Twenty Questions Friday 8.7.09

1. Why bank fees make me almost have a coronary?

2. Why am I my fathers child?

3. Even though Manaen tells me, what seems like once a week,
why is it so hard to forgive, even if the act is for me, not the
transgressor?

4. Why when someone leave, you miss them, a lot, then you get use to it?

5. What if some of the "birthers" flipped out and got violent with an Asian, Black
or Latino white person?

6. Why people stay saying that poverty is why our children can't
read, yet Cuba as a 99% literacy rate?

7. Why did it feel good when I ran into the Graduate, (he has always treated
me like number two) who said I was glowing then proceeded to hit on me.

8. Why isn't there a Black Michael Moore?

9. Why I still be looking for a modern Pharcyde?

10. Why am I so competitive?

11. Why people try and make money off of everything, when everything
ain't for sale?

12. Why do i have to resort to crack game metaphors to explain capitalism?

13. Why do I still remember dig dugs pfn number?

14. Why do I want Tony Touch to DJ my going away/birthday party?

15. If Black people don't save Black children, who will?

16. Why do I love Bianybear for teaching me that I need to be vulnerable
and fearless?

17. Why my honesty make me feel vulnerable and free?

18. When will we have an honest conversation about the fact that
automation is eliminating jobs that will never return?

19. Why we so scared to stand up for what we believe in?

20. Why "he" say that I ain't follow my heart last night?

I got questions, you, have answers.

Twenty Questions Saturdays {I Know, Late Black Girl}

Life caught up with me yesterday, hence by ability to provide you
with the much beloved, 20 Questions Fridays, on a Saturday.

1. Why is it so hard to acknowledge that hip hop has an impact on
how Black children treat each other, with regard to sex, tolerance
around sexuality and violence?

2. What if everything you had now, regarding material items,
was all you would have for the next five, ten years?

3. Are you in contact with the people who mentored you when
you were a teenager?

4. Why I still cheer the A's, even though I don't know any of the
players names?

5. Why is it so hard to turn off that "I should have said X to her"
voice?

6. What will it take for those who are employed to be concerned
with the fate of the semi and permanent unemployed?

7. Have you heard of the $5 slice of pizza?

8. Why isn't there an international youth movement?

9. Why stuffed mushrooms go so hard?

10. Why did I find a bar that has a bookshelf full of philosophy
books, California beers on tap, right in Brooklyn?

11. Why, in addition to having a beer, didn't President Obama
take a moment to facilitate a broader American conversation
on the interaction between the police and Black communities.

12. How come there is never enough money for all the artistic
project ideas I come up with?

13. Why three different people tell me that I be over thinking
stuff, yesterday?

14. What collective obligation do Black folks w/ degrees and
education have to Black folks who do not have the resources or
access to achieve these things?

15. Why did being a waitress force me to grow up (in ways I
am still seeing everyday)?

16. Why is white poverty invisible in mainstream media?

17. Why are teen sex workers treated as criminals, as opposed
to people who need social services and mental health assistance?

18. Why for the first time in my life, I have visited New York City
and the people, in some ways seem incapable of feeling?

19. Have you considered composting?

20. How will I be able to blog in the fall when I won't have anymore time?

You, of course, have answers.

20 Questions Friday {7.24.09}

Love, Love, Love Shiny Black Girls.

1. Why is it so hard for Black people to understand that CNN,
Cornel West and Dyson will always talk about Black poverty
because it makes them money?

2. Why does Sam Adams Summer Ale taste so orangey and
delicious?

3. Why is it so hard to call family members you haven't talked to
in a while?

4. Where did summer go?

5. Why am I itching to launch 3 new sites, one of them a Black
Vanity Fair?

6. Have you ever taken a look at the federal budget?

7. Why isn't it required for all Congressmen and women
to disclose their investments so that we will know where
their biases lie?

8. Why Jet Blue more expensive now?

9. What happened to Iyanla Vanzant?

10. You peeped how the Chris Brown apology video and
the Henry Louis Gates arrest broke on the same day?

11. What do you think of David Lindorff's piece on Henry Louis Gates
and our current police state?

12. Did you know that Tyler Perry is the first Black major
studio owner?

13. Why Ta-Nehisi the only blogger that consistently makes
me think of new angles?

14. Why is there no money left after the bills are paid?

15. Did you know that there are automated garbage trucks
in some cities, which eliminates 2 good paying jobs?

16. Did you go to Rock the Bells?

17. Did you know that Louis Proyect wrote a letter to Goldman
Sachs offering to be their PR consultant and recommending that
they fund anti- capitalist activities to quell the rising voice of The Left?

18. Did Tupac have potential or was he a really just a philosophical
and deep drug addict?

19. Why was Lebron so scurred of a dunk tape getting out?

20. Why do I miss A Different World?

I got questions.

You have answers.

Big {TEEF}