Slog - Comments on Sorry I Missed Your Birthday http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your I am embarrassed to admit that I didn't post last Friday, June 16 about Stokely Carmichael. On June 16, 1966 (exactly 40 years ago), Carmichael mounted a makeshift podium at a late-night rally in Greenwood, MI and gave an angry, history-making speech—probably the second-most famous speech of the civil rights era—in which he said: "We been sayin' 'Freedom Now' for six years and we aint got nothin'. What we gonna start sayin' now is 'Black Power'!" He then started a call and response chant: "What do we want?" "Black Power." He hit a nerve...or more accurately, captured the changed mood... Copyright 2007 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:55:39 -0800 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:18:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by StrangerDanger Exhibit 4493A-B on why you sleep alone...

]]> StrangerDanger http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c377970 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c377970 Arts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:15:01 -0800 Comment by bauhaus Godfather I & II, Chinatown, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Cabaret - all made in the early 70s.

]]> bauhaus http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c377976 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c377976 Arts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:20:08 -0800 Comment by Steve To be precise, Kwame Ture died in 1998 -- Carmichael changed his name in the late 70s, I think.

]]> Steve http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c377996 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c377996 Arts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:41:05 -0800 Comment by Travis "Ready for Revolution"--an extended meditation on Kwame (Stokely) by "The Harder they Come" author Michael Thelwell--could be worth checking out, Josh. I'm sure Bailey Coy or Eliott Bay would be happy to order it (though they aren't likely to have it).

]]> Travis http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c377997 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c377997 Arts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:41:29 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit Travis,
Oh, I've read it. Much of it is written in Stokely's informal voice that combines 60s speak w/ his attempt at hip hop speak... It gets tiring. He's got some interesting stuff to say, though, and, the biggest surprise to me was realizing how much he venerated (was still in awe of) King.

The best book I've read on that era is John Lewis's autobiography. Lewis was Carmichael's predecessor as chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. It's called Walking on the Wind, I believe.

Lewis is currently the U.S. Rep from Atlanta.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378009 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378009 Arts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:58:16 -0800 Comment by r., j. Carmichael, while an important and effective leader in the U.S., became a monomaniacal anti-Jewish babbler in his later years. He was incapable of distinguishing political anti-Zionism from a hatred for Jews.

]]> r., j. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378047 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378047 Arts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:56:09 -0800 Comment by Travis Thanks for the tip, JF. I saw Thelwell's read from the book and it was pretty awe-inspiring, though mostly because Thelwell is such a strong personality himself. I think Stokely is most interestingly and memorably portrayed in At Canan's Edge stepping out of a shack in rural Alabama chewing on a roasted rabbit leg, wide eyed and wired on the edge of time between non-violence and black power.

]]> Travis http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378112 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378112 Arts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:24:36 -0800 Comment by Lame Josh
Wow, this is so lame -- and pathetic, seeing Josh work so hard to establish some street cred. Get back to Darcy.

]]> Lame Josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378392 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378392 Arts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:08:07 -0800 Comment by Replicant
Check me on this, but I don't think Josh has written word 1 about Darcy Burner.

]]> Replicant http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378416 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c378416 Arts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:47:42 -0800 Comment by John Hash Hi, according to this discussion theme i think that you might be interested in http://www.yourgirls.ab3.eu/ where you can find hundreds of cool girls right from your town... Just check it.

]]> John Hash http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c382192 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/sorry_i_missed_your#c382192 Arts Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:18:38 -0800