Mikaela says:
First a newspaper series on class.... Now a series on race? What's next?
(Could media be getting better? Then what would we whine about?)
This one should be watched closely for sure!
Washington Post takes on "Being a Black Man."
My first thought stems from this paragraph:
More than 50 years after the publication of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," black men appear more visible than ever -- a freshman senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, is the American Idol of national politics, and Will Smith is perhaps the most bankable star in Hollywood. Yet black men who put their kids through college by mopping floors, who sit at home reading Tennyson at night, who wear dreadlocks but design spacecraft, say it sometimes seems as if the world doesn't believe they exist.
As invisible as black men still are in America, what comes up for me is how much more invisible black women are. In some ways, the barriers are less impenetrable for women, but the visibility factor has got to be more severe. I'm not sure why this is, but I think it warrants much more thought. How many more years will it take before a series like this would focus on black women? bell hooks should really have a blog!
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