Thursday, March 26, 2009

Real Embunny: Adventures in Blog Authenticity

Embunny has officially declared African-American Studies as her second major. As such, she is undergoing a rigorous study complimented by graduate level reading, disguised in the misleading class of 102. Embunny anticipated one-hundred levels to take her back to the glorious days of first year - napping, frequent trips to rent movies from Clemons rather than study in Clemons, contemplating life, easy A's and high hopes for her GPA.

False.

Embunny now sits here, surrounded by aromatic candles to soothe her frazzled nerves, attempting to write a paper on what it means to really be black. Reference book of the week? This gem: Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity.

Unfortunately, Embunny only knows what it is like to be real(ly) white. This book has provided her immeasurable knowledge however, informing her of the differences between racial authenticity and racial sincerity (oh yes, there is a large and sweeping divide). She also read an entire chapter dedicated to Mos Def and music. This was perhaps her favorite, inspiring Embunny to catch up on a lifetime's absence of quality rap music.

In response to this book, Embunny felt led to send her TA www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com. She hopes to receive extra credit, especially considering the legitimate bonding she experienced with said TA over #97 and #16.

In other news.... think about asking Sammy about this new mystery man in her life. When she isn't busy relaying for her life, Oolong rejoices at the sparse flowers emerging around Grounds, and is knitting them capes to fend off the nasty non-spring weather that arrived after the first day of spring. Grass has conquered the school at last - we knew you would : ) Chris Seal has ventured quite successfully into the sweater business.... more to come...

Keep it real (authentic) (sincere).

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