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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:41:55 +0000

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Comment on random goodness, 10/12 by kamau

kamau — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:15:20 +0000

@sci-culturist. right, it totally conjures up the image of the dancing shiva*. if that is the case, then the image has even more powerful connotations than i thought; black woman as powerful goddess? deep. i just saw the surface of an intruiging cultural mashup.

Thanks for the comment.

* (ha ha! had to google nataraj)

Comment on random goodness, 10/12 by sci-culturist

sci-culturist — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:15:19 +0000

what striking images by Natarajan!
they conjure the nataraj (dancing Shiva) in my mind’s eye… or perhaps it’s subliminal given his name?

Comment on Weekend Music: Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew by lilikindsli

lilikindsli — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:41:15 +0000

9JTrtH I want to say – thank you for this!

Comment on skate.culture by Stevie Ites

Stevie Ites — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:12:53 +0000

My pleasure. Here is an interview I conducted with Jahmal Williams, an Boston pro skateboarder with decades of experience. He describes his experience of what it was like to grow up in Boston (!) as a young, black skater in a time when black skaters were few and far between.

http://thangsandthangs.blogspot.com/2009/08/city-to-city-jahmal-williams-interview.html

His company: http://www.hoppsskateboards.com

Keep up the good work!

Comment on skate.culture by kamau

kamau — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:02:54 +0000

Stevie, thanks for stopping by and offering much insight. One, I like what you say about the heightened media attention and how it is drawing kids to the skate scene. Two, much respect to the gentlemen you mention; my hat is always off to people who swim against the current, who zig when others zag (more difficult in our community where there are often inflexible and uninformed notions of what black folk can and can’t do).

Comment on skate.culture by Stevie Ites

Stevie Ites — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:24:41 +0000

As a skater with 20+ years on the board, I can say that black skaters are not a new phenomenon. I will say there has been a significant increase in the amount of black skaters on the scene since the beginning of the new millennium though. Skateboarding has become a much more commercial and therefore visible presence, exposing it to youth who might not normally encounter it. A number of very successful black skaters (Stevie Williams most notably, and Kareem Campbell before him) have achieved their success on their own terms, without conforming to the “stoked duuude” whiteboy stereotype perpetuated by non-skaters. I believe these gentlemen served as examples as to what a black skater can be. The truth of the matter is, most black skaters were being persecuted by their own communities, not the larger skate community. I can say, with confidence, that skateboarding is one of the most integrated, colorblind (if there is such a thing) things I have ever been a part of. Anyways, my point is, being a black skater is more acceptable now than it ever has been.

Comment on Weekend Music: Spoek Mathambo by kamau

kamau — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:25:50 +0000

Thank you for the correction/update, I updated my post accordingly (unintentional oversight).