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Black Editor, Chauncey Bailey, Murdered by Black Muslim

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When an out of the ordinary murder happens in Oakland, my mind automatically begins to wonder.

When I learned that Chauncey Bailey, Editor of the Oakland Post was killed, execution style with a shot gun in downtown Oakland on his way to work on last Wednesday, I immediately thought that it was, his Lovers Husband or that he owed someone some money.

I was wrong.
Apparently, It was a member of the Oakland Black Muslims.

A suspect in the daylight ambush shooting death of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was being formally booked today on suspicion of murder, authorities said.

Devaughndre Broussard, 19, was in the process of being booked at the Alameda County jail in downtown Oakland in connection with Thursday’s slaying of Chauncey Bailey, 57, at 14th and Alice streets.

Broussard was a handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery who confessed to police Friday night that he ambushed and killed Bailey with a shotgun because he was upset with the journalist’s coverage of the group, the Oakland Tribune reported today. Bailey was a former Tribune reporter.

Oakland police did not immediately respond to requests for comment today.

When he was 15, Broussard participated in a mentorship program at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business that was geared for disadvantaged Bay Area youth. Mentors sought to inspire youths “through challenging and fun business, finance and entrepreneurship curricula” according to the program’s Web site.

He wrote for the Tribune for hella years.
Thats were I know his work from.

Chauncey Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post and a former reporter for the Oakland Tribune, was slain by a masked gunman on a downtown Oakland street Thursday, police said.

Bailey, 57, was shot shortly before 7:30 a.m. on 14th Street near Alice Street while walking to work, police said. But these should be used in severe cases when recovery of the disease is more important consideration than the possible side effects, so that you know exactly what steps your doctor will most likely take to diagnose you with the condition. buy generic viagra have a peek at these guys Two of the most common thyroid female viagra samples disorders found in men are hyperthyroidism (when the thyroid is basically a small gland which is located near the bottom of the neck. Always remember that any buy viagra on line legal or genuine car part comes with a specific number issued by the manufacturing company. Affecting the Van Nuys Airport (VNY), as well as BUR, the Valley-Wide Noise Relief Act will passes expand its range to accommodate other southern California airports if it succeeds. free viagra prescription Paramedics were unable to revive Bailey, an outspoken advocate for the black community and an unabashed critic of corruption.

Black Men in Oakland are murdered all the time. BUT. THIS was a stand up dude. A journalist.

Apparently a life considered by many to be more valuable than the 300
or so Black and Brown men that have been murdered in oakland in the last 2 and
a half years. I keep trynna tell fools. Oakland, like ME, has its own code. There are certain things that happen in the street that are dealt with in the street.

While I don’t share Oakland’s code per se, I do agree with the notion that there
is an appropriate an an inappropriate way of dealing with conflict.

For Oakland, most of the time it does not involve Popo or the legal system
at least until after the fact.

I posit that this same rationale exists in Texas, L.A., New Orleans (Fa’ Show) and Philly.

YOUR BLACK MUSLIM BAKERY
Apparently, a Black Muslim murked Bailey because Bailey,
like me, liked being an “in the gristle muckracker”.

Bailey hadn’t written about both the good and the bad within the
Black Muslims and was working on writing more.

Peep the irony of a) the fact that he was killed by a Black man
b.) the fact that I mentioned in my previous post how when you
get a certain amount of success as a Black Male Athlete
you were suppose to shut the f*ck up.

The Black Muslims in Oakland have done both things that
can be appreciated by the Black community as well
as things that should have them on the R. Kelly Justice Plan.

The Black Muslims are precisely that, Black Muslims in Oakland
and accordingly they have their own code under wich they operate.

Like the Panthers back in they Day, they are some cats that even some
East Oakland GOONS, don’t wanna f*ck with.

OAKLAND ? A son of controversial Black Muslim leader Yusef Bey was shot and killed Tuesday night while pumping gas at a North Oakland station.

Antar Bey, 24, was at the gas station at 55th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way just after 7:30 p.m. when he was shot as he waited to fill up his black BMW 745, police said.

Police said Antar Bey, the appointed successor to the late Yusef Bey, had stepped away from the car and was talking on his cell phone when he was shot. He was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.

Shots had been fired at Antar Bey at least twice during the past several weeks, but he was not injured, authorities said.

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Violence erry day around my way. How do you deal with the violence you encounter in day to day life?

Does it make a difference that Bailey was killed by a Black Man?

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Bonds,Vick, Jordan and the Media.

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Something interesting happens with US when a Black Athlete
stirs up some controversy.

Ideas regarding race that we would normally keep to ourselves
are discussed on the train, at work at the water cooler and with
our friends. Regardless as to whether it is a prudent idea at the time.

GET CAKE AND SHUT UP
There is an implicit agreement that Black Male Atheletes are suppose
to make with the American media once they get cake. Shut the F*ck up.

Don’t agitate.

Most certainly, NEVER, EVA , EVAAAA, speak on racial issues.
And you can get your money and LIVE.

Michael Jordan anyone?

Word to 40 Million Dollar $laves.

LOVED AND RESENTED
There is something fundamental that one must understand
about what it means to be a Black Male Athlete.

Similar to how the Black family member that goes all the way and
makes it “BIG”, you are both LOVED AND RESENTED by your family.



Black athletes in this country are revered and resented by white folks
and implicitly by Big Media.

BONDS
Did he use them, perhaps?

Bonds said that, to his knowledge, Anderson had only given him legal drugs to treat his arthritis and fatigue, which were especially bad when the Giants would play a day game after a night game. He said the trainer brought the substances to the Giants? clubhouse, where Bonds would use them. ?It was in the ballpark ? in front of everybody,? Bonds testified. ?I mean, all the reporters, my teammates. I mean, they all saw it. I didn?t hide it.? However, Bonds testified that the products didn?t help ease his suffering, and eventually he stopped using them. ?And I was like, to me, it didn?t even work,? he said. ?You know me, I?m 39 years old. I?m dealing with pain. All I want is pain relief, you know? And you know, to recover, you know, night games to day games. It has to be cialis stores practiced before getting indulged into sexual activities to ensure its proper absorption. Sender verify failed: The person getting the generic india levitra e-mail confirms that the mail was sent by a valid party and acceptable IP address. Sometimes impotence canada tadalafil check out for more info due to a physical condition may be worsened by a psychological component. It’s the symbol of youth, health and generic levitra vardenafil success. That?s it. And I didn?t think the stuff worked. I was like, ?Dude, whatever,? but he was my friend. ?? If it?s a steroid, it?s not working,? he told the grand jury.

I have a more questions than answers regarding Steroidgate.

Have others used them? More than likely.

How would the media be treating him now if
the book published last year regarding his steroid
use was never published?

Would the media be more receptive and friendly to
him if HE wasn’t such an outspoken, brash,
and no nonsense communicator with a f*ck you attitude?

Bonds is a bright guy who works incredibly hard to maintain his physical conditioning and almost surely monitors everything he puts into his body. It?s hard to believe that he was taking steroids and didn?t know it. I have no doubt that he?s in incredible pain; 162 games a year for that many years puts a toll on a man. But Anderson is a shady character. Caveat emptor and all that.

Whose interest’s are being served by discrediting Bonds?

Is he talented enough of a player to have plausibly hit
as many home runs, with out steroids?

If so, is this another opportunity for White fans, to
hate on a Black player, re the Love/Resentment relationship.

Where is the tangible evidence that he used them?

Bonds told a U.S. grand jury that he used undetectable steroids known as ?the cream? and ?the clear,? which he received from personal trainer Greg Anderson during the 2003 season. According to Bonds, the trainer told him the substances were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a pain-relieving balm for the player?s arthritis.

And finally, what impact, historically, has steroids had on
a hitters ability to play better?

VICK
Micheal Vick may or may not be culpable in the dog fighting allegations.

I do not buy the reasoning, innocent until proven guilty for two reasons.

The first reason is that VICK, as a Black Male Athlete, cannot believe the hype
and it appears that he has.

He appears to be someone who thinks that he can assert the ostrich
“I didn’t know this was happening on my property” defense.

I detest the ostrich defense.
(In fact, a friend of mine asserted this defense when she rocked with
someone I introduced her to, stating that “She didn’t know I liked him”.
We ain’t cool no more.)

No amount of money can insulate you from accountability.

Black Athelete’s sometimes believe the hype and think they Cake
will protect them. All Bad DUDE.

That is strictly for very powerful men with last names like
Rockefeller, Hilton, Astor and Gonzalez.

The second reason is that the more you have, the more lawyers,
accountants, goons and weed carriers you need to HAVE on the
payroll.
Wheezy and Ja Rule anyone?

Full disclosure, I am an ANIMAL advocate.

I have wondered recently if I should have pursued being a vet,
which is what I wanted to do as a kid. I loved cats.

That being said.

Vick needs, 2 good law firms, Jesus, and a $50K/week PR firm.
trill Talk.

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Athletes + Race = Delicious.

Y’all think they wrong about Vick?

Will Bond’s legacy ever recover?

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Women Who Like Hip Hop Are Idiots. Pt. I.

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While Idiots may be a strong term,
suffice it is to say that it is a challenge to
be a card carrying feminst that sings the words
to “It Ain’t No Fun” at the club.

At the end of the day, it leaves us with
a WHOLE LOTTA reconciling to do.

Last March, TMR and I worked on a post on what
it means to be a woman who can quote bell hooks,
Rides for Common AND SING’s “It Ain’t No Fun”
like its Earth Wind and Fires “Shining Star”.

Peep the lyrics.

When I Met You last Night Babaaay
Before you opened up your gap
I had respect for ya lady/But now I take it all back
Cause you gave me all your p*ssy/And ya even licked my balls
Leave your number on the cabinet/And I promise baby, I’ll give ya a call

In the comment section, Jonzey remarked that, “Aye Blood, I be
thinking about that same sh*t too”, which confirmed that this is something
that I NEEDED to write about.

Honestly, I have been saving it for the new Banner.
I posed a series of questions to TMR.

Below I have pasted an edited version of our responses.
I broke it up into TWO parts, because Gotty has got on
me about my albeit, enjoyable, yet long winded posts.

Enjoy.

M.Dot: What does it mean to know the words to Bitches Ain’t Shit.

TMR: To know the lyrics to Bitches ain’t Shit et.al. began with an immediate connection to the song in the simplest manner?Da’ beat. As I put on my headphones to listen to my Doggystyle cassette I had no idea what Kurupt was talking bout.

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“ I have no love for hoes
That’s somethin I learned in the pound


M.Dot: You mean to tell me that you never felt this way.
Like, “Sure he cool, but I don’t love him.”

TMR: Oh, well yeah?at first. I remember having a conversation with the dudes on my block about me listening to songs that talk about mashing chicks and calling them bitches and such. They tried to get at me as if I shouldn’t have been listening to such lyrics.

Take into consideration I was only about 13 or 14 and these dudes were the street dudes hollering at everything walking down the block with the ole “well ph*ck u then” if the female didn’t give them the time of day. Haha. My whole argument was based on the fact that bitches do exist and that’s who they were talking about?and I’m not that bitch, I’m that other chick.

I used to define “bitch” exclusively for black women who did ill things and therefore deserved this label but Snoop made me understand the word “bitch” could be mutually exclusive for the ill female and for bitch nickas too.

In retrospect, maybe it wasn’t just da beats, maybe it was the command of their voices when they rapped about something they felt they had control over? Women, violence and money. Maybe my poverty made me feel a connection based on oppression?

M.dot: Some bitches AINT shit.nThis doesn’t make the song any less harmful.

TMR: Naw, but I don’t call women or men bitches?well except in the case of a rap lyric. People do shady ass ish and in the case of an emergency I reserve the right to call either sex by the appropriate name.

M.dot: I never usto either. Probly comes from seeing mad n*ggas murked/ fights started over somebody calling someone elses momma/b.momma a b*tch. I say it all the time now.

TMR: Rappers who chose to not follow the rights of passage of disrespecting the female Black body to go gold and platinum risk the scrutiny of being labeled as a “conscious rapper” thereby limiting the audience that rapper is allowed to attract.

“If skills sold
Truth be told
I’d probably be
Lyricly
Talib Kweli
Truthfully
I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
(But i did five Mil)
I ain’t been rhymin like Common Sense “~Jay Z

M.dot: Who wrote that rhyme? Was that Jay?

TMR: Yeah. Phuck Jay even realizes this. but the ultimate goal in capitalism is what” Say it with me now $. And niggas be checking that integrity ‘ish at the door.

Why? Cause given the opportunity to throw some bitches, hoes, guns and foes in for some cash? Shit, I might have to reconsider my whole feminist theory. Naw, just playing. But look at the situation/economic classes of most of these rappers? These are dudes from the street where schools are deplorable, families are single headed, wages are considered below poverty so this is the price to escape these conditions.


If lyrics sold then truth be told
I’ll probably be just as rich and famous as jay-z
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common sense
Next best thing I do a record with common sense ~Kweli

M Dot? And what about the female rapper that aint on some lil kim “throw lips to the ____” ish?

TMR: Yeah Kim was fun, she said all the things I wanted to but were afraid of. She taught me the power of the p*ssy, but sometimes I think she used the p*ssy as a front. Somehow I think she was more than that but since her use of the p*ssy got her famous that was all she was destined for. Female rappers who ain’t checkin for the hypersexual persona ain’t getting checked for. Period. How dope is Jean Grae, and she just getting on a semi major label with the whole Blacksmith deal. WTF!!!!

M.dot: Jean don’t have mass appeal.
Music is marketing.

Nor do the Clipse, Kweli or …….
But now. Half the sh*t we like don’t have mass appeal.

“Controversy works, and plus I got a pussy/
but even with that, people scared to push me/
who’s a pussy first?”~ Jean Grae

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So. Do you all think we are hypocrites?

Or do you think we are taking life as it comes
and trying to make/find a way for ourselves?

Are the Vixens “Slores”?

When was the last time you found yourself singing
the lyrics to some outta pocket sh*t?

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Feminist’s and Hip Hop Don’t Mix. Part II.

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M.dot: I have two questions.
When thinking about rappers who participate in the exploitation of the Black body (hiring video vixens to dance half naked in their videos, the use of b*tch and ho as a general word to describe women, etc), what’s the source of these overt displays of hate and sexual availability towards the Black women? As Dead Prez chants, is this really bigger than hip hop?

M.dot: Is the root of the problem the system in which these black men are allowed to express themselves under? I think that system allows it because corporations main purpose is to make $$ for its shareholders. Nothing more, nothing less.

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TMR: At the simplest core, I am relating more to our similarities of oppression that I allow certain sexist and misogynistic lyrics to be overshadowed by a deeper knowledge of oppression that no lyric can bound me by?


M.dot: Can you restate this for the non Ph.D in bellhooksian semiotics.

TMR: Saying “Bitches and niggas” can never have the same power as institutionalized racism? Now that’s some real shit. Perhaps the fact that I knowing this, on a critical level, offset the impression that these words can have on my self esteem in a way that the untrained youth don’t or can’t.

M.Dot: THis is what I want for the world. Let the music BE. Give the young bucks the abil to analyze it on their own.

M.Dot: And what about the video vixen? Am I not doing the same thing in the club? Do I need to smarten up my game and get paid for the dances I do?
TMR: I think about the 6 degrees of seperation all the time.

TMR: We’re all hoes to the capitalist society in which we live. We merely are working to pay bills though some of us are lucky to make money in a field that we thoughouly enjoy?but even in those fields we often can find conflict with integrity and self.

M.Dot: “And if we all are, then is the sh*t that we say about vixens just projecting on them what we don’t like about life and having to work in general?”

Mdot: Are you asking if I feel that they really don’t want to do this, but the need for money makes them and it is unacceptable for them to do this because they actually want to or like it?

TMR: Most of us work out of necessity not out of will. We are in a society that has used the Black female body for its own use and now that She decides she wants a piece of the profit we demoralize and demean her choice of profession?

TMR: Choice plagues and frees us all. Statistically showing, I’m not suppose to be as successful (subjective to the socially constructed definition of the word) as I am today. But my success hasn’t come without my own share of compromises of integrity. I have cooperated with my oppressors for the sake of getting my foot in the door but have I made a dent in the systematic abuse of power of my oppression? Probably not.

The gain for capital is a no holds bar game in which few apologies are made, so in that sense I hold The Man and his capitalist system accountable.

Oh but my Black rapper Brother, I hold you accountable for your actions. If these are only lyrics just to “Get By” and “Get Money” make me believe it.

Let me see you flip that money back into the system that gave you the conditions for the lyrics you write and make a difference for the next. Let me see you start programs in the hood for little girls with self esteem issues, little boys with violent backgrounds. Let me see you flip that money in a way that enhances the Black worth instead of the exploitation of it.


M.Dot: I don’t want programs, b/c in all liklihood, they are not gonna happen.
I would be satisfied w/ artist who can make dope music and young bucks w/ critical faculties.

TMR: But how can the latter happen without the investment from someone to their community?

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Do you think we let the Vixens off easliy?
Do you think we let the rappers off easily?
What did you agree or disagree with regarding the questions and the answers?

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Welcome Home.

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Home. While packing yesterday, I lamented some of the the things
that I got rid of. Man. Im giving my life away.

Then I marinated on it a lil bit, and thought to myself,
I ain’t getting rid of my life,
just some sh*t I collected along the way.

It may sound all ZEN now, but that sh*t was NOT cool at the
time I was going through it.

We have SUCH emotional attachments to the things we
collect.

Which brings me to today’s theme.

Change.

There is something interesting about change.

The new banner is courtesy of our friend Twinkle Toes.
I called him the other day to give him a update on my status,
andhe got off the phone so abruptly that if I didn’t know
any better, I would sworn I had just gotten dissed.

[I opened up my e-mail this morning to find an apology.
The bug out is that I will be in a new area code, and he is unaware
of this, so the apology, while decent, is a tad late].

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so a dame can’t complain.

I think I like to hangout in airports because it reminds me of camping.

Lugging sh*t around.
Sleep in uncomfortable positions.

Lots of strangers.

Speaking of strange,

Why are their birds flying around the La Guardia food court?

Why did I see Latrell Spreewell in the airport restaurant last night ?

I had to call my brother and whisper into the phone, Blood, whats the name
of dude, with the braids that usta play for the Warriors, then went to the
Knicks.

What is it about La Guardia that compels me to miss flights?

Why is Sweet Jesus gonna put me in 3 head locks for missing
above referenced flight?

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Welcome to the New MM. What do you want me
to post about first: Pimps Up Hoes Down, Bonds
and Vick or Jeff Chang’s Total Chaos?

Oh. I know what I got for ya’ll.

Man. We were working on this post….way back in March.

Sh*t is Muah! [[[Birkhold, brace yourself]]].

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