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Essays and fiction that explore popular culture and politics.

Archive for January, 2009


Ether for Hip Hop Stealing My Black Boy – remastered

Friday, January 30th, 2009
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  “I’m tired of folks, them closed minded folk. You know what I’m sayin’? It’s like I got a demo tape and don’t nobody wanna hear it. But it’s like this: The South got something to say. That’s all I got to say.” Andre’ 3000 1. In 1998, I stood in the basement bathroom of [...]

Ether for The Actual Last Presidential Words of This Despicable, Delusional, Privileged, Consistently Forgiven, Glutton for Innocence, Pusher of Progress at Justice’s Expense, Coward — George W. Bush

Friday, January 16th, 2009
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  Ether. I have often spoken to you about good and evil, and this has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world and between the two, there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere unless the ideology being advanced is democracy [...]

Ether For Those of Us Who Questioned Obama’s Black Aesthetic

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Ether. It ain’t trickin’ if you got it. Behold Obama’s new Presidential limo. Gotdamn!

Ether for The Swaggerless in 2008

Thursday, January 1st, 2009
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Ether. T’was night before Christmas, and all through Grandma’s house, not a creature was creeping, while I was waxing my cousin and them in Scrabble. Half-way through the waxing, my cousin asked, “Wait. Is ‘swagger’ a real word?” This wasn’t the first time I’d heard someone wonder aloud if swagger, like “diss” was a “real” [...]