Micheal Lewis has officially been added to the egg recipient short list.His most recent piece makes a cohesive argument for why collegeathletes at power house schools are entitled to receive paymentfor their work. Man. This is one of my favorite topics. Right up there with Doom, High Achieve Low Income studentsand feminist and hip hop. [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Unpaid College Athletes.
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Credit is the Devil.
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007www.clay-pot.com SJ almost deaded me a month ago. I f*cked up. You want to know how? Not being forth coming about L-school related credit carddebt incurred during to my first year. My historical greasiness didn’t scare him away.Nor did my smart mouth.Sh*t he has hung in there through the the the tumultuous‘after dee dee‘ era. [...]
Condi and Michelle: An Imagined Conversation.
Monday, November 12th, 2007Setting: Whole Foods, on outskirts of Silver Spring Maryland.Friday morning. They are both on a quick grocery run.They run into each other in the hot food “carving section”. Condi: I have been meaning to ask you, Girl, who does your buffount?Michelle: My neice, Keyanna, she has a shop right downtownnear The Hill. Condi: Oh. Okay. [...]
Brooklyn’s Million Dollar Heist
Monday, November 12th, 2007Fresh from watching American Gangster, I read this article about a million dollar heist in Brooklyn. While reading it, all I could think was who does sh*t like thisand lives to tell about it? Sean Gardiner at The Voice breaks it down, Word started circulating in certain nefarious circles in Brooklyn in early 2006 that [...]
Will Okun, Black Students and the New York Times
Sunday, November 11th, 2007What is it about Will Okun’s column that gets white folks so riled up? I have an idea of what it is. See. He is a white man working withBlack students. HE ALSO CLEARLY CARES ABOUT THE STUDENTSand sees through other peoples sh*t talking about them. Whenever we read a book by a black author [...]
Remy Ma …American Gangster?
Friday, November 9th, 2007My favorite part fo the Remy Ma article in The Voice is when the author quotes some girls who catch a glimpse of Remy in the street: “That’s Remy Ma!” a teenage girl says to her friend in disbelief. The friend responds with a nudge: “Follow her!” “Hell, no! She just shot her friend!” the [...]
Wesley Got no Love for the Redneck Juries.
Friday, November 9th, 2007Wesley Snipes, Taxes and Rednecks. So, your boy Wesley’s taxevasion case is up, and he is trying to get a change of venue citing how racist Ocola County, Florida is: The motion, which seeks to have the charges dismissed or the trial moved to New York, describes the area as “a hotbed of Klan activity [...]
"If it was a Swastika it Would be a Hate Crime."
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007An recent article about the nooses that have been popping upbrought to my attention the fact that while swastika’s constitute a hatecrime, nooses don’t. Why is that? Sar-ron Beverly knew about nooses from family stories and historical photos. But he never understood their power until he walked into his boss’ Fairfield office one day and [...]
Al Sharpton is Starting a Rap Label.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Dr. Munoz needs to get with Dr. Sharpley-Whiting. Of course Al is not starting a label, but I could not helpbut think about it when I read two articles aboutwomen and Hip Hop in the NY Times by Tara Parker-Pope. Apparently there is a Professor, Dr. Munoz Laboy, who is studyingyoung women and hip hop. [...]
My American Gangster.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007I understood Ridley Scott’s point about gangsters whenDenzel murked Idris and then promptly returned back tothe diner to eat with his family and discuss what it meansto be loyal and faithful. To have a code. The muder scene was almost comical. And it was meantto be based on the expression of some of the actors [...]
