So still topping the news, the death of a very strange man, I’ve not taken that much notice, but apparently everyone in America was his best mate, every 3rd rate celeb talking about how they were close friends with Jacko coz they’d met him once 3 years ago.  Then there are people buying up his albums, apparently all massive fans of Jackson, which does make you wonder why, when they knew he had no money, why was it they waited till he was bloody dead before buying this stuff?  Suddenly, all this music that a week ago they could happily live … Continue Reading Mad Michael

That’s just… weird. Sad, too, of course - my heart goes out to their family and friends. But still…

I practically grew up with MJ. Oh, I didn’t know him (unless you believe the rumor that was going around my jr high school at the time that that was him spending a semester there), but he’s just a few months younger than me so many of the milestones of his life, including turning 50, were mine as well. Kinda makes you think.

I was sad at what he’d become in the later years but just recently I caught an old video … Continue Reading Wow, Michael Jackson Has Died. And Farrah

I am not so interested in dictating to others how they should remember their past. Let the Lost Cause find itself, our search lies within. And when it’s over, we will put Ida Wells up against Nathan Forrest, on any day of the week, and leave the generations to judge. Sooner or later, in the words of Nas, we’ll all see who the prophet is.

In Every Black Man’s Eyes—Death To The Rebel - Ta-Nehisi Coates.

I love that paragraph, as I love the series of posts Ta-Nehisi is doing on what … Continue Reading What Will Be Remembered?