Local NBC News in NYC commented on this for about one minute at the end of the news cast. This is the only info I could find about it. This video is not of the actual event…I don’t think, but from what I saw in the newscast, it’s pretty much what went down… people basically making out with each other.
I guess no one believes people can transmit STDs orally… like herpes and gonorrhea, for example. Not to mention things like a virus and nasty smoker’s breath (ech!).
Who is always looking for the Loch Ness monster, Big Foot, space aliens, Dracula and the Chupacabra? I don’t know what the fascination is with these creatures for white folks…and I have yet to see a special or documentary on BET about such things
Look at this whole gaggle of white people seeking out Nessie:
This is a little unorthodox (as opposed to my usual posts), but I just had to post this. I noticed in my Web hit details that someone found this blog after Googling “white men who kill family.” One of the search results on the first page brought up this New York Times article dated June 2, 1918… try it for yourself. Here’s what I found. I present the whole article after the jump…but let me tell you how it ends: “The negroes fired nearly 200 shots at the posse, but none of the white men was injured.”
Or at least that’s what everyone else seems to think — that all black people in America come from Africa. That’s not exactly true. And this is only an issue (for the people I know, anyway) when someone wants to use the term African-American to encompass all of black America. This is especially true on employment applications, college applications and the like that wants to know the ‘race’ of an individual. Black Americans come from the motherland, the Caribbean, South America, and I would guess from other continents and countries.
So to be clear, we have African-Americans and black Americans. African-Americans have always been in America — and can only presumably trace their roots to an African slave brought to America (and then you have literal African-Americans, i.e., they “just” got here from the continent of Africa). Black Americans can point to an island in the Caribbean or a country in South America and say their people are from Jamaica, Belize or Haiti. Now, of course, we know the slave trade was not just limited to the so-called American states; many islands and countries along the Caribbean actively participated in slavery. So if these slaves were all coming from Africa, then it’s safe to say that all blacks who trace their heritage to any Caribbean island can also trace their heritage to a country in Africa. Maybe. Read the rest of this entry »
This is usually the case, as I see it, when an Asian actor or actress first appears in American movies. After a while, however, they may receive the opportunity to expand a little bit…which sometimes just means straight out buffoonery (I can’t help but think of Jackie Chan here) or type-casting.
Consider Jet Li, whose English is not the absolute greatest, but is good enough — how often does he talk in these American movies? He’s usually just around to be the strong, bad-ass Asian guy who knows martial arts. Did you see him in Unleashed with Morgan Freeman… the role Li played seems almost degrading to me in retrospect (he’s literally kept on a leach and treated like a dog until he’s needed to unleash a karate ass-kicking). Then there’s Romeo Must Die and Cradle To Grave (1&2). Li doesn’t even need to do these dumb movies as he’s a well respected actor in Asia…and they don’t subject him to dumb stuff. But there it is.
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Local NBC News in NYC commented on this for about one minute at the end of the news cast. This is the only info I could find about it. This video is not of the actual event…I don’t think, but from what I saw in the newscast, it’s pretty much what went down… people basically making out with each other.
This one is too funny if it’s really true.
Or at least that’s what everyone else seems to think — that all black people in America come from Africa. That’s not exactly true. And this is only an issue (for the people I know, anyway) when someone wants to use the term African-American to encompass all of black America. This is especially true on employment applications, college applications and the like that wants to know the ‘race’ of an individual. Black Americans come from the motherland, the Caribbean, South America, and I would guess from other continents and countries.
This is usually the case, as I see it, when an Asian actor or actress first appears in American movies. After a while, however, they may receive the opportunity to expand a little bit…which sometimes just means straight out buffoonery (I can’t help but think of Jackie Chan here) or type-casting.