Twitter Updates for 2009-09-18

• Priscilla-Lopes-Schliep is attending RUN CLUB tonight at the Toronto Runners Lounge at 6pm, 110 Bloor west #silverpeanut #
• shoot I hashed silverpeanut i meant to use @silverpeanut #
• RT @baudbwoy: #Priscilla-Lopes-Schliep is attending RUN CLUB tonight at the Toronto Runners Lounge at 6pm, 110 Bloor west @silverpeanut #
• missed an important seminar today re:small business tax, really needed to go but I trained late last night and was really burnt this morning #
• is #Black Enterprise on twitter? #
• found them…hmmm didn’t come up on first seearch #
• @Yungdapoet love your work, I did a search for Korim and found you, is Korim on twitter I would like to follow him as well #
• @amirsulaiman I love your work, I got into your poetry after hearing you perform ‘Danger’ on Def Poetry, I used to blast it @ the office #
• liquidloop.com is offer websites for artists for ONLY $100 (contact info@liquidloop.com for details) #
• @silverpeanut I’m a run leader for the Nike lounge so yeh I’ll be there #
• black #
• @ThisisSmitty what is your business all about please let me know when you go live. #
• whats is wrong with the people in my building…no one knows what recycling means?…through that can in the BLUE fucking BIN not the trash #
• @silverpeanut ok I will…should i be lazy and take the blackberry or take the canon to get better pics…sometimes i hate to many gadgets #
• @endurancejunks thanks for following #
• @iluvblackwomen @Ratanaxp thanks for following #
• running tweetdeck 0.30.4 at a glance cool features, autoshorten links, drag pics into compose area, myspace column #
• you can not, not believe in something if you do not believe it in #
• in a really deep conversation with a friend about God…started off about gay people…a friends, friend switched teams and got a man & kids #
• listening to Korim the poet – Mothers Day. “call me like my first love that knows nothing about the person I am” http://bit.ly/A24Af #
• blogging using the Worpress blackberry app Beta 0.9.0.149 second try worked…kind…its in drafts…how do i publish from the blackberry #
• just preview my post from my berry, doesn’t look right…aaargh, will have to email it to myself and post conventionly #
• gone running #
• At the movie special screening of zombiland. #
• Spaces’ Natasha Eloi just walked in to the special screening of Zombieland #
• Zombieland was really funny #
• running Tweetdeckv0.30.4, wouldn’t let me post and said “there was a problem with Twitter…there was no problem with Twitter but with TD #

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The KGB is racist, is it really any different?

So there is big talk on the twitter that the new KGB ad is racist. If you don’t know KGB is a new service (not a new idea) that you can text in your question and they reply back to you instantly with an answer. I don’t think its racist so much as stereotypically insensitive.

This morning on Twitter @tweetmeblack tweeted the following:
New KGB ads turn to Black stereotypes…http://bit.ly/sMa10 << All the head popping and finger snapping…So WACK! (via @MappingtheCity)

My tweetback was as follows:
hmm did they use white people in black face to do these racist ads? I’m sure no self respecting black person would do it.

Of course I was being facetious, I’m never surprised to see how easily a white marketing company can find someone to walk on and even sometimes cross the line of cultural deconstruction and degradation, apparently it only take a couple bucks to completely sell your people out.

I wish more people had a stronger sense of being and responsibility for their people and themselves, I for one could not do anything that I believe was morally objectionable and detrimental to not just a people but to all humankind.

Here is the video: