Negrophile. One who admires and supports Black people and their culture.

There was certainly some short-term political calculation in being photographed among smiling black faces.

For your consideration: There is an inverse relationship between the snark in this post's title and my readers' need to consider from where it was ever so lovingly ganked (aka Paul Tough's New York Times article "What It Takes to Make a Student").

I think it was reading Felicity Barringer's New York Times story "Gerald M. Boyd, Who Broke Barriers as an Editor at The Times, Dies at 56" that sent me back to Matt L. Perrone's not-done-with-me-yet PopMatters essay "Everything I Needed to Know About Journalism, I Learned from Jayson Blair" ([...] "I cannot imagine anything I could do, no matter how long I live, that will change that first line of my obituary. I could go on to help thousands more people than I ever would have been able to as a journalist, and it still won't make a difference. You see, there's this assumption that the lives of really talented people follow one arc that just goes up and up and up. But it's not true," he says looking me straight in the eye. "We all go down sometimes." " [...])

You know those people who insist on being obtuse about the term "African American"? Who are almost as bad as the ones who ask "why can't everyone just be 'American,' 'cause that's what matters now"? Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large calls 'em turkeys. (Just kidding!)

If you think of any good jokes after reading Mark Sutkowski's balanced, thoughtful Burlington Free Press article "Vermont tied with Maine as whitest state," please e-mail me. All that comes immediately to mind is something about cheap JetBlue fares. *shrug*

For the slightest moment I watched you read Anita Creamer's Sacramento Bee (via Modesto Bee) article "Black paper dolls are more than playthings"

Let's be cheerful, why don't we? There's always Reuters' "Chad extends emergency to tackle ethnic violence" and Lydia Polgreen's amazing New York Times story "Money and Violence Hobble Democracy in Nigeria" ("Of Nigeria’s 36 governors, 31 are under federal investigation, mostly on suspicion of corruption, and 5 have already been impeached [...] One in six Africans is Nigerian. Nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the United States." You don't say.)

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There was certainly some short-term political calculation in being photographed among smiling black faces. For your consideration: There is an inverse relationship between the snark in this post's title and my readers' need to consider from where it was ever so lovingly ganked (aka Paul Tough's New York Times article "What It Takes to Make a Student"). I think it was reading Felicity Barringer's New York Times story "Gerald M. Boyd, Who Broke Barriers as an Editor at The Times, Dies at 56" that sent me back to Matt L. Perrone's not-done-with-me-yet PopMatters essay "Everything I Needed to Know About Journalism, I Learned from Jayson Blair" ([...] "I cannot imagine anything I could do, no matter how long I live, that will change that first line of my obituary. I could go on to help thousands more people than I ever would have been able to as a journalist, and it still won't make a difference. You see, there's this assumption that the lives of really talented people follow one arc that just goes up and up and up. But it's not true," he says looking me straight in the eye. "We all go down sometimes." " [...]) You know those people who insist on being obtuse about the term "African American"? Who are almost as bad as the ones who ask "why can't everyone just be 'American,' 'cause that's what matters now"? Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large calls 'em turkeys. (Just kidding!) If you think of any good jokes after reading Mark Sutkowski's balanced, thoughtful Burlington Free Press article "Vermont tied with Maine as whitest state," please e-mail me. All that comes immediately to mind is something about cheap JetBlue fares. shrug For the slightest moment I watched you read Anita Creamer's Sacramento Bee (via Modesto Bee) article "Black paper dolls are more than playthings" Let's be cheerful, why don't we? There's always Reuters' "Chad extends emergency to tackle ethnic violence" and Lydia Polgreen's amazing New York Times story "Money and Violence Hobble Democracy in Nigeria" ("Of Nigeria’s 36 governors, 31 are under federal investigation, mostly on suspicion of corruption, and 5 have already been impeached [...] One in six Africans is Nigerian. Nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the United States." You don't say.) posted in articles on November 26, 2006 8:26 PM \| t (0) « Previous phile: More prevalent than they were 30 years ago, and the bond among them remains strong. » Next phile: Has handled hundreds of services, mainly for African Americans in Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond. Return to top of page
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