There I was sitting at the kitchen island eating my Cheerios-inspired cereal and listening to Chris Matthews say outlandish things about the history of slavery in America.   And I mean flat out incorrect things about the relative responsibility of the North versus the South, who should be apologizing to whom, and other truly flawed arguments.  I was shocked, not from what he was saying (I’d heard it all before), but that he had such free reign to say and propagate patently incorrect statements about American history.  His voice reaches far and many do not know any better than to take his statements as gospel.

I was going to flex by newly conferred African American Studies degree but found that the article that first brought the video to my attention already did a wonderful job of correcting Chris Matthews’s mistakes.  Instead, I have to address what this video and other recent conversation have been making increasingly apparent.  In this post-racial society we find ourselves in, there has been an overwhelming attempt to get rid of my history and by extension my race. 

...a spoon.  

I'm sitting here in an InTown Suites (ugh) with cereal, soup, applesauce and no spoon. Great.

...I learned from Star Wars.

Brilliant breakdown of the 2008 Presidential Field

Forreal, though.

I seasoned lurker (cicrca AOL 2.0) I initally created this journal to conduct field research for a class.  The assignment was to conduct virtual ethongraphy.  Perfect opportunity to make my leisure my work, right? So while I tried to do ethnographic work on fans and fandom, I didn't really get much enough for that particular paper, tho the topic still interests me.  Instead, I wrote about the significance of the visual, particularly the icon, in the disembodied virtual world.

But anyhow, since I have this journal that so far has zero posts and I got the paper back, I figured I'd post parts of the paper and see if anybody finds it interesting....