Much respect for Field Negro’s blog

(Update 3/14: changed post title, i always thought it sounded retarded…

This continues to be my favorite blog to read.  Field Negro is a good mix of social commentary, politics, and current events.  Lately, it’s been mostly politics but that’s what’s hot in current events.  Field’s posts are cleverly written and he holds onto to his underlying theme, field vs. house negro, consistently through his blog.  Affrodite [that’s me talking about me in the 3rd person] happily gives some afro props when afro props are due.  Don’t count on consistency in my blog.  I’m way too scatter brained for that.  You get my mind for the moment and I sign-off.  Hopefully, you are occasionally entertained, pissed, or somewhere in between.)

I’ve been reading the Field Negro blog and, so far, I’m loving it. The author is a Philly based blogger, and you know I got love for Philly as a former area resident.

If you consider yourself the Afrocentric conscious type, then this blog speaks to your soul. I feel like Huey from the Boondocks or just plain ole me in the late 80s/early 90s. Oh ya, I was sportin’ African medallions, going to Freedom School on Saturday mornings and learning Swahili when they were trying to make that the official language of African-Americans, inhaling every Spike Lee joint that ever was released, hanging out with 5 percenters (until they made me feel subordinate as a woman), wearing Kente cloth wraps in my hair and cowry shell necklaces on my neck (that was redundant…duh!), going to Afram in Baltimore every year and any other festival with vendors, checking out every activist who came to campus to speak…You name it, my fist was in the air and I was ’bout it-’bout it! I did everything except make it to the Motherland…because it’s so damn expensive from the US. That hurdle was crossed last year with my trip to Kenya (props to my next eldest sis for getting me on board with that)

I still think I have a bit of that non-conformist/activist spirit in me and this blog speaks to my soul.

Check it out. It’s on my links or click here:

http://www.field-negro.blogspot.com/

Just spreading the love as I find it.