The story itself really isn't that interesting, despite being linked from BlackElectorate. Plus, it's from FOXNews.com:
Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman says America is rich today for one reason -- slavery -- and now corporate America must pay something in return."It was because of the free labor of blacks. It was because of all of the suffering we took and we did that made America so powerful," Tillman said.
At Tillman's urging, Chicago city government this week unanimously passed a new law requiring corporations to tell if it had a hand -- any hand at all in the slave trade.
It does have a photo of Dorothy Tillman wearing a hat. As opposed to a photo of Dorothy Tillman not wearing a hat, which would in itself be much more newsworthy, but highly unlikely.
Sorry, at this point the reparations debate bores me. Not as much as "Barbershop" (although Boondocks still got a laugh), but almost. Mildy amusing is people ranting about Jackson spending (minimal) time complaining about the film instead of Working On Things That Truly Matter, when these same people tend to either ignore or disparage him when he does just that, but y'know, take your laughs where you can get them.
There should be links to D.C. Thornton and Oliver Willis in that last paragraph, but this would involve looking at their sites to find the proper entries, and I'm just not in the mood for their particular brand of self-righteous bullshit just now. Sorry. I might go back and add them later.
Or I might write about the Angel season premiere instead. More believable characters, for a start. And Gunn asking Fred to please not use slang.
Now that's comedy.
Update: Meh.
- How ‘Barbershop’ Exposed Jesse & Al, Oliver Willis, The American Times
- O-Dub to Jesse Jackson: Snip This!, Darmon Thornton, dcthornton.blog
Mr. Thornton actually opinionates on this pressing issue three times, because, you know, it's important to show how Jackson is obsessed with something so unimportant.
No results were found for "Central Park" but I'm confident this owes to my imprecise use of his search function.
*sigh* I need a second tv in my house.
Must wait for the tivo'd version sometime this week at a friend's house.
Alias wins out on Sunday nights at this point.
I stopped watching Angel around the time that Fred showed up. I love Gunn, and Wesley... well, yeah. There is that, but between Cordelia and Fred, my teeth were grinding too loudly for me to hear the dialogue.
I can only tape one thing at a time so I watch The Sopranos, tape Alias and then read about Angel on Monday. That whole situation makes me want to beat whoever sets the programming schedule over at the WB.
I enjoy ANGEL still, although they've accomplished the impossible by making me miss the original bitchy Cordelia by replacing her with this new, saintly version I tend to just want to smack hard in the teeth every five or ten lines of dialogue.
I haven't been wild about Gunn -- a non-super fighter type in a group with Angel seems pretty redundant, and he really has no other gimmick to help him out -- but I liked Fred fine until she started macking on him. I enjoy intelligent women; there aren't enough of them on TV.
I was hoping for a while they'd turn Gunn into the weapons/gimmicks guy, like Angel's own version of MacGyver, with street smarts. Could have played it for laughs, with various weapons prototypes going disastrously wrong... a flaming garlic napalm gun, for example, might have been interesting... but apparently, as with BUFFY, this franchise still doesn't feel that anyone who is good in a fight is allowed to be smart. (Wesley's new, grim n gritty look seems to be somewhat transcending this limitation, and it's nice to see him seeming competent, but Gunn is apparently still mired in the stereotype -- If It Can Fight, It Cannot Be Smart.)
I also want them to bring the Host back as a regular, but I imagine I'm in a minority on that one. Hell, I want to see a BUFFY/ANGEL two hour adventure show with all the members of the various casts interacting pretty much constantly... shouldn't Xander have dropped by by now, to make sure no one is messing around too much with Cordie? It's not like he's ever particularly trusted Angel or Wesley...
Alderman Dorothy Tillman is an Angel and a true disciple of Dr. King. If you studied King you would know that King'a fight was for the NEGRO PEOPLE.