<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Jabari Asim</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/columns/asimjabari?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><description>Jabari Asim</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Sanitizing Art]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15063-2005Apr25.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15063-2005Apr25.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Art often provokes intense reactions in viewers, from undisguised awe to righteous indignation to gut-wrenching indigestion. In 1999, when he was mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani famously threatened to withhold funding from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The reason? The museum was hosting an exhibition that turned Hizzoner's tummy. Among the offensive creations was Chris Ofili's portrait of the Virgin Mary, which included elephant dung. Giuliani had only read a description of the painting in the show catalog -- enough, he said, to convince him that it was "sick stuff."]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preaching Incivility]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62647-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62647-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- I was reading with interest an interview with Richard Cizik, a leader of the National Association of Evangelicals. Previously, I had regarded the group as an entity with which I had little in common. Cizik, however, was causing me to reconsider by advocating a more protective stance toward nature. He described taking care of the environment as "creation care" and said he regarded it as a fulfillment of duties called for by the Scriptures.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Escaping Reality in 'Sin City']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43620-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43620-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- "If you would like to know what men really are," Lucretius once observed, "the time to learn comes when they stand in danger or in doubt. For then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of the heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains."]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience Behind the Counter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24809-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24809-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for riding the commuter express. Please remember to take your newspapers and belongings when leaving the train. Customers on the platform, please stand aside until disembarking passengers have passed safely through the doors. Also, be aware that our transportation service is not available to anyone who may be headed to Fred's Steak House.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Need a Ride?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6578-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6578-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Lately I've been thinking about the Cars. I was never a huge fan of the group, you understand. But the chorus from one of their biggest hits has been bouncing around in my skull for longer than I care to admit: "You can't go on thinking nothing's wrong. Who's gonna drive you home tonight?"]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Marriage Day]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53586-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53586-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- "We will laud the bold and brave couples around the country that have committed to each other until death do they part," Nisa Islam Muhammad's Web site declares. "We want to acknowledge their bravery because in a world where it is far easier to break up a family than it is to get help to stay together, it takes sheer courage to fight for your marriage and resist divorce."]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honoring Jackie Robinson]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13701-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13701-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Last week, Washington provided a fitting prelude to the upcoming baseball season, and not just because its Nationals won their first exhibition game. Leaders of both major political parties, including President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, gathered on Capitol Hill to honor Jackie Robinson.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday, Bloody Sunday]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59937-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59937-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- "Amelia Boynton" is not a household name, but it should be.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocking the Academy Awards]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41628-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41628-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- I often think of Chris Rock as a dependably astute observer of human behavior, sort of an Alexis de Tocqueville of modern American comedy.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ossie Davis, Committed to 'The Struggle']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23178-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23178-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The death of the actor Ossie Davis on Feb. 4 received front-page treatment in many of the nation's major newspapers, coverage befitting a distinguished citizen who'd won both a Kennedy Center Honor and a National Medal of Arts in his lifetime. Still, some people probably took note of Davis' 80 film roles &#150; including, memorably, Da Mayor in "Do The Right Thing" &#150; and said, "Oh, <em>that</em> guy." He was the kind of performer who brought a character convincingly to life without chewing the scenery and hogging the spotlight.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curating and Reclaiming Black History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4686-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4686-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- "We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers," wrote Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in 1925, "and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us."]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[African-Americans and the AIDS Conspiracy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51120-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51120-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Regular visitors to this space may have noted with chagrin that I'm inclined to ponder the imponderables. You know, the big, seemingly unanswerable questions of great cosmological import -- the kind of riddles the noted 20th-century philosopher Arsenio Hall liked to describe as "things that make you go hmmm."]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dietary Discipline]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15357-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15357-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- I imagine you've seen those newspaper cartoons in which a bathroom scale insults Broom Hilda, Garfield or some other pleasantly plump character. I'm beginning to have a similar relationship with my laptop.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mad World of Words]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62865-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62865-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- "Astorperious," one of my favorite words, isn't likely to be found in many dictionaries.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comic Books and the Human Condition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44377-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44377-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- I'd like to think that Susan Sontag would have sympathy for my preoccupation with comic books.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Worth of a Dollar]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28870-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28870-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Learn thou the worth of a dollar and how to keep it from damning thee," Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. advised back in the 19th century.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Charge for Children's Chores]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60875-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60875-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Robert Frost memorably defined home as "the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." That kind of plain-spoken philosophy rings true everywhere, from the revered poet's pastoral New England to crowded, concrete inner cities.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toy Joy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39363-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39363-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Kwanzaa is my household's holiday of choice this time of year, although our observance always includes elements of Christmas. A nativity scene sits on the mantel next to the kinara (candleholder), for instance, and traditional carols are often played on the stereo. Both my wife and I grew up in families that celebrated Christmas, and we share fond memories of those days.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third-Party Consideration]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19678-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19678-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Let's say you're one of those millions of African-American voters still mourning the recent triumph of George W. Bush. Talk of a Republican revolution turns your stomach. The Democrats' defeat has left you dizzy and wondering where else to turn. You might consider the words of Martin Luther King Jr.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works of Art, Thoughts of Thanks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4001-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4001-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_nation/columns/asimjabari</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:12:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Hausa of Nigeria have a saying that goes something like this: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.]]></description><author>washingtonpost.com</author></item></channel></rss>