Occupy The PGA
May 23-27 (big day: Sat. May 26) - Benton Harbor, Michigan
Demonstrate in protest of land stolen by Whirlpool Corporation
“The thrust [of the county courthouse] is to physically remove and destroy families through the use of the criminal justice system. Every person they can put in jail; every person whose voting rights they can revoke with a felony conviction; every person they can cause to lose their job by putting them on probation; every person they can cause to lose the ability to pay for basic necessities through imposing ruinous court costs and probation is all part of the process. In the 1960s, it was called Negro removal. In Bosnia, it was called ethnic cleansing. It could be called genocide, the removal of the minority population for the purpose of redevelopment of the land. That’s what’s happening in Benton Harbor and the foremost leader of the resistance is Rev. Edward Pinkney.” -Atty. Hugh "Buck" Davis

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

We watched The Great Debaters on DVD recently. True story of the Wiley College debate team invited to Cambridge where they took on Harvard's team in the early part of last century. Quite a wonderful story with Denzel Washington as the coach, and other actors you'll recognize. If you saw Precious, The Great Debaters (along with many other recent excellent films having Black themes), would be a good antidote.

From Armond White's review of Precious: "...Perry and Winfrey naively treat Precious' exhibition of ghetto tragedy and female disempowerment as if it were raw truth. It helps contrast and highlight their achievements as black American paradigms--self-respect be damned."
Mr. White provides a list of movies with Black themes.
http://www.nypress.com/article-20554-pride-precious.html

Another Precious review well worth the read:
http://www.counterpunch.org/reed12042009.html
Posted by Gordon at 11:15 AM

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