Oprah – Media Royalty
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Oprah the King Maker
Oprah Gail Winfrey, better known to her adoring fans as just Oprah. Internationally known as the queen of daytime television (sorry Ellen DeGeneres your time will come).
For 25 years the Oprah Winfrey Show, or better known as the O, has been the show that has been penciled into almost every woman’s schedule at 4 o’clock eastern time has created a fan base that words can try to depict but cannot describe how many are dedicated to this show.
From humble beginnings in the Deep South to being one of the most powerful women in the world, her claim to fame is nothing short of amazing. Since this is the final season of Oprah we’ve decided to take a look back on not only Oprah’s career but the diverse number of fans and how much power the “Oprah Effect” has had on politicians, movie stars, ordinary people with a story to tell and everything in between.
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Categories: Culture Tags: african-americans, cosby show, Forbes 500, independent, Oprah effect, progressive
Popeyes Chicken – Race and Politics
Popeyes Chicken Mammy
Popeyes Chicken should be ashamed of itself for the degrading and tired minstrel show put on by the “Chicken Mammy.” Ms. Annie as she’s called takes us back about a century on her chicken coonery antics. Believe it or not, the African-American community is divided on whether the commercial is racist or not. In some quarters of the community, the feeling is hey, “she’s making money and laughing all the way to the bank.” This writer is painfully aware, that some people will sell their soul for a dollar; no matter what the consequences are.
Should companies be held to a higher level of “social responsibility?” Where do we draw the line between funny and insulting? The Chicken Mammy’s antics hearkens back to a time most African-Americans would like to forget. The deplorable minstrel show era is one that is painful and dredges up the oppressive era of “Jim Crow” and brutal segregation that was mandated by law.
Categories: Culture Tags: african-americans, chicken mammy, madea, minstrel show, racism, white privilege
Unions – Office – Politics and Facebook
Take our country forward - not back!
Social media is ubiquitous. Employees use their Facebook and Twitter accounts to keep up with family and friends, to network, to post music, to inform their online “community” of personal and/or social events, and, sometimes, to vent about their day on the job. What happens when one of their Facebook friends shares the online rant about a supervisor with said supervisor or someone else on the job? And what if the employer has a policy that prohibits employees from making “disparaging” remarks about their supervisor online? Can the employee be fired? The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) says “no”.
Categories: Culture Tags: african-americans, Facebook, progressive, social media, social networking, twitter
Categories: Culture Tags: afro cuban, Hispanic, Latino, Si se puede
African Americans and Irish
Faith and Begorrah, it’s St. Patricks Day! Even though St. Patricks Day is not associated with African-Americans, we celebrate it just as hard as anyone else! In fact, those of us who may have Irish blood in our ancestry are quite proud of it and announce it to the world. Of course most African-Americans have white blood in them from various white ethnic groups as a result of a female ancestor being raped by the slave master; Nothing to be proud of.
Categories: Culture Tags: 1863 NY draft riots, intolerance, Irish immigrants, lunatic fringe
Why is America so Color Struck?
I can always tell when a white person is talking about another white person; they never mention their race. It's only when they're talking about someone who is not white like them that they will make it a point to let the listener know if the person was black, Latino or Asian or if they were gay, Arab etc.
Categories: Culture Tags: color struck, good hair, high yellow, intolerance, race obession, racism
Black History Month – I Hate it!
I have had white co-workers exclaim, "you have a black president (Obama) you don't need to celebrate black history! I beg to differ! Until we gain economic parity with our white counterparts, we need to recognize black history month.
Categories: Culture Tags: african-americans, intolerance, obama republican
Gays and the Black Community
There have always been gays in the black community that is no secret. The issue is how the community has dealt with gay individuals.
Categories: Culture Tags: down low, equality, gay marriages, homosexual, intolerance, lgbt, progressive
The ‘Disintegration’ Of America’s Black Neighborhoods : NPR
Eugene Robinson's book on the sub-groups within the black community rings true. The black community is not just one thing or one group.
Categories: Culture Tags: african-americans, black Bourgeoisie, inner city, underclass
Rare Slave Photo Found in North Carolina
A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy. Art historians believe it’s an extremely rare Civil War-era photograph of children who were either slaves at the time or recently emancipated.
Categories: Culture Tags: african-americans, confederacy, racism, Republican, slave photos, slavery, white privilege