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It’s the anniversary of the riots that followed the verdit in the Rodney King beating, really bad in LA, but also events in ATL, Fresno, Dallas, NYC and other cities that seem to already have been overshadowed. What’s changed for Black America? Other documented beatings and aquitals of police; not to mention Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans, the propincity for opportunistic looting, and the fact that many in that city are STILL waiting on aid would seem to say: not much. Well, no one has seen tanks in the streets of South Central for a while.

But perhaps things are better for African American women now. Two black Americans have served as Secretary of State for an outlandish bridge burning administration, the current an intelligent and proud woman. And you can’t say “nappy headed ho’s” on the radio…

Seriously. Do you think he stole an election, fabricated an expensive war, declared a specious victory, then a few years of tuff guy chest thumping on someone else’s bill and blood just to let a bunch of washington beauracrats end the fun?

*I’ve got my power pen! My mighty pen, no matter what ANYONE says!*

At a certain point you have to ask yourself who’s an AL Qaeda operative, and who ain’t…

A longtime favorite I could still watch 1,000 times more. But don’t let people tell you Wonderwall is an equal, it’s more like Magical Mystery Tour, i.e. not ‘all that’.

Another great writer dies. I saw him speak on the UGA campus in the early 90’s. He seemed hilarious and possibly drunk.

A young video blogger ended up with some footage of an anti-G8 rally in SF that the Federal Govt. wanted to look at and he refused, claiming journalistic license, and went to jail. He has released the video now which you can see here. In it you can see Left Coast types getting a little riled up, and eventually, SFPD getting a little riled up, as one might expect. It is always interesting to witness the ‘no nonsense’ re-establishment of control. The footage seems to fall short of being a potential smoking gun though. Surely cases like this will become more prevelent in the future.