Black people seem to be a people apart in America. Black America is an almost completely separate society with its own code of conduct and behaviour, its own dress sense and almost its own dialect of the English language. It also seems to be a much derided and despised group that at a glance would [...]
Archive for February, 2009
The Tribulation of Black Americans
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Zinedine Zidane and France (and me)
Posted in People and me on February 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Zidane’s dead, he retired the second he planted that headbutt into Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup Final. He was France’s excuse as a nation: they were always able to point to him and pretend that their country wasn’t falling apart on racial faultlines; to the way he had won France its World Cup [...]
On how it is
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We only have so many credits in the eyes of other people, and each time we complain about something we lose a few. It’s best to save our arguments for things that really matter to us, because then people say: “Oh, he/she never complains, so if he’s complaining now something must really be fucked up.” [...]
