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Convincing Black Men To Stop Straightening Their Hair

01 Friday Jul 2011

Posted by Smaktakula in Culture

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African-Americans, Al Sharpton, Alicia Keyes, Arsenio Hall, black men, civil rights, dreadlocks, fauxhawk, follicular douchebaggery, freedom to look like an idiot, James Brown, men, Michael Jackson, mullets, nasty blond dreadlocks, odious hairstyles, pimps, preachers, Snoop Dogg, straight hair, white people

By Smaktakula

Seriously--Is There Anyone Who Thinks This Looks Good?

Look, this is America–really, you can wear your hair any way you want.  However, in our ongoing battle against follicular douchebaggery, Promethean Times has previously inveighed against such stylistic travesties as the mullet, the fauxhawk and dreadlocks on blond guys.  Today, we make a special appeal to black guys across the world: Please don’t straighten your hair.

We’re Just Talking About Dudes. Don’t Change A Thing.

In the very early days of the Civil Rights movement, it was briefly fashionable for African-American men to straighten their hair.  However, with the development and solidification of a black racial consciousness, natural hair began to make a comeback, and straight hair began to become a rarity among black men.

A Helpful Abstraction.

However, in 2011 there are still a handful of professions where straightened hair is the norm for African-Americans.  Chief among these are preacher, pimp and some combination of the two.

"I FEEL GOOD!" He Looks Good, Too. When You're A Sex Mo-Sheen, You Can Be The Exception To The Rule.

Some quick DOs & DON’Ts:

DON'T!

DON'T!

DON'T!

You're Fine, Ma'am. Sorry To Have Bothered You.

The GOP Finally Getting Its Black On

30 Friday Apr 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in Culture, National Events, People, Political Correctness, Politics, Race, Regional Politics

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Abel Maldonado, African-Americans, Al Sharpton, Alan Keyes, Arkansas, Barack Obama, Black Leadership Scowl, black Republicans, Bobby Jindal, Democratic Party, GOP, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Michael Steele, Mike Huckabee, playing the race card, Princella Smith, professional race baiters, Project 21, race baiting, Republican Party, Republicans, Rick Crawford, Sinister Minister

By Smaktakula
Note:  This story should not be confused with “The GOP Finally Getting Its Freak On,” which is a horse of a different color.
With apologies to Michael Steele and Alan Keyes.

Princella Smith is a young, female GOP congressional candidate in a predominantly Democratic district in Arkansas.   And she’s black.

Maybe Next Time.

In addition to running Republican in a blue district, Smith is an underdog candidate in the GOP primary, running against Rick Crawford, who has already secured the endorsement of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

Win or lose, Smith’s entry into the fray can help the GOP considerably, provided she isn’t painted by the media (or by herself) as a bizarre novelty candidate.

Republicans have long been tagged as the party of old white men (an impression exacerbated by recent events).  While Republicans counter this by pointing to such figures as the aforementioned Keyes and Steele, neither the perennial joke candidate nor the GOP’s beleaguered chief are particularly charismatic.

Also, while African-Americans do not vote or think in as much of a bloc as the media (or professional race baiters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright–all religious figures, interestingly enough) would have the public believe, it is true that the Republicans have done a lackluster job of reaching out to non-whites.

The vast majority of Americans are eager to put race behind them.  Barack Obama’s election was supposed to heal America’s racial rifts and put an end to identity politics.  The President and his closest advisors have been careful to downplay the racial element of Obama’s historic victory, but despite this the divide seems to have sharpened in many ways.  This is no doubt due in part to the need for the aforementioned race baiters to reassert the racial disparity (because if there weren’t race problems, these guys wouldn’t get to appear on TV once a week or so with that practiced “Black Leadership” scowl).

Nobody Does The Black Leadership Scowl Quite Like The Representative From Maryland.

Candidates like Smith, Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal and California’s Abel Maldonado can only help to diversify and extremely stultified Republican party.  Diversity–through organic means and not via odious and racially belittling quotas–could help to destigmatize the Republican Party in non-white communities.

That may be well and good for the Republicans, but how does it benefit the nation as a whole?  Not long ago the United States made itself believe that the election of a particular black person would once and for all snuff the uncomfortable question of race in politics.

It didn’t, and it’s probably too much to think that a congressional longshot could exorcise an entire nation’s demons.  It might not be too much of a stretch, however, to hope that Smith’s candidacy might draw awareness to moderates and conservatives within the black community.  If such moderates and conservatives were given voice by the media, it would obviate the ostensible need for a race-baiting reverend.

Guardian: Lonely Death Of Juanita Goggins, Trailblazer Of US Civil Rights

22 Monday Mar 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in History, National Events, People, Politics, Race, Regional Politics

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Al Sharpton, black leaders, civil rights, civil rights leaders, death by exposure, death by freezing, first black woman elected to South Carolina legislature, Guardian UK, Juanita Goggins, mental illness, obscure political figures, posterity, William Ayers

 

I am going to Columbia to be a legislator, not just a black spot in the House chambers.        

                                                                                                                                     Juanita Goggins        

 The story of Juanita Goggins is at times both inspiring and pathetic.  Goggins, whom the Guardian calls “a trailblazing politician and civil rights activist,” was the first black woman elected to the South Carolina legislature.  Despite such a monumental zenith, Goggins’ was found earlier this month frozen to death in her rented South Carolina home.  Her neighbors had no idea the part she had played in the civil rights history of South Carolina and of the nation.        

The most compelling historical figures are not cardboard cutouts; they have warts and flaws which help to set their accomplishments in human terms.  Juanita Goggins was certainly no exception.   A great many famous names grapple with one another to gouge out their place in the constantly rewritten history of the civil rights movement.  The cruel proof of posterity’s fickle nature is that it canonizes the likes of race-baiting hustler Al Sharpton or unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, while relegating minor–but important–figures like Juanita Goggins to the dustbin of history.        

 Juanita Who?  Yeah, that’s the rub: Lonely death of Juanita Goggins, trailblazer of US civil rights | World news | guardian.co.uk.        

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