http://www.integrationisabitch.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:46:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.integrationisabitch.com/buy/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Integration is a… Bitch! » Blog Archive » Integration is a… Bitch! Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:49:13 +0000 http://www.integrationisabitch.com/wp/buy/#comment-8 [...] During the tumultuous 1960s … I … as a Black white-collar worker, willingly and conscientiously took an active part in America’s leading social preoccupation … an experiment called “integration” … Today, I am compelled to assess my total experience and perhaps the experiences of other Blacks by saying … integration was a bitch in the 1960s … and … it still is a bitch today! [...] [...] During the tumultuous 1960s … I … as a Black white-collar worker, willingly and conscientiously took an active part in America’s leading social preoccupation … an experiment called “integration” … Today, I am compelled to assess my total experience and perhaps the experiences of other Blacks by saying … integration was a bitch in the 1960s … and … it still is a bitch today! [...]

]]> http://www.integrationisabitch.com/buy/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Integration is a… Bitch! » Blog Archive » Of the Idea for Integration is a Bitch Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:48:25 +0000 http://www.integrationisabitch.com/wp/buy/#comment-7 [...] A lot of people ask me where the idea for the book Integration is a Bitch came from. Quite frankly, the book was not born so much of an idea, as it was of a need—the need to find a way to keep my sanity in the midst of the daily aggravations I faced as the only Black white-collar employee at the steel mill I worked at after graduating from college. (Ah, college… My experiences at college should form the content of another entry, another time…) Anyway, the book came to being as a result of necessity. Sketching the characters and writing the book really helped me to keep my sanity in those days. [...] [...] A lot of people ask me where the idea for the book Integration is a Bitch came from. Quite frankly, the book was not born so much of an idea, as it was of a need—the need to find a way to keep my sanity in the midst of the daily aggravations I faced as the only Black white-collar employee at the steel mill I worked at after graduating from college. (Ah, college… My experiences at college should form the content of another entry, another time…) Anyway, the book came to being as a result of necessity. Sketching the characters and writing the book really helped me to keep my sanity in those days. [...]

]]> http://www.integrationisabitch.com/buy/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Integration is a… Bitch! » Blog Archive » Early Days at the Steel Mill Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:47:05 +0000 http://www.integrationisabitch.com/wp/buy/#comment-6 [...] The first time I drew an editorial cartoon, I was in church. The minister was preaching, and the deacon sitting next to him had fallen asleep. So I sketched him… That was the first day I exercised the talent that would someday lead to the book… [...] [...] The first time I drew an editorial cartoon, I was in church. The minister was preaching, and the deacon sitting next to him had fallen asleep. So I sketched him… That was the first day I exercised the talent that would someday lead to the book… [...]

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