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news from kintespace.com ::: Monday, December 24, 2007

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::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_william_watkins0.html

This historic interview of Professor William H. Watkins, produced by The League of Revolutionaries for a New America, reveals the classic problems associated with educating an historically oppressed people—when the educators descend intellectually (and sometimes physically) from the very dominator culture that produced these oppressed.

Much of this radio discussion, offered here in the kinté space as a streaming audio presentation, comes from the book (with a forward by Robin D. G. Kelley), The White Architects of Black Education. Dr. Watkins makes it perfectly clear that the No Child Left Behind Act is indeed an act, a performance staged by circus freaks endowed with the Byzantine authority to punish any federally-funded, K-12 education institution for failing standardized tests. This effectively encourages students to learn how to pass these tests and leaves these young people little time to develop the basic tools of consciousness.

::: Blacks in the Sciences at UCSB

::: ::: http://kintespace.com/rasx43.html

This little ditty was published in the UCSB Daily Nexus around May 18 1991 for something I marked nexus general. That year would make me about 21 years old and clearly (with an anger that would be incomprehensible to my fellow students who proudly assert that they enjoyed their time at UCSB) I was celebrating my graduation as physics major by celebrating all the other “Blacks in the Sciences at UCSB.” Of course none of my anger is made serious in my writing here. Since I was a serious student of Monty Python (and the flying circus) the influence was on me to be very, very silly.

::: the rasx() pop music video collection (YouTube.com)

::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_popmusicvideo0.html

This is the first (and probably the last) pop music video collection assembled by me. Consider it a companion piece to the first major prose series by me in the kinté space “lines in the rasx() context” (2001).

This YouTube.com compilation has some of my teenaged/post-pubescent favorites: The Human League, Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan, David Bowie, The Eurythmics, Terence Trent D’Arby and Seal.

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