Friday Flashback

I remember when you could hear these guys, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Run DMC, Hall & Oates, Club Nouveau all on the same radio station. . . in Memphis. Perhaps that was the upside of the 80s.

Quote of the Day: Shakespeare’s "Hamlet"

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

and thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this reagard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

–Hamlet, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 3, scene 1

Colorism

Thanks to VDT.
“If you’re working in a bank, you don’t want some barrio-looking hair. Straight hair looks elegant,” the bank teller said. “It’s not that as a person of color I want to look white. I want to look pretty.” . . .

“I always associated black with ugly. I was too dark and didn’t [...]

"Livingroom Churches" Growing In USA

“Jason Kilp had a short commute to church one recent Sunday. He walked about 15 feet from the bedroom of his Anaheim apartment to a small worship service in the living room. “It’s intimate,” the 24-year-old graphic design student said. Unlike gatherings he and his wife have attended at a 4,000-member mega-church in Irvine, Kilp [...]

Shemar Moore: "People Try to Make Me Gay"

“People find it interesting to try to make me gay; I’m not gay. I went on vacation with two girlfriends of mine who, interestingly enough got cut out of the pictures. We found a nude beach, as far as I know, was a unisex beach…. We took off our clothes and jumped in the water. [...]