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The Cool Kids ARE Hip Hop.

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Aren’t the Cool Kids fresh? The remind me of Doom meets De La
in a 1989 fun house.

Camp Lo STILL RAPPIN’.

Don’t you love that moment where you be like,
So and So still trynna rap?

That’s hot.

They sound dope and their visuals look RIGHT.

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Did yall know that I was a Beatnuts fan. If anyone has
intoxicated demons can you, ahem, SHARE it with me.
 I love that cd. I usta listen to it and go take pictures of
the graffiti at the yards off San Leandro Blvd in Oakland.

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Look at yo’ boy getting that Dubai cake.

Washington entrepreneur Robert L. Johnson said he expects
to close soon on a $125 million private-equity buyout fund he
started with the Carlyle Group aimed at acquiring small- to
mid-size businesses.

A second phase to grow the same fund to about $300 million
should close by the end of the year, said Johnson, founder and
former chief executive of Black Entertainment Television.

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Did you ever like Camp Lo?

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You Notice How People Hate Mothers?

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Typically the venom I witness in the media towards parents is directed at those that are low income and the working poor. Imagine my surprise when I see the homies at the Washington Post talking sh*t about people who hire folks to HELP with raising their children.

But no more! It turns out that other parents who are either too busy or too inept will pay dearly for our child-rearing talents. And I’m not talking about the drudgery of working twelve hour days as a nanny or baby nurse. I mean becoming highly compensated Child Life Specialists who are taking over the intimate, mundane responsibilities that are no longer the sacred purview of parents. Who needs law school? Now we all can bill by the hour.

Take this:

Professional Potty Trainer. You too can charge $185 an hour to toilet train someone else’s child, like the talented folks at the Soho Parenting center in New York. This tidbit was reported in the October issue of Vanity Fair, which also told of a company called High 5 which will teach your kid to ride a bike (for $60 an hour) and the Los Angeles trend of paying attractive young men to come to your house to horse around — with your kids. “There’s nothing more emasculating than watching a stranger being paid to play with your kids,” one (apparently sane) father complained.

On one level I can see how it seems trivial to be hiring out someone to play with your kid. On the other hand, who is suppose to do it IF you are working 80 hours a week be it ONE JOB outside of the house or TWO.

But then again the upper middle class and the wealthy pay for assistance
with other child raising matters such as kindergarten consultants, college
consultants, SAT tutoring, running coaches etc. Why should this been
seen as being any different?

The article would have made a MUCH better point if it
discussed the HUMAN CAPITAL that is invested in
raising children and how our culture has moved
from a one parent needing to work to support a
working middle class life style
to two parents working 60 odd hours per week
with a grandmomma/cousin/auntie/ stepmom-dad
living in the home OR nearby as well.

What all of these articles LACK are a critique of the system itself.

The next time you read something criticizing parents or
mothers who have and ADDITIONAL job outside of the
home, look for an analysis of the employee system itself.

Don’t hold your breath. You see y’all that Britney sh*t,
that Lauryn sh*t and this is all tied
together in that it reflects a GRAVE lack of understanding of how
much MONEY and TIME and HUMAN CAPITAL in general goes
into raising babies.

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Looks like the colleges have caught the Bigotry Flu.
I guess I am content with the fact that someone is writing about it.

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This weekend, a swastika was spray-painted onto the car of a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, which one member described as a Christian fraternity.

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This weekend, a swastika was spray-painted onto the car of a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, which one member described as a Christian fraternity.

Oh. Its SO MUCH FUN being a model minority.

If this shit didn’t happen, what would I talk about?

Oh. Hip Hop, fancy Italian shoes and Sweet Jesus
trynna mack me into moving to Dallas. LOl.

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Birds is chirpin’ about Biggie.

A prison inmate who had implicated a former Los Angeles Police Department officer in the shooting death of rap star Biggie Smalls has renounced his story, tying a new knot in the tangle of intrigue that surrounds the still-unsolved killing.

Waymond Anderson, who was briefly a top-selling R&B artist and is serving a life term for murder, said in a recent deposition that he lied about LAPD involvement in the Smalls slaying as part of a “scam” concocted by two other convicts to squeeze a large monetary settlement out of the city.

A prison inmate who had implicated a former Los Angeles Police Department officer in the shooting death of rap star Biggie Smalls has renounced his story, tying a new knot in the tangle of intrigue that surrounds the still-unsolved killing.

Waymond Anderson, who was briefly a top-selling R&B artist and is serving a life term for murder, said in a recent deposition that he lied about LAPD involvement in the Smalls slaying as part of a “scam” concocted by two other convicts to squeeze a large monetary settlement out of the city.

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Now, here is a voter issue that can affect a whole lotta Negroes and Mexicano’s.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether states can require voters to show government-issued photo identification before they cast a ballot.

The justices’ ruling, due by the end of June, could have a major effect on the 2008 presidential election and on congressional races in several states.

New photo ID laws in Indiana, Georgia and Arizona have been upheld in the last year, while a Missouri law was blocked from taking effect. By agreeing to hear an appeal from Indiana Democrats, the justices signaled that they wanted this legal dispute resolved before voters go to the polls next fall.

Since 2002, Republicans have championed photo IDs as a means to prevent fraudulent voting. Under the laws, a voter must show government-issued identification — such as a driver’s license or a passport — to prove to poll workers that he or she is indeed the person registered to vote.

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OH. THE KKK is angry about the Jena 6 protests.

First a neo-Nazi website posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of some of the six black teenagers and their families at the center of the Jena Six case, as it has come to be known, and urged followers to find them and “drag them out of the house,” prompting an investigation by the FBI.

Then the leader of a white supremacist group in Mississippi published interviews that he conducted with the mayor of Jena and the white teenager who was attacked and beaten, allegedly by the six black youths. In those interviews, the mayor, Murphy McMillin, praised efforts by pro-white groups to organize counterdemonstrations; the teenager, Justin Barker, urged white readers to “realize what is going on, speak up and speak their mind.” `

Over the weekend, white extremist websites and blogs filled with invective about the Jena Six case, which has drawn scrutiny from civil rights leaders, three leading Democratic presidential candidates and hundreds of African American bloggers. They are concerned about allegations that blacks have been treated more harshly than whites in the criminal justice system of the town of 3,000, which is 85% white.

Ummp. I wonder what the middle class liberals who make my @ss itch
to say about this new development

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How do you deal with the soft bigotry that you encounter?

How did you deal with your last “racial” incident?

I honestly don’t know why their is MORE Public Violence? For trill.

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A Black Man, Gary King jr., Gets Shot in the Back and Out Comes the Soft Bigotry in the SF Chronicle.

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The police shot a Black man in the back in North Oakland last week.

According to the facts, he resisted arrest, he was tasered, continued
to move and was later found to have a gun.

The good old folks in the SF Chronicle comments section have revealed their
soft bigotry.

Mainly, I found it interesting that NO ONE brought up the point that
perhaps the police officer WAS trigger happy and abused his discretion.

According to their rationale, if you resist arrest, and have a gat
on you, then its Okay for Popo to shoot you in the back.

Constitution anyone? Is anyone here familiar with the level of
force that a police officer is allowed to use in a situation such
as this? There has to be some law enforcement readers out there.
LOl.

Back to the case at hand.
Do the Oakland Police have a tough job? Damn right.
They are over worked and underpaid. I give them that.

Some are decent stand up individuals. OTHERS deserve whats coming
to them. [Full disclosure, my brother ran from them Dec 28, 2003,
the caught him hand cuffed him to a fence and BEAT him, they
broke two teeth and a flashlight over his head……].



Back to the this incident.
My understanding of criminal law, there is NO assertable defense to
resisting arrest. Meaning, if PoPo wants to arrest you.

Let them. Because if your behavior can be construed as resistance,
@ssed out figuratively AND literally.

Popo is given long discretion in this realm.

The parents of the slain man want the police officer investigated
and charged with murder. Many of the readers at the Chron think
that its incredulous and that we should be HAPPY that this
“THUG” “SCUM” is dead.

Why was the son carrying a gun? Why didn’t the parents do a better job at raising his child to work within the conscripts of the law? Maybe the Police Officer did use excessive force. Why don’t the citizens of Oakland get up in a furor over the civilians that shoot others (meaning, why don’t you witnesses come forward?).

There is a WHOLE lot to unpack in this one. But wait there is more.

If the guy doesn’t want to be shot at by police he should not be resisting arrest and running around with a loaded gun! Both these actions are threatening. It’s easy to fault a cop for using his gun when you’re sitting there in an armchair in front of the TV, but Sgt. Gonzales is putting his own life on the line every day to keep the city safe from criminals such as Gary King Jr., who clearly was up to no good, walking around with concealed firearm.

How does having a fire arm equate to being up to “no good.”

What about the White Male fascination with fire arms? What about the cultures, at large fascination with fire arms? Halo 3 anyone?

Gary King Jr is a criminal. Hmmmm, he’s wanted for questioning in the death of another and when contacted, he’s carrying a firearm and resists arrest? I don’t care if he was shot in the back, the officer has a right to go home to his family at the end of his shift.


I DON’T CARE IF HE WAS SHOT IN THE BACK.

Period point blank. WORD? WHO IS THIS PERSON?

Can you please keep them off my jury and away from my
babies.

Do they teach? Are they in a position of authority.

Because that sentiment is so loaded and telling.

Man if y’all think I’m paranoid now, I more ‘noid after
reading these ^^^ statements.

AND THEN. 115 some odd comments later, a sane head
prevailed:

ricky_tan wrote:

The sad part is the majority of people on here posting has never had 2 cops pointing .45’s at their heads for no reason at all but everybody seems to be an expert. Hmm….

Don’t you love it when someone cuts right to the chase.
Its as if presuming that the POPO ain’t lying is a privilage of
being a soft bigot.

It’s bugged that so few people acknowledged how subjective
“resisting arrest” may be. I guess thats why THEY THOUGHT
CRASH was powerful. If you are Black you either have had
popo f*cking with you OR with some male relative in your fam.

 Furthermore, whether or not he was resisting arrest is subjective.
Y’all remember those two lawyers that got beat by Popo this
past summer. The two lawyers that were observing
the police BEAT another young black person.

Well-known human rights attorney Michael Tarif Warren, and his wife Evelyn (also a lawyer), were driving down Brooklyn?s Vanderbilt Avenue when they spotted a Black youth being chased by cops across a McDonald?s parking lot. [The youth was later identified as Latino?WW]

The youngster was tackled to the ground and handcuffed, when the Warrens saw a Sgt. Talvy begin kicking him in the head, the ribs, and stomping on his neck.

The two attorneys stopped their car, walked within 10 feet of the beating, identified themselves as lawyers, and told the cops to stop beating the youth and simply take him to the nearest precinct.

The sergeant?s response was to shout, ?I don?t give a f – – k who you are. Get the f – – k back in your car!?

The Warrens returned to the car, where Michael began to write down notes of what he saw and the license plate numbers of the cop cars present.

While this is anecdotal evidence it is evidence nonetheless,
of abuses of force used by, and tolerated within police departments.

I get the feeling, from reading those comments, that they are
just a hair away from calling him a dead n*gger. I presume
these writers are NOT Black. I wonder how they would feel
if THEY were Black, or if it was their son that was killed by
a police officer.

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Tori Amos is right up there w/ Fiona Apple in my book. I have
all the FeFe jawns, but I don’t have any Tori’s.

Hint.Hint.
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Tori doing a hip hop jawn. Ummm. It depends.

Tori and Yeye on some Eminem and Dido type sh*t?

Perhaps.

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N*ggas is dying, and they on Capital Hill Testifying.

What a waste of time.

When they start talking shit about POP culture at LARGE or
about Large Corporations complicitness with the violence
in pop culture, THEN it will be relevent.

DO I have to break out my Bell Hooksian sh*t A-GIN?

To white dominated mass media, the controversy over gangsta rap makes great spectacle. Besides the exploitation of these issues to attract audiences, a central motivation for highlighting gangsta rap continues to be the sensationalist drama of demonizing black youth culture in general and the contributions of young black men in particular.

 To see gangsta rap as a reflection of dominant values in our culture rather than as an aberrant “pathological” standpoint does not mean that a rigorous feminist critique of the sexist and misogyny expressed in this music is not needed. Without a doubt black males, young and old, must be held politically accountable for their sexism. Yet this critique must always be contextualized or we risk making it appear that the behaviors this thinking supports and condones,–rape, male violence against women, etc.– is a black male thing.

Until then.

STFD<<<<<-----Who is gonna figure out that lil' dilly? Was Universal's CEO/CFO there? Um. Yes he was. AND HE IS SO F*CKING GULLY. DUDE, took the opportunity to TALK ABOUT LIMEWIRE and illegal downloading.

Now thats what I call remaining focused.

Bronfman also noted the power of the Internet, the ability to view files on new devices and pleaded with the committee to help stop the spread of piracy instead of censoring lyrics.

“Ninety percent of the music we release has nothing to do with rap music,” said Morris, CEO of Universal Music Group, which recently released blockbuster albums by Kanye West and 50 Cent. “What I am angry about is the fact that the music business is being destroyed by criminal behavior and no one is addressing that. Our business is being destroyed by criminals. If you put on LimeWire, all of our songs are taken for free. Tower Records, hundreds of record stores, are closing down.”

Way to rise to the occasion, no?

That being said, Rush needs to
sit his @ss down and drink some Kool-Aid.

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THINK imma make soft bigot t-shirts/ stamps and
start passing them b*tches out.

Is Popo outta
pocket for SHOOTING him in the back, presuming
that he in FACT resisted arrest?

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Sex and Money in the City

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You ever have one of them jobs where peeing
should happen at a minimum, going on
vacation is a ‘NICE IDEA” and your “personal” e-mail is blocked?

Well.

My current gig is like this and I have never
seen anything like it before.

And baby let me tell you. It is a beast.

As much as a I talk about finance and M & A, last week I had the opportunity
to see it up close and it is one of the most pro white male,
darwinian environments that I have ever come across.

You see.

I saw the glass ceiling last week. I threw gum at it.
I kicked it.

And I learned that even with training (on how to analyze legal
and financial issues, credentials) your success STILL by and large turns
on how many White Allies you have.

It reminds me of the Civil Rights movement and the fact that it was effective
not because it was black, but it was black, brown and white.

It felt like L-School all over again.

Here I was in an environment. At a prestigious firm. The only Black Lady.

And the expectations were here (raises hand above head) and the training
was here (places hand near knee).

I was like, HOW CAN I, who has an interest in the material, a bubbly personality
and a knack for people be expected to WIN in this environment?

Oh did I mention that I was suppose to be assisting people who I had not
been introduced to.

Now how am I suppose to help you if I don’t know what you look like?
LOL.

Oh. Wait. Im not expected to win. HA!

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My observation underscores the fact that one of the most powerful things
that a progressive person can do is build a school, start and business
and work for themselves. Perhaps most importantly, they can
advocate on the behalf of others who’s voices have been silenced.

Its natural to FEEL more confident when you see people
who LOOK like you in positions of power.

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Speaking of money the times has a an article in The Times
about the challenges that WHITE women are facing because
they are earning more than their counterparts in the big cities.

The shift is playing out in new, unanticipated ways on the dating front. Women are encountering forms of hostility they weren?t prepared to meet, and are trying to figure out how to balance pride in their accomplishments against their perceived need to bolster the egos of the men they date.

A lot of young women ?are of two minds,? said Stephanie Coontz, director of research at the Council on Contemporary Families, a research organization. ?On one hand, they?re proud of their achievements, and they think they want a man who shares house chores and child care. But on the other hand they?re scared by their own achievement, and they?re a little nervous having a man who won?t be the main breadwinner. These are old tapes running in their head: ?This is how you get a man.? ?

Tell them ladies to sit down and chat with some Black women.

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Are white women finally beginning to see,
at least in the big cities, the impact that the
education disparity has on their mating rituals?

I wonder what they will do about it?

All you have to do is open up Essence to see an
article on “Where are the Good Black Men”, “I Can’t Find
a Good Black Man” and so forth. As far as Im concerned that
sh*t is deficit thinking. <<<----Can feel the fight
brewing with those words. Shots fired?

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For the record. I love y’all.
Cuz I posted this sh*t on my lunch break,
standing in 2 inch heels, in a Kinko’s
waiting for a FAX to go through.

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Baydestrians Posted Up Lovely.

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Hold up. So 40 went from almost having Biggie clapped to giving the
dude an escort.

Like I said.

The Bay don’t play.

Street justice is the order of the day.

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Think imma have to have a Mistah F.A.B day here at MM.

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Do y’all actually think that shit happened to Biggie?

40 DON’T have a reason to lie.

Ok, here you go Seen510, who in the bay should I be discussing?

My favorite is Andre Nickatina and them New Bay folks.

But. seeing young ” JT the Bigga Figga ” looking all entrepreneurial
made me think…
hmmm I should write about him as well.

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