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Kismet is a writer, teacher, dreamer, scholar, insurgent, artist & in love with history. She lives at Waiting 2 Speak

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The Travesty of Prop 8 (and some POC Blame Game)

Dan Savage on “Black Homophobia” in response to the passing of Proposition 8. When you’re done there, go here and follow the comments. Don’t forget to leave some.
More on Blacks, Latina/os and Proposition 8:
VivirLatino: More Prop 8 Black and Latino Blaming
WOC, Ph.D.: Propositioning Privilege
elle, phd: WTF is Wrong With Us
The [...]

7Nov2008 | Kismet | Comments | Continued
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Welcoming History

I’m still unsure how to think about what happened yesterday. I’m excited, hopeful, terrified, and overwhelmed. I have finally, I think, stopped crying at every CNN recap, but I still feel so full with all of the historic things that happened. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States. [...]

6Nov2008 | Kismet | Comments | Continued
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Colin Powell Endorses Obama (Video)

In case you live under a rock…or you were at Howard Homecoming all weekend.
Video below:

And the Obama campaign raised $150 million (3.1 million contributions, $86/person on average, 632,000 new donors).
Wow. and Wow.
Go vote early. So you can help others exercise their civil right.

20Oct2008 | Kismet | Comments | Continued
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The Audacity of Hip Hop

From Newsweek.
When superstar lyricist Nas declared, “Hip-hop is dead!” in 2006, he reignited a long-running debate among artists and observers in the rap community. While the money-guns-girls wing of commercial rap is certainly here to stay, many fans insist that hip hop’s political roots are rotting. But on the eve of an election in which [...]

26Sep2008 | Kismet | Comments | Continued
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Links to Love (with a couple Random Thoughts Thrown in)

Dr. Yolanda Pierce wrote a heartfelt piece on the frustrations of being of African descent in the U.S. at the Kitchen Table.  As A.D. Nix commented on this post at Racialicious, mainstream white America wants everything but the burden.
Alisa Valdes-Rodrigues has an equally heartfelt piece on the pleasures and burdens of being pro-life and pro-Obama.
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22Sep2008 | Kismet | Comments | Continued
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DNC Quick Thoughts

Since I am back on wireless courtesy of Airport Express (yes!) I’ve got two quickies for the YBP crowd:
1) Woman of color @ the DNC
Mamita Mala represents for WOC Boricua-ness (is that a word???) at the DNC. Read on, read on.
2) The Newest Michelle Obama
credit: mikebaird
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama

I think that [...]

28Aug2008 | Kismet | Comments | Continued
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Oh Really Solange?

Watch this video without sound.

Then turn the sound up.
Is this clever cognitive dissonance or a clever lie?
I know. That’s mad vague. I don’t want to give too much away though.
Discuss.
(Sidenote: The girl looks more and more like her big sis every day)
H/T Purple Zoe over at the Ultraviolet Underground
X-Posted @ Waiting2Speak as [...]

6Aug2008 | Kismet | Comments | Continued
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Soledad, This is What I Wanted

Oh Soledad. Afrodescendiente Soledad.
Let me preface this by saying I did not watch CNN’s Black in America part 1, 2 or any this week. I was busy being black in America.
Whatever that means.
Still, after engaging in a variety of conversations on the special and the general state of black America throughout the day, [...]

28Jul2008 | Kismet | Comments | Continued