Wednesday, November 6, 2024

"Woke Racism"

(How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America)

-by john mcwhorter

2021

This country does gobble up polemics, doesn't it?

I avoided this book for a long time because it seemed guilty of bad-faith rhetoric. And as it turns out...it is.

But it's also mostly correct.

Ditch the intentionally-inflammatory overstatement and mcwhorter makes good points. But overstatement sells. Sigh. Just like ta-nehasi coates, mcwhorter is mostly correct, with one or two blind spots.

Replace the titular word "religion" with "quasi-religion", and you'll do a service to the betterment of all. Religion requires magical thinking, something absent from the woke movement. Mcwhorter's language is shamelessly propagandistic, designed to anger both people who love religion, and people who hate it.

Replace that one word, and you'd have a good little book.

You just wouldn't sell as many copies.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Don't Murder Your Baby Brother

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

Inspired by a friend's daughter, and her, shall we say, reckless treatment of her toddler brother?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtbxsQDQmM0 

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

wrob at gesh's

wrob's music videos

This performance was the first affirmation of my ultimate place as an artist - an intimate party entertainer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRwIwNnu4C0

Friday, October 25, 2024

San Francisco Day

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

This one feels like is should transcend provinciality...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUr8Z3a3YQ

Monday, October 21, 2024

Dream No More

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

You remember certain compliments long after most of them fade away. Thank you, alan harris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMkcTV-ZmBU

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Deep Ride

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

C'mon! C list?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdnojncrXjM

Sunday, October 13, 2024

The Ballad of Snaggletooth Sue

wrob's music videos

A list - greatest concert ever

B list - specialty occasions

C list - oblivion

So beautifully filthy, i feel its best performances are yet to cum...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU5lgRxHlJ4