Mark N Mays
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Django Unchained and the Surrounding Controversy
The film is NOT ABOUT SLAVERY. It is an “exploitation” movie that uses slavery as a reason for a lot of buckets (and I mean that literally) of fake blood splashing across sets. Sorry, film critics of America, anyone with a decent high school education, or has seen ROOTS will learn nothing from DJANGO about the institution. Continue reading
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Neither way is “right” or “wrong” as they are philosophies of art. Continue reading
We cannot expect everyone to be able to see the goodness in our hearts if it is not coming out of our mouths. Continue reading
I tend to be at the office late. I get googly eyed from staring at a computer screen all day. I should probably start wearing glasses again. I think I had an hallucination the other night. I’d closed the door for a little privacy while I called home. When I was done, I looked up … Continue reading
Culture cannot be owned. So culture cannot be stolen. However, the lack of ownership of culture does not exclude the possibility of exploitation of culture. Continue reading
Briefly
- (1) The success of Tyler Perry's latest film and the upcoming film Jump the Broom (2) Has BET really improved over the last couple of years? (3) Are you optimistic about Comcast creating a group of new channels for minorities and Cathy Hughes possibly purchasing Direct TV? Also we'll have correspondent John Rogers talking about his friendship with recently deceased violinist Billy Bang and special guest Nathan Haddox talking about the difficulties of promoting and presenting reggae shows in Nashville. Join Mark Mays, William Jenkins, Mike Harris and Ron Wynn for Freestyle from 6-7 pm CST on WFSK, 88.1FM, also wfsk.org and iTunes college radio (88.1FM)
Political News
- Fox News’ Bret Baier: The DOJ also seized phone records of James Rosen’s parents Doug Powers
- North Korea sends envoy to China (author unknown)
- Pipe dreams of pipeline jobs (author unknown)
Sports news
- Messi: Neymar move would be wonderful (author unknown)
- Juventus confirm Higuain and Jovetic interest (author unknown)
- Juventus and Atletico lead Vietto chase (author unknown)