What did you learn?

You're aware of Michael Richards, his out burst, and half-assed apology. Now as the title reads, "What did you learn?"

It appears that people are mad because, this is 2006/7 _____________. Fill in the blank with some random PC/pseudo intellectual answer. For the really angry, fill in the blank with, "THIS OFAY HAD THE AUDACITY...." type of answer. Either way you have good reason to be upset, now what are you going to do about? March? Protest? Cry the Blues? As of right now Richards seeks the counsel of Jesse Jackson. Jackson said he should seek race sensitivty training. Are you Serious?? This is what anger has been reduced to? (From this point on, Jesse Jackson shall be known as Honest Abe Honeycutt). My first question when dude went on his rant, How come no one threw a chair? Because he was not out to have a discussion, he was mad and wanted to vent. So I want to vent too (chair flies in the air). Makes sense, No? Oh because, then it will be acting like an angry NGH. I got it. But isn't that what he wanted, isn't that who he was talking to; why not let the NGHs answer? Richards voiced what a lot of white folk think and what a lot of Black Folk already know. Don't Drink the Kool-Aid! This is not the first time and it won't be the last, have you forgotten when Ted Danson appeared at the Firar's Club in black face? How about when NYPD and FDNY dressed up in black face and parodied the murder of James Byrd Jr some years back. Interesting how stuff like this just fades into the background.



Personally, I have more respect for someone that let's me know where he stands, even if he is wrong or totally aloof; that way I don't have to hold any punches.

So...

Michael Richards, Jerry Seineld, his whole crew, and those type of people are a bunch of no good, dirty, Racist Pigs totally unaware how they benefit in this society solely on the color of their skin. Additionally, those same type that are Jewish, unabashedly benefit from your own holocaust, all the while, condeming those that would dare point out that very fact.

PS
Ya'll crying the blues about this, while residents of New Orleans remain in conditions worse than what they started in, are threatened with forced buyouts, and will soon have to deal with the media accusing people of relief freud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8HfgFJnSCM

Don't Drink The KoolAid!

It's been awhile...

Prop1:

so let's get it started with something close to my heart...

Basketball

This is the first time I can watch a Finals, NFL or NBA, and can honestly say I do not care who wins.
I really like Dallas. And, of course I like the Lakers-east.

Shaq. Dirk. DWade. What's not to love?

The NBA has my attention again.
The Mikey J era was boring, because outside of the Bulls there was nobody. It would have been interesting if Houston caught fire while Mike was there but it didn't so from '92-2000, the league sucked. At the end of the day, Mike had no comp. Was he that good? Maybe. But first the intelligent person has to ask, who were the other 2-guards in the league? John Starks was several inches too short to be a serious threat. So was Joe Dumars, John Battle, Jeff Hornacek and Hersey Hawkins. Reggie Miller was not athletic enough. Ron Harper got hurt early in his career and was never the same. Kendall Gill, Gerald Wilkins, and Eddie Jones could match the athleticism but lacked the all-around game and the heart. So that leaves Clyde Drexler . A hall of famer no doubt, but he dribbled looking at the basketball which was a joke.

So essentially Mike could sleepwalk through the season, which perhaps explains his incredible incredible stamina at the end of games.

And the so-called next generation of stars was full of
overhyped players, bloated contracts and unrealized potential.

Shawn Kemp, Chris (Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf) Jackson, Penny Hardaway, Larry Johnson, Alonzo Morning, Grant Hill, Juwan Howard, Derrick Coleman, Chris Webber, Christian Laettner, Sean Elliot, Danny Ferry, Kenny Anderson, Allan Houston- if only they were as good as advertised, as good as the sneaker companiers said they'd be.

This time it's different. Really. Because I'm a hater so if I say so...

This reminds me of the early 80's when Barkley, Ewing, MJ, Clyde, Dominique, and Hakeem stepped on the scene. There were multiple levels of stars. The old NBA and ABA legends- Kareem, Tiny, Doc, Gervin, and Moses. Players in their primes-Adrian Dantley, Marques Johnson, John Drew, Bill Walton (though he was often injured), Alex English, Bernard King, Robert Parrish, Walter Davis, and World B Free, and the New stars- Bird, Magic, Isiah, Mark Aguirre, Drexler, Terry Cummings, Kiki Vandewaghe, Sidney Moncrief, and Kevin McHale.

Then the perfect storm of the late 80's early 90's hit- Drugs, urban violence, sneaker money, greed, and league over-expansion.

Now its all freakin' good!
Old legends- Shaq, Jason Kidd, Gary Payton
Primetime-Dirk, Ben Wallace, AI, Ray Allen, Vince Carter, Stephon Marbury, Ron Artest, Kobe, Nash, Tim Duncan, Richard Hamilton and Paul Pierce
New Stars-Lebron, Carmello, EBrand, DWade and Amare "Stud"-amire

Thank God!

However.
I wouldn't be me. If I didn't hate on Steve Nash.
MVP? Two-time MVP? Straight politics. Yes, it's because he's white. You have to show white kids that they can compete too. Nowitzki? The name is too foreign sounding. Nash? American as apple pie, although he was born in apartheid South Africa (?!!). He can't play a lick of dee! Where was he in the playoffs? Doug Collins on the mic was so desparate to justify the choice, that he attributed the success of Boris Diaw, Shawn Marion and Barbossa to his mere presence, although it was clear to all those with basic ball-knowledge that it was the tempo, and offense implemented by Mike D'Antoni -Euroball- that got the Suns going. High pick and roll. High pick and roll. High pick and roll. Three and four guys on the perimeter. No you see why the NBA has problems against the World. Put Steve Nash in any other system and he's done. That's the magic of the NBA playoffs. No matter how much you run up and down the court, eventually you'll have to run a half court set and get an offensive rebound. Consider... The MVP of the league, in the playoffs mind you, being outplayed by the likes of Smush Parker, Sam Cassell (who's nice), and Jason Terry.

Are you freaking kidding me?!!

Doug Collins on the mic, and the mass media call this the "point guard era led by Steve Nash". I thought it was JKidd who caused fans to reconsider the shoot first point guard. And he led his team to the Finals twice! Now. I can't stand JKidd but I'll be the first in line to say, that a player who legitimized the Nets and turned up the tempo in a defense first league where teams could barely score 90 points, should have been MVP at least once.

Yo Bro!
We're back baby!

Port Insecurity

Prop1:

In their book the "Wise Men"- Walter Issacson and Evan Thomas characterized Sen. Joseph McCarthy's rise to power in post WWII America as follows-
"McCarthy tapped into an old and deep know nothing vein of American nativism, a virulent blend of FDR haters, Havard haters, Wall Street haters, Washington haters, and just plain haters. Many who did know better kept quiet out of fear" (p493)

Such is the state of modern America as of 9/12/01.

For years now the Bushies, Rummy, the neocons, DHS, Dick Dastardly, conservative talking heads, Fox News and the like have been playing Chicken Little crying "Terror! Terror!" Now the public sees the boogey-man even when the lights are on.

Yes it's anti-Arab sentiment that has the white masses sounding the terror alert over this port thing.

The Coast Guard is going to do their job. And DHS is going to do their job whatever that is. No Dubai will not be "running" the ports. No Arab boots on the ground the precursor to a foreing invasion. God says in the Quran that those who claim righteousness on this earth and claim that heaven is exclusively theirs are actually fearful of judgement day because then all their sins will be made clear. Therefore those [mostly white] people who irrationally fear the new desert Blacks ( i.e. Arabs) do so out of an expected payback for fucking up! For America not being the Pollyanna they know in their hearts was always lie. So ya'll are scared now huh? Ha-ha-haaaaa!

And what's deep is that these politicians know better. They know there is no threat from Dubai owning and operating these ports. At least no more than exists now or that has existed in the past. Nontheless all this fear mongering has left politicians in an election year without political cover if there is an attack, so they'll cry "foul" and demand 45 days to review the deal.

As an aside, if there ever was a move to inspect more than 5% of the cargo coming through the ports there would be an deafening uproar from the big business community. Why? Companies like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Home Depot, Boeing, GE, and the car makers all order goods to reduce storage and minimize shelf life ( e.g. Just-In-Time Shipping). ISo if shipments were delayed so that containers could be searched these computer systems would be thrown off in a real way. Hence, 5% is enough, and will be enough until the bomb drops.

George W. rocking the ill doo-doo numbers!
Break it- you bought it!!!

You go George!

Ah... Jason Williams, Jason Seehorn... um...

Several years ago the sports world asked the following question: what happened to the white American athlete?
The question came up in response to the emergence of Jason Seehorn as one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL. He was also the only white cornerback in the NFL. The fastest players in the league, as a group, play corner. There also no white runningbacks (not fullback) and olny a hand full of wide receivers. So without conceding the inherent superiority of Black athletes (Ha-ha), is there something else that can account for the fact that there has only been one white NFL cornerback in, at least, the last 10-15 years?
Looking around, those who asked the question, also noticed that the white American athlete was disappearing from major league baseball and almost extinct in the NBA. Again why? Outside the, you know, inherent superiority of the Black or Black-Latin (in the case of baseball) athlete, the following assertion emerged: the young white athlete had given up, or if the glass is half full, "rebelled"
Amy, Chad, Kore, Holly, Josh, and Kirk had grown tired of the big "3". The over-zealous coach, the boot camp regiment, the senseless competition against the more physically gifted "Black kids"... why not just have fun? You know... Dude chill out?!! Hence, the rise in the so-called extreme sports- biking, skateboarding, snowboarding and the like. Rebel or soft? A friend of mine explained it this way, he said, "Yo Cal... you know why America will never dominate in soccer? Because, in the non-American world poor people play soccer, but in America it's the rich suburban kids". So perhaps this softness, or rebellion is the natural by-product of success. But what does this say about the future of this country? If drive, invention and innovation, come from a lack or need, what happens to a group of people who have so much?

Let's look at the three biggest events of the first week of the Olympics-

Michelle Kwan drops out of the Olympics;
The favored US Men's Downhill team doesn't medal;
Lindsey Jacobellis blows the gold in snowboardcross by trying to do an unnecessary trick on her second to last jump.


Compare these feats against the recent and not so recent past-

We looked on in awe when Jordan fought through a flu and led the Bulls to victory in the NBA finals. We cheer when teams like the Yankees and USC live up to their expectations and jeer teams like the Bills and players like Peyton Manning when they don't. Deion Sanders, Dennis Rodman, Joe Namath, Magic and Jordan put on a show, but they also won, and won big!


On the other hand,

Michelle Kwan begs and pleads to get on the team, then after a fall or two in practice gives up and quits.

The US Men's downhill star and gold medial favorite, Bode Miller, came in fifth in the downhill and didn't qualify for his next race. Assessing his performance so far he said that he didn't care about medals and could walk away from the sport of ski racing at any time without a single regret.

Then you have Jacobellis who instead of winning, tries to get freak on the second to last hill and winds up not only falling but also losing the race (coming in second). She said it was "about having fun" and "playing to the crowd". No! It's about giving your best effort and trying to win.



No rebels here. These cats are soft and the decline of America has begun.


P.S. Go J.J Reddick and Adam Morrison!

Love and Hate...

Prop 1

"Luv N' Haight" a great song by Sly and the Family Stone.
First of all Happy New Year and Bush is a character from Orwell's 1984. Did you hear the State of the Union "double speak"? Terrorism Surveillance? "Another round of Kool-Aid for everybody!" But we're talkin' 'bout "Love and Hate"...

People are stupid. Word is Bond. The willingness on the part of humanity to ignore their lying eyes, knows no bounds. And then cry "mislead" as in "Bush mislead us on Iraq". Democrats are pussies too.

A recent study linked "bias" (codeword for racism) and political affiliation. People who voted Republican tended to have a bias against Black people (cue Kanye West). Check yesterday's Washington Post (1-30-06). For example, images of poor Black people evoked responses of government waste. Not so if the same images were shown without Black people. See that's hate. So where's the love? Love is saying "support the troops" even if it means killing innocent women and children. Love is to ignore the nuanced and to mentally shut down when the conversation gets difficult. So the next time you hear "Support the troops" ask that person what it means. Is it support to send them into a quagmire? Or does support mean to provide soldiers with all the killing machinery necessary to destroy more effectively and completely?

Love is blind. When I was growing up parents would talk about their daughter's new diet. In the street we understood it as crack. Love short circuits the mind. Logic out the door. And if one points out the Lover's "illogicalness" then you're a Hater. But Lovers are the best haters. Germans loved Hitler so much they hated Jews. Born-again Christians hate Jews so much they love them. See because they love Jesus, they need Israel to exist in order for Jesus to return and turn the Jews into Christians. Love or Hate? Preachers at Mega-churches selling sermons for $10.99. Al Sharpton calling for a boycott of the CartoonNetwork for the BoonDocks MLK special. Stop hate-ing Al! Or maybe he just loves the civil rights movement that much. A movement he missed but from hearing the brother talk you'd swear he was right up in the mix. Now I'm hate-ing, but in the best way. Ha-ha.

let's talk about Love and Hate in sports.



NFL stakeholders, fans, media and the like, love Jerome Bettis so much he's become the story of Super Bowl XL. Might as well call it the Bus Bowl. Granted, the symmetry is too big to be ignored. Player plays his biggest and final game before the hometown crowd. Bettis is "larger than average" so it's fitting that he's playing in SB "X-L". He nearly blows it against Manning and the boys by fumbling the ball on the goal line. All this from a part time player, his team's second best running back, and a far cry in terms of importance to Ben Rothilsberger, the reason why the Stillers (not a spelling error) are in Detroit in the first place. See love is deep. Love has the Steelers teammates playing for Bettis instead of themselves. Each other maybe... but for another player... crying and shit about it... Is it love or lack of self-love. Love has seemingly all interested parties talking about Bettis and Pittsburgh and ignoring the... uh... you know the other team. And maybe the other team, whatever they're called, will find the love and want Bettis to win too. Get so psyched out and overwhlemed by love that the Steelers win in a rout and the Bus rolls off into the sunset with the MVP... and everyone will be happy... except for the me. I'd be hate-ing. Sitting at my man's house surrounded by Stillers (Pittsburgh-ese) fans pissed off at the Fates willingness to sell out and go all Republican Pollyana optimistic on a nigga. But don't give in to the love yet... I can feel the green eyed monster slowly rearing its head. Is that Hassleback I see? Or is it Rothilsberger?


Kobe drops 81 and he shoots too much.
However, if LeBron were to drop 80, he'd get a new commercial, a new sneaker (the 80's), and a plaque commemorating the achievement.

Peyton Manning sells out year after year after year after year... and yet he's still considered the best qb in the game. Even after hate-ing, cold dry-snitching on his o-line, a huuuuuge no-no in sports, the media still talks about what the defense and o-line didn't do. Now that's love.

Vince Young single-handedly beats the supposed "if they win" best team of all-time USC Trojans and yet there are still doubts about his impact on the next level. If VYoung played any other position no-brainer, but as a Black Qb? "We have Matt Leinhart rated higher." Knock it off.





Love God, family and friends.
Hate those who don't love Love.
Because, God is Love.

Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On" side A.

Salam

You're play-in Yourself 2005

Prop 1 & Prop2


If you’re rocking pink or purple anything, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you still read the source, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you listen to that ole sloppy station (97.1fm), you’re play-in’ yourself
If you’re name is Jim Jones, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you go by any name other than Puff Daddy, you’re play-in’ yourself
Bought a Dip Set album then, you’re play-in’ yourself
Still flagging in New York City, you’re play-in’ yourself
Still getting high, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you believe Pac is alive, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you still buying Pac albums, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you got Big Pun, Biggie or Pac on your shirt, you’re play-in’ yourself
Watching the Negro channel (BET) then, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you’re in the rap game getting extorted, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you think they are going to rebuild New Orleans, you’re play-in’ yourself
Working at the Strip club, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you give two shits about what Bill Cosby said, you’re play-in’ yourself
Think rap is the CNN of the streets, you’re play-in’ yourself
Didn’t already know “Why,” you’re play-in’ yourself
Still don’t know “Why.” you’re play-in’ yourself
If you’re under 40 and you read Jet or Ebony, you’re play-in’ yourself
Following “Trapped in the closet,” you’re play-in’ yourself
If you don’t know your history, you’re play-in’ yourself
Rocking a hair piece or contacts, you’re play-in’ yourself
Still showing off your ass, you’re play-in yourself
If you’re a ball player and still don’t have a jump shot, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you think Suge Knight is still relevant, you’re play-in’ yourself
If you think Oprah cares about Black people, you’re play-in’ yourself
Black conservative, Black Liberal, you’re play-in’ yourself
“I’m not Black, I’m multi-racial,” You’re Play-in’ yourself
All that "Kevin Garnett best player in the NBA blah-blah-blah" you're play-in' yourself
If you don't think Rap fell off, you're play-in' yourself
Wasting money at the strip club, then you're play-in' yourself
If you don't think God is watching, you're play-in' yourself
If you think Katrina can't happen to you, you're play-in' yourself
Drinking cough syrup like it's soda, you're play-in' yourself
Committing crimes, not going to class, you're play-in' yourself
Don't think Common's “Be,” was Rap album of the year? You're play-in' yourself
Consider Southern Rap Hip-Hop, then you're play-in' yourself
Think Houston MCs don't have flow, you're play-in' yourself
Not tired of Diddy and Jermiane Dupri, you're play-in' yourself
Why is Collin Powell talking? You had your chance bro, you're playing yourself
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrahkhan, you're play-in' yourself
Michael Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby you're play-in' yourself
Kobe Bryant, Maurice Clarett, Terrell Owens, you're play-in' yourself
Not watching the BoonDocks on Adult Swim, you're play-in' yourself

And if you don’t know what song this is from,
You’re Play-in’ Yourself!

Black Girl Pain

Prop2
“My mama said life would be so hard
Growin up days as a black girl scarred
In so many ways though we've come so far
They just know the name they don't know the pain
So please hold your heads up high
Don't be ashamed of yourself know I
Will carry it forth til the day I die
They just know the name they don't know the pain Black Girl.”
“Black Girl Pain”- Talib Kweli feat. Jean Grae

The wonderful women of Spelman College along with their brothers from Morehouse College, in Atlanta attempted to reclaim and redefine the image of Black women a little over a year ago. Some students opposed Nelly performing at their homecoming because of a boarder line X-rated Tip drill video. Well, that fell apart. Word circulated the majority of Nelly’s proceeds go to bone marrow research and treatment; all for his older sister, who unfortunately lost her battle with leukemia early 2005. Just to kick some dirt in their faces, Ludacris performed regardless of his X-rated video, P**** Poppin. Oops.

Despite his intentions, these students wanted Nelly to take responsibility for his video, I say, how about we go after the women in the video. Black Women, what the hell are you doing?? Ask any rapper today about his videos and the portrayal of Black Women and they brush it off, these women are hired to do this job, they’re in “this” kind of business ramble, ramble, mumble, mumble. The average to extraordinary Black women instead of defending these women, attack and berate them worse than guys. To justify their beliefs, these same women say, “That isn’t me.” Really, since when did you annex yourself from the rest of the Black community? No matter how many of you believe this does not concern you, the texture of your hair, the color of your skin doesn’t come off when you walk out the door or go to bed. To be very honest, the only people you (Black women) can turn to today is each other. Black men, some of us love you and will ride with you, however, have decided to explore our options; and we’re doing just fine. You should do the same. Ah, but what happens when a Black women walks hand and hand with whitey or anyone else? You know the whole Jezebel/Sapphire thing. So you are on one side of the track, or you are on the other; that is what a lot of women believe. News flash, the world sees you, sees all of us, as one. Start checking yourselves. Start with what you’re putting into your mind.

First Viacom, you know it as BET and MTV. Viacom never had the interests of Black Women, Black People, at heart. The Negro channel, already going down hill, hit rock bottom when Robert Johnson sold it. BET late and BET Uncut, we know them very well. That is where we discovered the definition of Tip Drill; it’s not the first video and won’t be the last. However, during the era of 2 Live Crew and NWA; Queen Latifah, Salt & Pepa, MC Lyte, Monie Love, and others female MCs countered those other images. There was no divide between the image opposition and the image, one in the same, a rare time to see, although not in abundance, sisterly love and support. Does any one remember U.N.I.T.Y? Nowadays, a Black woman can’t buy a compliment from another Black woman without some disdain. If you’re not upset by the how you see yourself displayed in television, you’re upset because you don’t look like what you see on television. You are witness to a very limited representation of Black women. But how do you know unless you discover on your own, which brings me to reading selections.

Second Zane and all those other books people waste valuable time and brainpower reading, i.e. anything by Teri Woods, E Lynn Harris, and all those other hood authors. I feel like I’m wasting precious text just writing this much. I can hear the rants now, “They are writing about things we know about,” “It’s just entertainment, no one wants to learn all the time.” Well, if you took everything as learning experience, that would negate some of the nonsense that life throws at you, but I digress. My question is, how many times can you read about the same story: 1)woman falls in love, man cheats on her, woman goes through hell, she gets even, she lives happily ever after. Or, 2) woman falls in love, discovers man is gay, woman goes through hell, woman recuperates. 3) Or, woman is addicted to sex, woman experiments with sex, man calls woman slut, woman goes through hell, woman prevails, etc, see any pattern? The third scenario brings me to another point:

Little Kim, Beyonce, Melyssa Ford, Halley Barry, Esther Baxter, and other center pieces of the male fantasy believe they have taken control of their image/sexuality; some women follow the same ideology. Question, are you looking at yourself through your lens or through the lens of some else. Thus is the enigma Black women face today. Is this my image or am I living something arranged before I got here? That may be a little farfetched, however, consider women’s clothing, especially Black women’s clothing. The clothes are not really intended for you and not designed by you; they’re designed for the fantasy that some random male (and sometimes female) will have about you as they watch you walk down the street. I ask, exactly how are these women taking control of their sexuality? Some respond, they doing what guys do, being overtly sexual, accepting the role as sexual object and using it to their advantage; or, they have taken words like bitch and added a positive spin to them. Well, to the first response, you can’t do what a guy does and still be a lady. The second, I won’t touch, it is just as ridiculous as the word nigger having some redeeming quality. It’s so funny. In spite of all that is against you, regardless of you career path you always hold your head High. Possibly, you are aware of what came before you; however, it is time all of you were reminded.

You know the names(and if you don’t look them up!), Hattie McDaniel, Josephine Baker, Sarah Bartmann, Betty Shabazz, Pam Grier, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur etc; do you know their struggle? It is 2006, is the video chick or the wife of (insert name of sports/music celebrity) all your worth? Individually, some of you will scream no, but when did you separate yourself from the rest of the Black community?