Kayne West, the producer-turned-rapper, has brassy, arrogant and winning Muhammad Ali/Miles Davis-like charm. He’s called out President George W. Bush and has a fairly predictable habit of declaring himself the winner at music award shows — even when the prize goes to someone else. Still, he showed proper humility to the music gods at Philadelphia …
Author Archives: Wayne Dawkins
Lost And Found
October 22, 2007 – 6:02 am
Deng and his peers often work so many hours they render themselves ineligible for federal financial needed to cover their college costs – even though most of the money they make doesn’t go into their pockets but rather, it’s sent back to Africa.
Let Freedom Ring
October 15, 2007 – 8:31 am
Philadelphia’s Fifth and Market was the site of arguably America’s most powerful symbol of freedom, the Liberty Bell. Yet that symbol mocked those slaves and many African-American citizens. “Five feet from the cradle of liberty,” said Michael Coard, an attorney and activist, “was the hell of slavery.”
Supreme Distrust
October 8, 2007 – 9:29 am
Thomas who’s back on TV this week promoting his autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son” is trying to convince the world that his fellow African-Americans vilify him for supposedly not acting “acting black” (whatever that means), for betraying civil rights orthodoxy, and for being intellectually wanting in his powerful job.
Let’s Talk
October 8, 2007 – 8:18 am
Let’s get something out of the way early on: I’m not a blogger.
I’m a columnist with better tools. I associate the “b-word” with hotheads who are long on opinions but short on facts, or with hopelessly self-absorbed writers. Either way, they’re not my kind of people.
