Guest Blogger on Mamalicious

I participated in the 32 day Black History Month Blog-a-thon on Mamalicious. Thanks to Deesha, Yvette & Crew. Check out the month's worth of blood and gold, and my post. The gang of folk who range from well-meaning souls who derive their foundation from inclusion and the Black Arts Movement, to out and out morons, say we shouldn't "debate" this dumbing down of our cultural and history legacy within the current thrust of black popular fiction and non-fiction (hell, let's toss in some poetry and 80% of the music out there). It's counterproductive. It's tired. It's...yikes...hating. I try to put that in a cultural/historical perspective. Soulja Boy ain't Scott Joplin, folks, so stop the inapt analogies. Making money and everyone reading "something" is a chimera. Hey, so then let's stop talking about the Chinese giving cash to the Sudanese so they can massacre black people. Let's say g'head to the Marlboro Academy and Alize Charter School.

What will our black history be? It won't be Jesse Owens and Joe Louis--it'll be clowns like "ocho-cinco" Chad Johnson of the Bengals, or Mike Vick. Not on my watch. Not on mine. Heed that...