Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...black America's unchallenged status as sore losers and complaint-mongers. "African Americans have just entered the no-excuses zone," Jonetta Rose Barras wrote in the Washington Post. Obama "won't tolerate ... the long-standing narrative of victimhood that has defined black America to itself and to the mainstream for more than a century." The writer John McWhorter, in New York magazine, went so far as to suggest that Obama will finally end the bullying of the black nerd: "Whenever a black nerd gets teased for thinking he's white, all he has to say is four words: 'Is Barack...
...offer. It has been a long six years since Q-Tip’s last album, 2002’s “Kamaal the Abstract,” went unreleased for lacking commercial appeal. In the meantime, Q-Tip has had time to observe the domination of mainstream rap by rappers whose top priorities are probably not their lyrics. Given Q-Tip’s love for hip-hop and a lengthy hiatus in which to create music, the moniker “The Renaissance” should fit the album. On the energetic opener “Johnny...
...also written that Jamal and Latika will live happily ever after, the forces of the universe conspiring so that Jamal knows the answer to every question on the game show. Theirs is a big-screen love that’s too often missing from mainstream American cinema, the kind of love that conquers all adversity and ends in giant dance numbers over the end credits. And what could be more fun than that...
...part of the excitement involved in beer brewing stems from the relative dearth of knowledge about the process. Although the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub is doing its share to raise beer awareness on campus, inviting specialty brewers to speak, beer expertise still isn’t mainstream. I knew next to nothing about brewing myself, though it’s surprisingly easy. The process, essentially liquid baking, can be broken down into five steps...
...were linear descendants of those egg throwers four decades before. They too believe in racial equality, gay rights, feminism, civil liberties and people's right to follow their own star. But 40 years later, those ideas no longer seem disorderly. Crime is down and riots nonexistent; feminism is so mainstream that even Sarah Palin embraces the term; Chicago mayor Richard Daley, son of the man who told police to bash heads, marches in gay-rights parades. Culturally, liberalism isn't that scary anymore. Younger Americans - who voted overwhelmingly for Obama - largely embrace the legacy of the '60s, and yet they...