Hello Black America, Philadelphia is calling.


I love Philly. I love New Orleans, Detroit and Oakland too.

D.C. can get it also.

That being said, this article appealed to me, so I gaffled it. Enjoy.

In a hospital emergency room, a young man winces as doctors try to determine how badly he has been injured.

His name is Karim Williams, he is 27, and he is this city?s latest shooting victim. He says he was hit around 12:30 a.m. by a shot fired while he was walking from his girlfriend?s car into a bar.

Mr. Williams was fortunate. The bullet went through his leg without hitting bone or major blood vessels, and after a shot of morphine and a few hours? observation, he will be discharged from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania back into the West Philadelphia night.

In some ways, Mr. Williams is a typical patient at the trauma unit: young, mildly intoxicated and apparently with no idea why he was shot. What makes his case less common, doctors here say, is that he is neither seriously injured nor dead, since Philadelphia is in the midst of an epidemic of gun violence that has left the police struggling to preserve public safety and government officials renewing efforts to tighten the state?s gun control laws.

I wonder how many dudes will have to die before……the national guard is called.

Last year, there were 406 homicides in Philadelphia, most of them by gunshot, the highest number in nine years, according to the Police Department. Millions of men have tried prescription free tadalafils for their problems and gain a better perceptive to it. Many women also experience other sexual dysfunction such tadalafil 40mg as low libido. Why should one use find description discount viagra snoring mouthpiece? With respect to the current failed, democracies around the globe. Impotence is quite straightforward to solve, it is the reality that Sildenafil citrate tablets are useful for buying cialis cheap the blood stream work on the cause that prevents erections and stops man showing his manhood.In this manner, Kamagra medicine works to revitalizing the sensual life. From 2004 to 2006, the number of homicides in the city rose 22 percent, more than twice as much as the aggregate increase recorded by 56 cities surveyed by the Police Executive Research Forum, a national law enforcement group.

This year, the pace of the killings has worsened; as of Friday the death toll stood at 110, or 16 percent higher than at the same time last year. By comparison, in New York City, with six times the population, there were 102 homicides from Jan. 1 to April 8, a drop of almost 24.4 percent from the same period a year ago. The rise in violence is evident at the University of Pennsylvania hospital, whose trauma unit treated 479 gunshot victims last year, a 15 percent increase over 2005. Some 18 percent of the attacks were fatal, and 16 percent of the victims will suffer permanent disabilities, like paralysis from head or spinal injuries, amputations, or long-term damage to internal organs.

Is Philly the East Coast Oakland? No I guess that would be Newark. Why don’t the Mayors and the governers and police chiefs of these cities get together to talk about problems and solutions? Oh. I guess that would be too much like right.

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It’s raining cats and dogs yall and I have a baked potato in the OVEN. I HATE the fact that the C train is jaked on the weekends. How was your weekend?

Its gonna be cold for the rest of the week.

That will make camping out the the lib that much easier. LOL.

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"Just like every rapper wants the baddest video chick on his arm, so do AGs."

The Village Voice has an article on how young lesbians agressive’s (ag’s) embrace hip hop thug paradigm for the purposes of appearing hard.

When you go to the club and you’re an AG, your mission that entire night is to find the baddest femme in the club and make her your girl,” says another woman, who calls herself Don Vito Corleone. “Just like every rapper wants the baddest video chick on his arm, so do AGs.”

I have allways had a problem with the idea of women who embrace women but take on a male persona as the main WAY of appear tough, ’bout it and handling yours.

Rap videos have long provided men of color with milestones on their journeys to manhood. From being a successful street businessman (Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments”), to learning how to treat a woman (Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Ain’t Shit”) and protecting their manhood (50 Cent’s “What Up Gangsta?”), guys are told how to be indestructible, sexually assertive, and in general, badasses. The misogyny and homophobia implicit in that message has long raised the hackles of critics. Oprah Winfrey and columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. made news recently for saying “enough” to the influence of rap’s rougher edges on black culture.

My problem with it is not that they do it, but that that persona is appears to be the only acceptable viable “tough, hooded up persona”.


Im sure women can use their imaginations to be tough, fierce and gully in a variety of ways. No?

“These AGs have a disrespectful mentality, and they get it from men, hoodlums, dudes that are in the ‘hood all day,” says Kysharece Young, an AG, rapper (“Ky Fresh”), and freshman at Monroe College. “They act like a bunch of little damn boys that ain’t got no sense.”

The issues that face young women face young men as well.

In 2005, filmmaker Daniel Peddle chronicled the lives of AGs in his documentary The Aggressives, following six women who went to lengths like binding their breasts to pass as men. But Peddle says that today, very young lesbians of color in New York are creating a new, insular scene that’s largely cut off from the rest of the gay and lesbian community. “A lot of it has to do with this kind of pressure to articulate and express your masculinity within the confines of the hip-hop paradigm,” he tells the Voice.

I knew from the tone of the article that the writer, Chlo? A. Hilliard, was either brown or had an urban history. Then I found this out about her. She was most recently and editor @ the Source (scroll down, after you click to get her article).

She is hella fresh.

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Ohhhh. Wu Tang Renunion Doc just came out.
I can’t go.

But somebody needs to go and tell me about it.

Dude.

This right here is worth seeing it:

Capturing onstage and off with equal energy ? at one point only the inspired freestyling of artists like Redman and MC Supernatural stand between Mr. Weisberg and an all-out riot ? ?Rock the Bells? is a fascinating glimpse of a dreamer and a music culture that has always depended on dreams.

ROCK THE BELLS

Opens today in Manhattan.

Directed by Casey Suchan and Denis Henry Hennelly; directors of photography, Jeff Bollman and Leif Johnson; music by J. Force; produced by Kurt Dalton and Henry Lowenfels; released by Seventh Art Releasing. At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, 155 East Third Street, at Avenue A, East Village. Running time: 103 minutes.

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Think imma lay of the posting for a min. Unless.

Um. Unless something de.lic.ious happens.

Baby on the right kinda bad.

I planned on posting this last week.

But I got Imus’d.

On a more curious note. I wonder what the Jesse, Al and Oprah would
think of these women?

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Gangsta Rap is Black People’s and America’s Dirty Laundry.


Yesterday I was going at it over at Gotty’s site.

And. Someone called me a hypocrite. Nothing new.

As a card carrying, Clipse loving feminist, I have been called worse things.

The argument stemmed from the fact that someone cited Jason Witlock and his argument that Jesse and Al are too scared to go after companies that promote and benefit from Gangsta rap.
So I say go ahead and ban/regulate gangsta rap.

But.

Once you ban gangsta rap.
What are you going to put back?

And let me ask you this, is the real issue the music or the lives of of the people that the music represents?

Because banning/regulating g-rap sounds like a cosmetic change to me.
My man Roland Martin at CNN hit the nail on the head when he said,

America, we have a problem with sexism. Don’t try to make this whole matter about the ridiculous rants made by rappers. I deplore what’s in a lot of their music and videos, but hip-hop is only 30 years old. So you mean to tell me that sexism in America only started in 1977?

Now is the time for this nation to undergo a direct examination of the depths of sexism. My media colleagues shouldn’t go just for the easy target ? rap lyrics. That is no doubt a logical next step, but sexism is so much deeper. It is embedded in our churches, synagogues, mosques, schools, Fortune 500 companies and in the political arena. We should target our resources to this issue and raise the consciousness of people, and expose the reality. With Kamagra 100mg and single time usage in a day, crossing the limit beyond prescription for cialis purchase than that may result with austere side-effects. Cholesterol forms an important component of the acquisition de viagra outer ear, middle ear, or combination of the two. It means, students who pass out of distance learning M. viagra canadian pharmacy From conventional to natural or alternatives, you can choose any as per their preference. india online cialis

Don Imus should not be the period. He can be the comma. Civil rights organizations, media entities, women’s groups and others have an opportunity that they can’t pass up. We have the chance to seize the moment to begin a conversation ?– an in-depth one ?– that has the opportunity to redefine America along the lines of race and sex.


Thinking about writing this, I pondered, what led to gangsta rap in the first place?

Well.

1.Mix Black Flight + White Flight + The Burning Bronx + Quasi functional public urban education = You get the conditions that percepitated gangsta rap.

Everyone is aware of the education/quality of of life connection. In fact, Imus’s audience was highly coveted because they were affluent and highly educated.

And I ask again, once you ban gangsta rap, what are you going to put back.

For these folks who want to ban/regulate gangsta rap, I would like to know whether they live in the hood?

Do they want to live in the hood?

Would they send their kids to schools in the hood. Prolly not.

And Why? Because the schools are horrible.

Now lets assume that we don’t have gangsta rap, how would the world even know what was going down in the hood?

Bear in mind that I am aware that this statement presumes that one is even interested in what is going on in the hood. LOL.

So lets imagine a world w/o gangsta rap.

  1. Will dudes still hustle crack?
  2. Will little Black girls still, disporportionality, want to grow up
    and be video vixens?
  3. Will dudes still be hustling loosie’s on 125th and Lenox?
  4. Will the Rockefeller drug laws still apply?
  5. Will more black fathers pay child support?
  6. Will OPD still conduct unconstitutional stop and searches?
  7. Will Katrina get fixed?
  8. Will cats cease getting murked on the reg in Oakland, New Orleans and Philly?
  9. Will there be more than 3 GOOD high schools in New York City?
  10. Will No Child Left Behind STILL be leaving mad brown/black kids in the dust?

Go head ban it.

Probably will just mean better mix tapes anyway.

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Know I made some ENEMIES w/ this post.

I put zora on mines so I KNOWS Im good.

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IMUS: DEADED Nappy Headed Ho’s: 5. OR I LOVE GWEN IFILL.


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Imus called Gwen Ifill, who at the time was covering the White House for the Times, the White House cleaning lady.

Below is a very lightening rod hot editorial she wrote in The Times earlier this week.

LET?S say a word about the girls. The young women with the musical names. Kia and Epiphanny and Matee and Essence. Katie and Dee Dee and Rashidat and Myia and Brittany and Heather.

In the end, they were stopped only by Tennessee?s Lady Vols, who clinched their seventh national championship by ending Rutgers? Cinderella run last week, 59-46. That?s the kind of story we love, right? A bunch of teenagers from Newark, Cincinnati, Brooklyn and, yes, Ogden, Utah, defying expectations. It?s what explodes so many March Madness office pools.

It is about the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. That game had to be the biggest moment of their lives, and the outcome the biggest disappointment. They are not old enough, or established enough, to have built up the sort of carapace many women I know ? black women in particular ? develop to guard themselves against casual insult.

Man listen. There needs to be emotional callus building workships offered at the learnin annex.

How many times yall been at work, and you wonderd, “Did this fool just say something racist or am I trippin?”

Or I know this white girl did not just come out her face and say ” All Black people are _____?” And then decide, you know what, choose your battles, and today this ain’t one worth fighting.

Why do my journalistic colleagues appear on Mr. Imus?s program? That?s for them to defend, and others to argue about. I certainly don?t know any black journalists who will. To his credit, Mr. Imus told the Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday he realizes that, this time, he went way too far.

Finally calling fools out. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you Gwen.

Yes, he did. Every time a young black girl shyly approaches me for an autograph or writes or calls or stops me on the street to ask how she can become a journalist, I feel an enormous responsibility. It?s more than simply being a role model. I know I have to be a voice for them as well.

So here?s what this voice has to say for people who cannot grasp the notion of picking on people their own size: This country will only flourish once we consistently learn to applaud and encourage the young people who have to work harder just to achieve balance on the unequal playing field.

Dude this part almost made cry. And yall know there are two things that make me cry. M & A deals and baby pandas. Lol.

The following statement that Gwen makes also touches me b/c as someone who is allways asking people for help, guidance, advice it is so reassuring when someone is receptive and available. It was so wonderful to hear that she HAS my back.

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IMUS UPDATE
NBC Dropped him.
GlaxoSmithKline pulled ads.

Ditech.com
TD Ameritrade said it was evaluating its sponsorship.

Here is a Dope article on how hypocritical it is that business are for advertising on Imus’s show in the first place.

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On that note.

My Imus coverage is dead for the week.

LD, MR, Neo, Jason, Stephen, what do you think of Gwens statement.

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Imus: 0. Nappy Headed Hoes: 3.


As the backlash against Don Imus grows, General Motors and American Express said today that they, too, will pull their advertisements from his program. American Express was the fourth largest advertiser on the simulcast of ?Imus in the Morning? on MSNBC, spending $1.2 million during the show in 2006, according to estimates from Monitor-Plus, a unit of the Nielsen Company. And the credit card company was also among the top spenders on the radio program aired by CBS Radio.

The company will no longer advertise on Mr. Imus?s show because of his controversial remarks last week, said Judy Tenzer, a spokeswoman for American Express. American Express will continue to advertise on other MSNBC shows, she said.

General Motors was one of the radio program?s top advertisers last year, but the company stopped advertising on it earlier this year in a decision unrelated to Mr. Imus?s racial insults about the Rutgers women?s basketball team, said Ryndee Carney, a spokeswoman for General Motors. On Tuesday, Ms. Carney said the company would continue to advertise on the MSNBC show.

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A friend sent me an e-mail about my posts. Out of deference to their privacy, I post it anonymously.

We haven't really spoke about the whole Imus thing at
all cause I think we both know it's a powder keg.


Here's the deal, a lot of you black folks are

emotional, irrational, reactionary and sorta annoying.
We act like f-cking savages promoting killing each
other, treating women like shit, degrading men and
acting like animals in general in every channel we can
(movies, TV, radio, Internet).


Then you we want to cross over (so we can sell more
shit) to a broader audience (mostly whites) and ask
them to buy our self destructive depictions of
ourselves (you can buy ghetto hip-hop in Target stores
in the middle of whitest America). We cram the

negative bullshit down their throats and when they
throw it back up we get upset. We are demanding that
Imus get fired but don't chastise our own people to
act accordingly and responsibly. COME ON!!!

I am not saying he is right... in fact f-ck him and all
his people.
But the best way to solve a problem
is consider and then work on all the elements/parties
involved. As a father I can't let my kids listen to
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one cracker wilds out... and we want blood. I have a
problem with that. If sh-t is wrong, then it's wrong
across the board, not just for one person. What is it
we want here? Change or momentary emotional satisfaction?

You can't act like a n*gger, call each other n*gger,
promote n*gger culture and then get upset when the
world treats you like one. Case and point, a south
Indian man who had no clue what a n*gger was called me
one when I was over there cause he was listening to
Snoop. If we want the world to see and treat us with
respect and value our place in this shit then we have
to stop acting like spoiled irresponsible children
and
present a position of intelligence and maturity.

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While my friend makes some salient points, the comments fails to take into consideration that Black people have been called publicly and privately variations of Nappy Headed Hoes since we landed in this country.

Moreover, we have been called these things PRIOR TO THE EXISTENCE OF HIP HOP.

OJ Murder. Blame Hip Hop.

Kids can’t read. Blame Hip Hop.

Sean Bell got Killed Blame Hip Hop.

HELLLL NAAAAW.

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In all honesty Imus’s statements and the fact that he thinks that apologizing
will make it better basically says,

” I don’t think you are a nappy headed ho”.

“I was just kidding”.

“Besides what are you going to do about it?”

“People are still going to come on my show”.

“Who cares that I called I called a team of Black Athletes Nappy Headed Ho’s”.

“It was a joke”.

I spoke to one of my classmates today after Trademark.
And he said:

“The fact that Imus thinks that he can apologize and get away with it confirms what a lot of black pepole think on the low.

Which is that that inspite of “pc” talk, and diversity jargon, there are white people in very powerful positions that think that Black people have limited analytical faculties. That Black people are closer to animal species than the human species. Then statements like this slip out and the p.c veil hasis removed. We see them for who they really are, bigots. Word is bond.”

When he told me this. I was like daaaamn Malcom.
LOL.

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Jesus. Who knew that so much fodder could come of this.

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