Dignified Black People

[Jamaal510]

[Voice for Peace]

1. love it.. she is timelessly hilarious

[cinnabonbon]

2. ...

I love her.

[IrishAyes]

3. Besides many other achievements and qualities,

Ms. Sykes is also highly educated, from what I understand. Didn't she even once work in military intelligence, or does memory fail at the moment? I'm also pretty sure Tracy Chapman has a degree in anthropology, one my favorite subjects. At least that's what she was studying before people heard her sing.

First time I heard her was surprisingly over the PA system in a department store. Low volume, but the opening notes of 'Give Me One Reason' grabbed me like a vise and I stood still in the middle of the floor for the entire song. People looked at me weird, but I was in a pure trance. It hasn't lifted since.

I even got to meet Angela Davis once and make her laugh at my joke; no easy matter, from what I'm told.

[JI7]

4. i find good comedians tend to be some of the best educated when it comes to entertainment industry

probably because telling a good joke often involves understand society and telling it in ways where the audience will "get it".

the clip in the OP is a good example.

[No Vested Interest]

7. Sen. Al Franken, in his SNL days, for example. nt

[noiretextatique]

9. i met angela davis also

Quite by accident walking past a communist library in Oakland about three years ago. I was so excited to see her that I just started talking about how much she influenced me. She was incredibly gracious and kind, and gently informed that she was attending a memorial service. I apologized profusely, but she said it was okay. What a kind, gracious, lovely, brilliant woman

[progressoid]

5. Wanda never fails to crack me up.

[kwassa]

6. "I can buy whole watermelons now. I don't have to grown them in my closet ...

under my weed lamp."

[awoke_in_2003]

8. I hope she got her Popeyes

I love their gravy.

On edit: OBAMA BITCHES

[NOLALady]

10. Love It!

[heaven05]

11. +1000 Jamaal

I really need to laugh more.