What if Kat Stacks Would Have Spoke About Oscar Grant?

For those of you who are in the fortunate position of not knowing who Kat Stacks is, I will take the time out to briefly describe her for you.

Kat Stacks is the newest woman in a long line of “Vixens” or “Jump Offs” who find fame and popularity in describing their various sexual exploits/encounters with artists in the hip hop music industry (see Supahead).

However, unlike those who have come before her, Kat Stacks has been able to use the innovation of social media sites and video upload sites to cultivate a cult following of lovers/haters online.

So much so, that whenever she posts a new video, or tweets something it is instantly news on hip hop sites (she has even become a trending topic on twitter).

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Majority Studies Only

Today Arizona legislators in their infinite wisdom passed legislation which would ban Ethnic Studies Courses (except those that pertain to Native Americans which are protected by the federal government). The logic behind this newly endorsed law is that it is in the best interest of the people of Arizona to not have students taking courses which seek to promote ethnic division and or ethnic chauvinism and which cause ethnic resentment.

It appears to me that this is not a very logically sound argument. One of the Republican senators who pushed the legislation said that in one Latino American Studies Course a speaker told the students that Republicans don’t like Latinos.

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Of Black Folks and Intelligence

The recent news of a Harvard 3L suggesting that it is within the realm of possibility that black folks may have some type of genetic character trait which leads them to be intellectually inferior to white people has caused quite a stir.

Some have called it racist on its face while others have said that the “outrage” represents the worse example of what liberalism does to academia. They rationalize that it is certainly a question that is worthy of scientific inquiry and that freedom of speech and thought should exist everywhere and should certainly exist within the system of higher education.

While this notion may have a certain merit to it, the idea that people would not or should not be outraged is laughable at best.

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Citizen Vs. Citizenship

The recent passage of the controversial legislation in Arizona along with the premiere of the History Channel series, America the Story of Us has gotten me to thinking about what exactly it means today to be a citizen in the United States.

The parallels between the early immigrants who faced unknown dangers to make it to the new world and to thrive when they got here are obvious when one thinks about the sheer amount of immigrant hopefuls in general and Mexican Immigrant hopefuls specifically who die each year trying to make the journey to America in search for a better existence.
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