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OK.
Enough already with blogger.
Want to hear more from me?
Visit my new e-home @ http://turistaafricana.wordpress.com/
(image credit: http://artexchangeafrica.com/shop/index.php?cPath=74_98)
Nothing's impossible. But we're allowed to fail. Che Guevara (by way of Jihan El-Tahri)
Difficult takes a day. Impossible takes a week. Jay-Z
Nothing is either [possible or impossible]. It's thinking that makes it so (liberally paraphrased quote of Shakespeare's)
South Africa. Impossible.
I'm cruising blogs (my brain has refused to 'work' for the past couple of days) during work hours, when I come across Aco's post on several things, among them, Hot Ghetto Mess.
Now, I must mention that I finally watched Spike Lee's Bamboozled last night. I couldn't make it thru the whole movie. It had less to do with Mr. Lee's movie-making prowess, and more to do with the content. It was just unbearable and I fast-forwarded through a whole lot of sections.
What was unbearable? That black people actually dressed up like that, danced like that, spoke that dialogue. That there exists such a large number of ... (I know they have a name but it escapes me right now)... curios? depicting black people in those stereo-typical roles of aunt jemima, uncle tom, the 'jolly nigger bank', etc. Let's not even get into the 'art' depicting the african as a savage. I think if a movie were made about that, enough of us would decide we were done turning all our cheeks, and would rise up and...???
So I haven't fully-recovered from the images and the messages of the movie, when I click on links and see a blackface cartoon. I honestly thought I was seeing things. Then I read further and discover BET even had Uncut. Now, I saw that Ludacris video, and would agree with the description that it was "like a car accident you can't look away from".
Isn't it incredible how life imitates art (that has immitated life)?
Honestly, this is too much!