Hi kids. Just a brief note before I head out to see Happy Rhodes (and if you're in Chi and on the fence about attending, long-time fan and Ecto member Vickie Mapes has some samples available).
Stating the obvious, but sometimes these things need to be said:
- Yr. humble webmaster is, when all's said and done, a Negro from the south side of Chicago, a couple generations removed from sharecroppers, and just slightly more from slaves. Often, he expresses himself in a manner consistent with these origins. This sort of language may be unsuitable for younger, more sensitive readers and the chronically melanin-impaired.
This is not my fucking problem.
- Yr. humble webmaster also, as the name implies, pays for the hosting, domain name and bandwidth for this site, and as such will write about whatever he fucking well pleases, when he pleases, in whatever manner he pleases. If this bothers you, again, this is not my fucking problem, and you can leave at any time. Immediately would be best.
- Yr. humble webmaster is, in most cases, older than you, blacker than you, and has been through shit that would have left you having a closed-casket service. If he needs a lecture from anyone on any topic, he'll ask.
Don't hold your breath waiting.
Anyone having problems with any of the preceeding is heartily encouraged to explain, in email, where you feel I've gone wrong. Or you can post a polite comment to that effect, and there's the off chance I won't just delete it on G.P.
Because you know, the name of this place is Uppity-Negro.com. Maybe it's about time I started earning that title.
Management does not apologize for the inconvenience. See above.
quite the contrary, those qualities you delineate are exactly what i come here for. anything else WOULD be disappointing.
can i please change out of these hideous bermuda shorts now?
Start earning?! Sheeet, you been done that homes.
What r@d@r said, but without the bermuda shorts.
I'm not with the bermuda shorts thing.
Why do I get the feeling that anyone who has trouble with this rather sensible series of policies simply doesn't wish to learn anything about the world around them?
Honestly. Some people's children . . .
r@d@r, it's well past time you were issued your fetching (faux, vegan) black leather jacket, mirrorshades and (faux, cap-gun) semiautomatic assault rifle.
The beret is optional, but it does complete the ensemble.
Ronn, thanks, man.
VASpider, did I mention the ensemble does include bermuda shorts, and black socks and sandals?
Garrity, I gots no clue. And at this point in my life, figure other folks' issues really ain't my concern. Lord knows I got enough of my own to deal with. . .
We loooove you, Aaron.
I haven't been around much...is someone hassling you, Aaron? Because I can start talking about boobies again. Or I can don the ass-kicking boots. You name the thread, and I'm there.
I think I'm more down with the faux-leather jacket and mirrorshades. I'll even wear a beret.
No bermuda shorts. Boo on them.
I'm mildly amused that someone had the knuckleheadedness to send you some crap like that.
On the other hand, if it inspires Dru to talk about boobies some more, it can only be a good thing.
Boobies!!
Neo, is this the regular love, or the patented Tough Love®? Because if it's the latter, um, really, I'm good, not lacking for the love, don't need more. . .
Dru, ain't happening here on the site, no. But, as Garrity says, you want to start with the boobies talk, don't let me stop you.
VASpider, the socks and sandals are still ok though, right?
j, ain't had to deal with that kind of shit on a regular basis since May, and I'd forgotten how much I hated it.
I'm wondering if it's the same asshat who's been sending me shit. Be grateful you're not getting IMs also, homie.
Without Uppities we crackers would never have been freed from our own bullshit...so I consider myself in debt to you and that's why I permanently linked to this site a long while ago.
Thanks, ratboy. This does, however, beg at least two questions:
1) Am I freeing you from your own bullshit, or merely indoctrinating you in my own?
2) Is there a reciprocal effect on me vis a vis my bullshit?
Or I saw Matrix Revolutions this weekend, and am thinking/talking like The Architect for no particular reason.
I haven't seen Revolution yet, but I thought the Architect in the last film had the most sensible lines of anyone.
1)I think your uppitiness serves to liberate us both as fish who have become aware of the water. Ghandi was uppity too and, like you, I don't believe he cared much for the idea of indocrinating anyone into anything beyond self awareness and self reliance. My maleness and whiteness in a cultural that celebrates both at the expense of else is the gauze that would insulate me from the world. Uppity people have been like scissors cutting away the gauze. Hence I see them as heroes.
Luckily I am also gay, which mitigates some of automaticness of privilege and caused me to "do a Neo" and wake up gasping in my tank relatively early.
2) Yes.
Aaron: only if you mean funky socks and birkenstocks.
Need to up my dyke quotient, I'm slipping far too far into girlieness lately.