Leftovers for 1/7.

from sugarfreak; used under a Creative Commons license.

…In a week in which the White House appointed a transwoman to a top post in the Commerce Department, it also added language into the federal jobs site banning discrimination based on gender identity.

...Three things to care about with the coming census. (“Negro” isn’t one of them.)

…Ah. I was wondering what the hell was going on in my Facebook feed .

…Haunting pictures of Newark’s forgotten corners.

...The Wu crosses the Delaware.

…Some cat from Brooklyn ekes out a nice living for himself.

G.D.

G.D.

Gene "G.D." Demby is the founder and editor of PostBourgie. In his day job, he blogs and reports on race and ethnicity for NPR's Code Switch team.
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  • Mehhh. Still got “Negro” stuck in my craw. Not enough to post about, just enough to quietly side-eye.

    Eruh-um…what’s in the foil?

    • care to elaborate?

  • April

    Did y’all catch this last bit at the end of the Esquire article on Jay-Z?

    Jay-Z is black black. He is old-school double-dark-chocolate-chunk black. He is black the way Labatt is blue. He is not white black, Barack black, like our president. Or the kind of black that doesn’t curse and deplores the n-word, the genteel black, like Oprah. He is, arguably, the first black-black guy to cross over into Oprah-land and Bill Clintonworld without making the Oprah-sized no-look-back forward flip that means you’re selling not necessarily your soul but perhaps something fleshier, a little more external.

    Um, really? This graf is a problem on multiple levels.

    • yeah. we actually had a conversation about that graf, specifically.