Word: dashiki
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...good, you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that s___." Did the future candidate take this to heart? Not according to him. "It made me smile," Obama recalls, "thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living in the same '60s time warp...
...devil--or demonized figure--it knows. But TV abhors a rerun, and the challenge would be to make it fresh. As for Obama, the network is still figuring out how to palatably antagonize him. While the Jeremiah Wright story was a gift--Fox turned him into a dashiki-clad screen saver--Fox's Chris Wallace embarrassingly chastised the hosts of Fox and Friends on-air for "distorting" Obama's words. And Bill O'Reilly caught flak for using the phrase "lynching party" in a critique of Michelle Obama...
Black style in America isn’t as simple as wearing a dashiki or having a pair of doorknocker earrings. From slaves, who, with little choice in their attire, still asserted their personal style, to the elegant ensembles of the Harlem Renaissance, black style has played a profound role in sending political and social messages—often mixing dreams of affluence and modes of conformity, while paying homage to an African past...
...could’ve been Dashiki day, but the idea was this is the society we’re living in, this is how business is done here. A tie and a suit are examples of seriousness and respectability; we’re going to put a black face on that,” Ashong says...
...Antiques Roadshow” (almost as good as mullet-spotting at the local Wal-Mart during the one and only summer I spent in Vermont), as well as those public-access programs where someone films his own Harlem dance party/wedding/roller disco, complete with a man in a dashiki, unstoppable Latin swingers and crazy xylophonists and sax players (wearing sunglasses inside at night, of course...