<![CDATA[One of the great ironies of Justin Simien’s masterful directorial debut, Dear White People, which released in theaters nationwide this last weekend, is that although it’s aimed at white people, it’s not about white people. And just now as I was writing, I was tempted to use another, less weaponized-sounding verb, but truly, “aimed” is the right…

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<![CDATA[For the last few weeks, I’ve been perilously close to a state of crisis, emotionally speaking. A series of conditions surrounding my life, some of them I’ve spoken about, and many too private to blog about (yes, such things still exist in my world) have contributed to my being short-tempered, overly volatile, and generally living…

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<![CDATA[So I’m flipping channels at my sister’s house last night, after I helped move her TV across the room. Since I don’t have cable TV at home — which is a good thing, more or less — whenever I can watch it at someone else’s home, it’s always a slightly foreign experience. (This probably deserves…

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<![CDATA[ So I’m taking a break. Already, I know what you’re thinking. Taking a break? That negro hasn’t written anything for like 3 months, and he’s talking about taking a break?! I’m taking a break from my normal mode of writing. The Official Explanation See, the main reason why I don’t write in this blog…

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