Comments on: Barack Obama is Black rock http://www.boldaslove.us/2007/02/15/barack-obama-is-black-rock/ Music, Culture & The New Black Imagination Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:46:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Joy Kipp http://www.boldaslove.us/2007/02/15/barack-obama-is-black-rock/#comment-24 Joy Kipp Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:34:27 +0000 http://69.89.31.151/%7Eboldaslo/?p=783#comment-24 Hi there,

I am creating two Obama ads for the moveon.org Obama in 30-sec contest. I was wondering if you would be so kind as to let me use your Obama pic in each ad. All of the other photos I am using are either ones my husband took while he was deployed in Iraq (that ad is making an anti-war statement) or photos I took (that one talks about Obama bringing hope to America). I just need a couple of Obama to use in the last 2-3 seconds of my ad. Please let me know if you would give me permission and what else I would need to do to use your photos.

Thanks very much for supporting this endeavor.

Best regards, :) Joy

Joy Kipp
Burlington, VT

]]> By: Jimmy Saal http://www.boldaslove.us/2007/02/15/barack-obama-is-black-rock/#comment-23 Jimmy Saal Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:08:46 +0000 http://69.89.31.151/%7Eboldaslo/?p=783#comment-23 Great post. I read both pieces by Leon Wynter and Joan Morgan and appreciate their words as well. I particularly liked Joan’s insight here:

“Because really, the difference between rice and peas and black eye peas is hardly as great she, the barber or anyone else questioning Obama’s blackness might think. It’s the distance between stops on slave ship.”

]]> By: Peter H. http://www.boldaslove.us/2007/02/15/barack-obama-is-black-rock/#comment-22 Peter H. Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:54:40 +0000 http://69.89.31.151/%7Eboldaslo/?p=783#comment-22 Really thought-provoking post. Especially the title– sums up the ideas you lay out in a way that doesn’t flatten them out but hints at all their complications. So the ideas in that short five-word sentence echo in the head as much as the language of it.

Curious what you think of this four-month-old column by Gary Younge:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061113/younge
It focuses more on what’s going on in white folks’ heads than on either Obama himself or Black opinion, & I’m not sure how it relates to music. Still curious, tho’.

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