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Sweet Tea Ethics: Ed Garnes Anthony David Talk President Obama

Ed Garnes, founder of From Afros To Shelltoes, and Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Anthony David discuss President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, jessica care moore, and using his art as a teaching tool during this special Sweet Tea Ethics @Spelman College.

Jeff Chang Brian Komar On Why Progressives Need Cultural Strategy

Jeff Chang and Brian Komar of the Center For American Progress teamed up for this new piece in The American Prospect, “Culture Before Politics”, making the case that progressives need to build the infrastructure to support cultural strategy and cultural organizing.

Ask Ed & Sugar: Obama Gates Beer Summit Misguided

Though many have over dosed on the red kool aid of “Post Obama Racial Progress,” skirmishes like the one on Gates’ front porch serve as a resounding wake up call that white supremacy is still in the oppression business. Most importantly, Crowley’s actions exhibited the same historic egotism of his forefathers, one which prefers it’s negroes non-threatening and shining America’s shoes

Ed Garnes Hangs In Switzerland Joining Fahamu Pecou’s Blak Presidential

Edward M. Garnes Jr, founder of From Afros To Shelltoes and 2009 Atlanta Tribune Men Of Distinction, is featured in world renown artist Fahamu Pecou’s latest solo exhibition entitled Blak Presidential debuting at VOLTA 5, a cutting edge art fair taking place during Basel’s Art Week (Basel, Switzerland).

Ask Ed & Sugar: Ny Post Monkey Business Get Down Or Lay Down

To parallel Obama’s intricate policies and a monkey running the streets is less than unacceptable. It seems as if a black person in the U.S. cannot rise to a position of power without some major form of belittlement – whether it’s being the head cook in the high school cafeteria or the undisputed heavyweight champ.

Ask Ed & Sugar: Got A Negro Republicans Play Racial Roulette

Got a Negro? Blackness has now become the new mainstream accessory; kinda like a trendy hand bag that loses it luster after a few nights on the town. Picking Steele as GOP Chairman clearly shows the Republican Party has been hitting the political crack pipe worst than Chris Rock in the movie New Jack City.

Ask Ed & Sugar: Obama Backlash Employers Shun Inauguration

Chances are your company is figuring out how to better it’s image and build capital for the executives. They could care less about you and your Black president. Plus, negroes aren’t popular until they can pimp us for some change…and I don’t mean the Obama kind…

Ed & Sugar Pres Obama’s Southernplayalistic Inauguration Mixtape

Everybody needs a soundtrack. I bet you Obama would bump these joints from Outkast, Marvin, Gaye, Erykah Badu, and Gil Scott Heron in his Presidential Caddy!

Ask Ed & Sugar: Hennessy Pimps Obama Bottle

There is a reason there is a liquor store on almost every corner where black folks congregate. Furious Styles, Laurence Fishburne’s character in Boyz NThe Hood, said it best: “They want us to kill ourselves.” In his groovy yet illuminating song “The Bottle,” noted poet and vocalist Gil Scott Heron details the seduction of drugs better than my blog response ever could…

Ask Ed & Sugar: Sen Clinton Friend Or Foe

I know they say keep your friends close and your enemies closer and that’s what some people on the radio have been saying about Obama picking Hillary for Secretary of State. How do you guys feel about this? Do you think Obama is making a mistake?

-Rachel, Jamestown, VA

Ask Ed & Sugar: You Knew Obama Would Win When

Obama hoopin, round the way girls, and short bus candidates!!

Obama Drama: When Racial Identity Goes Wrong

Obama is not as racially obscure as Justice Clarence Thomas or as radical as the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. But, he occupies a curious public space where his “Blackness” is palatable across race and class fault lines.