Writer and social commentator/activist Tim Wise has written a piece titled “Imagine If The Tea Party Was Black” that has probably gone viral by now, (If not, it should, I’ve included it in this post) and yet after one begins to read it, paragraph after paragraph streams by as if it is like witnessing an editorial train wreck in progress. No it’s not because the kilobytes it takes up on the internet are not worth a dang, it’s because ya just can’t stop reading it until the sinking feeling it gives makes you feel as if you’re on a caboose watching train cars ahead of you roll off the track one by one and it’s only a moment before it’s your time. Your time to come to grips with the fact that there is something terribly wrong in America when it comes to race and privilege. Of course, if you’re a person of color and you point this out you’re a whiner and if you point it out and you happen to be white, as Tim Wise is, you’re the worst kind of liberal that walks the earth, you are engulfed by white guilt. Read more...(1661 words, 2 images, estimated 6:39 mins reading time)
Well… If it’s getting more difficult to see Sarah Palin as a Presidential candidate for 2012 or “2000-ever”, it’s possible that SNL has once again utilized its comedic political crystal ball and brought a little clarity to her future.
It is said that the most diverse moments in most people’s lives happen at work, school, and shopping or any place or function that they do not have direct control over. While the least diverse moments are at church and family gatherings. Facebook and MySpace are social networking juggernauts, with Facebook now seemingly taking the lead. But no matter who’s up or who’s down, they basically perform a function that only Alexander Graham Bell or Antonio Meucci could have imagined way back when, during the early days of the telephone. People connect. However, now days it’s more than just merely connecting, it’s chatting, sharing photos, music, businesses, ideas, views of the world, but mostly it’s a way to amass friends from all walks of life, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, social and educational backgrounds.
So… taking a look at your Facebook friends that you’ve carefully amassed through accepting, requesting and ignoring, just how diverse are you? Has today’s technology changed previous perceptions of when you are and are not interconnected with those whom you may not necessarily be considered part of your tribe.
Many make claims about how they have all kinds of friends and how the world is getting smaller because of technology. But how much do we actually take advantage of the opportunity that social networking provides for expanding our world? Read more...(534 words, 2 images, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)
