August 05, 2005

Ask DarkStar

Are you "tired" of my comments in blogs where you assume I never tell what I think or advocate?

Here's your chance to ask me a question. The ground rules are this:

  • I won't answer vague, open ended questions. In my view, they can never be answered. For example, when I am interviewed, and the interviewer says, "Tell me about yourself", I always respond with, "What do you want to know?" By nature I am short and to the point. An open ended question leaves me wondering what is being asked so I am stuck in giving the answer.
  • State if you think I'm a liberal, conservative, moderate, contrarian, or whatever and why.
Posted by at August 5, 2005 06:57 PM | TrackBack

Great idea D*.. should make this a weekly thing...

1. When did you decide it was ok to date a Black woman with non-natural hair, and why?

(heh. i'm assuming you DO think it's OK to date a woman sporting the non-nappy)

2. Do you think a "Wakanda" will ever exist?

Posted by: memer at August 6, 2005 07:24 PM

Whoop. Forgot to add that I THINK you're mostly a Liberal gadfly. Why? Don't know you well enough to give a coherent, QED type response. Just a hunch.

Posted by: memer at August 6, 2005 07:28 PM

When did you decide it was ok to date a Black woman with non-natural hair, and why?

Always. When I was a child, seeing Black women in wigs was a regular occurance. My mother would do something to her natural hair, put on a cap, put on a wig, and then we would go out. At the end, she'd rip off the wig, and plop in the chair.

Do you think a "Wakanda" will ever exist?

Define "Wakanda".

Posted by: DarkStar at August 7, 2005 12:22 AM

Wakanda is the country where Fantastic Four ally, the Black Panther, reigns. (Comic book nerd habits finally pay off.) But I wanna take it a notch higher. Forget Wakanda...let's talk about Zamunda!

?Where'd you go to school?

?Do you speak AAVE, or more standard American vernacular?

Posted by: avery at August 7, 2005 07:47 AM


Graduated from the Univ. of Virigina with a degree in Computer Science in the Engineering School. With my experience in high school and UVa, white people are "demystified" and I know that "the white man's ice ain't colder." IMO, too many Blacks are suffering from inferiority complex, self imposed and nationally imposed. I ain't havin' it. That's a reason why I like the Glenn Loury school of thought on social "problems."


I code switch. Right now it's mostly standard American vernacular vs. AAVE.

Great post on that one btw.

Posted by: DarkStar at August 8, 2005 08:34 AM

Never mind my Q re Wakanda, according to this 2002 EBONY article, it's already here. In Black Chicago.

Posted by: memer at August 9, 2005 11:06 PM