Slog - Comments on The New Black Beauty http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty Check it: Since its birth in 1945, John H. Johnson magazine, the black American version of Life, Ebony has had no other goal, no other purpose than to arrive at this final point of absolute black respectability. This is bushi power, bushi confidence, bushi beauty. If Johnson were alive today to witness this moment, this perfect image of the Obamas, he would have cried and gone mad like a man walking out of a dark cave and seeing the brilliant sun for the first time. As with all ideals that are realized, it's just too good to be true.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:27:39 -0800 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:53:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by huh?
bushi?

]]> huh? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591218 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591218 Media Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:00:19 -0800 Comment by Sachi Wilson Every step toward Dr King's dream is a welcome step - no matter what color the skin.

:-)

]]> Sachi Wilson http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591222 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591222 Media Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:06:08 -0800 Comment by charles mudede does someone out there know what i'm talking about? come on ya.

]]> charles mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591225 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591225 Media Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:07:44 -0800 Comment by notime you mean bougie? as in bourgeois?

]]> notime http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591229 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591229 Media Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:11:29 -0800 Comment by Gitai That's what I was wondering, notime. With I think of bushi, I think of samurai.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591238 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591238 Media Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:15:21 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi I think I understand what you're talking about, for once.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591239 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591239 Media Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:15:32 -0800 Comment by hunh? "Bushi is a general term used to describe the warrior class of feudal and pre-feudal Japan. This term described the aristocratic warrior of the ninth century to the nineteenth century"

This is what the black version of Life was trying to promote?

Do you mean bougie? "Aspiring to be a higher class than one is. Derived from bourgeois - meaning middle/upper class"


]]> hunh? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591264 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591264 Media Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:33:57 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Why no pics with a cigarette hanging from his lips? He'll make a fine VP anyway.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591278 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591278 Media Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:48:43 -0800 Comment by Eliza I think he means "bougie," pronounced "boo-zhee" (a shortening of bourgeoisie.)

]]> Eliza http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591730 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/the_new_black_beauty#c591730 Media Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:53:36 -0800