Since Black History Month (or as some prefer Rent a Negro Month) is right around the corner; I thought I would give everybody some satire.
Before we begin, satire (according to dictionary.com) is defined as:

1.	the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

2.	a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.

This in mind, let the games begin.

Movies of the Week: Bamboozled by Spike Lee

C.S.A. (Confederate States of America) by Kevin Willmont
What would America be like had the south won the Civil War? See the movie and find out.

Books of the Week: Black No More by George Schuyler

Amazon.com Review
This satirical Harlem Renaissance-era novel by black conservative intellectual George S. Schuyler (1895-1977), who wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier and contributed to the NAACP's influential Crisis magazine, is a hilariously insightful treatise on the absurdities of racial identity. Dr. Junius Crookman, a Harlem-based African American physician, mysteriously returns from Germany with a formula that can transform black people into whites. "It looked," Schuyler deadpans, "as though science was to succeed where the Civil War failed." One of the first to enlist Dr. Crookman's services is an insurance salesman named Max Disher, who as the white Matthew Fisher is now free to pursue the white women who once rejected him and otherwise bask in Euro-American social privilege (including a top position in a hate group called the Knights of Nordica). Schuyler unveils the futility of this electro-chemical form of "passing" through the emptiness the Disher/Fisher character encounters in the white cultural world, which doesn't measure up to the Harlem nightlife--revealing the poison behind the notion of wanting to be something you're not. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Websites your pondering pleasure:
Rent-A-Negro.com (also a book)
Black People Love Us (Thanks Dr. M)

Album you gotta hear: The Minstrel Show by Little Brother


Last, but not least, I'm sure many of you know about the infamous Boondocks skit with MLK (click here). If anyone would like to give their feedback on the clip, please leave it in the comment section or e-mail me (cartertwin@hotmail.com)

May the blackness be with you

Happy New Year!!!



P.S. Enjoy the Video