Ordinary Balls Over the break, there was a story about a 16 year old kid who took off to Iraq to see it for himself. He was apparently working on a term paper about the war, so he bought a...
Posted in Cobb on January 3, 2006 06:02 PM
Coulter and her ilk are so lunatic on this because they can't stand the idea that the President is actually a Compassionate Conservative who does actually care about black people. Even us bad negroes who celebrate Kwanzaa.
Posted in Cobb on December 29, 2005 10:28 AM
It's always nice to have academics and sensible people around when things get hairy. I've found a swell compendium of nicely stated pieces on Kwanzaa, including some dissertation stuff that I added over at Wikipedia. Our first stop is at...
Posted in Cobb on December 29, 2005 08:53 AM
Of all of the Nguzo Saba, none resonates for me as much as Kujichagulia. First of all, it's the most fun to say, and it's the one I remember above all. It's not squishy like some of the others and...
Posted in Cobb on December 28, 2005 04:21 PM
So I think I may have said enough over the past two or three years to show a nuanced appreciation for the holiday, its strengths, weaknesses, origins and practices, but I hope to get some intelligent questions and maybe a trackback or two.
Posted in Cobb on December 27, 2005 11:05 PM
(Comic) On legitimate holidays and traditions.
Posted in Cobb on December 27, 2005 03:01 PM
Anti-Kwanzaans are burning crosses in my lawn. I fight back.
Posted in Cobb on December 27, 2005 01:56 PM
Black culture is what it is, but a lot of what it is hasn't been translated well into cybermedia. So I'm doing my share, and I ask Cobblers to pull a little weight too.
Posted in Cobb on December 27, 2005 11:36 AM
The Official Guide to Kwanzaa Lite, A Compendium of Authentic Yet Spiritually and Intellectually Inexpensive Actvities for the Kwanzaa Season.
Posted in Cobb on December 26, 2005 02:31 PM
Suggesting that Kwanzaa celebrants are somehow bound to the conduct of Karenga is irresponsible and mean-spirited.
Posted in Cobb on October 16, 2005 08:35 AM
An intro to me for journalists, producers and others trying to figure out how to pitch me. (I don't know how to pitch me.)
Posted in Cobb on August 7, 2005 12:28 PM
I say the symbolism stops pretty much at the red carpet. To be inside that room on that stage getting that award is what those lives are dedicated to. Anybody who believes much more than that is a liar or a fool or both.
Posted in Cobb on February 27, 2005 09:17 PM
I once wrote of the chatting class: The issue is issues and issues issue forth. I have had an extraordinarily sweet Christmas and Kwanzaa this year, and I still haven't descended from the zone. I'm actually happy about football games....
Posted in Cobb on January 8, 2005 12:19 PM
I've been thinking briefly about what Spence mentioned yesterday about Kwanzaa. He said that nothing particular about the slandar against it warms him to the celebration although he is sympathetic in principle. But if there were to be a more...
Posted in Cobb on December 29, 2004 11:09 AM
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Posted in Cobb on December 24, 2004 10:47 AM
Now that I've been fishing, I'm in a bit of a more charitable mood and decided to write up something new that I haven't seen compiled anywhere about Kwanzaa. Those of you that know me, know I defend Kwanzaa...
Posted in Cobb on December 23, 2004 01:42 AM
It's about that time of year when people with too much time on their hands and too much bile in their guts begin to spit on the celebration of Kwanzaa. I cannot abide this. I think it beneath any honorable...
Posted in Cobb on December 20, 2004 07:50 PM
Today is Sukkot, I think. I listened at length to an interesting inside story about a Jewish cat who found the equivalent of a Jewish Almanac which had references dating back about 350 years. He is using it to help...
Posted in Cobb on September 29, 2004 09:58 PM
Over in Orkut, where I tend to be a bit more lower-case and provocative than I am here, I re-engaged the Cosby argument. And as I was engaging in the discussion I think I had a breakthrough. I think can...
Posted in Cobb on July 8, 2004 12:28 PM
I think I'm a pretty interesting person, but that my public personna is so reserved that most people don't think so. I also express a kind of over the top enthusiasm which can quickly morph into self-possessed detatchment. So I...
Posted in Cobb on May 12, 2004 10:42 AM
Since M9 is about to be promoted to M10 within the next few weeks, I have already started to think about February. You know and I know that it's Black History Month, and I've already begun to dread it. Last...
Posted in Cobb on January 8, 2004 09:09 PM
Well, it's about time to kiss 2k3 goodbye. And good riddance. We shall highlight the evening's festivities with a number of old and new traditions. We will have noisemakers and confetti balloons. We will burn old bad news in the...
Posted in Cobb on December 31, 2003 05:34 PM
This morning, I went to the African Marketplace & Kwanzaa Parade at Liemert Park, entirely by accident. The plan was to meet Pops at Lucy Florence and talk about days past and days to come. That happened uneventfully, but I...
Posted in Cobb on December 27, 2003 03:10 PM
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Posted in Cobb on December 27, 2003 01:07 AM
Debra Dickerson gets on my last freakin' nerve today. I haven't even lit my first candle and already I'm getting upset defending my family tradition. Her NYT editorial is an insult that is popping the veins on my forehead.
Posted in Cobb on December 26, 2003 06:54 PM
You may not know it, but under ordinary circumstances, I would be a celebrity of sorts. Who knows, in time my story may make headlines. But the obscure fact of the matter is that I was something of a...
Posted in Cobb on December 26, 2003 02:40 PM
i also wanted to say that the spouse and i scared each other. the prospect of losing what we've built came close, and now we realize what idiotic hotheads we were being. at least i do. yesterday, for the second...
Posted in Cobb on December 25, 2002 10:54 AM
part of the difficulty in representing kwanzaa is that people take it entirely too seriously, or dismiss it out of hand. yet the dismissals are indicative of the seriousness at which they expect to take it. and so in my...
Posted in Cobb on December 12, 2002 09:26 PM
last night was the christmas pageant at redondo union highschool. beryl heights elementary's children took the stage and sung joyous songs in celebration of diversity in the holiday season. the third graders were first, followed by 1st then kindergarten. the...
Posted in Cobb on December 12, 2002 05:25 AM
i was there. i was about 6 or 7 years old and participated in the first kwanzaa. my family knew ron as well as the rest of the US collective. we used to meet on a fairly regular basis at...
Posted in Cobb on December 5, 2002 07:30 PM