Recently students at UC San Diego decided to throw an off-campus party called the Compton Cookout, meant to mock Black History Month. The original invitation posted on Facebook noted that attendees should dress as "ghetto chicks" and expect a menu of "chicken, kool-aid, and of course, watermelon." While some may take this invite lightly and laugh it off, some members of the African American community aren't laughing.
It had been one month into the New Year when I realized that I hadn't really begun on my new year's resolution. What that might be? Well like many Americans across the nation, it was to get in shape.
Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We're dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something." And then he promptly stood up and danced a jig. The other day while making my final purchases at my local Barnes and Noble, I noticed that they have begun selling an eBook reader called "nook.
"I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on the stimulus money and saying this doesn't create any new jobs," Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in an ABC interview on the Feb 21. "And then they go out and they do the photo ops and they are posing with the big check and they say, 'Isn't this great? Look what kind of money I provide here for the state.