Heavy Mentalist

I’ve been hearing a lot about how the immigrants are taking jobs Americans won’t do. HELLO! Black people have done every kind of job imaginable, and for a least a couple hundred years we did that isht for free! Personally, I’ve done restaurant work, landscaping, all kinds of “grunt” work for little pay. And I’m as American as anybody else.

That “jobs Americans won’t do” line is so fucking tired to me. Sure, come here for better opportunities, etc., but lets not kid ourselves. Immigrants who have a lot of lower paying jobs today aren’t here because no one else will take these jobs! They are here because they’ll work for much lower wages and often with no insurance and just do whatever the fuck their bosses say without bucking like us American Blacks who “don’t know our place”.

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Put up my contact page, step one down in finalizing my site update. Now I just have to finish my bio page and my article page and get back to blogging.

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CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline: August 1, 2006. Contribute Your Voice to this Project!

Black Women and Girls Reflect on the N-Word: Narrative Therapy, Art and Multimedia in Exploring the Effects of the N-Word on the Consciousness Development of Black Women and Girls

Purpose of Project
My primary research interests are: using multimedia technology, black feminist methodology and theory, the narrative therapies, critical race theory, White Privilege Studies, queer /sexuality theory, and gender, specifically focusing on Black Females. This encompasses emotional, spiritual, physical and mental health and well being.

The goal of the “N-Word” project is to create and publish a book anthology of Black women and girls who have chosen to share their experiences with the n-word, through their most comfortable “voice” (photography, poetry, essays, etc). Through writing and visual art, this project will help to give voice to the Black identified females who navigate through racism, sexism and classism in the world. My key questions for using writing artform, multimedia and technology in dismantling the politics of institutionalized racism and the effects of the N-Word are:  Continue reading...

OK, totally disregard, the last post about the “draconian bill” in this post. Dammit, that shit was real as hell, but it’s not. It’s one of DaveyD’s yearly April Fools Day posts and he totally got me on that one…but word, shit like that DOES go on in the music industry so we all should still be very aware…and it also teaches me to not believe shit DaveyD says, if it happens to be April 1st! My dumbass linked to the page where he says it’s a joke at the bottom, but I just take whatever Davey D says so surrious I totally told myself “I’ll just read more about the bill this weekend” and now it’s the weekend, I clicked on the link only to see Davey say it’s a joke. Dammit!

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CONTACT:
Dasan Ahanu – dasan67@aol.com
Bryan Proffitt – bryanp33@yahoo.com

CALLING ALL MEN OUTRAGED BY SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RACIST VIOLENCE IN DURHAM!

What: discussion/film screening for men organizing against rape culture
When: Saturday, April 8th, 12 noon – 2 PM
Where: Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street in Durham,
Who: all male-identified persons opposed to sexual assault and racist violence

Please join Men Against Rape Culture, a Durham-based project educating and mobilizing men to end violence against women, for a discussion and film screening this Saturday, April 8th, from 12 noon – 2 PM, at the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham (see below for directions).

The afternoon will include discussion of the recent organizing against sexual assault in Durham and men’s role in ending violence against women; a screening of “Rape Is”, a powerful film portraying and analyzing the realities of sexual assault; and a presentation on building skills to support survivors of sexual assault. Men have a crucial role to play in the struggle to end violence against women – let’s come together to continue the ongoing conversation about how to effectively respond to and eliminate racist violence and sexual assault in our communities.  Continue reading...