20 Questions Monday

1. What would have happened if, instead of resigning Van Jones
forced the White House to fire him?

2. Have you seen this 2009 Van Jones/Willie Hortonesque video
put out by Meg Whitmans opponent?

2. Will I be able to write a blog post in two weeks? Hopefully yes.

3. Why has my research interest shifted?

4. Did ya'll see the Law and Order marathon on last night, good clean fun?

5. Would you volunteer, 8 hours a months at a year around farmers market
in your neighborhood?

6. Would you like to read a little bit about the origins of Labor Day?

7. What were you doing this time last year?

8. Did you know that I have a special connection to the song, Here Comes
the Hammer?

9. Are you going to one of the Erykah Badu concerts?

10. Do you even care about "journalism" anymore?

11. Doesn't hurt when you go to another city/state and the groceries
are twenty to thirty percent cheaper?

12. Did you know that Black, Women's and Chicano studies exist on
college campuses because folks took over campuses, sometimes with guns,
and demanded to be included?

13. [Statement] I have come to the conclusion that everything that we
have as a benefit, has been fought for. Everything. And if we are to achieve
anything else. We will have to fight for that too.

14. What is the last movie you saw?

15. Why is it so hard to look at my part in disagreements, rather
then just tell other people they are wrong? [Lols]

16. Where is the album that will narrate my fall?

17. Would you be interested in helping me choose the blog posts that
I published in book form?

18. Cook anything good lately? [Send me a recipe and a photo and I will
put it on Brooklyn Magic].

19. Did you know that much of my work on gender is rooted in the desire
to make a better world for my sweet, sweet, nephew, Baby Chris?

20. Why people more interested in analyzing racial oppression than gender
oppression?

20 Questions Mercury in Retrograde Edition

1. Why don't we just run out of the grocery store with all of our
groceries instead of standing in those long assed lines, houngary?

2. What are you reading?

3. Do you have healthcare?

4. Why granola cost so much?

5. Will Jay Z still rap about selling crack when he is a 50 year
old hundred-millionaire?

6. Why is it so hard to admit that we have allowed the white
consumption of Black masculinity to define the terms of Black,
mainstream masculinity?

7. Why do I feel like I am morphing into a community organizer?

8. Why am I being forced, because of Saul Alinsky, to see that
no person, or non profit is all bad or all good?

9. Why I go to a Black wedding reception with Filthy, and was
reminded of how race is lived?

10. When will I have time to write blog essays again?

11. What are you procrastinating on doing right now?

12. What was the last sacrifice you made for someone you love?

13. When was the last time you forgave someone for hurting you?

14. How do you deal with friends you owe money to?

15. What do you think of how some of the Buddhist view pain?

16. How do you ease out of someone else's life?

17. How do you leave the door open for them to come back?

18. Why do I look at some of my old posts and totally disagree
with my previous statements?

19. Why is my lunch already made for tomorrow?

20. When am I going to learn to drink more water?

20 Questions Fridays {7.17.09}

Via

1. Why do so many people say they hate feminism, yet they
can't define it?

2. What would happen if Beyonce responded to Nia Long?

3. What if young people, in schools with high drop out rates,
had a powerful and collective voice regarding the future
directions of their schools?

4. How much longer before California legalizes and taxes weed?

5. Why did it take Drake featuring White women and Latina's in
his video for Black women to get angry about a rap video?

6. Why the Washington Post charge $25K a head for an off the record,
non confrontational dinner promising health care industry lobbyist
access to writers and politicians?

7. Why do we still act like and assume we live in a meritocracy
when the fact of the matter is that your parents power in society
determines much of your life such as health care, housing and
access to education?

8. Why does O Magazine write more off beat and interesting stories
about Black women than Essence?

9. Why would happen if we decriminalized hand to hand drug dealing?

10. What are we doing for Labor Day?

11. Why is it hard to eat fried chicken in front of white people?

12. Why do people love waitresses and teachers?

13. Why is MAC eyeshadow so pretty?

14. Why do I get shook every time I get ready write a social
critique of Black people, be the men, women, or Hip Hop,
for the first time?

15. Why has it taken me so long to realize that I can only
tell who my allies are based on their actions, not their gender
or race?

17. Why do (some) white feminist think that recognizing sexism
is a political act?

18. Why can't I find my Buhloone Mindstate cd?

19. When will Black actresses start writing and producing their own films?

20. Why can't I order Trader Joes on the internet?

You know the deal.

I got questions.

You've got answers.