Original Message-
From: Mel Cragwell, II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 5:57 PM
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Subject: What?! Chappelle Show Kaput?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050803/en_tv_eo/17075
What?! Chappelle Show Kaput?
By Josh Grossberg
55 minutes ago
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i posted about this during Season one of Galactica and did a count
of Blacks. I counted about three or four, incuding the comm officer
and some nameless pilots (I assume) used in the background. I then
found a lot of Blacks existed
...someone's idea of Utopia will be someone else's idea of Hell...
Great point, which makes the idea of a human race reaching harmony in
the next century unlikely. Sometimes I still wonder if the only way
we'll quickly pull together as a race is due to a threat that almost
kills us all. Either a
I sure did, thanks! I meant to send a reply but probably forgot it. My
wife is doing better, though it's still hard as hell of course. It has
helped us in some ways: i've finally got her jotting down her thoughts
in a journal, and I've been writing more consistenly. How you doin'?
-Original
Like many of y'all have said--better than me, I might add--it ultimately
boils down to us controlling our own. Between whites that are
prejudiced, whites that aren't prejudiced but let market factors shaped
by *other* whites influence their decisions, and whites that simply
don't get it, we're
I'm trying hard to get some writing done also...However, I have found that
either my short stories are too long or too explicit for the mainstream mags so
as of now, I can't find anyone who would publish my stuff...That's ok...I'm
trying hard to get my stuff to market as well as getting back in
Tiny as this audience is, it has the nerve to be
extremely fractured and segmented. - You choice of words seem pretty harsh.
How about us being more diversitfied in our tastes? That is simply one more
challenge...It means you can keep serving up vanilla if you know that they
crave a little
Point taken. However, if all of those trashy Ghetto Love books can
sell off trucks, I wouldn't mind seeing some self-directed Black SF.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Kelly Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with this is amply illustrated on the various black sci-
fi and
Oh yeah, I'm aware of it. I follow the videogame industry quite closely.
I've even posted some articles on it here, such as the new phenomenon
where actors, musicians, and atheletes now count starring in games as
being as important as getting good endorsement deals. The issue of race
is a huge one
