Sardonic Sistah Says

So I’m at work today.  Stuck inside on a beautiful Saturday morning/afternoon.  Only the die hard net-heads are out this early already online searching for who knows what.

So, in between helping one of my favorite teen patrons (who still won’t give me his name and comes in and asks for me as that black chick with the nappy hair) I found this article. 

Who is this a surprise to?  Obviously people who haven’t stepped into a library in a long while.

I work with an eclectic bunch.  White people with dreads and ear gauges and people with full body tattoos.  Some people are bible thumpers and some are atheists.  No one cares here if you are gay, lesbian, or straight; no one cares what color you are.  Outside of the job people are poets, musicans, artists, writers, mechanics, runners, athletes…  Most outsiders assume that library workers are nebbishy, quiet, misanthropes –and we have those here –but quite a lot of us are educated, creative, outgoing people who are visibly in the community. 

So check out your local library.  You’ve probably seen us around and “assumed” we did something else for a living –if we made one at all.  You’ll be surprised at who works behind the desk.

This just is not a good time for women.

Both of these cases, Stepha Henry and Jessie Davis, creeps me out.  I just hope for the best possible outcome in each of them but it looks bleak. 

And I definitely feel for her son.  I hope she comes back to him well and sound.

This is every parents worse nightmare. 

Recent college graduate Stepha Henry went to Florda to help her little sister celebrate her 16th birthday.  She went out to the clubs with a few friends and now she’s missing.  She was last seen leaving the club with two females. 

Let’s pass the word on among ourselves and please send out prayers and/or positive thoughts to the Henry family so they can make it through this trying time.

I’m not sure if Barack has locked up my vote yet, but he has the best political theme song so far.

The Many Voices Project is Chicago’s first playwriting contest and and readings festival that embraces all playwrights of color. The project brings together the city’s race and ethnic-specific theatres to devleop and showcase unproduced, full length and 10 minute plays.
Directed by Ilesa Duncan, Outreach Director

2007 MANY VOICES PROJECT

Guest Judge/Director, TANYA SARACHO A., Artistic Director, Teatro Luna

Staged readings of 10-minute plays and scenes by various writers, followed by an audience discussion moderated by Ms. Saracho.

For guidelines click here

I don’t know if the Freedom Center has any plans to name Grace Lee Boggs as one of their Freedom Heroes but she has always been one of mine.

Curious to know why?  Check our her interview with Bill Moyers or peruse her website.

Can’t the man just bring Sexy Back to the White House without being harassed?

Before it opened people were already lining up to take sides.  Then when it opened people lined up to attend.

The Creation Museum opened two weeks ago in Northern Kentucky to the delight of Christians in the tri-state area.  And probably a larger area because during the first week Museum heads claim 5600 people walked through their doors.  According to a Gallup poll in June of ‘06 almost half of Americans don’t believe in evolution although only 34% of us attend church. 

But did they really expect to keep sin out?  News reports say that the young man who plays Adam in their museum video has a picture with a transvestite and whose domain name EricLinden.com is associated with a free love and pleasure website.   The 40-second video has been suspended while Answers in Genesis, the museum’s operators, investigates the veracity of the claims.

Perhaps they will decide to re-run the film in the future or maybe they will decide to recast and refilm the short piece with a new Adam.  Will and Grace might have been a popular show with a wide audience a few years ago its apparent there are still a lot of people who can’t get past the idea of someone else’s sexuality.

Although I guess those at the Creation museum would say, God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

Now that the ire for Don Imus has abated I wonder if anyone will remember that today is the first annual “Request a Positive Black Song Day”?  It’s not as if there is a national movement showcasing it –actually I made it up a few weeks ago on my other blog– but still it’s a good idea.

So, if you want to see what my other blogs have been like then find me on MySpace.   Personally, I like to start with a clean slate so you might to just want to read the next entry.