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January 30, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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"Blacks in the Diaspora obscure themselves as much as they are obscured.. they are the creative legs of an even more dubious globalization...

What is produced in Black homes... expressions, gestures, understandings, dress, are taken up in the generalizing, homogenizing culture."
- Dionne Brand, Map
A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand | Penguin Random House Canada
“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.”Now entering its third decade in print, Dionn...
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August 14, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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You're welcome. And excerpt from "Thick" is below.
propcazhpm.bsky.social Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Dec 28
"Brooks's essays fail, if public mocking is a measure of such things.. And, yet, he will have a job.. after every bad essay that misses some notable point or reading or data. Mr. Brooks will be back because his job is not to be right but to be there."
- Thick, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

Boop boop.
Brooks's essays fail, if public mocking is a measure of such things. At least once a month " the latest Brooks" makes the rounds of my admittedly self-satisfied peers. We marvel that the man has a job that qualifies him to be introduced at some fancy dinner as "public intellectual." And, yet, he will have a job. This week and the week after that and the weeks after every bad essay that misses some notable point or reading or data. Mr. Brooks will be back because his job is not to be right but to be there, on the page of your New York Times. For many reasons, well-educated opinion writers like to critique the system of elite higher education that produced their social class. The rest of us in higher education are merely put-upon to live with the stereotypes that feel as foreign to us as David Brooks imagines fancy deli sandwiches feel to most working class Americans.
January 30, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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I'm not sure that it comes close to the entire chapter that Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom wrote on Brooks in "Thick", but alt-text for above post is below.
The mention of David Brooks recalls a different point, in a different conversation with him, on the Charlie Rose show. It was about what the U.N could do to solve the Irag crisis, rather than leaving it to America to just do its own thing. Brooks was arguing very smoothly that the U.N. was useless and couldn't be counted on to do anything forceful. He said: look at how useless it was in the Balkans. I went into some detail at that point about resolution of the Kosovo crisis and, in particular, the role of international agencies there in catastrophic situations. I argued, it was still possible for international agencies to do good things, precisely because they were international agencies. And I expected Brooks to come back with: about this, this and this. Instead, he just said: well, I don't really know anything about that. And changed the subject. And I remember thinking: you`ve gone on television, made ex cathedra against the whole idea of international action to resolve political statements crises in dangerous places, making a case for America to do its own thing because noone else can; and then when you're pushed on it, you say: well, I because no one actually know what I'm talking about. Here we had the public intellectual who now occupies not only prominent television space but op-ed pages of the most influential newspapers in the English-speaking world: and he knows nothing. Raymond Aron famously criticized the generation of Sartrian intellec- tuals who knew nothing about the things they were talking about; but at least they did, after all, know other stuff. Men like Brooks know, literally, nothing.
January 30, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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Cool!
January 30, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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That would be phenomenal. 🎼
January 30, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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Seconded...
January 30, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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I hope that someone puts it on again.
January 30, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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I was struck by how modern it was— the themes and the music.
January 30, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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I want to add composer Edmond Dédé from New Orleans.

His opera Morgiana was thrilling.
#BlackComposers
January 30, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Afro-American Symphony (1930) by composer William Grant Still (1895–1978) was the first symphony written by an African American and performed for a U.S. audience by a leading orchestra.

It was premiered in 1931 by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
#BlackSky #Classical

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Afro-American Symphony: I. Moderato assai
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December 15, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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Sony Classical's Black Composer Series 2/2:

Panamanian Roque Cordero (1917–2008), American Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917–1995);
Nigerian Fela Sowande (1905–1987); Panamanian Roque Cordero (1917–2008); American Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917–1995) #Classical

Cuban violinist-composer José Silvestre White
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: I. Allegro
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December 15, 2024 at 4:06 AM