The Braided Inkwell

Publishers Weekly Have You Lost Your Mind? | HarperStudio.

I haven’t weighed in my own mind whether or not I find this offensive.
My first reaction was to see whether or not the “final word” person, the editor, is African-American.
He is.

Then I got to thinking… does it make a difference? Should this photo be “ok” because an AFAM editor gave it the go-ahead?
Would this photo have been hailed as a work of genius if the concept was touted and executed by a different photographer? Would people then have hailed it as creative genius?
Would black folks have cried afoul if this were the case?
How, exactly, is this offensive? I haven’t determined just yet, and I’m not sure if I will ever count this cover as offensive.

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The House said “No way!”

Rejected Wall Street bailout

Money falls not from trees

House Narrowly Defeats Bailout Legislation (from Washingtonpost.com)

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A poetic mingling of jargon and slang

The SCOTUS made a 5-4 decision giving Gitmo prisoners some rights…

While Obama and McCain traipsed around

Getting support for the autumn POTUS fight…

I wish I had money for my clothes and car to be pimpin’*

But I am a student, gas costs too much

And my broke tail is scrimpin’.

The end

*please see entry #1, definitions 2 and 3. Also see entry #3 and totally ignore the ones having to do with sex and hoes… By the way, did you know that men can be hoes too? If not, you heard it here first! That blog rant is forthcoming.

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