Todd S Burroughs
…..for keepin’ it real with “Red Tails.” Yep, we saw the same movie—the one with the *%$#$%-up script! (Enjoyed reading the “Letters To The Editor.”) Folks, this film made me want to run out and buy the HBO ’90s joint on DVD! LOL!
Sheesh! I was just getting used to this, and now I gotta deal with this and this! (And, of course, I [happily] used Google to find these images! AUUGGGHHHHH!!!!! LOL! )
PHOTO AND CAPTION FROM NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD: SCI Mahanoy, February 2, 2012. Mumia Abu-Jamal celebrates his move off of death row with Heidi Boghosian and Professor Johanna Fernandez. This was Mumia’s second contact visit in 30 years. His transfer to general population comes after a federal court ruled that instructions to jurors during his trial influenced them to choose death. [...]
……for standing by Muhammad Ali. When I think of him, I always chuckle. Because the first time I ever heard of him he said a line I never forgot: “I didn’t know what a Muslim was, really, because I thought it was a piece of cloth!” LOL!
All I can say is THANKS.
Abu-Jamal moved into general prison population for first time by Frank Kummer Philly.com Staff Mumia Abu-Jamal has been moved into the general prison population for the first time since going on death row for the killing of Officer Daniel Faulkner. Susan McNaughton, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, said Abu-Jamal was moved yesterday [...]
Dear White America: Letter To A New Minority. City Lights Books. 190 pp. $14.95. The South Carolina crowd jumped up, giving Newt Gingrich a standing ovation for beating down Juan Williams. On radio, it sounded like just a reporter being assertive, and an interview subject giving strong pushback in front of an audience. But in [...]
Dumping below some stuff I turned in to BAR as possible sidebars to this article. George Jackson ( © Copyright 1971 Bob Dylan) I woke up this morning There were tears in my bed They killed a man I really loved Shot him through the head Lord, Lord, they cut George Jackson down Lord, Lord, [...]
My friend Malik Russell has this to say about “Red Tails”: I heard George Lucas say that he had to put up the money that the studio’s wouldn’t. Imagine that? George F’ing Lucas a god in Hollywood action genre and he couldn’t get Hollywood to back a Black film? I think its excellent and noble [...]
Here’s why Juan Williams gets paid so well to be FOX’s token Black liberal. He did a good job here asking tough, direct questions to Gingrich, and Gingrich did a great job responding. (Gingrich always rises a little after a debate, and this is why.) I agree with the former Speaker: I, too, want him [...]