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From Shabazz Palaces’ recent show in NYC at SOBs.
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“Being oppressed means the absence of choices.”
bell hooks
Click the source link for the article from whence I found this quote.
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If students had endless options for attending school, racial imbalances in enrollment would begin to even out, without the need for race-based admissions. So would private donations; it’s unlikely that one school would be awash in parent-funded enrichment programs while another couldn’t afford a computer for a classroom. Teachers who in the past might have fled inner-city schools for the suburbs would have less reason to transfer. Parents who wouldn’t dream of sending their children to a rundown school in South Los Angeles might be forced to admit that it’s no more acceptable for other children to have to attend that school.
The classic response to complaints about educational inequities has been that the district has to work harder on providing top-quality neighborhood schools for low-income students. That theory, nice as it sounds, has been as fraught with practical barriers as the idea of open enrollment is. It has been too easy for parents to ignore bad public schools when their children don’t have to attend them, and too hard for parents to find good public schools when their income level doesn’t buy them housing in more affluent neighborhoods.
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This is a must see. Toussaint a film directed by Philippe Niang, produced by Eloa Prod and starring Jimmy Jean-Louis as Toussaint Louverture. For an interview with Jean-Louis, click the source link below.
This seems honest. Check the GQ interview from whence this video came by clicking the source link below.
“Men are experiencing what women experienced when they first entered the workforce in record numbers—the pressure to ‘do it all in order to have it all,’ ” according to a report released by the Family and Work Institute last year. It also found that the acceleration in “work-family conflict” has been particularly conspicuous among fathers in two-income families, with 60% saying it was an issue in 2008, up from 35% in 1977. That figure remained relatively stable for women, at 41% in 1977 and 47% in 2008. As men adjust to contemporary family life, Mr. Coltrane speculates that American culture may be on its way to phasing out the gendered roles of “husband and wife” and “father and mother” and replacing them with the functional roles of “spouse and parent.”
This says it all but in case you need more. Here’s a great quote from Big Think’s article on the topic. Click the source link below to read it in it’s entirety. And there is also this video by Jaron Lanier discussing how Facebook could use this opportunity to reinvent itself as a new technology company that creates jobs and wealth for its consumer base rather than what Walmart did.
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At the time, there was speculation that Facebook might be worth $15 billion, so Sorkin’s answer, in that context, is obviously outdated. And yet, the questions that Sorkin raised about Facebook’s value prove to be remarkably prescient, as investors are asking essentially the same questions four years later.
For instance, Sorkin asked whether the ”tribes of people who’ve been living and breathing and dying on Facebook” would continue that level of behavior on the site.
There are nearly a billion of them, and they are as addicted as ever. They spend one-fifth of their time online on Facebook and upload 300 million photos per day. Yet on the other hand, users are growing more distrustful of the company and are described in a recent poll as “apathetic about ads.” (57 percent of Facebook users polled “never click on advertisements or any other sponsored content on the site.”)
That leads to Sorkin’s second question: could Facebook prove that it is actually a business capable of generating significant advertising revenue?
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Love the imagery.
Sometimes you need to get loose in the club. This one of my preferred genres of get loose in the club music. Obrigada Buraka.
The financial markets went into a petulant sulk today, in response to the election results in France – where incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was defeated by his ‘centre-left’ challenger – and in Greece, where two thirds of the electorate voted against avowedly anti-austerity candidates. It seems likely that we will now see some attempt atrebranding austerity – ‘neoliberalism with a human face’ – but this will be nothing more than ‘lipstick on a pig’. The international financial gamblers will allow no let-up in the transfer of wealth from the overwhelming majority to their own decadent and diseased milieu.
The French election saw Socialist Party candidate François Hollande beat current president Sarkozy of the ‘centre-right’ Union for a Popular Movement. Like all candidates of the ‘centre-left’, Hollande played a double game throughout, combining rhetoric about “giving European construction a dimension of growth, jobs, prosperity, and future” for the consumption of working class audiences with hard talk about wiping out the deficit just one year later than Sarkozy for the banking elite.
Made in Africa by Stephen Marley featuring Wale and the cast of Fela.
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