Daily Kos, Feminist's & Frat Boy Esque Politics. I am SO F-CKING Glad I am Black.

This morning I get up.

Check the e-mail the blog.

I clicked on the homies lank.

Read her post.

You know me.

Im innately curious.

So then I was like.

What got her soul sturred up?

Then I started check the lainks.

And realized its Daily Kos and the feminist got some greasy blog founk cracking.

A short summary.



The above youtube ad was linked on Kos's site.

He "responded". Then the sh*t his the innernet fan.

White Feminist tripping.

Below a reader attempts to contextualize why Kos responded the way he did.

I don’t think the word “sexist” makes liberal guys quite as crazy as the word “racist” makes white people. But sometimes it comes close. Case in point: Some readers (mostly female, mostly feminist, I assume) objected to a sexist ad on the Kos sidebar, and Kos reacted with an over-the-top, condescending attack on the critics. He could have responded respectfully, in a way that didn’t alienate and insult a lot of his readers - but instead, he heard the word “sexist” and went a little crazy.

God I heart the innernet.

One jawn summed it up nicely when she said.

As feminists we hate it when left-wing men tell us to suck it up about our issues because talking about them is “divisive”. Why can’t we white feminists get that it’s just as patronising and just as wrong...to ask non-white feminists to shut up about their issues?

You know whats hella funny. I thought of Imus immediatly when I read this comment from a reader at Daily Kos.

Its dope how people, both Black (R.Kelly) and White (IMUS) can explain sh-t away if they wanna participate in something.

I am an older woman, I love this site and spend much time here. Till now, I’ve been able to ignore most of the posts that were blatantly sexist and disrespectful to women, having long ago learned to pick my battles, and not to sweat the small stuff too much.

Have you ever read something and wanted to be a persons friend.

Well thats what happened when I read this.

Like someone above commented, I could basically give a shit about that ad. But the ad becomes a springboard from which to explore the real issues having to do with gender and power in the world.

it is interesting to see the comments of many of the people here, and to see how they would fit quite comfortably into any conservative republican bachelor party of the sort GWB and his cronies probably attend. And yet these same people consider the objections to corporate marketing and control of the female image as a conservatively-based thing. Quite ironic really. A fine example of men banding together to face the common enemy: women. The brotherhood of man, guess it really does ultimately transcend political affiliations.

Jawns talkin' bout jawns is jealous of THIS feminist
because that one got a book deal.

Jawns talking about women of color issues ain't takin seriously.

Sh-t . I read this post and felt like I got a masters in woman studies.

Yall thought I stayed on Imus. These jawns be using they innernet wireless to talk!

The good thing about being me is I trip off this sh*t all the time
so I ain't really pressed when a white jawn or a black jawn for that matter come out
they face.

Par for the course baby. <<<***Cynical. A tad. Protected. Allways! ========= ========= TMR gonna have a coronary. ======== ========

Do You Want a Record Deal? If So, I Have a Bridge or Two, I Wanna Sell You.

Its 2007 and cats still want record deals. In the era of myspace. Mixtapes.

Itunes.

Blogging.

&

Youtube.

Cats STILL want record deals.

Phonte summed it up perfectly when he said,

Speaking for me personally any record label is just not for me - major, indie or whatever. Signing exclusively to a record label with the state the business is in is like buying a ticket to the Titanic. Record sales are steadliy going down...these labels are doing artist crazy gestapo shit and try to save their money. So signing a record deal in 2007 is insane, there is really no need for it. But that´s my personal thing. No matter what label, I´m sure it´d be the same way. Concerning Atlantic, it just wasn´t a good fit.

Which bring me to the artist showcase I went to earlier this week.
I attended at the behest of a jawn that was checkin' for me.

He told me he was throwing an underground "party".

I was like, Im a b-girl, so I'll rock.

Dude.

The spot smelled like corona's were splashed on the walls which seemed to emit beer steam.

Thats just the begining.

There were these hood-lic-ious young gurls.

Fort green houses respresent, represent sent. Bed-stuy houses respresent, represent sent.
And THAT was what was fresh to me because the crowd was young and the music wasn't commercial.
Come to think of it I was prolly the oldest female there that DIDN'T work for a label.
So, the around the way girls and dudes came through to support their homies that were performing.

It reminded me of that late 90's Nuryorican era.

Man lissen. There were these shark skin suit wearing label types double fisting hennessy and (whatever you chase hen-rock with).

Here is the rub tho'.

Cats were COMPETING for an opportunity to have a "sit down" meeting w/ cats @ shady records.

Why compete for a meeting w/ a label?

One should at least be competing for enough cash for a new cell phone, some chucks, or one of the skelton hoodies.



Speaking of which, Imma have to blog about my phone issues because it is outta pocket.
What does it mean that in 2007, artist are still willing to sign their art over to a label for a loan via a contract that will effectivly have them hoe'd out to the label for the next 7 albums?

Technology offords the opportunity for jawns to make a living and connect directly with the fans.

An alternative rock cat is caking $3-5K/month from online sales,

More than 3,000 people, on average, were visiting his site every day, and his most popular songs were being downloaded as many as 500,000 times; he was making what he described as “a reasonable middle-class living” — between $3,000 and $5,000 a month — by selling CDs and digital downloads of his work on iTunes and on his own site.

"His fans do not want merely to buy his music. They want to be his friend.........This is not a trend that affects A-list stars. The most famous corporate acts — Justin Timberlake, Fergie, Beyoncé — are still creatures of mass marketing, carpet-bombed into popularity by expensive ad campaigns and radio airplay. They do not need the online world to find listeners, and indeed, their audiences are too vast for any artist to even pretend intimacy with. No, this is a trend that is catalyzing the B-list, the new, under-the-radar acts that have always built their success fan by fan. Across the country, the CD business is in a spectacular free fall; sales are down 20 percent this year alone. People are increasingly getting their music online (whether or not they’re paying for it), and it seems likely that the artists who forge direct access to their fans have the best chance of figuring out what the new economics of the music business will be.

Ohhh. And I just came across this link today from Eskays house,

10 Reason Not to Sign W/ a Major Label,

1. They Tell You What to Do.
2. They're only in the Disc Business.
3. They Don't Pay You.
4. There's No One Working There.
Read more here.

Industry Rule Number 4080, record company people are shady....

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Yes. M.dot. is in the building and blogging lovely.

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Rosie O'Donnel Go Hawd.

First Trump.

Then Star Jones.

Now Elisabeth.

Its almost like she is a black momma that DON'T give a f-ck.

NICE!

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Daytime tv got greasy.

Oh. Eskay got some 50 footage up I wanna analyze.

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R Kelly & The Duke Rape Case & Akon Part I.

Texas Truth, my new muse, musta been in my head this morning, because he just sent me a link regarding the fact that R. Kelley's case has not started yet.

All three of the cases have a similar thread which is the issue is someone having sex with a Black woman or girl.

I have been meaning to write about R for a hot minute.

I was reminded of him this weekend when I went on a date with myself to Barnes and Noble and read the new Essence cover to cover. I also read Curve w/ bad @ssed Michelle Rodriguez on the cover, and the new Pink magazine.

Peep the article about R. Kelleys wife in Essence. Yes. Old Boy is married. Yes they are estranged.

But Andrea says she had to cut some people off who said nasty things about her husband, and surround herself with people who she believes care for her. "I know the allegations aginst my husband don't reflect on me as an individual," she says. "They don't reflect on me as a mom or as a wife, and they don't reflect on me in my everyday life."

Thats interesting. Wouldn't it be more apropo to say that they don't reflect on her wholly. To say that they don't reflect on her at all gives rise to some credibility issues, as she MARRIED HIM in the first place. Post. Alliyah. mind you.

Back to Duke.

After I made my statement in Evidence in April I had a conversation with a classmate.

I told him that SOMETHING HAPPENDED at Duke that night.

It may or may not have been rape.

But something happened.

Here is the kicker, this dude went to school in St. Louis and told me that
it is common practice for frats to hire dancers to come to school parties during the rush period and FOR THE frats/athletes to have sex with them.

I then followed up saying that is this an EXPLICIT arrangement?

He said sometimes it is sometimes it isn't.

I then followed up asking, "So sex with one of these women dancers is understood, and it may be included in the actual fee she is paid to come to the campus or she may agree to be paid on the spot for each individual encounter".

He said yes.

NOW THIS BLEW me out the water.

NOT because it existed.

But because mainstream MEDIA DID NOT TELL THIS PART OF THE STORY.

That what happened on Dukes campus, the ACTUAL HIRING of the dancer in the
first place is common practice among fraternities across the country.

The things you learn when you talk to your white peers. LOL.


Back to R. Kelly.

The Newsweek article that TT sent me is on point. They mention:

1. What if the gurl in the video with R.Kelly was white? Would the trial have allready started

"Many Kelly watchers also believe that the case hasn't moved faster because of racial factors. "If those girls had been white, he'd be in jail now," says Shakema Long, 18, a coed at Cal State. "But they were black girls, and nobody cares about us."
2. The raised the question of whether R.Kelly's attorney's strategy is to try and wait as long as possible so that the alleged victim has turned 18.

"...say they think Kelly and his lawyers are stalling until the young girls become adults, when they'll be less sympathetic victims—and, in the case of the girl in the video, less recognizable".

3. Is R. Kelly a sexual predator? I mean seriously. Of all the jawns he could cake, he want that 16 and under set.

"You'd think that the state would have a strong case. Kelly had a well-known interest in minors. In 1994, he illegally married the singer Aaliyah when she was 15 and he was 28. Kelly has reportedly been sued four times by women who claimed some type of sexual misconduct; Kelly is believed to have settled all of the cases for unspecified amounts. Some people say there were other incidents as well. "A lot of people knew what was going on and chose to look the other way," says one of Kelly's former employees, who admits to being one of those people. "He wasn't doing this without help."

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Are negros too forgiving of their stars?

Michael J? Mike T? R. Kelly?

Notice how they all have had sexual infractions?

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Things I have Learned from Black men :::::or ::::: He said he was Perfect

The first that was:
1. Know how to wake up and be content w/ yourself.
I was kicking it w/ the Graduate one day.
I was said Good Morning.
He was like. Good morning.
I asked him how he was doing?
He said he was perfect.
That he could use a lil bit more cash, but that he was perfect. And I was like damn. He in his first year of the Ph.D. jawn, so we are in similar boats, but Ol boy's spirit was good money.
I knew then that I wanted to cultivate the ability to wake up like that.

2. Be capable of blocking the world out for hours. When push comes to shove,
these cats can block out the world and get they grind ON. And that is the way
to be productive.

The last 8 weeks before finals I started using the library.
I realized how necessary
it was to turn off the phone, and sh*t even the im in order to
be productive over a 5-8 hour period.


3. Sleep is great, but learning how to live on a little is amazing.
Jawns I know really don't sleep alot. Meaning 70-80% the Black men I know, the Architects, Artist, Directors, Writers, B-Boys, DJ's, they sleep maybe 3-5 hours max.

I don't know if its the hustle that NYC requires, or the neurosis of being a black man grinding, but cats don't sleep. I likes my beauty rest.

I don't like waking up looking like a raccoon in the eyes.

BUT.

What I did take from this was that the planning the night before a big day is important as the BIG day itself. So. If I NEED that sleep, then imma prolly have to take it down a notch the night before.


4. Black men have no problem putting themselves first.
At first, being newly single, I was put off by it. Then I learned from it and started incorporating it into my own greasy. Cats put themselves first.

They do what they wanna do, when they wanna do it.

Sh*t. While I am capable of doing the same, women in this culture are not TAUGHT to do it on g.p.

If I am at a fork at the road, then imma go forself.

If its gp errry day, then imma prolly think of other people.

SHYYYYT.

After seeing how dudes rock. Not in '07. I struggles with this TO THIS DAY.

But I am very mindful of how a jawn handles it and form follows form.

If You put me first, I follow form. You greasy and put me on the bench, then don't trip when that sh-t gets done to you.

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Black men lesson's in '07.

"I keeps a pen/ Like a feen keep a pipe to 'em".

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These N*ggas Got Keys, Gats and Whips. Good Lawd.

77 Greenside IS the truth.
He right about it being a million dollar spot.
In fact. Sh-t. My brother usta f*ck w-green side.

A young lady from youth radio sum's it up perfectly when she reflects
on a desceased friend saying,

All his friends from his East Oakland turf — called Greenside — were there. Greenside is not a gang, but if you live in Oakland, every block has a name, and people are loyal to their block no matter where they move.

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Two things I noticed.

1. How ol boy gonna be on camera showing his stash? Posession w/ intent to distribute.

2. How other dude gonna be on camera w/ his gat? Prolly a violation of probation. Posession of a loaded fire arm.

Niggas be trippin off that stupid shit.
I stay w/ heat, up under that seat.
If you ain't got no pistol, you never know. You get your head busted @ any time.
Stay wichyours/ cuz Imma have mine.

Did you see the under cover try and cop?

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Death is so common in the ghetto. You can ask any one how many
loved ones they lost, and they will have a football roster.

Oh.
And Richmond jawns don't play.

Richmond like Philly.
You don't go there w/o at least two gats, mace and a stun gun.

"When its possible for a 17 year old kid to make $15,000 off one transaction in the hood, you can't tell him to go to college.

Man Listen.

"How does it feel to wake up and beef erry day?

Real Talk.

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Felt Like I just watched an episode of the Wire: East Oakland.

My homies that I speak to, can you see where I get the language "code speak" from?

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The Transformers Trailer is Greasy and Del.ic.ious.

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NYC. July. 07.

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So. Miles thought Louie was a Coon.

I made some n*ggas and NON negros alike mad over @ Noz's house. [You never REALLY know who's who on the innernet.] House.

I called three six Mafia Coons.

My intent wasn't shock blogger, per se.



Or that I threw the statement out there for inflammatory reasons.

Yall know me. I got a code.

I knocks low brow, high brow, and the delicious middle.

HOWEVER. That does not mean that I won't call a spade a spade
when it comes to being critical regarding Black art.

I AIN'T gonna let the fact that some BLACK ART is sterotypical stop me from a. Listening to or watching it. b. Criticizing it.

Noz said something, and I responded. Simple as that.

If something strikes me, Imma respond, and DEFEND MY response w/ analytical reasoning.

This is how it went down.

Noz made a comparison between Mos and three 6.

Really it was quite revolutionary, predicting a confusing future where Three 6 Mafia would get more burn from the nerds than Mos Def.

I responded.

3-6 mafia= Imperial Coonage.

Mos Def= Refuses to Coon.

Easy.

Then it went from there.



I am posting my response here, because my responses @ Noz's house tended to get guantanamod .

In response to my statement, one commenter, crooked letters said,

The problem is that post rawkus/BOBS, Mos hasn’t really produced hot shit. Instead of getting by on the strength of his artistic work, people buy his work because he’s not an “ignorant rapper.” For people who really are concerned with good politics, good rap music, and good combinations of the two, it would be the most fraudulous of frauds to get caught up in symbolic icons. its che guevera t-shirt politics.

Afer reading this I had the following questions.
1. Wait. So buying music by rappers that are "not ignorant" constitutes fetishizing them? How?

2. Buying rap by rappers that are NOT ignorant constitutes T-Shirt Politics?

3. I wager that ALL artist get by on the strength of their relationships w/ fans. Perhaps, Mos has done so more so than others. I argue that THIS is A Benefit one receives from being an artist. Its called having credit in the bank.

4. And What in the f*ck in '07, is good politics? That shit is HELLLA vague.



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Making me defend MY b-boy love online.

These n*ggas ain't know Im ride or die, hunh?

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Sex is the MOST searched word on the Internet.

This video reminds me of the fact that
Freedom ain't free.

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Sex.

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Even Jay-Z Momma Don't Like the Cussin'.

Peep.

Chappel & his momma,

Latifah and her Momma,

&

Jay and Moms as well.

I have allways been big on peeping how celebrities parent.


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HBCU's are recruiting Latino's.

HARD.

Muy Interesante.

Eleven historically Black colleges and universities affiliated with the United Methodist Church are boosting their efforts to recruit students from the burgeoning Hispanic population.

The consortium of HBCU leaders, known as The Council on Presidents, discussed their strategy late last month at a two-day workshop called "Forging Bold New Paths: Offering Welcome and Ministry to Hispanic-Latino Students at Black Fund Schools." Discussing everything from Hispanic cultural values to immigration issues, the presidents came together in Nashville, Tenn. to discuss how best to reach Hispanic students and how to meet their needs once they come to campus.

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Her voice is dope.

The beats.

Um. Not so much.

THEY BETTER MARKET HER RIGHT.

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Man.

Listen.

Music is Delicious. I got "Monk-Roach-Duke" jawn from the library, "Doomsday" from Noz and Aim's "Frank" from Gotty, all in heavy rotation this weekend.

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You Don't Know About My Biggie Wars...

I been running the streets since that last post
yall.

Bouncing around the city.

I started counting, and I realized that I changed my life substantially in '07.

1.) I missed 6 birthday parties.

2.) I missed A Clipse concert (I had free tix).

3.) I missed A wedding.

4.) I missed all of the recent Sopranos episodes.

5.) Had no brunch in the last 9 weeks.

6.) Had no Sunday Times in the last 9 weeks.



7.) AND. NO new boyfriends. <<greasy!

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I kicked it with some White classmates yesterday.

Got into a fight. Dude gon' try and tell me that
it was a COOK OUT and not a Bar b que.

I was like.

They got a pit?

They got coals?

Then its a bar b q.

He. Gon' say it's a cook out cuz there ain't no bb q sauce.

^^Silly non-negro.

Speaking of non negros, I noticed something about white men.

The normal defense mechanism that I see that some Black men have isn't present in white men, to the same extent. [I will conceed that Black men can and do say the same thing about White women in comparison to Black women].

Its almost as if they would cap on each other, but they ain't get hostile or annoyed by it.

It was like, they just weren't pressed by the 'lil snide comments
that they made towards one another.

Based on behavior I saw in school, I thought there would be more
antagonistic towards each other.

But it was more like just, gentle clowning of one another.


Texas Truth posited that white men, especially professional jawns,
know that there is very little that they can do to "ruin" their lives. In turn
this gives them the privilage, a sense the world is waiting for 'em.

Interesting right?

Have yall seen this before?

And.

I had a good time. <<<*** turns over a new leaf.

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Happy MUMS day.

I miss my MOOOOMMMMMMAAAAA.

She in Oakland, SMOKING a ham, LOL.

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Is Freeway the Nat Turner of Rap?

Is it that beard.

Or where the baldy meet the beard near his ear?

Or the that wrinkle in his nose between his eyes. <<<<**Yeah. Im observant. I know.
And that boy CAN RAP.

Cuz when the teeth stop showin'
and the stomach start growlin'
Then the heat start flowin'
If you from the hood I know you feel me
~What We Do

It COULD be the way he curl his upper lip when he rap.

For trill. Freeway is the kind a dude I want in the back seat in a drive by.

But I'm never snitchin'
I'm a rider
If my kids hungry
snatch the dishes out ya kitchen ~What We Do

Dude. Imagine Freeway up in ya kitchen, gafflin' ya dishes' fer HIS KIDS. ALL BAD.


I think its the beard that really give him that I burn your plantation down appeal.

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Could you imagine? The Nat Turner School for Leadership!

W/ Freeway as the principal!

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I Think I Developed a Crush on Memph Bleek

Is it the name.

The delivery?

The mustacio?

The fitted that seems to rest at a perfect 42 degree angle no matter what pops off?

I dunno.

But Bleek kinda bad.

No?

I got My mind right
money right
ready for war
Memph Bleek
is
Murrdaaaaah.

Perhaps it is because his songs are perfect to run to.

No?

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Noz Got Doomsday Up over at XXL.

For all you ravioli heads.

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Yes. This post predates Gotty's Bleek post from last week.

Whats that word, in journalism. He scooped me. Yeah. Thats it. <
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Hi Malik.

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Reading Online Comments is an Intense Exercise in Reading Horrible Logic.

Stones Throw: 'Parra' t-shirt from Digital Gravel

Cousin Jeff writes an article that argues that "American Sexism can't be blamed on Hip Hop."

He also proffers that:

1. Despite over a decade of engagement, many would argue that the images of women in hip-hop have become progressively and destructively more negative than at any other time in history.

2. These images and lyrics, while acceptable for adults, are targeted to a demographic made up of young people ages 12 to 16. [He fails to mention that it is created for white children].

3. During the production of a documentary for BET, which focused on sex and hip-hop, I interviewed a panel of high school students. One of those students, a 15-year-old girl, stated that she was not satisfied with how she looked because she wanted to be like the girls in the videos. After all, the boys want to be with girls in the videos. One of the young men followed up by saying that the girls in the videos were cool to sleep with, but not to take home.

Hip-hop must accept a level of responsibility for the destructive reality played out in the lives of many young people as a result of the music.

4.The civil rights movement, which has been justifiably praised for its ability to change the social and political fabric of America for the better, was overwhelmingly sexist.

5. The soft porn we see on many cable networks, the access to all forms of porn via the Internet, and Madison Avenue's continued recognition that sex sells have desensitized an entire generation to the objectification of women.

Now for the comments that had me squinchin' up my face.

Dave Kramer, New York, New York To say that misogyny in hip-hop is the direct result of misogyny in the Civil Rights movement is quite a leap of faith. It also doesn't at all explain hip-hop's particular embrace of misogyny or why other, equally male-dominated cultures didn't (even remotely) follow suit. If you're looking for a reason not to blame hip hop, this ain't it Cousin Jeff.

1. He didn't say that. He used the civil rights movement to demonstrate that sexism is in other places also.

2. Equally male-dominated cultures didn't (even remotely) follow suit. Like where in China, where the gurl babies are murdered on the reg. Or in Darfur, where the women and gurl babies are raped on a daily. Or in Eastern Block countries where the girls are sold into prostitution. Or in Thailand, where girl child prostitution is rampant. Right. Because NO ONE ELSE IS RACIST (For the record, I collapse racism and sexism.)

Kyle, Washington, D.C.
Surely you cannot advocate that hip-hop plays a small role in sexism. Hip-hop lyrics and videos are the gateway to the "softcore porn" you mentioned. Porn is look at positively by only a niche of society but hip-hop is universally accepted and is available practically anywhere. Girls don't watch porn thinking they wish they looked like those girls; it's the hip-hop girls that they idolize. Hip-hop leads the way for sexism in America and makes it "ok". When sexism stops in hip-hop, we'll tackle other industries and cultural problems, but not until then.

1. Hip-hop leads the way for sexism in America and makes it "ok". Wait.
a. So, Hip Hop is responsible for LEADING AMERICA MORALLY? NICE!
b. Who the hell was responsible for the country morally before 1977?

2. Hip-hop is universally accepted and is available practically anywhere.
Actually no. Wall Streets version of Hip Hop is practiced everywhere. OUR version is practiced among us.


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Hip hop lives.

You die.

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What if Public School Teachers Earned $80K out the Gate?

The white men ( the Libertarians) in my life, and various other hyper philosophical individuals (Harlem Gem) have encouraged me to culitivate my ability see relationships as manifestations of supply and demand. <<<**Greasy yes. Practical? UNBELIEVABLY!

This led me to wonder, what if teachers in the top 10 most populous urban public schools earned $80K minimum salary and all teachers were required to have a masters?

LA.
DC.
Bay.
Philly.
Detriot.
NO.
St. Louis.
BK.
Dallas.

What if reading, writing, science and math were standardized across the country the way it is in China and India?

What if all public officials had to send their children to PUBLIC schools?

Supply and demand fam.

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Looks like there's some problems in Little Rocks Public schools

Other urban public school districts in the South have suffered through similar racial battles over leadership, aggravated by symptoms that prevail here, too: white flight, inner-city poverty and what is referred to as the “achievement gap,” the wide divergence in test results between white and black students. The gap fuels resentment and makes an anathema of any perceived administrative leaning toward white students.

The fight here has been especially bruising because of its symbolic overtones and practical implications. Though whites have deserted the schools in many other Southern cities, they have not done so to the same degree in Little Rock, where they make up about a quarter of the 23,000 students. Birmingham, Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; New Orleans and Memphis, by contrast, had white percentages in the single digits or barely above, according to 2000 Department of Education data.

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Yeye the new primo?

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Yall think I got a way w/ words, peep e-40:

"Every record label was getting at us at that time, but we fumbled the ball," says E-40, whose My Ghetto Report Card entered the Billboard album chart at No. 3 in March. "I hung on like a hubcap in the fast lane along with a few other rappers, and now it's time again. We had a 10-year drought and they went to other regions and were bypassing us like the surgery out here. But we're trendsetters, and the rap game without the Bay Area is like old folks without bingo."


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CBS had to dead the Obama comments section, cuz liberal klan members been calling him a Porch Monkey. Scandless!

Dave Neiwert hits the nail on the head:

This resurgent racism likes to cloak itself in the pretense of rebellious individualism standing up to the oppression of overbearing “political correctness,” or else in academic-sounding terms that fling about misinformation regarding the sciences and sociology to construct a pseudo-rationale for what they euphemistically like to call “race realism.”

But pull the cloak aside, and the same old, decrepit racism of a century ago is there, festering like a decaying zombie who refuses to die.

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How you been?

Memorial day is upon us again. Got plans?

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Right Now I Am Listening to Stakes is High.

I am listening to De La. I just returned from running.

I can feel in my soul, that this is gonna be one of those DNA revealing posts in the vein of that TL sh*t from late March.

I listen to Stakes is High, cuz I know De La feels me.

See. Im from East Oakland. A place that YOU are not suppose to make it out of in one piece.

Let Alone be a black people loving, fast talking, tight dress wearing feminist.

I just got back from running the BK bridge.

I was trying to run the anger out. Studying in the library last night I hit the anxiety wall.

A wall that I have not seen sense BL. You see, this semester, I had to battle the destructive nature that East Oakland represents.

See.

The East Oakland Greasy that propels me, can be the same thing that holds me back.

I come from a self destructive place.

A beautiful place.

But a destructive place.

Outsiders often wonder why people in the hood destroy sh*t.

It's because n*ggas CAN'T see a future for themselves.

AND HERE IS THE RUB.

I have been just as destructive also.

But PEEP GAME.

I had EVERY THING going for me.



Thats why I had so much love for Clarrett.

Here was this dude, w/ mega talent, but his dark side KEPT F*CKING WITH HIM.

So I listen to De La.

I listen to De LA and I remember WHEN I WANTED TO BE WHERE I AM NOW,

and I am thankful.

It takes a village to raise and m.dot.

So I offer thank you's.

In alpha order:

Danyel Smith: For telling me to WRITE, regardless.

Dekka: For explaining that in order to focus for two weeks straight, NO CELL, NO IM.

Dig Dug: For being hilarious. For feeling me. For allways wanting to know when Im coming home.

Gotty: For being my muse. For deading me when I complained about BL incessantly.

Harlem Gem: For telling me last November " You are either going to break up with him or go to DC". For re-affirming my confidence. For not knocking me when I was down.

Irish Liberterian: For staying on me to study in the basement. Now I be in that b*tch erry day.

J!: For taking me seriously.

Jase: For never judging me.

Jonzey: For being here since the admission essay, for being l.school strategy architect.

Lurkers: I know yall out there. Say hi. lemme hear from ya.

Mean Sexy: For being firm w/ the NO NEW N*GGAS rule this semester. And for coming through when my money got funny.

Minnesota: For telling me about his grad school woes, and helped me to see, adminstrative hoop jumping was something that MANY a student went through.

Min Reporter: For encouraging me to take risks when I write and for letting me know, subtly, that she reads everything.

Miss Ahmad: For knowing and loving the Oakland we BOTH remember.

Mum: For being compassionate when I least expected it.

Neo: For being an "artist".

Pet Detective: For forcing me to be cognisant of how my thinking affects my surrounds. For helping me realizing my gift.

Poppaay!: For being compassionate, obnoxious and brilliant. For showing me that Black men never give up.

S.Bot: For being my greasy hero. For being the architect to my L.school survival. For helping me see that we all deal with urges.

Texas Truth: For providing constructive criticism, for being available and for riding for Jesus and Black people.

Walt: For loving Hip Hop and Detroit as much as I do.

Wil.e.: For enthusiasticlly listening to my mundane details, for being thorough.

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To De La. Thank you for providing a soundtrack to my dreams and everything that falls inbetween.

To My angels and God, thank you for listening.

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Barron Davis Go!

For those nonknowning bay slanguage and mentality.

It MEAN Barron Davis Go Dumb. Meaning, He Tight. Meaning he Fresh.

Some of the Warriors waved flags. Others made a mosh pit. Pietrus did a swan dive into the stands, all 6 foot 6 inches of him. Fans passed him from one section to the next, holding him over their heads. He howled with trepidation and delight.

“I never thought I would do something like that,” Pietrus said. “But it was pretty cool.”

He might as well have been speaking for the entire franchise. Golden State beat Dallas in Game 6 on Thursday night, 111-86, scoring the first-ever upset for a No. 8 seed over a No. 1 seed in a seven-game playoff series.

The atmosphere at Oracle Arena felt like a college basketball game, with the top-ranked team in town and the student section overflowing. At tip-off, a drum-line circled the court. After the game, fans did everything but storm the floor.

Regardless of what happens in the next round, these n*ggas gave it all they had.

Exactly WHAT I NEED TO SEE the 'town doing before finals.

Oh.

Tell Charles Barkley no p*ssy gettin ass to sh*t the f*ck up.
^^^^Yeah. I said it.

Hey Barkley.
The WHITE BOY IMUS DEFENSE AIN'T a good look.

Pretending to be stung by a clamorous reaction by rabid Warriors fans, Barkley claimed that "I would rather stay on Alcatraz than San Francisco or Oakland.''

It was an affront to all that is good about this region, and residents reacted with talk-radio rants, angry phone calls to The Chronicle and a few good-natured chuckles.

Then Barkley went for the really low blow -- "You know how bad it is?'' Barkley asked his co-hosts. "I like Sacramento better than both those cities.'' [He needs to go say that on 77th and E14th or 90th & Cherry, N*gga a be bucked for he could curl his lips].

Oooh, that one hurt.

"I really thought,'' Barkley chuckled Monday night, "that was a nice touch.''

Unfortunately, not everyone agreed. Oakland has battled its inferiority complex for years. Now that it has a playoff team, nobody is going to get away with putting down Oaktown.

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Good Morning.

Yes. I am in rare form.

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The Clipse Don't Agree with Nas.

Member when Nas said "Sometimes the Rap Game Remind me of the Crack Game". The Clipse ain't feelin' that sh*t tho.

Pusha T, however, is still griping about his current workplace. "No ethics, no code, no morals," he says. "It's worse than drug dealing. No one works on principles. At least in the crack trade, there's a code of honour. The music business is the worst. You turn into a number as soon as you sign the papers."

You have to have a code or you have nothing.

Clipse find Oprah's campaign self-serving. It is illogical, they say, to treat them the same as a highly paid, loud-mouth white radio shock jock. Unlike Imus, they say, they don't use those words to describe women who are seeking an education, like the basketball players, but about the people who would buy the crack from them. [ NICE!!! B/C only crack heads are nappy headed hoes.]

This has been a refrain that I have heard from cats in the hood. This was the Snoop defense too. Watchall think?

Sometimes the rap game remind me of the crack game.
~Nasir

When I tell people I want to do Merger's and Acquistions.

They ask why.

And I say, honestly, that sh*t reminds me of the 80's crack game.

You can imagine white peoples faces, when I say THAT sh*t.

Think about it.

a. You have "You either run with me, or imma put you outta business, take your customers AND your real estate".


b. Oh. You THOUGHT this sh*t was YOUR Block. Naw. Homie. This my sh*t now. You can work for me though.
c. X and Y are getting macked by Z, so they formulate like Voltron to avoid the take over.

De.LI.CIOUS.

Now that. Is a code.

Bjork likes Tha Clipse?

Björk says ...

I've always listened to hip-hop. Not tons, it's not been a way of life for me, but I'm of a generation where Public Enemy changed my life. What I like most is the love of rhythm; though I don't think I've ever used those rhythms, I think it would just be wrong. Right now, Clipse have some freshness. It's the emotional aspect that attracts me.

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May is here.

Half the year is gone.

How are your goals doing?

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It's Official. Im Saving an Egg for Jeff Chang. WHAT!

Man. This dude Jeff, done went ahead and did the damn thing in the LA Times on Oprah, 50 and Hip Hop.

MUCH OF THE criticism of commercial rap music — that it's homophobic and sexist and celebrates violence — is well-founded. But most of the carping we've heard against hip-hop in the wake of the Don Imus affair is more scapegoating than serious.

Who is being challenged here? It's not the media oligarchs, which twist an art form into an orgy of materialism, violence and misogyny by spending millions to sign a few artists willing to spout cartoon violence on command. Rather, it's a small number of black artists — Snoop Dogg, Ludacris and 50 Cent, to name some — who are paid large amounts to perpetuate some of America's oldest racial and sexual stereotypes.

This is what I have been waiting to hear.

I knew that there was something self serving about why, all the pimpl-licious-ness is privilaged in pop culture. Jeff, hit the nail on the bullet. LOL.

Envision it.

Oprah,

Snoop,

The Head of Universal,

Bill Cosby,

2 White mommas & their 13 year olds,

2 Black mommas & their 13 year olds,

2 Asian mommas & their 13 year olds,

On stage. To Discuss the above quote.

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Jeff. The egg is on reserve. <<< Self serving e-greasy. I love it.

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MIMS is an @SS MAN.

Peace to Minnesota McGuyver for landing this sh*t ^^^ in my inbox.

Its fresh cuz you gotca four elements.

It would be DOPER if,

The BEAT WAS HOT.

OH. Apparently mims is an @ss man.

Oh. Rappin' about the female form:

"Baby if you want to you can back it up
you say you like it rough, won't chu let me me smack it up
palm on ya' @ss thats, if you let me touch
I don't care about ya' breast, you could be a A cup"

I know what I like, and thats below the waist..."

Greasy!

Like some "Tell Me Whenna Go" type slap, a Salaam Remi seductive percussion and horns, or even some Yeye.

See he got onna Negro Hero.

I needs me a Nappy Headed Ho Hero t-shirt.

Say I won't wear it.

Remember when we were little, and we would say:

"Say I won't do it".

LOL.


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Mims. Uptown. Thats wassup.

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