobody who's been in jail calls it shivin', its shanking... and i beleive the presidents car is named "the beast" saw a documentary on nat. geo history, mabey military chan. your awesome keep doin the damn thing

Re: Elon James White on @MHPShow

Elon James White — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:53:25 -0000

**BLINK**

Re: @BlackingItUp #221 | POOR PEOPLE RUIN THINGS

Elon James White — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:55:17 -0000

Why yes this DID make me laugh.

Re: @BlackingItUp #221 | POOR PEOPLE RUIN THINGS

Pat Rhiannon Griffith — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:23:46 -0000

As a middle-aged woman I found the discussion of fast and slow zombies very informative and possibly life--saving. I would never have known. Appreciate your mission.

Re: Elon James White on @MHPShow

Mark Arienda-Jose — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:45:46 -0000

Definitely don't want Santorum. If he gets in, he'll throw out the bankers much like Jesus threw out the money changers littering the temple. How can America run without JP Morgan, Chase, Federal Reserve? We need the money changers to direct tax payer money into private foreign banks, foreign countries run by dictators (Egypt, Libya, Syria), media conglomerates (MSNBC, FOX), companies opening foreign factories (GM, Ford). This show needs to continue getting that kind of funding. Down with Santorum.

Re: @BlackingItUp #220 | SHOUT OUT TO THE CHATROOM

thomas jasen — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:56:08 -0000

https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/tg...

Re: The GOP loves Black People

Ramona Drew — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:58:43 -0000

i'd b mad too if i looked like a man-baby mutant offspring....so much inbreeding

Re: The Lost of Innocents.

Nai — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:41:00 -0000

innocence maybe?

Re: #AfterBLACK 19 | #REDTAILS

Aaron Booker — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:43:15 -0000

In WW2 alot of officer made high rank at relatively young ages. The character that Terrence Howard was based on was 32 when he led the 332nd Squadron. There is much in your review I disagree with but I just wanted to point that one out. I think people that criticize the movie simply from the style or dialogue miss the bigger point of the story. It wasnt that the 332nd was a spectacular unit. It was that the overall of perception of black soldiers was that they were inadequate fighters. They had to work twice as hard as their white counterparts just to prove their equality as fighters. To harp on dialogue, or music, or the love story subplot you do a disservice to acts the Tuskegee Airmen did accomplish. On a sidenote anyone expecting a history lesson from a movie is a jack-a**.What I hope is people will be interested enough to go find out on their own the history of the Tuskegee Airmen...

Re: Darkness II Demo available; Seriously Rated M

Patient C — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:16:45 -0000

Excellent! I played the demo for the first The Darkness and left it feeling... tepid.

Re: #AfterBLACK 19 | #REDTAILS

Alford Whitaker — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:28:07 -0000

http://www.girlonguy.net/girl_...

This is the interview and the quote starts 78:43. What he is talking about is the feeling that black people have towards dark skin black people. He is raising the issue that dark skin people are not see as beautiful and dark skin is a disadvantage. He isnt saying dark skin people are less than but this issue is in our community.

Re: @BlackingItUp #202 | IN 2012

msladydeborah — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:32:07 -0000

I see the book ban as the inability of officials to accept what is true about America's role as a major player in exploiting countries and their indigenous people. Only the sincerely stupid would actually believe that this ban is going to prevent people from telling the truth about America's role in the world's story. I find it interesting that within their color blind hysteria they think that this is the way to make things different than what is true.