CAPICOSTIA

  By Mel Dyer At ease, with our own... Knowing our own and what it took to get us here, to this moment. Having respect for that...that's Sevenbeeism. That's part of it. The last three and a half decades, post Civil Rights Movement, post-desegregation, post-riot, post-urbanism, post-inflation, has been rough on Penn Branch ..and the rest of Seven Bee (ANC-7B), generally speaking. We want commercial development - now, it's here - and always have, ..but, not the kind that attracts people, who don’t respect or appreciate the wholesome, small-towny, slightly Cosbyesque thing we’ve got going here–the Brancher Way. If gang violence, over-crowding, loitering and the pungent fragrance of urine wafting up Carpenter Street is the price of having a cineplex and steakhouse burgers and a proper bar in the neighborhood... No thanks! We also like people! We like music, color and laughter in the air! We like carefree retirees, newlyweds, families and big, goofy dogs! We like to work hard ...

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REP. JAMES TALARICO, TX (D) ...interviewed on MSNOW's 'Morning Joe'--did you see that? I just watched some of it. I'm doing my homework on this young, dynamic, Southwestern Democrat, ..and I like what I'm reading. There's something hopeful about what he's showing us and, more importantly, the issues he's taking stands on: civil rights for all, the Border, culture war fatigue, affordability at home. Don't want to jinx his mojo or make another Beto O'Rourke of him, ..but I'm almost moved to use the K-word in consideration of him...of how he presents himself. There's no real comparison to be made with that icon, this early in the game, but James Talarico's got something. I think leadership coming from the WEST or the SOUTH might do our great nation some good, ..and the farther away from the big, Northeastern cities, the better. Someplace where plain, clean and 'corny'--that's what the young folks are calling old-fashioned--is...

by Edgar Miraculous Dyer Consider that Star Trek' s beautiful Lieutenant Uhura (played by actress Nichelle Nichols), one of the first African American women with a major role on an American television show, is positively ADORED by sci-fi fans . Furthermore, the television show, which spawned an immeasurably more successful movie franchise, is an American television and film genre institution . MARTIN LUTHER KING implored TREK's Nichelle Nichols to keep flying, when anti-black resentment was driving her off the air! (photo, EBONY Magazine) Consider again that Star Trek' s lovely African American actress Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura, is adored by sci-fi fans, and I am inclined to assume that, as long as she's serving the white captain - that's James T. Kirk (my favorite) - of the United Starship Enterprise, ..she will continue to be so adored. If you're having trouble imagining what would happen, if Lt. Uhura suddenly got her own starship to captain,...

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by Edgar Miraculous Dyer COLORISM (complexionism) is RACISM... And when we - white, tan, olive-skinned, brown-skinned, light-skinned, dark-skinned - act on colorist ideas, we willfully BOW to the status-obsessive pathology that is white supremacist racism. It's a willful, intentional bow - we don't need any help or force or historical victimization to do it. All we need is IGNORANCE and the will to keep it going, with all of us non-whites securely, comfortably at the bottom, ..with no accountability to stop it. Ever. Colorism is very powerful in America, among a broad, diverse array of ethnic groups, because we make it powerful and impactful. Latino people, Asian people, white and European people, black or African people and Arab people. We all do it. We cannot be too Latino, Asian, white, black, Arab , mixed race, light-skinned or rich to recognize racism, when we see it . As I see it, colorism is the idea that one skin color or likeness to a race (looking a little white or Sp...