Every once in a while, God dumps an encapsulation of failure (or success), so strongly that it becomes an archetype of everything right or wrong with particular classes or entities of phenomena. In our case Cynthia Erivo shows us everything wrong with Black American men and women. Amazingly, and why I am religious about the matter, is because it is hard to believe one thing or detail can be used to summarize an entire catastrophe of failure. Completely unwittingly, Cynthia Erivo, and I will inject here David Oleyowo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Boyega, and Trevor Noah symbolize Black American dystopian dysfunction…
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Let the reader not worry, I was shocked too when I was inspired with the title, pre-composition. That is a sign of genius, you know. My initial reaction was ‘that is preposterous’. There is no obvious qualitative or quantitative measure by which today’s Black post-modern athlete could be compared negatively to ‘professional’ Black athletes during segregation and pre-integration days. But then my mind started fulminating, creating its own hypothesis and methods of analysis and comparison in order to get the desired result; starting from the premise and proposition that ‘Professional’ Black Athletes and the Communities and schools that produced them,…
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I just saw on the National news, that Pandas from China have been sent to the Smithsonian Zoo in Washington, DC for the first time in 24 years. The original pair (and eventually their cub) in the Smithsonian Zoo was transferred back to China. Chinese and American diplomats and bureaucrats call this “Panda Diplomacy”. The Chinese are very guarded with Pandas and their descendants. It seems they want to own the entire Panda trade, and even control the proliferation of Panda descendants. That being said, it seems to function in practice as a kind of lend/lease agreement, but I do…