I think I stopped breathing at several points during Jaimal Yogis' must-read San Francisco Magazine article "What happened to black San Francisco?" (via Cecily)
Kelly Brewington's Baltimore Sun article "Candidates quiet on issues of race" pegs the dynamic behind the run-up to today's Maryland Democratic primary: "It's kind of a weird dance. It's politics. If it were an open, honest debate where the candidates didn't care about being elected ... but that's not realistic. People to some degree are talking past each other."
Kansas City Star religion writer Helen T. Gray's registration-required "She's African-American and she's Jewish: Yavilah McCoy has a story to tell that spans generations" reminded me that at least I know at least three black Jewish bloggers.
Jemele Hill's Orlando Sentinel (via Lexington Herald-Leader) commentary "Tiger still won't take a stand" says the world's greatest golfer has a handicap larger than zero.
Miami Herald writers Jacqueline Charles and Tere Figueras Negrete explain why, in recent elections, "Haitian-American candidates faced a double challenge": ''It's a Catch 22. You can try and convince people not to let Haiti politics interfere in local elections, but then non-Haitians see you devoting all this energy [to Haitian issues] and misunderstand.''
I like the snippet of a character's voice from Edward P. Jones' "All Aunt Hagar's Children" that Washington Post book reviewer Jonathan Yardley needle-drops (via the San Jose Mercury News) in "Weaving a tapestry of African- American life stories": "They treat colored people like kings and queens in Washington, cause thas where the president lives. Would they treat colored people anything but good in a city where the president hangs his hat and pets his dog and snores beside Mrs. President every night? Now would they? ... No. Course not. They wouldn't do such a thing to us.''
As noted in a comment below, Michaela Jackson covers both sides of an illegal-immigration protest in the Tennesseean's "Both sides of immigration issue make their voices heard"
"Marginalized: Two documentaries detail the snares of living in the 'burbs," Rachel Giese's double-barreled documentary review for CBC (via Cecily), serves up a juicy quote: "I didn't want to make a film about guns. The premise from the beginning has been, 'What's it like and what's it feel like to be a kid in this situation?' … The documentaries that I like doing best, and work best for me, are about feelings, not about narration, not about interviews. What does it feel like to be a black teenager in suburban Toronto? I wanted people who didn't know that experience to see the world through these youngsters. The only point in making a film is to drop people into a place they've never been to before."
And I almost don't want to quote anything in Tasneem Paghdiwala's Chicago Reader feature story "The Politics of Braids" (via Cecily), Lawrence Goodman's Brown Alumni Magazine mini-profile "Building a Bigger and Better Black Bank" or last week's chicken-noodle soup (Robert Salladay's Los Angeles Times article "Gov.'s Candid Moments Caught on Audiotape," which I shouldn't have read on the same day I went to see "Heading South") with the soda on the side (Carla Marinucci's SFGate Politics Blog post "Repairing relations").
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