For years co-opting culture has been the white man's game, and he's played it so well, becoming ultra-rich in the process. But, as we all know, black people can do anything white people can, and, with the creation of Stuff Educated Black People Like, "anything" now includes stealing good ideas, varying them slightly – if at all – and marketing them as different.

SEBPL is an answer to Stuff White People Like, the ironically irreverent (irreverently ironic?), wildly successful blog that lists and then discusses exactly what its name says it will, including graduate school, musical comedy and being the only white person around. SEBPL is a more recent development, and it fires back with advanced degrees, CNN and town homes, and, obviously, Stuff White People Like. Which immediately calls into question the need for Stuff Educated Black People Like.

While promoting her movie, Cover, about a church-going woman whose husband is on the DL (innovative!), Vivica Fox took some time out to discuss the internet with EUR. To make a long story short, it's the vessel of Satan. Her words, not mine.

"I don't know how I became the queen of a little bit of scandal. It's part of the business. It's part of what's happening in show business now. If there's one thing I'd love ot say to people who put out scandalous rumors and false lies about Vivica Fox it's to realize that I have a mother. I have a father. I have brothers. I have sisters, friends and family. I'm the type of chick that if I've done something wrong, I own up to it. I'm not perfect… Some the things people say about me are just malicious, and it affects more than just me. Sometimes you have to learn to laught at life. You gotta know that the internet is a vessel of satan. It's evil. There are haters in the world that all they have to do is sit in front of the computer and pick you apart."

I would feel bad, but I don't recall saying too many disparaging things about Vivica Fox. That Raven Symone, on the other hand? What the hell is wrong with her?

Sanaa Lathan, Gabrielle Union, and Nia Long are on the cover of the next month's Essence, and guess what? They don't like blogs too much. Especially black blogs. Run by black women. Hmph.

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• Our kids could learn some lessons in global awareness from Nigerian kids. [BBC]

• Bloggers of color getting some mainstream play. [BG]

• 50 Cent really requires a lot in his concert riders. [TSG]

• And the Frank Lucas hate parade continues… [AHH]

• Jay-Z likes being the richest person in his crew. [SH]

The ever-growing blogosphere has not only given the millions of people who write blogs an outlet for their opinions, it's opened up a forum for anonymous people to tell the world how they really feel in the comments section with no personal consequences. Unfortunately, not all blog commentators are as smart and thoughtful and funny as Stereohyped's.

Take this post on Wired.com's blog, for instance. The writer was clearly denouncing the recent statements from James Watson that painted Africans as intellectually inferior people. But take a glance at the comments, filled with people who are celebrating Watson's "courage." In theory, we can shrug away Watson's statements as the racist ramblings of an aging scientist. But the truth is, his ridiculous words provide just the "proof" that racists have been looking for.

Thanks, Racialicious!

Admit it. You have just been dying to put an actual voice to these words you read everyday. Good news: I was a guest on NPR today. Bad news: it's not such a great voice, and I'm going to need to retire "you know" from my repertoire.

I was joined on News & Notes' weekly blogger's roundtable by Shay Riley of Booker Rising and Brandon Whitney of Homeland Colors. Today's topics were the Jena Six's BET Hip Hop Awards cameo, Bill Cosby's Meet the Press appearance, and the acquittal of the defendants in the boot camp death case, all of which are things you pretty much know my opinions (which I'm much better at expressing in written form, unfortunately) on if you read the blog. Still, it's fun to listen. Click here to check it out.

When Kanye West writes a blog post about a TMZ blog post about his new blog, you know that this whole blog thing has gotten out of hand. Still, I'm pleased to note that Kanye finds this sparkly YouTube gem as funny as I do.

Barack Obama gets mentioned in the conventional media nearly as much as Hillary Clinton, and, I'm just guessing here, a hell of a lot more than Dennis Kucinich.

Hillary Clinton was mentioned in 41 percent of all media articles covering presidential candidates in August, the same share of coverage Clinton generated since May, 2007. Barack Obama's coverage increased to 40 percent of media articles in August compared to 34 percent since May, an increase of 17.8% over his average.

While there has been some negative coverage on his foreign policy position, according to Biz360's Point-of-View Sentiment™ tone analysis, the majority of Obama's recent increase in coverage has been positive or neutral.

That one percentage point is all well and good, until you realize that in actual polls of voter, B.O.'s trailing Hill by about 19 points.

All three of the top Dem candidates — Barack, Hillary, and John — are mentioned far less in blogs, with Obama mentioned in 28 percent of online presidential discussions to Clinton's 31 percent. Here at Stereohyped, I'm just trying to even out the score, one Obamarama* at a time.

[PR]

*Although it probably doesn't count when I mention either Hillary Clinton or John Edwards in nearly every post.

• San Francisco officials vow to examine the reasons why the city can't retain black residents. Do they also vow to examine the cost of housing? [USAT]

• A well-off enclave of the very troubled, majority-black Gary, Ind., wants to divorce the city and become an incorporated village. But it doesn't have anything to do with race or class, and how dare you make that suggestion! [CT]

• When anti-racism rallies go wrong… [ES]

• The fact that a reporter thought humor a blog written by a fake Al Sharpton was real says just as much about peoples' perception of the real Al Sharpton as it does the reporters stupidity. [CNET]

• Rihanna said there is absolutely no rivalry between her and Beyonce, but she forgot to mention that it was opposite day. [DS]

Kanye West, whose much anticipated album is coming out on the same day as 50 Cent's next month, is tired of using technology. Actually, scared is more like it.

Kanye West avoids logging onto uncensored online blogging websites - because he's scared of discovering cruel comments written about him. The Gold Digger hit maker admires stars who have the courage to read hurtful web postings, but is too sensitive to follow their example.

He says, "Man, it really takes a strong person to read the blogs. It's just no-holds-barred. So if you're feeling good about yourself and you want to feel like s#*t, go to the blogs."

I can't imagine a guy with Kanye's ego being able to completely avoid blogs or, for that matter, criticism of any sort, but maybe he has someone send him links to all the positive posts and reviews. Could this be why he takes losses at awards shows so badly?

He performed in Chicago this weekend (see above and below), presumably to a crowd that only had positive feelings for him.

[SP, WI]