“I’m not stupid.” Jane Elliott said to her candor during our twenty-minute phone conversation, during which Elliott spoke with her well known level of straightforwardness regarding a myriad of topics concerning the future of America: the 2016 election, colorism, and the ever-changing cultural demographic of the country. She continued, “The fact that a person has a penis instead of a uterus, or the amount of calcium someone has in their skin, does not make them superior.” At 83 years old, Elliott is just as intensive and feverous as she was almost 50 years ago when she first constructed the “Blue eyes - Brown eyes experiment” as a third grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa.
One of the best ways to show support for something that you believe in, is to put your hard earned money behind it. The fans of legendary hip-hop trio, De La Soul has done exactly that, and quite successfully with their highly anticipated studio album, and the Anonymous Nobody… The album is the first to be released by the group in 11 years. Amazingly enough, it wasn’t the long wait that has people talking about the record, but rather the fan-generated reserve of cash that paid for it all.
