A Revolution Stunted

One of the best things on the local internets last month was the Spanning_time blog's Black History Month series "A Revolution Stunted." February's over and the series has reached its conclusion, but that only means that now is a great time to check it out in its entirety. Blogger Donte Parks (of Seattlest fame) compiled the depressing, enlightening, inspiring, insipid and insightful body of video clips that chronicle one man's relationship to the revolution. A revolution...stunted? We asked him what that means:

actually, it doesn't mean much of anything. it's based on the idea of a theoretical revolution, the continuation of the civil rights movement. so whenever you (well, i) see something like vh1's flava of love, i'll often remark that they're setting back the movement, aka stunting the revolution. a friend sent me a video that inspired me to do a post a day for black history month, just as something funny and tragic to do to mark to occasion.

Here's the video that inspired the series: