{"id":2095,"date":"2008-12-05T08:50:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T13:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2009-11-23T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:49:13","slug":"into-deepest-darkest-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Into Deepest, Darkest Africa-America."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZi4Qv2x8cQ\" title=\"Carleen Brice and friend\"  target=\"_blank\"><img title=\"Carleen Brice and friend\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/screen191.jpg\" alt=\"Carleen Brice and friend\" width=\"500\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780345499066\" title=\"Orange Mint and Honey cover\"  target=\"_blank\"><img title=\"Orange Mint and Honey cover\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cbrice-210-essence_book_co.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Mint and Honey cover\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>You Negroes have got to stop making up holidays. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZi4Qv2x8cQ\"  target=\"_blank\">In this short<\/a>, author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleenbrice.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Carleen Brice<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780345499066\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Orange Mint and Honey<\/em><\/a>, right), creator of the <strong>&#8220;National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody <em>Not<\/em> Black Month,&#8221;<\/strong> half-dryly outlines her philosophy; invites white and Asian readers to try &#8220;new&#8221; Black writers in that happy corner of the bookstore where we&#8217;re typically segregated (for our own good, of course); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZi4Qv2x8cQ\"  target=\"_blank\">and briefly wrestles with the presumptions of a prospective client<\/a>, above. There&#8217;s even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welcomewhitefolks.blogspot.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">a blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While her YouTube&#8217;s tone is just a tad too gleefully &#8220;post-racial,&#8221; quote-unquote-unquote-unquote, for my tastes, Brice&#8217;s underlying point is eminently sensible, and, no, white people, <em>Dreams of My Father<\/em> and <em>The Audacity of Hope<\/em> don&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YZi4Qv2x8cQ?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YZi4Qv2x8cQ?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/firstborngirl.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/national-buy-book-by-black-author-and.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>BerniceMcFadden.com<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Negroes have got to stop making up holidays. In this short, author Carleen Brice (Orange Mint and Honey, right), creator of the &#8220;National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody Not Black Month,&#8221; half-dryly outlines her philosophy; invites white and Asian readers to try &#8220;new&#8221; Black writers in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5942,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}