R.I.P. Aaron Hawkins, blogger of Uppity Negro
via TalkLeft:
Sad news to report. Aaron Hawkins, of Uppity Negro, has passed away. No details are available yet. He was a unique and talented voice in the blogosphere. You can leave your condolences here.
From What is Uppity-Negro.com?:
You don't have to be a Negro to be an Uppity Negro, although it certainly helps.
The Uppity Negro not only speaks truth to power, they speak truth and self-serving lies and deny that the person they're addressing even has power to begin with.
The Uppity Negro challenges the validity of the hierarchies which lie at the heart of our supposedly egalitarian society.
But mostly, the Uppity Negro likes starting shit for the fun of it.
There's some people where, if they aren't pissed off at you, you must be doing something wrong.
You, my overworked, underappreciated, overeducated, underpaid apprentice, you too carry within you the possibility of Uppity Negritude.
Embrace it.
a fierce, funny, irreverent site I really liked
Words— I only ever really knew him through his words, but they were good ones: they were funny, they went on both wisely and too well about things like comics and Buffy, they stood up for small things; they suffered no fools gladly, but he’d occasionally let ’em take a fool around the block and back, and if sometimes they got outraged, it’s only because he was paying attention. He paid a lot of attention; you were going to learn something whenever you let him have his say, and there’s a lot of things in this world both little and big that are the better for it.
A moment of silence, please, for Aaron Hawkins.
—And then start making more noise than ever. He was the Uppity Negro, after all.
