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Saturday, November 25, 2017

25 Blackest Sports Moments of 2017

An excerpt from the Undefeated -

The top 25 blackest sports moments of 2017
If you don’t understand why these moments are important, you might need more black friends
By Clifton Yates

Black Friday. The day when people decide that the only way they can make themselves feel better about whatever they just went through with their families on Thanksgiving is with a whole lot of retail therapy. It’s the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season, and according to the National Retail Federation, Americans are expected to spend an average of $967.13 each before the end of the year. That adds up to a cool $682 billion.

But forget all that. We black. So we’ll take this opportunity to reclaim our time and get back to using ham-handed puns for the culture. A point of clarification: There are a variety of items on this list. Some are groundbreaking accomplishments. Others are moments that made us laugh. A few are things that we might actually regret.

By the by, we’re doing this bad boy college football style. If you don’t understand why these moments are important, you might need more black friends.

https://theundefeated.com/features/the-top-25-blackest-sports-moments-of-2017/

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Luis Fonsi - Despacito Gayageum cover

Ben E. King - Stand by Me - Fingerstyle Guitar Cover by James Bartholomew

Tareaphe Richards | The Marshall Project | The New Yorker

Friday, November 24, 2017

When Your Southern Accent Really Comes Out

Road signs suck. What if we got rid of them all?

Ismael Nazario: What I learned as a kid in jail

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Marvin Gaye - Abraham, Martin & John

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Thursday, November 23, 2017

Similarities Between Spanish And Arabic

Meet the Coffee Virtuoso of Jeju Island

9 charts to be thankful for: humanity is getting better

The Guest List

An excerpt from the Root -

The Caucasian’s Guide to Black Thanksgiving, Part 1: The Guest List
By Michael Harriot

Aunts

The first thing you must know about the black family tradition is that the nomenclature assigned to relatives has nothing to do with the traditional definitions assigned by white people to their family members. For white people, an “aunt” refers to a woman who is the sister of their mother or father. This does not hold true in the black community.

In the black community, an aunt is any woman more than 15 years older than you who has been around the family for more than 10 years. Every lady on the street where you grew up is an aunt. All women on the usher board at your place of worship are aunts. And it is pronounced “aww-went,” not “ant.”

https://www.theroot.com/the-caucasians-guide-to-black-thanksgiving-part-1-the-1820643386?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-11-23

He's Using the Same Old Playbook

Excerpts from the Huffington Post -

There’s A Reason Powerful Americans Love To Attack Black Sports Figures
Donald Trump is just keeping with a long tradition in this country.
By Travis Waldron

Powerful white Americans have been scoring political points off black athletes for as long as there have been organized sports in America. In this respect, at least, Donald Trump is a traditionalist.

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If this has become a familiar routine for Trump, it is because it is a familiar one for America. The country has never been comfortable with assertive black sports figures. Despite all the caterwauling about athletes who refuse to “stick to sports,” powerful Americans have always understood the mere presence of black athletes to be fundamentally political, a threat to the larger project of black subordination. And if black athletes themselves could no longer be kept out of sports, the culture at large would have to circumscribe their behavior, crush any outward assertiveness, segregate their blackness.

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The point of all of this was easy to see: if black athletes could assert themselves in the ring or on the baseball field, black people could assert themselves everywhere else, too. If black athletes weren’t forced to stay in their place, black people wouldn’t be compelled, either. And so laws were passed, and policies were implemented, to ensure the absence of black athletes who could give voice to black people.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-white-america-black-athletes_us_5a15db6ce4b064948072a8c4?ncid=APPLENEWS00001