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	<title>What Would Thembi Do? &#187; White People Is Funny.</title>
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	<description>Pontifications, coonery, quips, blasphemy, miscegenation, freshness, concern for celebrity life, the beauty of blackness, the sorrow of work-life, the curse of brilliance, and sassy stories. [Pop culture criticism, entertainment reviews, and humor writing by Thembi Ford.]</description>
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		<title>Russian Ice Skaters Go Aboriginal&#8230;Offensive or Just Lame?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime of Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[That Not-So-Fresh Feeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Can't Have Nothin'.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not going to break out a poll for this one. I’m just sharing this image to try and wrap my own head around it because while I don’t consider Australian Aborigines “black,” I watched Spike Lee’s Bamboozled last night, maybe I’m being a little sensitive, and I’d love to hear your opinions.]]></description>
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		<title>Black Dude vs Bearded Man Bus Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Not Racist Cuz It's True.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Folks Wilin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Shame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-racial America my Great Aunt Fanny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Is Funny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yipes!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so here's the thing. Actually three things. 
 
1. I like watching people fight. I won't make apologies for my fascination with fisticuffs but I'm not proud of it either. 
 
2. I hate when people actually do fight. Seriously, what's the point? Even my desire to watch a beatdown doesn't trump the display of one of the saddest aspects of the human condition - some people think that violence is the answer. 
 
Now watch this video. 
 
 
 
3. Bearded old man wearing a fanny pack completely whoops the younger man wearing a flannel shirt and]]></description>
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		<title>John Mayer&#8217;s Lies and The Brown Nipple Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2010/02/john-mayers-lies-and-the-brown-nipple-theory.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscegenation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Not Racist Cuz It's True.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-racial America my Great Aunt Fanny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spot Blowing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Is Funny.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/john_mayer02.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3132 aligncenter" title="john_mayer02" src="http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/john_mayer02.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="400" /></a></p> 
<p style="text-align: left;">I am a very…I’m just very. V-E-R-Y. And if you can’t handle very, then I’m a douche bag. But I think the world needs a little very. That’s why black people love me. - John Mayer</p> 
<p style="text-align: left;">Very full of crap is what he is. I never liked John Mayer. He's a sloppy looking guy whose music is the sort they play in nail salons and waiting rooms. While I wasn't paying attention this dude rose from awkward white kid on the adult contemporary</p>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What The Eff?&#8221; Wednesday: Ripples, Rolls, and Rebellion</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2009/11/what-the-eff-wednesday-ripples-rolls-and-rebellion.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2009/11/what-the-eff-wednesday-ripples-rolls-and-rebellion.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hip Hop Is Dead.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[That Not-So-Fresh Feeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What the Eff?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Is Funny.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As a little girl (and for that matter, as a teenager) I was so self-conscious about letting people see me dance. I think it all goes back to fourth grade, when I was in non-optional after-school jazz and tap classes.&#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Thembi&#8217;s Guide To Bringing Black Hair To Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Hair Talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long Live the Colored Race!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Not Racist Cuz It's True.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-racial America my Great Aunt Fanny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Is Funny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black hair]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[office politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/?p=2390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/haircollage.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2391 aligncenter" title="haircollage" src="http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/haircollage.jpg" alt="haircollage" width="333" height="400" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It happens to most black women. Whether you have relaxed or natural hair, a weave, or braids. I'm talking about white people asking questions and making nutty comments about your hair.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you spend any time in an environment where blacks are in the minority (i.e. if you have a job), then there has to be someone who wants to touch your 'fro, another who asks how long your braids took, and another who innocently inquires about your new weave. The effects of humidity and heat styling on Negro hair are lost to most people, and the difference between a "perm" and a "curly perm" has still not been clarified for the masses. </p>]]></description>
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		<title>Black Hair Talk: White Girls With Black Haircuts</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2009/08/black-hair-talk-white-girls-with-black-haircuts.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Hair Talk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hair Freaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hip Hop Is Dead.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long Live the Colored Race!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-racial America my Great Aunt Fanny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Can't Have Nothin'.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Is Funny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Lambert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black hair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halle Berry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Gosselin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Posh Spice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">I need for white girls and fellas to stop getting blackgirl haircuts. Cease and desist. Do not pass Go or collect two hundred dollars. In the immortal words of <em>Full House</em>'s Uncle Joey "Cut. It. Out."</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/kategosselin1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2166 alignnone" title="kategosselin1" src="http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/kategosselin1.jpg" alt="kategosselin1" width="411" height="313" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Kate Gosselin, I see you.</em> I hate that you've been abandoned by your man and are now the single mother of eight screaming kids (as much as that sounds like a stereotypical black woman's dilemma). But you're not doing yourself any favors with that characteristically complicated blackgirl haircut. Why on earth would a white woman do such a thing?</p>]]></description>
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		<title>No Brown Babies In The Pool? A Philadelphian&#8217;s Perspective.</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2009/07/no-brown-babies-in-the-pool.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2009/07/no-brown-babies-in-the-pool.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Not Racist Cuz It's True.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-racial America my Great Aunt Fanny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Is Funny.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It all sounds pretty cut and dry to any of us who've heard of a little thing called racism, but as usual the media is leaving a few things out, and as a Philly chick with an opinion you know I've gotta give it...]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Jackson and The Five Stages of Grief: Anger</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-and-the-five-stages-of-grief-ange.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-and-the-five-stages-of-grief-ange.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jacko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long Live the Colored Race!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Not Racist Cuz It's True.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Shame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Nostalgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spot Blowing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Black Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Is Funny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/?p=1921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mjfist.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1924" title="mjfist" src="http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mjfist.jpg" alt="mjfist" width="460" height="288" /></a> 
 
I'm Angry at the Media. 
 
I consider myself a McNugget-sized part of the media but the coverage of Michael Jackson's death and its aftermath has done nothing more for journalism than demonstrate what low standards news outlets will set just to drive viewership. I'm still miffed at CNN for its faux-journalistic integrity on June 25, reporting that "other news outlets say Jackson has died," but speaking of him in the past tense for hours beforehand while not bothering to have a single reporter at the actual hospital]]></description>
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		<title>The Curse of The Curly Perm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[That Not-So-Fresh Feeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What the Eff?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Is Funny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[80's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what a contronym is? It's one of my favorite grammar terms and means "a word with two meanings that are opposites." One such example is the word "perm," which means two totally different things depending on cultural context and can create a "Who's On First," type of situation when our hair is the topic of conversation in the workplace. Where does one even begin when an innocent white person asks if you got a perm because your hair is suddenly curly? ]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Afternoon Bonbon</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldthembido.com/2009/06/monday-afternoon-bonbon.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thembi Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White People Dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White People Is Funny.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concert]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[santogold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sasquatch music festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The only way for me to get back into the blogging saddle after my much-needed hiatus is with some white people dancing tastiness. Yummmmm!

Posters usually edit this kind of video by overlaying a different track with better sound quality, but thank god whoever blessed us with the wonder that is the impromptu spastic move bustin' left the original audio intact - it just makes everything so much mo' special. ]]></description>
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