Daily Minutes moved to sidebar

The daily minutes have been fun to do, especially with Mindy by my side. However, doing them daily has caused me to neglect my writing, or rather replace it. I still want to try and post one podcast a day, but I will no longer be posting it as an entry on this blog.
That’s an important change for you email subscribers (most of you), if you want to hear the podcast you’ll need to stop by the blog and listen on the player on the sidebar. Hopefully you do, because I really enjoy the opportunity to share thoughts with you. The other change is that I’m going to try and stop doing them at night when we are tired. This means I might not have mindy with me in my future podcast. Hopefully that won’t be too traumatic for any of you and we’ll try and get her in more often then not.
I’ll probably be using the podcasting from my phone feature that the awesome folks at Evoca have available (and odeo is phasing out).

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Do you recognize this man?

Do you recognize this man?

You probably don’t, and that’s a good thing. You see if you do recognize him, your recognizing a doctored image of him, Harold Ford Jr., a Congressman in Tennessee. The photo above is one that was sent Republican Party to dissuade folks from voting for him. The problem with the photo is this:

doctored up

The photo on the left is a real photo of Ford, the photo in the middle has the color removed, and the photo on the right is the one the Republican Party used in their letter.

I don’t need to go into the ramifications of the motivation behind this. There are still some inherent problems in the south, still some deep racism ingrained in many here in Tennessee.

From
River City Mud Bugle » TN GOP Uses Doctored Ford Photo for Fundraising Drive

But when they bring in race, what they’re saying is it doesn’t matter whether Ford is better or not. Don’t vote for him because of his race, which goes against everything that Americans have been taught.

From
KnoxNews: Election

“They have darkened Harold Ford’s image to make a racist statement,” Tuke said after reviewing the mailing. “It’s obviously altered.”

Tuke and Jerry Maynard, who is black and the deputy director of the state Democratic Party, said the text of Davis’ letter also contains “code word” references to race.

What are your thoughts?

You can’t be passively anti-racist… So do something about it

One of the few podcast I listen to faithful is that of Carmen Van Kerckhove and Jen Chau, formerly Addicted to Race and Mixed Media Watch, now Racialicious. As you probably guessed they talk about a lot of things race related. It’s always an interesting discussion and their blog provides great insight into pop culture as well.
I’ve had a couple of conversations recently about race, about the idea of not being passively anti-racist, but rather the need to be active. Also the need to keep conversation open, particularly for white people who don’t often think about race at all.

Anyways, I wanted to be sure to let everyone know about a new site, Race Changers, that you absolutely must subscribe to. I’m quite serious about that too, if your not currently taking any steps to being anti-racist, then there is a grave danger of continuing to be passively racist. Race Changers is a site dedicated to learning and taking action, “Working towards an anti-racist future, one week at a time.” I’m not sure all the assignments we’ll be given but I know it will be a worthwhile experience.

I’ll be sure to talk about what I’m learning each week as we go.