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The presidential family cover the January issue of Hello Canada. LMAO at the Canadian’s referring to their new life as glamorous, like it’s some Hollyweird ish. Pop it to check out this controversial piece about the inauguration
This reporter walks a very thin line when examining the news reports on African American participation in this historic inauguration:
With tourists flooding into DC for next week’s inauguration of Barack Obama, thousands of people are expected to skip out on work. Thousands of black people.
According to this amazing Associated Press piece, the nation’s lazy, lazy black people seem to think the Inauguration is a holiday, for them. The idea of white people (or maybe Asians?) also skipping work to go to the Inaugural, or even to stay home and watch it on TV and get wasted, isn’t mentioned. Here are just some random forehead-slapping excerpts:
**”People across the country may notice the absence of their black colleagues and classmates on Inauguration Day, as many who won’t be traveling to Washington gather at homes, restaurants and churches, huddle around TVs and watch the historic swearing in from afar.”
**”…many black Americans deem the day as something of a holiday requiring cultural solidarity, much like the Million Man March or the first King holiday in 1986. Then as now, many black people felt compelled to miss work, said Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University.”
“It recalls the 1965 theatrical classic ‘Day of Absence,’ a one-act satire by black playwright Douglas Turner Ward that ponders events in a fictitious Southern town when all of the black people suddenly go missing.”
Organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, headquartered in Baltimore will stay open, though employees will likely pause to watch the events.This is just like the day after the Super Bowl, when all of White America takes the day off. Anyway, employers, if any white people try to call in sick next Tuesday you are free to fire them, because they have absolutely no legitimate reason to want to go to that sh*thole Washington and participate in Black President Day.
Plenty of AMERICANS will no doubt be attending the inauguration, in numbers we’ve never seen before. (Most) Black folks feel a sense of pride about Obama as the president-to be, but we’re not the only ones jumping for joy behind this fact. This sh*t is waaaay bigger than us – for real.
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