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Cultivated Wit: #FiveStarChick @DenaeDance Combines Satire and Dance, Also Ass, Ass, Ass, Ass.

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This past weekend, I went to one of the most innovative performances I’ve ever seen. Denae Hannah, a performance artist and educator, debuted her newest show, Five Star Chick. Inspired by the Yo Gotti song, Denae decided to explore and challenge the imagery and expectations of black womanhood. The result is hella hilarious, impressive and sexy.

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A recap rap made by Saul Paul for my SXSW keynote speech, “How To Read The World.” More on the recap available at the SXSW website. 

Black Enough For Some…

In answer to “How black are you?”

…but apparently not enough for others.

Here are some of the reasons that I’m not black enough:

  • I don’t talk “black” enough for some people. 
  • I think that most hip hop music is trash (which propbably has more to do with my age than my authenticity, but there you are).
  • I voted for Barack Obama, but would have preferred Dennis Kucinich.
  • I’m a cop
  • I’m a Lutheran
  • I am comfortable in two languages besides English, and neither of them are African.
  • I am aware of their slave-holding, yet I remain convinced that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were great men.
  • I don’t gnaw chicken bones (this drove one of my aunt’s nuts when I was a kid)
  • I can’t play basketball… not even a little.

Oh, there are more things, but that is just a thumbnail sketch.  I really would like to see whoever it is who is in charge of authorizing people to be black enough.  I think that the criteria needs a change or two.  I wish I could see this person now, but I have to go and take my daughter to her Girl Scout meeting… which is just another reason for some.