One of my least favorite news stories is back! You remember it from the Proposition 8 saga. It's the one about black people hating gay people. Unless you're that unfortunate black person who also happens to be gay. I suppose you're involved with some "war within." Wait? You're not? You just live as both a gay and a black American? Well, damn. Who knew?
Wednesday I made another stop at Michel Martin's "Beauty Shop" on her show Tell Me More on NPR! Along with The Root's Cynthia Gordy, US World News & Report's Mary Kate Cary and The Wise Latina's Viviana Hurtado we discussed Rick Perry's "bright idea" to bring back former presidential candidate and billionaire Steve Forbes flawed "flat tax" plan. (Let's politic like it's 1996! And lose to the Democratic incumbent because we can't come up with a reason why we would be a better president than him!) Plus we discussed the African American woman's response to the larger, third-wave feminist tinged "Slutwalk" movement and its perceived insensitivity, and Mariah Carey's "trust" issues.
Listen to the Beauty Shop after the jump.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 9:00AM in EntertainmentSnob, Historically Speaking, MusicSnob, PostRacialist, The Snob
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Legendary soprano Barbara Smith Conrad was in Washington, D.C. Tuesday night for a viewing of the documentary based on her life "When I Rise." Inlet photo is of Smith Conrad in "Aida."
Even before she became an accomplished singer, even when she was a young woman and legendary entertainer Harry Belafonte said he could still see the "country" in the girl from Center Point, Texas, opera singer Barbara Smith Conrad was a diva in the truest sense of the word. In the way the word was initially meant to be used -- she is an international opera star.
There always had a regality about her. Even as a young woman. Her poise and maturity were what drew people to her. Her charm and the beauty of her talent drew them in.
That charm, regality and poise was in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, where Smith Conrad was honored at a viewing of a documentary based on her life called "When I Rise" at the National Archives on Pennsylvania Ave.
