Posted by Jack Stephens on March 28, 2007
Spencer Overton argues against the need for Black leadership in the blog blackprof.com:
a Black “leader” may be the last thing we need.
I just read The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom. The premise of the book is that there are limitations to centralized, coercive, hierarchical organizations headed by a single leader. Decentralized, open groups are often more effective. The title contrasts a spider (chop off its head and it dies) with a starfish (chop it up and it multiplies into several starfish).
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Posted by Jack Stephens on March 28, 2007
Jenn, of the blog Reappropriate, writes about erasing one’s ethnicty through plastic surgery:
It’s clear to me that any person of colour seeking to change their features to alter features associated with a particular ethnicity is trying to change their ethnic appearance. As an Asian/Asian American woman, trying to enlarge one’s eyes (whether one is successful or not) is just a manifestation of racial/ethnic self-hate.
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